..algorithmically researched clickbait hubs. I mean, search up something important to you, something to which you want an honest answer (like about your health, for instance), and you will get the same five sites giving you fishbowl-like, recycled info that goes only so deep. Just enough to keep you clicking. “Magazines” that seem perfect for you.

I mean, is it just me, or has the Internet become a barely quantifiable cult-de-sac of sorta-information?

I call it “info-tainment.” Instead of actually learning anything, I am the one being “learned.” Algorithms are optimizing my own curiosity — and I Want Out of that.

I actually bother to look up the publishers (if you can call them that) of these gorgeous “magazines” — you know, the ones whose “ABOUT” pages spew self-serving P.R., or, more likely, the ones who don’t even give us an ABOUT page. I need to skim the site’s footers for some kind of copyright symbol ©, and then open up a separate tab for Wikipedia, and then, if I am lucky, find a few business magazine articles about them — usually describing their other many brands. So, five open tabs later, I learn…

…that I am caught in a trap. Well, that’s something, anyway.