We are all Slave now.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

If you want book recommendations use librarything.com.

I like Goodreads. The reviewers seem to leave the house a bit more.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'll stop you right there. It's because Facebook's algorithms think that's what will engage you, based on their experience with lots of your peers. I don't particularly like to use Facebook because it is so poor at delivering content that I like. Obviously it's very good at giving other people what they want, because it's market cap is north of $511 billion just now.

So I should divorce my wife?

If she ever tells me to have a “blessed day,” I might.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I love Twitter because it is less susceptible to this sh*t.

It was, but these days you see the same tweets at the top of your timeline every time to check it.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

If you want book recommendations use librarything.com.

At the end of the day, even when they optimize to the user you have the classical music problem. Classical musical listeners are a tiny fraction of the overall music audience, but they listen to music differently than most other listeners, just because the unit of a "song" doesn't make sense. For the music industry, it is just not worth catering to that community on-line, so there is no platform that does it well.

If you want something other than mass-market cable-TV level analysis or interaction - so you're willing to read a long article, and don't want a slide-show buzzfeed clickthrough to get your info - you're a classical music listener.

Probably shouldn't tell you that Tiny Baby* and I regularly "listen" to classical music by me putting my classical playlist on shuffle.

Yeah, we're not real classical music listeners.

*She's neither really tiny nor a baby anymore, but I haven't come up with new internet branding.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Probably shouldn't tell you that Tiny Baby* and I regularly "listen" to classical music by me putting my classical playlist on shuffle.

Yeah, we're not real classical music listeners.

*She's neither really tiny nor a baby anymore, but I haven't come up with new internet branding.

I know classical composers who regularly listen like this. Because it is what the technology tells us to do.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I like Goodreads. The reviewers seem to leave the house a bit more.

It's owned by Amazon, so don't expect the platform (as opposed to the users) to do anything different.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

http://gothamist.com/2018/08/28/nych...ex_parties.php

to pass on a question- if this gets one transferred, what does it take to get fired? My question- shouldn't NYC worry of the johnny Appleseed effect here?

Throgg's Neck has been a problem back since one of my ancestors was Sheriff of Vlissingen over across the River. You don't want to let Throggs off the Neck, who knows what they'll do.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It's owned by Amazon, so don't expect the platform (as opposed to the users) to do anything different.

Actually, both Goodreads and LT do have different platforms for things like recommendations than Amazon, despite the ownership stakes.

But it is kind of F-upped that Big Mama Gorilla in the book world owns both small competitors with each other for the book reading social media audience.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

So I should divorce my wife?

If she ever tells me to have a “blessed day,” I might.

If you think Facebook knows your wife better than you do, definitely. It sounds like they are pumping her the same stuff that they pump to everyone else, so I don't think they know her very well.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

So I should divorce my wife?

If she ever tells me to have a “blessed day,” I might.

You should thank your lucky stars there is a woman who will put up with you.

Apropos of nothing, I saw today that Scalia had a bit of colorful advice for young lawyers on arguing in front of a judge: "Don't let a dead horse beat you."

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

You should thank your lucky stars there is a woman who will put up with you.

I mean, who among us shouldn't?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

I mean, who among us shouldn't?

If GWNC finds a woman I would thank my lucky stars if I could see pictures.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I think it's just a reminder that there is often a cycle of violence or abuse, with the abused becoming the abuser.

So his Weinstein's alleged forced oral sex on Argento (to which she has basically admitted she consented because he would have otherwise "crushed" her career) caused her to statutorily rape a boy actor 20 years her junior 20 years after the alleged Weinstein event? That is pretty tortured.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

So his Weinstein's alleged forced oral sex on Argento (to which she has basically admitted she consented because he would have otherwise "crushed" her career) caused her to statutorily rape a boy actor 20 years her junior 20 years after the alleged Weinstein event? That is pretty tortured.

I think ggg was making a joke? Am I becoming not bob?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

So his Weinstein's alleged forced oral sex on Argento (to which she has basically admitted she consented because he would have otherwise "crushed" her career) caused her to statutorily rape a boy actor 20 years her junior 20 years after the alleged Weinstein event? That is pretty tortured.

I did not hear GGG say she exercised no free will.

Pretty sure Sebby can suggest a way to tell us exactly how responsible she was. Because science.