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“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.”
― Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
― Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
“it was the small pleasures of his work that seemed in their simplicities to fill him to the brim.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
“Above me a black oak wiggled in the ashy breeze. The tree was higher than the house. Its trunk was weighted with experience.”
― The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
― The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
“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.”
― Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
― 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”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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