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“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

“Above me a black oak wiggled in the ashy breeze. The tree was higher than the house. Its trunk was weighted with experience.”
― Manjula Martin, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History