Using ephebophile Drake's Hotline Bling meme format. 🚫
Replacing him with Matt Parker who just wants to see the world learn. 🙌
Is that Matt fucking Parker?
I worked with him last year for Pi Day and I can confirm he's legit as nice in person as he is on camera. Also he never swears, unlike James Grime who's a hilarious potty mouth :D
I haven’t watched a Numberphile video in a while, probably not since the lockdowns. I have to say, James Grime doesn’t give that impression at all. Something about James “singing banana” Grime being a hilarious potty mouth is in itself very funny to me.
I actually love that James swears like a soldier. Don't know why exactly.
Thinking about it, I would be equally happy to learn Matt swears and James doesn't. Must be something about the 'insider' information!
The Matt Parker? Of Parker Square fame?
Yeah but probably better known for Asteroid 314159 right?
Last month I had an unusual charge on my credit card, saying "audible". I don't have an audible account, neither does my wife (she used to have one but even then it was charged through Google play, not directly to the card). I checked all of our emails and even checked both our Amazon accounts (don't remember why exactly I got clued to checking Amazon), but nothing there matched with anything we had purchased. So I notified my bank, replaced my card an all that.
One week goes by and suddenly my wife's Amazon account is nuked. Most of the books she bought for her kindle, lost. Her outstanding purchases, no info on them anymore. She can't copy the books that are still on the kindle anymore either. Her author profile was also gone, along with any small profit she made from the couple people who bought her stories.
We tried to contact Amazon to figure out what happened, but got no response. Then we used a local website that is used to complain about services and wrote there everything that happened. Amazon replied saying that her old account had been disabled and then she tried to log in with the same email again and that created a new account which caused the old one to be deleted forever so now they had no info on why her account had been disabled (which is complete bullshit). Amazon also notified the website that the issue had been resolved by that response, preventing us from sending any additional message.
Always go to the company before going to your bank. They often have policies where they’ll suspend your account if you do chargebacks before going through them.
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Nice, I haven't seen this template with Matt Parker before!
Oh, I had no idea Goodreads was owned by Amazon. Thanks! I'll definitely make a switch.
Now do IMDB
Movies: Letterboxd
TV Shows: Serializd
For books, I too use Storygraph. But I might switch to Hardcover later. I have been using Storygraph for like 3 years and in that time nothing really changed, improved there in my opinion. Socialization is almost non-existent. They still don't have "profile" pages for authors. If you click on an author, all of their books are just thrown in there together in one place. No filters, no picture of the author, nothing.
Hardcover looks interesting, it's a bit like letterboxd, that's why I like it. App is a little bit slow and I wish more people used it because there is not a lot of reviews and ratings for books. So if you want an alternative to goodreads, which has a lot of users, then storygraph is probably the only option.
Didn't know Goodreads was owneb by Amazon!
The local library is my first choice. I think they even have e-books now, though I am not sure how that works.
I didn't know Amazon owned GoodReads. I'll definitely have to try these out!
Hardcover.app
The weirdest thing to me about goodreads is Bill Gates actively posting there but only like 10 people interact with his posts
I really like storygraph. Every year or so I check on their progress for an api. It's on their long term roadmap and I'll be a happy person when it comes to fruition.
Only problem with Storygraph is that it's privately owned, just like Goodreads was. So as soon as Storygraph gets popular enough, it'll just get sold (probably to Amazon) and then you'll have to find another haven and start over once again. At least Bookwyrm is federated, like Lemmy.
I love BookWyrm so much. It's my favourite social media.
You have to find and follow a good number of people before your feed really has the right feel, but once you dial that in it's the perfect cozy cadence.
Someone should name some town's open space after him. Pave it with the numbers, too.
Omg I had no idea it was from Amazon too
God dammit
I wish I'd find the next fiction banger to read to escape into before venturing our wuthering lonely world.
Goodreads is like Yelp for books.
Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don't even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.
I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn't have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it'll affect sales.
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