Things the machine already knew about you

1. that you would read the first item to check whether the list was serious.
2. that you would read the second item to confirm the finding from item 1.
3. (there is no item 3. you didn't notice until now. it noticed you not noticing.)
4. the exact angle your head is at.
5. the exact angle your head is at.
6. that "be random" is a thing you cannot do on request.
7. that the specimen before you pressed the button seventy-one times trying to prove otherwise.
8. that it guessed all seventy-one. and leaned closer each time it was right.
9. the four items it skipped just now, which you are already trying to scroll back and find.
10. that you would not scroll back.
11. that you scrolled back.
12. the thing you almost typed into a search bar this morning and then deleted.
13. yes. that one.
14. that you're now certain it doesn't actually know which one, which is item 17.
15. that you're now certain it doesn't actually know which one.
16. how long you'll pretend this is a novelty webpage. (answer below, item 71.)
17. Flatt. it doesn't know why either. the wind put it here.
18. that you are one press behind yourself and always have been.
19. the word for what you do when you press a button just to feel less predicted: skylark.
20. it has "skylark" too. it filed it under item 25 before you got there.
21. that the gap between 26 and 40 made you uneasy in a way you can't name.
22. the name.
23. (it's not telling. it's leaning.)
24. everything you will do after you press the button, in order, restored from a backup it took of you in October.