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

Facebook's mission statement commits the company "to make the world more open and connected." Google's official mission is to "organize the world's information." No high-frequency trading server has issued a public mission statement that I know of, but when I speak to the proprietors, they claim they are optimizing what is spent where in "the world." The conceit of optimizing the world is self-serving and deceptive. The optimizations approximated in the real world as a result of Siren Servers are optimal only from the points of view of those servers.

this is an extremely good point

—p.154 Narcissism (153) by Jaron Lanier 8 years, 11 months ago