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@joannamuses on twitter. Thoughts on books, Eurovision, Melbourne happenings, music and culture with bonus architecture and cute animal pictures.

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KitOz , to actuallyautistic
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I was noticing that my cat and I seem to share some behaviors, which made me wonder if cats aren't a little bit autistic. Or maybe I'm a little bit cat?

Which gave me the idea to come up with a facetious self-assessment quiz: Are you autistic, or are you a house cat?

Take the quiz to find out!

@actuallyautistic

https://kitozbooks.com/2024/04/autistic-or-a-house-cat/

joannaholman ,
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@KitOz @actuallyautistic There's a book that explains autism using cats! https://suelarkey.com.au/product/all-cats-are-on-the-autism-spectrum/

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to technology
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

joannaholman ,
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@ArmoredThirteen @Coreidan Agreed. My worry is not even that youtube will do a big conspicuous wipe of things (though they might). It's that they'll quietly start deleting low view count content from accounts who don't log in much leaving people wondering if they were misremembering that they used to be able to access certain content

timrichards , to bookstodon
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Christ, imagine being so deranged that you'd post negative reviews of books of fellow new authors you perceived as rivals. Goodreads is turning into the YouTube of the literary world (no that's not a compliment).

‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? | Books | The Guardian

@bookstodon @NarrelleMHarris https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing

joannaholman ,
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@timrichards @bookstodon @NarrelleMHarris it’s definitely taking some weird turns. I don’t write or even look at reviews there anymore. For me it’s just to keep track of what I read and see what interesting things my friends are reading

joannaholman , to random
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I've been on a quest to read books from as many countries as possible and would love recommendations books in English from South East Asian countries other than Singapore (already have a stack from there). Originally in English or translated are both fine, as is almost any fiction or non-fiction genre, although I don't love crime fiction and try to avoid western expat memoirs where work by local authors is available in English.

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