• JohnScig@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Funny, Meta trying to stop it made me buy it immediately on Libro.FM, where it will remain mine to download and keep.

    There are 2 “Careless people” books, by the way, look for the subtitle “A Story Of Where I Used To Work”

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      1 month ago

      That seems to be an audio book on Libro. Barnes & Noble still has the physical book available online, but who knows. Anyway, the author is a former FB exec, so evil by definition, just maybe less evil than Zuckerberg. And I doubt she needs the money from the book.

      My local library has 65 holds on 2 copies, lol. Maybe I’ll look for it after the clamor has died down.

      There are multiple books with that title, which is a reference to The Great Gatsby (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317):

      They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made …