Litsy

The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology | Mark Boyle

Starting this one today. Am wondering...how long could I go without technology - I can't imagine how I'd get through a single day! It would be so ridiculously difficult!

Bookwormjillk That wouldn‘t include Litsy right? 3w

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Bookwomble

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter | Kate Conger, Ryan Mac

#Positive_Things_I_Have_Done_Today

Although I haven't actually used Twitter/X for a long time, I have formally deactivated my account today. Take that, Elon!🖕

BarbaraBB Thanks, you convinced me to do the same. And I did! Bye scary Elon 👋🏽 3w

AmyG I did that a while ago. It‘s just filled with hate and disinformation. (edited) 3w

Seabreeze_Reader 👍👏 Good for you! 3w

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Bookwomble @BarbaraBB Nice one! 😊 It's a movement! ✊😄 (edited) 3w

Bookwomble @AmyG @Seabreeze_Reader As I say, I haven't actually used Twitter/X in a while, but it felt that just being on his platform was a tacit endorsement of the man and his views, so I've performatively "consciously uncoupled" ? 3w

BarbaraBB Same! 3w

Seabreeze_Reader @Bookwomble I basically did the same for my Fbook account about 6 years ago. I stopped using it (for the obvious reasons) then completely nixed my account. Even after all these years, I don't miss it one bit. 3w

Bookwomble @Seabreeze_Reader I still have my FB account due to the photos I have on there, and (theoretically) to view the pages created by deceased family members, but actually I haven't been on for about four years, and only went on there 2½ years ago because my uncle wanted me to post about my dad's passing. Otherwise, my mental and emotional health is better for not engaging, although it does mean that y'all Littens have to suffer me instead 😆 3w

Seabreeze_Reader 🤣👍 3w

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3w

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rachelk

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning | Meghan O'Gieblyn

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American tech writer, essayist, philosopher and former Fundamentalist Christian, O‘Gieblyn points out similar promises of science and religion as her essays take on this phenomenon as well as transhumanism, AI, consciousness and more. I thought her insights were brilliant. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Leftcoastzen

The Vacuum Cleaner: A History | Carroll Gantz

Enough vacuuming! We need to relax it‘s #caturday night ! Dusty is just gonna sit on the cord!
#CatsOfLitsy

dabbe YES! 🖤🧡🖤 3w

AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 3w

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w

bibliothecarivs Our cat is a Dusty, too (but a mackerel tabby). 🐈‍⬛️ 3w

Leftcoastzen @bibliothecarivs I think it‘s a good name!😄 3w

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mcctrish

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

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None of this is rocket science to anyone born before smart phones, had kids before the phone based childhood ( my kids born 99/02 are on the edge) and/or work in education. Girls and boyse are hit differently ( I only have boys) and at different ages. We need to return to a play based childhood at home and at school. Phones have no place at school and using them to entertain your child while you shop, drive, eat is a disaster

ChaoticMissAdventures I get torn about phones in schools being in the US. We have so many school shootings here. I want my nieces to be able to call or text us in lock down during a crisis. 1mo

mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures in the book they say phones should go in a lock box at school for the day - so that would be homeroom - and I guess available for emergencies. The gun problem in the US is a whole other problem some people are resistant to fixing 1mo

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DebbieGrillo

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt

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This is a MUST read for all parents and educators and everyone who has or works with children of any age. It will open your eyes to what tech companies are doing, knowingly, that harms our children's mental health and development. More importantly, it tells us how to take back our power and mitigate the damage.

CSeydel I‘m reading it now, although it‘s a tough read for someone whose kids are already in their 20s. 1mo

Estherhasredhair Sounds like a great read! I am among the youngest Millennials and I really think I was a pre-ipad kid. Many of my early memories are games I played on the computer and now I have a diagnosable mental disorders. I‘m glad that books and studies like this are being written. Here is hoping that we learn how to integrate the unavoidable tech and mental health. 1mo

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catiewithac

Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation | Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow‘s entertaining treatise on interoperability. 💻 🛜 🆓

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Sara_Planz

Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson

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I decided to read this immediately after I finished Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk to compare and contrast two men with very different images. Both have created monumental changes in the world of technology. Both men have very similar characteristics: unending drive, big thinking, challenging the status quo. But readers should also be paying close attention to their negative aspects, mutual fallibilities and personal failures.

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catiewithac

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism | Yanis Varoufakis

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This explained why I feel the way I feel about being a wage slave. I‘m resistant about being plugged in to social media and dislike my employer‘s attempts to connect every work action to data. This mess we‘re in globally is quite a spiraling web. Wake up!

Aimeesue Agree with you 1000% about connecting all work to data. It‘s completely ruined health care in the US, not that it was great to begin with. If it‘s not billable, it rarely gets done. 😡 2mo

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