I have 491 followers still, if WP isn’t fooling me.  I read some time ago (I think) that because they don’t want your feelings to be hurt  WP doesn’t tell you each time someone drops a follower at their request.  And since I generally feel unloved, I figured that’s why most of my followers were dropped from my blog.  I just scrounged around my desktop to see if I had any more than 15 followers left, and see it says I have 491–I know a piddling number but given the quality of my scribblings and age I  know is remarkable.  I still don’t know why a broader assortment of friends’ posting from their blogs aren’t listed under my “bell” at the top right of my screen when opened on Dashboard.  Only Ned Hamson, Jilldennison,  dianeravitch, ram H singhal, etc, are listed. I still don’t know what the selection criteria is for selection to be listed under the bell.  Not those who have commented to me–I don’t think Diane Ravitch ever has–etc.

I wish I could….know not should….print a cartoon from the May 1 New Yorker, showing two humans being treated as beasts of burden, carrying heavy loads strapped to their backs, beaten by several robotic A.I.’s with long whips.  One human says to another, “To think this all began with letting autocomplete finish our sentences.”  Page 16.

Mysteriously, this post appears to have been published before I was aware of it.  Oh, some people are so bushy to read!   (Barf)