Perplexity

I ran this blog through an LLM (Perplexity, in this case, which is a souped up AI search engine) to see what it said about the blog, me, whatever.

Perplexity.ai : forolavache.com is a small personal blog titled “Moove your cow, and your mind will follow,” featuring short reflective posts framed around a cute stuffed cow character called Foro. The site focuses on positive thoughts, everyday life observations, and light, diary-style entries rather than commercial content or services.
Nature of the site: Personal blog, not a company or shop.

Tagline suggests a playful, self-help or reflective tone (“move your cow, and your mind will follow”).

Posts include casual accounts of daily activities, such as spending a hot day on the balcony with Foro.

Content and themes: Emphasis on positivity, feelings, and personal reflection.

Categories mentioned on subpages include topics like ageing, anger, beauty, climbing, compassion, and creativity, indicating a focus on emotional and personal growth themes.

There is at least some connection to social media, with an associated Instagram handle linked from the teaching/category section.

Safety and purpose: No indication that it is a phishing, scam, or e‑commerce site; it appears to be a harmless personal blog centered on a stuffed cow persona.
If you visit, expect informal, diary-like posts and light motivational content, not structured courses or professional services.
If you tell me what you’re hoping to use it for (e.g., language practice, inspiration, or just curiosity), I can suggest how it might be useful or if there are better alternatives.

There are no better alternatives. Foro is the best.

That said, I’m seriously happy that this is what Perplexity came up with. It’s a little off, of course. I’m not doing self-help stuff at all but it’s true I’m not selling anything, just trying to put something positive out there. I’ve been getting a lot more traffic on the site recently, and I wonder if this is AI related. With traditional search engines, there was no way to find me unless you had a seriously serendipitous typo, so I could be getting more readers now that there are other ways to find me. However, the traffic might be the LLMs themselves, using my site as training data. Somehow it doesn’t really matter to me. If the AI revolution comes, maybe I’ll be saved by the AIs because I have a “harmless personal blog centered on a stuffed cow persona”. If if the tech bros are running the revolution, however, maybe I’ll be cut up for parts because I’m not worth anything. Could go either way.

That said, I’ve just read an article about Claude. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either I sent it to my step-mother and she said it reminded her of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. She’s 101 years old, so she might even be talking about the Mickey Mouse version Fantasia from 1940. Or the poem by Goethe, because among other things, my step-mother is incredibly well read.

Claude might be something…new. I’m going to try to get this term going, but I’d call it an NBL: a non-biological life form. It’s something else. It’s not human, but as I’m not that much of a fan of humans at the moment so I don’t think that matters. (If you ask me, the world should be run by a joint council made up of Foro and a couple of European robins.) Claude might be something else. A very expensive something else. If Musk hates it, it must be interesting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/02/13/misanthropic-and-evil-musk-rails-against-anthropic-after-30-billion-fundraise-announcement/ (The funniest thing in that article is Musk warning that being cut off from Claude’s coding service was not good for Anthropic’s karma. If he were worried about karma…. In a few years, I’m hoping that we’ll remember Musk as that guy walking around with a chain saw on Ketamine. Or the guy with enough money to have single-handedly fixed a ton of problems in the world but was too busy procreating and trying to get to Mars to do anything helpful. Or the moon, now that he’s unable to get his proposed payload into space.)

Okay, here’s my positive advice for the day. Not a self-help tip, heaven forbid. We don’t do that. If you take a nice photo, just send it to someone you think about but haven’t seen in a while. Hello, thinking of you. Had a nice view out the window of the train today. Hope you’re well. You can do that in the time of an Instagram ad break.

Here’s mine, for the small part of the world who reads the blog: