Litsy

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Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet | Andre? Soldatov

#HauntsandHexes Web This song is about being on the web. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 🕸️🖤🕷️ 3w

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nikamavrody

I Hate the Internet | Jarett Kobek

this is a book about sales.

kelli7990

Amazon.com: Get Big Fast | Robert Spector

Amazon has Prime Day going on this week and Audible has a Prime Day sale on audiobooks. I wanted to write a haiku to Amazon.

Amazon
I‘m not impressed with your Prime Day deals this week
I didn‘t see anything that I wanted to buy

I looked at your Audible Prime Day books too
I‘m not impressed with your selection on there either
I‘d be more impressed if my books on my Audible wishlist were on sale

#haiku #haikuhive #haikuaday

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AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼📚🐝💝. 4mo

dabbe 🩵🎯🩵 4mo

lil1inblue 🎯 🎯 🎯 4mo

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Susanita

Podcasting: Do-It-Yourself Guide | Todd Cochrane

We do not care that we laughed so hard at the podcast we listened to on our walk, that the neighbors must think we‘re crazy. #wdncw

dabbe

Leftcoastzen Awesome! Happens to me a lot ! 4mo

dabbe L😍VE! Laughter is so needed in this world right now! #ifyktyk 🩵 4mo

Deblovestoread 💙🤣💙 4mo

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lil1inblue I'm convinced my neighbors think I'm nuts. 😂 What was the podcast? I need a good laugh. 4mo

Susanita @lil1inblue Daily Beans 4mo

AnnCrystal 👸👏🏼🤣👌🏼💝. 4mo

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kelli7990

Amazon.com: Get Big Fast | Robert Spector

I came up with a good idea for using the Wish List feature on Amazon. I‘ve decided to make 2 TBR lists. 1 list has books I want to read on Kindle Unlimited and the other list has books that I have to buy because they‘re not on Kindle Unlimited. During the Stuff Your Kindle Day events, if the books are free then I‘ll buy them but if they‘re not free or if I can read them on Kindle Unlimited then I‘ll add them to one of my lists.

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JLaurenceCohen

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks | Scott J. Shapiro

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It took me 11 months, but I finally finished this! Really great book about cybersecurity: accessible to non-specialists while including lots of detail. Shapiro writes in a highly informative yet slightly sardonic voice that I enjoyed.

Bookwormjillk I‘ve been meaning to read this 6mo

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TheLudicReader

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now | Jaron Lanier

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Can't say that I completely understood everything Lanier said, but I did get the main message: social media is ruining the world and we are its slaves. Not Litsy.

CoverToCoverGirl I have been shouting this for twenty years, so almost from the beginning. Litsy is an exception. I only have a Facebook account (7years) because it was needed for an account for my small business or Litsy would be it. I‘m very happy that schools are starting to ban them and Australia is setting age restrictions on many of these unfettered platforms. Just my thoughts and opinions. 6mo

ShelleyBooksie Aww, snuggle kitty ♡♡ 6mo

TheLudicReader @CoverToCoverGirl you are not wrong. I deleted FB in January and do not miss it at all. I still have Instagram, but I don't post much and mostly use it to see what my kids are up to or watch bookish content. I am so worried about young people today. I see their phone addiction and lack of critical thinking skills every day in the classroom. 6mo

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dabbe I tried to get my district to order the tagged book in the hopes that it would be a text to assist students in those desperately-needed critical thinking skills. The two parents on the reading committee said “No.“ 😳 Therein lies a major problem in this country. 🤦🏼‍♀️
OTOH, I see us doing lots of what your picture shows when I'm there. I hope Lily will tolerate me! 💜

Think: Why You Should Question Everything

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nanuska_153 @dabbe those parents probably spend a lot of time checking their social media while they are with their kids and don't want to explain to them why they can use it while their kids can't. Honestly, I don't know what might damage the kids more, having social media or having parents that rather look at their phones than spend quality time with their kids 6mo

dabbe @nanuska_153 🎯🩵🎯 6mo

TheBookHippie I sent your birthday card with a letter today!!! Here‘s hoping it arrives in time and I added the postage correctly!!!! 🤣🫣🤦🏻‍♀️😝🎉👀 Should arrive faster than the holiday card!!! OY. 6mo

DogMomIrene I really want to read this one. But I‘m not buying books right now. I hit “notify me” in the Libby app for my library, so hoping they get it soon. 6mo

AmyG A little something is coming your way for your bday. I can only pray it gets there, let alone in time! 🤣😘 6mo

TheLudicReader @AmyG @TheBookHippie ❤️ I will keep my eyes peeled. 6mo

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LaurenAsh

Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate | Zoe Quinn

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A good book with great information and a terrible reminder that absolutely nothing has changed, for the better, since this book was published.

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ImperfectCJ

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now | Jaron Lanier

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I'm not sure if this short book was compelling on its own or just along with my other reading/experiences, but it definitely struck a chord for me. A Silicon Valley insider, Lanier makes a distinction between social media that uses what he terms BUMMER algorithms to target and manipulate users and other, less insidious types of online interaction. I don't like his Solitary/Pack terminology, but aside from that, it's a very convincing read.

TheLudicReader I am currently reading Lanier‘s book, too. I am becoming increasingly distressed about social media…I dumped out of FB in January and don‘t miss it at all. Insta is probably next. 6mo

ImperfectCJ @TheLudicReader His comparison to lead paint was really helpful to me, the idea that I'm not leaving social media forever, just until a better system is in place. And then I remind myself that I was keeping in touch with people fine before Facebook, and I just need to remember what that looked like. The fact that it's difficult to remember is a bit alarming to me, how thoroughly social media has changed how I relate to people. 6mo

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