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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Facebook is not a robust public square archive/mc433

[...] Facebook is a carefully managed top-down system, not a robust public square. It mimics some of the patterns of conversation, but that's a surface trait. In reality, Facebook is a tangle of rules and procedures for sorting information, rules devised by the corporation for the ultimate benefit …

—p.56 World Without Mind Mark Zuckerberg's War on Free Will (56) by Franklin Foer
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Google's book-scanning project

[...] The company's lead lawyer on this described bluntly the roughshod attitude of his colleagues: "Google's leadership doesn't care terribly much about precedent or law." In this case precedent was the centuries-old protections of intellectual property, and the consequences were a potential devas…

—p.54 The Google Theory of History (32) by Franklin Foer
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hagiography

In a hagiographic documentary about him

—p.46 The Google Theory of History (32) by Franklin Foer
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