Amazon.com is making me a might nervous...

I didn't it was on the front page.

A zombie thread for Halloween!

Facebook is creepily living up to its name lately. I posted a picture of myself and my sister when we were little kids. Facebook apparently recognized her face and put "With [her name]" on the post without being told. That's just TOO artificially intelligent.

Amazon is god damn amazing when it comes to 'knowing' their customers. So good actually that I don't order there any more and I block all their tracking features. Just for comparison: I have had a Google mail address since the dawn of time (2005? 2007? Dunno, very early anyway). I never bother to log out when searching stuff. I have had Google Music All Access for a time before Spotify became more interesting to me. I have a ton of Play Store purchases and multiple Android devices with location tracking and all the creepy crawly stuff on.

In short, Google should know me quite well. Yet it still tries to sell me stuff I'm not even remotely interested in. Especially Music is a laugh riot. I mean, I'm quite consistent in my music tastes: depending on my mood I listen to (mostly symphonic) metal, a little Dance, the whole Cafe-del-Mar lounge-y stuff and classic and contemporary pop whenever I hear something I like. It's not rocket science. It's been that way for years because I'm lazy when it comes to discovering new music. Yet Google insists on trying to sell me Country of all things and sugary German language grandma music.

Amazon, where I have never bought any music, was spot on most of the time years ago.

I think Google has gotten complacent with it top spot in online advertising so it hasn't tried as hard as competitors like Amazon. Amazon knows it doesn't make as much so they're innovating and finding out how really mine that data to both increase sales and sell those profiles to other online advertisers.

It was REALLY creepy when I posted some pictures from a family reunion, and it tried to tag my cousin (who I hadn't seen in 20 years) as my ex-girlfriend.

FB has been prompting me with Confederate pages because of my activity on Muad's page recently.

They just buried the daughter of a Confederate soldier. Daily Mail link

Here's a bit about her father from the Charlotte Observer:

MONROE – At first glance, it’s an unlikely combination. A black family seated under a tent facing a line of Civil War re-enactors, proudly holding Confederate flags and gripping their weapons. But what lies between these two groups is what brought them together: An unmarked grave about to get its due, belonging to a slave who fought for the Confederacy. Weary Clyburn was best friends with his master’s son, Frank. When Frank left the plantation to fight in the Civil War, Clyburn followed him. He fought alongside Frank and even saved his life on two occasions.

On July 18, the city of Monroe proclaimed Weary Clyburn Day; an event that coincided with the Sons of Confederate Veterans convention in Concord.

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Rice remembered being at her father’s funeral, said Earl Ijames, a curator at the N.C. Office of Archives and History. “He told her stories, and being able to verify those stories brought this event together,” he said.

Ijames met Rice when she was at the state Archives Office looking for her birth certificate in August 2005. She was in the wrong department and he struck up a conversation with her. Ijames asked Rice her name and upon hearing Clyburn, asked if she had ever heard of Weary Clyburn.

“She looked straight at me and said, ‘That’s my daddy,’“ he said.

She was 91 when she died, and her father was 72 when she was born. He went to war in 1861.