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

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the system became the justification for the system topic/drift

[...] How would it help if, in the awful and explicit way of computer systems, Reggie made clear what everyone knew-that there was a little fudging going on around the edges, so that providers could get a little extra and give a little more. In the absence of the machine, everyone could wink at the…

—p.84 Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents [4] Software and Suburbia (65) by Ellen Ullman
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a side effect of freedom archive/silicon-jest

[...] The only difference was that Brian wanted to smuggle money itself, and he had no compunctions about it. On the contrary, he reveled in the very idea, turned it over and over in his mind, found in it an entire life philosophy. And there he sat on my sofa, drinking my tea, explaining, completel…

—p.46 [2] Sushi (39) by Ellen Ullman
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I used to think that was a compliment archive/silicon-jest

He grinned at me.

"You're very strange," I said.

"I used to think that was a compliment," he said. And his pleasure vanished.

It was at that moment that I thought there might be a bit more to Brian. Yes, he was weird. Yes, he barely belonged to this world. But a part of him knew all too we…

—p.43 [2] Sushi (39) by Ellen Ullman
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