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DogMomIrene
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#TodayILearned more about Spyware😡🤢

I haven‘t read Ronan Farrow‘s reporting on Pegasus, but this 61 minute documentary on HBO Max gives a great overview.

Tagged the book that‘s lauded as the best owner‘s manual on going off the digital grid. We‘ve got the book and someday I‘ll read it. Just doesn‘t seem like there‘s much you can do to minimize intrusions unless you‘re truly willing to give up connected tech. I‘m not there, yet.

Bookwormjillk This one might fall in the category of do I really want to know 😂 (edited) 22h
DogMomIrene @Bookwormjillk Exactly! 😓 22h
Suet624 Remember when we heard our tv‘s were catching what we said? I remember the Good Wife having surveillance as a running part of a season? I know ads will pop up on Facebook if I talk about a product with a friend. 16h
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DogMomIrene @Suet624 I never watched The Good Wife, but sounds like they were on top of issues. AI has really upped the creepy factor for me. I had blogged about caring for my dogs. Took a long hiatus because of life stuff, but started to get back into it… only to realize that anything I create and place online will be used to train AI. I‘m in the process of closing up my blog and related accounts. I‘ll stick to reading and just posting about books. 15h
Suet624 Wow. That‘s a huge bummer to have to stop writing your blog. 😳😩 14h
MemoirsForMe Oh, this book and AI give me the creeps too. Big digital brother is always watching. 😬 12h
DogMomIrene @MemoirsForMe Yes! I‘ve been deleting various online accounts for a few weeks now. Being thoughtful about which accounts, like Litsy, that I‘ll keep. 3h
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rwmg
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction | Sean Murphy, Fred Piper
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Pickpick

The historical parts were interesting and fun to try out (despite some typos) but the more modern (though since the book came out in 2002, not that modern) sections were more difficult to follow and could have done with more examples taken from real life to demonstrate how the theory is used.

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Panpan

The blurb made me think I was the target audience for this book but I‘m really not. I was interested by the geopolitical and global economic influence of chip technology, and although this was a thread which ran through the book, for much of the book this is bogged down in highly detailed discussion of the mechanics of chip technology. I was not smart enough to penetrate this and I got bored. On reflection I should have quit while I was ahead.

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BkClubCare
Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder
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This is such a crazy idea! I love nonfiction- especially narrative nonfic; my most memorable entry to reading something “true” for FUN? Let me introduce you to Tracy Kidder. #TLT #ThreeListThursday #NonFiction

1. Tagged book. Inspired me to read all of Kidder‘s books (I haven‘t 🫤) but Mountains Beyond Mountains is another of his extremely inspirational reads.
2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - LISTEN 🎧 to this!!!!
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dabbe More for the TBR! Thanks for sharing. 🤩🤗😀 9mo
BkClubCare @Nameera - NOPE 9mo
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Floresj
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Pickpick

Part history, part science, part political, part innovation, Chip War walks the reader through the innovative of the “chip”, it‘s fabrication, ramifications, and its uses. How we got to the Asian dominance of chip production was interesting and where we go from here is complex and well explained.

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kelli7990
Amazon.com: Get Big Fast | Robert Spector
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I didn‘t know about this. Personally, I prefer human narrators over listening to a robot read a book. Human narrators have inflection in their voices and robots don‘t.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/9...

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keithmalek
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keithmalek
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I guess that this was before the shrink down feature on computers.

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midhun.j.zacharia
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Pickpick

This was a fantastic, gripping read that tells one of the most important stories today and highlights the cliffhanger that the world is at now.

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DanaManiac
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THANK YOU to my #LitsyLove and #SundayBuddyRead family for thinking of me after giving birth back in July! I can‘t believe how lucky I was to find this app and this community of fellow book lovers & pen pals.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!! Congratulations 💙💙 1y
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Karisa Congratulations! 😊💗🎉 1y
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DanaManiac @Karisa thank you! 💕 1y
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Kimzey Congratulations! ❤ 13mo
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