biteychan

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How's your week going Beehaw? in c/chat@beehaw.org
[–] biteychan@beehaw.org 0 points 3 months ago

I started the day yesterday feeling very sad. As I was going back and forth from my desk to a conference room trying to coordinate hearing/vision testing in the high school I work at, the front desk ladies' playlist had Sade's "Smooth Operator" going on and it made my day. I started dancing in the halls and the front desk ladies went "ayyyy, ayyyy, ayyy". You can do all things through "ayyyy" that strengthen you. I love working in a school.

The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu in c/books@lemmy.ml
[–] biteychan@beehaw.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm 58% through the third book and it feels like it should've ended at book two so far for me.

Sports fans are abandoning traditional TV in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] biteychan@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I grew up loving and watching basketball. I can't afford $80 to stream not even all of the sports.

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I Made Evil Cornbread (beehaw.org)
 

This is a case of "faces in things", but I thought it was kinda funny. I didn't add quite enough honey and sugar to the recipe, but it was still moist and enjoyable. Making cornbread from scratch and tweaking online recipes so it doesn't taste like cardboard. I want jiffy mix, without buying jiffy mix and I mostly nailed it...but at a cost of creating evil cornbread. Maybe the next batch won't be evil?

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Meta exposé tops bestseller chart despite company’s attempt to ban its promotion (www.theguardian.com)
 

Keep it going, guys.

Meta exposé tops bestseller chart despite company’s attempt to ban its promotion Sarah Wynn-Williams’s account of her seven years as a Facebook executive is number one on the New York Times bestseller list and has flown off the shelves in the UK

An exposé by a former employee of Meta has become a bestseller despite the social media company banning the author from promoting the book.

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, topped the New York Times bestseller chart and will be fourth on the Sunday Times nonfiction hardback chart this weekend.

The book “sold a staggering 1,000 hardbacks a day in the first three days on sale in the UK, despite Meta’s legal tactics to silence the book’s author”, said Joanna Prior, CEO of publisher Pan Macmillan. “This early success is a triumph against Meta’s attempt to stop the publication of this book.”

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'Careless People': Meta wins arbitration to halt promotion of tell-all book by ex-employee (www.usatoday.com)
 

(Books count as Entertainment, right? If Zuckerberg has no haters, I am dead. Currently waiting in line for this book on Libby as I type this)

Meta Platforms META.O on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book "Careless People" by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.

The book by Meta's former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams, was called by the New York Times book review "an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful companies in the world," and its leading executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan.