Social Media: The God That Failed

[BurtReynolds]

long read about Caesar Zuckerberg

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... -democracy

[bune]

I just finished the book version of The Circle. I could recommend the movie version instead but it got a 'happy' ending instead of the...dark?...version in the book. Either way it's an idea of where social media could go and how brainwashed/culty the people who work there are and how best intentions are always lining the road to hell. It's also obviously overwrought and written from an out-of-proportion point-of-view so it's hard to take seriously.

I am beginning to wonder if I blame the narrator on the audiobook for that or if it was just written that way.

[washing machine]

I had the opposite take, reading the book. It scared the hell out of me specifically because nothing in it seemed out-of-proportion except for the stupid, unrealistic love story arc.

[Strat]

I had the opposite take, reading the book. It scared the hell out of me specifically because nothing in it seemed out-of-proportion except for the stupid, unrealistic love story arc.

Book was great, movie was atrocious.

I also enjoyed the book and felt it was a little too realistic.

Alas, here I am still loving the internet.

[bune]

I keep seeing that the book seemed realistic but I never felt that way. Maybe I'm just far enough out of the loop that the whole thing sounded ridiculous. I mean "We sent a bunch of frowns to that nation's government so they know what's up" was a legit sentence that was supposed to be taken seriously? Or how about "Oh no, 6% of the people here gave me a frownie face, why do they want me dead?!"

And yeah all of the romance in the book was terrible. Either she was chasing a guy that her "friend" was constantly giving her grief about or she was chasing a guy who couldn't perform his way out of a paper bag and demanded her rate his abilities.

edit: Though I guess it's telling that almost all of the top quotes on Goodreads are from Mercer.

[LoathedVermin72]

That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

[lennytheweedwhacker]

That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

let's read it to each other over the phone

[LoathedVermin72]

That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

let's read it to each other over the phone

One word at a time?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

let's read it to each other over the phone

One word at a time?

as you wish

[Let's all laugh at Rangers]

There's a headline on a news site that various celebrities are ditching their social media. Well good for them! They can just ring up a newspaper and get their opinion printed there instead. Fuckin ell...

[Bi_3]

There's a headline on a news site that various celebrities are ditching their social media. Well good for them! They can just ring up a newspaper and get their opinion printed there instead. Fuckin ell...

The are probably gunning to be the next Guardians director

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Jammer XCI]

Reddit's been banning a bunch of alt right/incel boards since they started making Serena Williams a racist meme.

Serena Williams married the co-owner of Reddit. Good going, dumbfucks.

[BurtReynolds]

Google scrambled to get employees to delete internal memo detailing plans for censored search in China, says report

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/googl ... 00650.html

[LoathedVermin72]

Google scrambled to get employees to delete internal memo detailing plans for censored search in China, says report

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/googl ... 00650.html

Kinda confused by why this is even a big deal considering Google already had a running version of this years ago?

[Let's all laugh at Rangers]

Google's already gone down the pan. Stop. Crossing. Out. Words. I. Have. Typed. In. My. Search.

[Green Habit]

Google's already gone down the pan. Stop. Crossing. Out. Words. I. Have. Typed. In. My. Search.

Try putting quotations around the word you don't want them to ignore.

[bune]

A) that's some proto-Circle shit
B) Jesus the replies are sad/hilarious.

[BurtReynolds]

Why is there a Twitter Government account?

[bune]

To make sure all of the conservative voices are silenced in the coming election and to create as many illegitimate voters as possible, duh.