On the background screening and the Nazi glow in the eyes of a child

I went out on a limb here but bear with me please, I am undoing a Russian doll of mind tricks, one by one

I was hesitant as to whether to share this rather dirty, in my opinion, TikTok post by a guy who allegedly does background screening for corporate jobs—and I went with it to illustrate a point. An important journalistic disclaimer: I don’t know how real this guy is. He could be exaggerating his personal powers over corporate employment, for all I care. But the story he is telling is a symbol of what we are facing in our real world. It’s a classic expression of what the world looks like when the algorithm is in charge. That part is real. This TikTok guy is exactly the “robot” energy that I fight … that is it!!!

So, here is how I personally go about this. First of all, I’ve been actively warning against giving too much power to the Algorithm and making art about it for at least ten years (here is a short example, and here is detailed and more technical article that I wrote for Dr. Mercola about the mind of a technocrat a few years ago / PDF).

But let’s be honest, we may rant all day a…