The penumbra of the Holocaust hangs over him

In a hagiographic documentary about him

Perhaps Facebook no longer fully understands its own tangle of algorithms--the code, all sixty million lines of it, is a palimpsest, where engineers and layer upon layer of new commands.

David Foster Wallace called the condition Total Noise. With it, our reading became peripatetic, less focused.

It's sometimes hard to grasp the pecuniary motives of the big tech companies, because they strike such an idealistic pose.

Nixon's scabrous attorney general

The problem that Baumol and Bowen identified was subtler than that: They named a condition called "cost disease." While classical music hasn't grown any more productive, the cost of producing it keeps increasing.

There was a political corollary to this prelapsarian dream

vegetarians are presented with endless vegetarian agitprop