Buying products from the Facebook ads that have me pegged pretty well, noticing that “having ridden an old Universal Japanese Motorcycle across old surface highways in the less-settled West” is one of the signifiers they’re appealing to that they think you’d want to identify with but — I’ve actually done that.

Now that the Facebook ad algorithm’s fully digested my financial background and integrated that with what else it’s picked up of my tastes the ads are amazing, I’ll look each day and find a new “this basic good: but with a pretty compelling premium twist! available for more than you’d pay at Target but honestly not much as rich-people prices go!”

Seeing ads for spice-scented laundry detergent pods for your bedding, that seems like a good way to make premium-level versions of staple goods (I didn’t buy, the silk sheets take special delicates formula)

Is this furniture ad targeting me as a bisexual?

The Facebook ad algorithm is so good at showing me things I want a few times I’ve ordered something from Amazon only for it to start keying off that product category and pitch me something I’d prefer.

Over on Facebook I’m being pitched AI-designed furniture.

There is a law firm just constantly advertising on Facebook about Portland-area teachers found doing something creepy asking if I want to sue

Okay the way Facebook knows I’m into Japanese folk-architectural style but also have a cat combined into this izakaya cat bed

Decorating my house from Internet retailers the algorithm can pick up on means that these days Facebook ads quite precisely match my taste and often do in fact offer things I would like but wouldn’t have even thought to look for (where?)

Facebook suddenly convinced I am in the market for underwear and grooming accessories to look sexy and gay with. Tsk, this is where I come to be treated as presumptively queer and sold ball trimmers

Got a Facebook ad for some “Counterculture” thing, clicked through enough to see it was about Jesus and backed out, the next ad was inviting me to renew my connections to my Jewish half (I don’t have a Jewish half), so fair enough

Friends x MeUndies - MeUndies

Just got a Facebook ad for the weirdest branded tie-in

Hai!!!!!! ^_^

I’ll never follow through on the rich-guy business opportunity ads on Facebook, ‘cause profit opportunities don’t fucking spend money buying advertisements for themselves, but I do get a sense of what money wants from dumb money

Been getting ads for a mezuzah case on Facebook and when I ask “why am I seeing this?” they say it’s because I’m interested in modernist furniture and I’m curious how much of that is “…so we think you’ll like the design!” and how much is “…so we think you’re a Jew!”

Considering a rug for $130/sq ft., folks

I… as far as I can tell this is a Faraday cage for WiFi routers

…what?

So in “what is Facebook advertising to kontextmaschine today?” news:

a concrete Rubik’s cube