Stephen

“The city, by storm light, looked far too malevolent. There were things he could recognize – columns and steps and archways and so on – but there were others . . . he shuddered. It looked as if people had once tried to add human touches to structures that were already ancient . . .”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“This situation is completely without precedent, and it is now evolving so quickly that we can barely keep track of where we are. And the more technology evolves, the more that new layers of hardware and software are added, the harder it is to change. This is handing tech capitalists a unique source of power. As the Silicon Valley guru Jaron Lanier puts it, they don’t have to persuade us when they can directly manipulate our experience of the world.”
― Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine

“As William Davies has argued, its unique innovation is to make social interactions visible and susceptible to data analytics and sentiment analysis”
― Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine

“One distinction, perhaps, is that trolls, unlike most users, are fully aware of, and exploit the cumulative impact of, hundreds of thousands of small, low-commitment actions, like a tweet or retweet.”
― Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine