Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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dreams prevent our brains from overfitting

It is common for dreams to involve nonsensical objects or borderline categories. People who are two people, places that are both your home and a spaceship. Dreams explore the statespace and in doing so warp and play with the categories, the dimensions of perception itself, stress-testing and refini…

—p.126 The Baffler #45: Chronic Youth Enter the Supersensorium (118) missing author
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sybaritic

the company most devoted to this sybaritic vision, Netflix

—p.120 Enter the Supersensorium (118) missing author
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instilling a sense of desert into the future ruling class

If elite college admission is a ritual of class selection, with a cottage industry of private escorts administering the rites, then here is its deeper psychological function: instilling a sense of desert into the future ruling class. For the investment banker’s son from Phillips Exeter who gets int…

—p.106 Class Warfare (96) missing author