Katie

“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

“it was the small pleasures of his work that seemed in their simplicities to fill him to the brim.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“This will serve as a foretaste to the torment of hell which consists in having to review one's entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the worst thing is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“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