Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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too many scruples

[...] What does it matter, after all, that margarine is nothing but grease if its efficiency is superior to that of butter? What does it matter, after all, that an Order is somewhat brutal, somewhat blind, if it allows us to live inexpensively? There we are, rid of a prejudice that used to cost us …

—p.43 Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation Operation Astra (41) by Roland Barthes
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any reservations about culture is a terrorist position

The truth behind these seasonally professed inadequacies of intelligence is the old obscurantist myth which holds that an ideais noxious if it is nor controlled by "common sense and "feeling": Knowledge is Evil, both grow on the same tree: culture is permitted, provided one periodically proclaims t…

—p.30 Criticism Blind and Dumb (29) by Roland Barthes
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the solution: public platforms archive/dissertation

Rather than just regulating corporate platforms, efforts could be made to create public platforms--platforms owned and controlled by the people. (And, importantly, independent of the surveillance state apparatus.) This would mean investing the state's vast resources into the technology necessary to…

—p.128 Platform Capitalism Great Platform Wars (93) by Nick Srnicek