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“My belief is that young people have not been getting any smarter or dumber than the generations who have come before us. What I do think, however, is that we are at an important junction of human evolution – when we exist with unlimited access to knowledge of all kinds, what do we choose to do with it?”

When the audience you dreamed of finally arrives, will you recognise yourself when you perform for them? Do we ever really perform for others, or is the ultimate audience our own self? How far is curiosity and access on the internet healthy, and when does it spill over into obsession? And when anonymity makes you do things you wouldn’t do otherwise, who exactly are you becoming–more like your real self, or less?

“We hope that by proving to other people that we are a certain kind of person, we get to prove it to ourselves”

is it physically possible to highlight every page of a book

Chapter 2 is more romantic than all the romance books I read

Reminder to go back on club penguin

Loving this book! It’s like a lovely to read a little tid-bit every other day. Her writing is so nice and relatable and her takes are always so refreshing. Am in bit of a slump rn with this book but I’ll finish it!

An oversimplified version of a chapter of another book I've been reading "The Disappearance of Rituals" by Byung-Chul Han.
To not be perceived -- by self or others, to not produce ourselves: that is the goal.
If BCH writes in one extreme of tedious academic jargon, Riachops writes in the other extreme of oversimplified examples.

“It’s complicated” is a lot more cohesively written, but some sentences still needed editing. A good overview on relationship tests pushed by algorithms shaping shallow expectations on what love means. Appreciate the focus on algorithmic gaze being the panopticon gaze and how algorithms have been quietly shaping conservative values.

Only one chapter in. The content is good, but this needed heavy editing. :(