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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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you’re supposed to thank the fumes misc/poetry

You’re supposed to thank the fumes. To be grateful
for the toxic patch on the rail track.
For the craquelure
in the asphalt, seeping green—
it reroutes you, proffers with each commute a forced
adventure. Who’s to say what you’ll find
in your course of avoidance?
Ideally a willi…

—p.35 The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds [You're supposed to thank the fumes. To be grateful] (35) by Chris Lehmann
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wealth is a condition for privacy rights

Khiara Bridges—a law professor (also a professor of anthropology) at Boston University—takes the question of the constitutional rights of poor people one step further in her book The Poverty of Privacy Rights. Here, she makes the case that “wealth is a condition for privacy rights, and that, lackin…

—p.77 The Baffler No. 40 - Forced Exposure Privatizing Poverty (74) missing author
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should this technology exist?

[...] Their research is another expression of Silicon Valley’s fake-it-til-you-make-it culture of denial and opportunism. Yet the outsize hype attached to these projects breeds problems of its own. Regardless of machine-learning “gaydar’s” efficacy, James Vincent wrote at The Verge, “if people beli…

—p.133 Big Brother’s Blind Spot (126) missing author
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democracy dies also in a deluge of blindingly bright messages

Journalism, too, is in crisis amid the economic and technological riptides and judicial rulings that treat information as another commodity. The First Amendment rightly bars government from abridging “freedom of the press” because, as New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen notes, good j…

—p.106 Speech Defects (92) missing author
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what will you do when the money from the paycheck is gone?

I had studied English because I wanted to be a writer. I never had an expectation of becoming rich. I didn’t care about money. [...] Once I could no longer delay and the payments began, a question echoed through my head from the moment the day began, and often jolted me awake at night. I would look…

—p.86 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me (82) missing author