they do everything and i mean everything to keep users on their website/apps. i recommend ublock origin + untrap combination, or you could use freetube and import your youtube subscriptions to it to have more privacy.
I think the thing that people are dancing around but not quite getting to is that it’s the attention economy. The goal is to monopolize your attention as completely as possible in order to sell as many ads as possible. You may recognize that this is more or less the model of gambling or any other industry that relies on keeping its customers addicted. This is one of those things that doesn’t seem very malicious, but could well represent a malicious business choice.
I’m in the Pervert-style Gang or was the last time I had one - I’m avoiding added sugar as much as possible and these always felt like they were giving you diabetes.
Can’t speak to Wickes but in my experience these sort of things are pretty handy way of figuring out how bad staff feel about your company…thus allowing you to then do fuck all to remedy the situation.
Oh, I more or less just finished Blue Mars, but had to take my time getting through it all. But I’ve enjoyed it! Now I just started reading The Ministry for the Future :)
Some parts of the mars series are definitely a slog, I feel like that’s almost inevitable with books that change to the perspective of different characters a lot. Some characters just aren’t as interesting as others or they suck as a person and I don’t really care about what they think. But so far in this series I’ve liked the ideas that have developed and I think the setting is really interesting.
Yeah, agreed. Blue Mars unfortunately had a little more of that the I remember from the other two. But the overall world building is impressive and interesting, and I don’t regret reading any of it.
It is fitting that it has received a Hugo award, as Les Miserable by Victor Hugo definitely fits into the same category - he could waffle on about very uninteresting things for pages on end before returning to the interesting parts of the story.
Lol I haven’t read any of Victor Hugo so I wouldn’t know, but it’s at least been good practice for speeding up my reading by looking at what’s actually important. Kim Stanley Robinson does a phenomenal job of recounting geography (areography) and routes that I unfortunately have no point of reference for, but they honestly matter very little beyond “this is in the north, this is in the middle, this is in the south”.
What a bizarre coincidence; that’s exactly what I came on to post!
Finished Red Mars a few weeks ago, started Green Mars a couple of days ago. I’d never read any Kim Stanley Robinson before, and I’m enjoying it so far.
Any other recommendations from your award-winners reading list?
Every now and then, a cuppa that’s more cowjuice than tea hits the spot. When I’m travelling from office to office with work, it’s nice knowing I’m getting a different cuppa each time - for better or for worse.
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