Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 517149)

If you want book recommendations use librarything.com.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 517133)

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.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 517147)

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

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 517149)

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.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 517158)

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.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 517155)

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

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 517154)

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?

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 517160)

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

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 517156)

So I should divorce my wife?

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

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 517156)

So I should divorce my wife?

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

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 517164)

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

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 517165)

I mean, who among us shouldn't?

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 517151)

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

Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 517168)

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.

Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 517168)

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.