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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)

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“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: communication

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“Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“He was in his fifties. He'd wasted his entire life. Such people were very dear to those of us who'd wasted only a few years.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

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“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

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