Red Mosquito

long read about Caesar Zuckerberg

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

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.

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.

washing machine wrote: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.

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.

That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

LoathedVermin72 wrote:That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

let's read it to each other over the phone

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

let's read it to each other over the phone

One word at a time?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:That book sounds like embarrassing garbage

let's read it to each other over the phone

One word at a time?

as you wish

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...

Let's all laugh at Rangers wrote: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

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.

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

BurtReynolds wrote: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?

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

Let's all laugh at Rangers wrote: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.

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

Why is there a Twitter Government account?

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