This is Not a Matter of Growing My Audience

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Good morning, Twfw. O/

Welcome to the show. Glad you found me. There's still hope.

In case you're new here, for over two years I've shared words of hope, care, intelligence, and common decency with the World in very high-traffic Internet spaces. All the sharing was done in ways unfriendly to algorithms. The point is to show us all what we gave up surrendering our information to machines.

Democracy is what we lose in the realms of Speech and Press. The reason why our News, and therefore our daily communications, look and sound the way they do right now is because machines are not free-thinking human beings with the capacity to care, and they're deciding what's important enough for us to see.

Can you read me yet? O/ Have I played nicely enough for the corporate machines yet to value me?

This is not a matter of growing my audience. It's about having any readers at all. Not a comment, like, heart, or even troll from an American in over two years of daily current event high-profile subject matter on every popular social media text-based space.

We count on people holding algorithms responsible for their errors. But what if a human can't even see the oversight?

What if a poem like The 51st State was tagged BLM on Medium.com and the algorithm shadow-banned the poet from ever sharing another post on its site?

It did.

Our News and our Speech are no longer free online. I thought you should know. Just telling you wasn't enough. I had to show you.

I've been playing the algorithms for a couple weeks now. Soon some American who cares about freedom will read me and not be quiet about it. Until that time I keep working and sharing in a corporate algorithmically friendly way.

Who am I? Why do these words matter? What have you been missing? All those questions have already been answered. Feel free to look around. Spend some time getting to know Your Friendly Nation-hood Poet doing his job: Protecting the sanctity of our Language.

Ever wonder why poets were always under watch of controlling governments?

O/ Now you know.

Whoever controls the words controls the people. My words are my own.

How about yours?

Faith in classification models is killing our Free Press and Speech. There are ways to incorporate algorithms into our lives humanely.

It's time we started talking about how. It's time to be free again.

Congratulations for reading.