The algorithms always know when I’m having a back flare-up, because I tell them
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And I will reinforce those suggestions and results by interacting with them (and a dismissal is an interaction, always).Search engines, algorithmic recommendation engines, advertisers - they are able to serve up “relevant” things about us because their designers and engineers built them to (or in same cases, failed to build them not to) deliver certain outputs in response to certain kinds of prompts and signals, explicit and implicit
