Recently, an algorithm served up multiple online articles for me about forgotten and underrated sitcoms. When reading about one such sitcom, I was transported back to 1987. I only saw one episode of "Rags To Riches" when it aired originally. I didn't dislike it, but I hadn't thought about the show since that airing. I remembered it was about orphaned girls who lived with a benefactor and sang. All I remembered about the episode was the last line of the theme song, "We'll get through it, hand in hand in hand," and that the girls sang a cover of "Little Bitty Pretty One."
Now, those two musical extracts are cemented on a mental loop--and it's helping to blunt the edge of present day reality, in which the news is less than great, to put it mildly. I'm wary of AI and custom-tailored news, but there are times when I like that an algorithm knows what I need--even when I wasn't aware that I needed it.
