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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
“Content is a great fortifier of good looks.”
― The Deerslayer
― The Deerslayer
“If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.”
― The Deerslayer
― The Deerslayer
“Companies that are indifferent to democracy have acquired an outsized role in it.”
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
― World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
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