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"Not sure if I will end up finishing but 43% of the way through the actual text. Some very interesting ideas, even if the author seems on occasion to use intentionally provocative language. A particularly valuable recurring theme surrounds the dehumanizing forces of contemporary society." — Jan 16, 2026 07:28PM
"Not sure if I will end up finishing but 43% of the way through the actual text. Some very interesting ideas, even if the author seems on occasion to use intentionally provocative language. A particularly valuable recurring theme surrounds the dehumanizing forces of contemporary society." — Jan 16, 2026 07:28PM
“Out of what trifles grow the tragedies of life.”
― Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
― Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line
“Magazines and newspapers used to think of themselves as something coherent--an issue, an edition, an institution. Not as the publisher of dozens of discrete pieces to be trafficked each day on Facebook, Twitter, and Google.”
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
“Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.”
― The Deerslayer
― The Deerslayer
“The cost of reading, even if you buy books instead of borrowing them and take in a fairly large number of periodicals, does not amount to more than the combined cost of smoking and drinking.”
― Books v. Cigarettes
― Books v. Cigarettes
“It's a basic, intuitive right, worthy of enshrinement: Citizens, not the corporations that stealthily track them, should own their own data.”
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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