I found it a bit of a stretch that a cranky technophobe English professor could, or even would bother to, create an algorithm the whole world of math and computer nerds overlooked. But I don’t let preposterous characters get in the way of my big-ideas SF when I can help it.

This sounded like clownish villainy in Rainbows End. I swear these guys are compulsively drawn to the worst parts of SciFi.

The Simpsons got there first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F

I tried to understand it, but I’m at a loss.

Banned From Argo by Leslie Fish

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table

See part 3 of 3.

Table salt

No, she’s just a regular human mom.

I have bad news about IBM’s past as regards fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Yep, that was a good movie.