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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crepuscular

Perhaps the glow at the horizon is neither of longer sunsets nor less sudden dawns, but is rather a protracted, constitutive ambiguity. Such crepuscularity we have all known, and will all know again.

—p.3 Introduction (1) by China Miéville
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freedom as a burden

[...] when we are deprived of universal healthcare, we are told that we are given a new freedom of choice (to choose our healthcare provider); when we can no longer rely on long-term employment and are compelled to search for a new precarious job every couple of years or maybe even every couple of …

—p.59 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism Cardiognosis (51) by Slavoj Žižek
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the person being paid is just a blip

I'll start to worry about the payroll clerks using the software I design . I'll wonder what I'm doing helping the IRS collect taxes. It will bother me that so many entities-employer, software company, bank, IRS-know so much about the simple act of someone getting paid for labor delivered. I'll thin…

—p.188 Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents [9] Driving (185) by Ellen Ullman
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