Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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inveigle

The teacher inveigles her friends to clean up their profiles, and all is well again until her boss, the school principal, signs up to the service and demands to be added to her friends list.

—p.150 Facebook's Faceplant (148) by Cory Doctorow
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Metcalfe's Law

Sure, networks generally follow Metcalfe's Law: "the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system."

—p.149 Facebook's Faceplant (148) by Cory Doctorow
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lapsarianism

Lapsarianism — the idea of a paradise lost, a fall from grace that makes each year worse than the last — is the predominant future feeling for many people.

—p.120 The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights (119) by Cory Doctorow
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lagniappe

[Lagniappe: an unexpected bonus or extra] Think of it as a "lagniappe" — a little something extra to thank you for your patience.

—p.113 Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books (95) by Cory Doctorow
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realpolitik

the realpolitik of unauthorized use is that users are not required to secure permission for uses that the rights holder will never discover

—p.79 How Copyright Broke (78) by Cory Doctorow
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