“The squirrel really did save practically everybody, minus a few people he hit with a car.
Also somehow the finish date went straight from Kindle to Goodreads and that makes me uncomfortable. Itâs like finding out someone has been keeping an accurate calendar of when you take a dump. Itâs not useful info or like someone can steal my identity this way. Itâs just creepy.
Thatâs should be technologyâs new directive: Donât be creepy.
I donât think we can expect tech to not be evil or greedy or whatever, but not being a creep about it seems achievable.
I donât even mind when Iâm on a site and see a sidebar ad for something I looked at on Amazon. Whatever, thatâs convenient. Or what the computer thinks is convenient, sort of like how the cat thinks heâs helping out by brining mice of various percentages of deadness into the house. Itâs not creepy when the cat does it. Itâs adorable because he thinks heâs helping.
Itâs cute when the computer does it too because itâs like âDonât you want to buy this Alfa Romeo t-shirt?â And Iâm like, No, I was looking up how much Alfa Romeos cost to see how stupid my neighbor is and what percentage of his mortgage couldâve been paid off if heâd bought a used Camry (50% BTW). But the computer is too dumb to know the difference.
But telling everyone that I finished a book in bed this morning, because I usually wake up before my girlfriend and read, and sheâs got earplugs in because I snore, so this morning time is a very good window for loud, hilarious farts. Iâm a catch.
It feels a little like the kindle was creeping on me while I was reading in bed. And yes, farting and reading about a squirrel who hit people (just a couple, probably not even wealthy ones) with a car. But still, doing that in my own home, while disgusting, is not creepy.
And I never said tech should avoid being disgusting. I welcome it.”