{"id":29144,"date":"2021-10-27T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29144"},"modified":"2021-10-27T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:46:33","slug":"big-data-knows-im-a-big-bollywood-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/27\/big-data-knows-im-a-big-bollywood-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Knows I&#8217;m A Big Bollywood Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/18\/a-jabberwocky-for-our-time\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter sending me inscrutable messages about players in the Indian film industry<\/a>, Facebook has gotten into the act by showing me promoted posts about Bollywood actresses:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/aliabhatt.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Who the heck is Alia Bhatt?  Apparently, she is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alia_Bhatt\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">an Indian-born British actress<\/a> with a discography.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is one of her songs, presumably in Hindi:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EoCz3Vx1pXg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, I might have an affinity for women singing in foreign languages; perhaps Facebook is stepping up to fill one of the gaps that Charles Hill left in introducing me to new music.<\/p>\n<p>And she would not be a Bollywood star if she were not pretty.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/aliabhatt2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/aliabhatt3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/aliabhatt5.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/aliabhatt6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/aliabhatt7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>But I did not click the ad; I shan&#8217;t suddenly get into Bollywood productions; and her CDs are not readily available in the US.  So all I got was a blog post about it.<\/p>\n<p>And probably some reinforcement for the machine learners that I am a Bollywood fan.  In spite of my protests to the contrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to Twitter sending me inscrutable messages about players in the Indian film industry, Facebook has gotten into the act by showing me promoted posts about Bollywood actresses: Who the heck is Alia Bhatt? Apparently, she is an Indian-born British actress with a discography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29147,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29144\/revisions\/29147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}