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Celine Nguyen • In Defense of San Francisco
“The concept of truth lies at the very heart of civilization,” Angus continued. “Take it away, and what have we left. Anarchy. A fight for survival. The disappearance of all morality. Human life becomes a nightmare.”
— The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series (16) by Alexander McCall Smith
Mack Hagood • Fidelity Angst — Real Life
Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, 2010.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
“Maybe this is another reason why print media is having a resurgence – the internet is becoming an increasingly unnavigable Takeshi’s castle-style obstacle course of terrible user experience and useless, nonsensical content,” says a writer and podcaster Georgia Graham in response to an essay about the AI-induced weirdness of the internet. “Finding
... See morereadwise.io • Busy Corner Text Media Report
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
The parentheses are an attempt at housing the unimaginable, barricading the horror from the rest of life. They make a little fortification in the middle of Humbert’s narration.