Katie

“The moral is clear: the choice is never between objectivity and interpretation but between an interpretation that is unacknowledged as such and an interpretation that is at least aware of itself.”
― Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities

“What could put an end to the worst of the internet? Social and economic collapse would do it, or perhaps a series of antitrust cases following by a package of hard regulatory legislation that would somehow also dismantle the internet's fundamental profit model. At this point it's clear that collapse will almost definitely come first”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“Corrupt personalization is the process by which your attention is drawn to interests that are not your own,” Sandvig wrote. The recommendation system “serves a commercial interest that is often at odds with our interests.”
― Kyle Chayka, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

“People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts.”
― Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator