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“Enshittification,” coined by the prolific technology critic and author Cory Doctorow, is one of these. Doctorow came up with the phrase, in 2022, to describe how all the digital services that increasingly dominated our daily lives seemed to be getting worse at the same time.

“É preciso certo desespero para convidar os próprios demônios a partilhar uma refeição.”

I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued.

To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought. This means they will lack the means to understand the world they live in or navigate it effectively.

se um grupo muito pequeno de grandes empresas de tecnologia coleta, organiza e controla dados suficientes de bilhões de pessoas ao ponto de influenciar o comportamento desse demográfico colossal, enquanto também são a principal fonte de informação de boa parte do planeta, então a nossa percepção de realidade está sequestrada por essas empresas - e... See more

“Minha mãe costumava dizer que o choque era diferente para cada pessoa que a procurava.

A juventude que já incendiou países agora vive anestesiada por memes, trends e discussões que evaporam em 24 horas. A gente gasta mais tempo pensando na estética da luta do que na luta em si.

Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. It does not feed us or clothe us or, unless you get very lucky, enrich us. But literature is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor of humankind has ever been.