<tdclass="snippet">While individual participants looked for a route to autonomy, stability, and professional fulfillment that seemed impossible elsewhere, they ended up creating a value system that advanced the erosion of boundaries between individuals’ inner lives and commercialism, asking us to view ourselves as products perpetually ready for market, our relationships as monetizable, and our daily activities as potential shopping experiences.</td>
<tdclass="snippet">While individual participants looked for a route to autonomy, stability, and professional fulfillment that seemed impossible elsewhere, they ended up creating a value system that advanced the erosion of boundaries between individuals' inner lives and commercialism, asking us to view ourselves as products perpetually ready for market, our relationships as monetizable, and our daily activities as potential shopping experiences.</td>
<tdclass="snippet">To claim that there’s some sort of equivalence between the coordinated attack on Net neutrality and digital freedom going on across the world and the uninterrupted misogyny of comment-thread mouth-breathers doesn’t just take the biscuit, it pinches the packet and dribbles ugly, bile-flecked crumbs into the keyboard. It is deeply offensive to the many, many activists, hackers and developers who have given their time, imperilled their jobs and sometimes risked their lives to keep governments like the United States' from clamping down on free Internet usage to describe women speaking about feminism online as a threat to 'Freedom of Speech'.</td>
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<tdclass="snippet">For persecuted individuals, there is no eternal frontier to flee to. Certainly one could retreat by deleting one’s entire online presence, but this is not the promise of a boundlessly big internet. For targets of sustained online harassment, the internet is a one-room house full of speakers blaring obscenities at them.<br>Anti-harassment can take the form of smashing the speakers or turning off the electricity. Or it could take the form of turning down the volume, throwing a blanket over the speakers, giving people noise-canceling headphones, or even building new rooms in the house. Anti-harassment is about giving the harassed space on the internet, and keeping the electronic frontier open for them.</td>
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<td><ahref="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=6E090938C66CF360D1FD2C927D930A55">The Stars in our Pockets</a></td>
<tdclass="snippet">Curiosity as an approach to the world, as a means of orientation, is becoming obsolete. I don't just mean Google curiosity - with questions that can be instantly searched, instantly answered - or online news curiosity - with questions that get asked for you - but the kind of curiosity that originates with negative capability, with following your deepest affinities...</td>
<tdclass="snippet">Internal emails showed that there was a discussion at Facebook about modifying their harmful algorithm, but that was firmly rejected by the decision-makers. The company's response to the data indicating that their product was killing teens? Cost of doing business... Facebook was apparently willing to accept that some teenage girls may have to die and be collateral damage in the quest for obscene profitability.</td>
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<td><ahref="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7520C8C486D712BF6AE0B1EB0857CB56">The Net Delusion</a></td>
<tdclass="snippet">Apparently, nothing bad ever happens on the Internet frequented by the editors of <i>Wired</i>; even spam could be viewed as the ultimate form of modern poetry.</td>
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<tdclass="snippet"><i>As with building codes requiring adequate exit access in a crowded theater, the FTC rule would include a requirement that the platform demonstrate that it has the capability to adhere to these terms of service - in this case to screen the volume of its content in a way that actually ensures that while the screening process meant to achieve its terms of service may not be perfect, it is designed to be near perfect.</i> If this means that a platform has to cut its profit margins to hire thousands of people to screen all content before it is posted, or that it has to drastically lower the volume of users or the amount of content that it can post, so be it.</td>
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<td>Roberto Simanowski</td>
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<tdclass="snippet">A main thesis of this book is that social networks and diary apps prompt their users to engage in more or less unconscious and unreflective self-narration of a kind that favors implicit over explicit self-revelation and that prefers mechanical presentation (via photography or automated sharing) to mindful representation (via textual statements or the creation of a narrative structure).</td>
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<td>Jaron Lanier</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<tdclass="snippet">So a better portrait of the troll-evoking design is effortless, consequence-free, transient anonymity in the service of a goal, such as promoting a point of view, that stands entirely apart from one’s identity or personality. Call it drive-by anonymity.</td>
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<td>Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now</td>
<td>Jaron Lanier</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<tdclass="snippet">...women and girls who attempt to express themselves online find that their words and images are sexualized or incorporated into a violent or manipulative framework. Women's online presences have often been grotesquely transformed for the purposes of humiliation, shame, and harassment.</td>
<tdclass="snippet"><!-- I read the physical version. I still need to get a snippet from the ebook. --></td>
<tdclass="snippet">So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: <i>Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?</i></td>
<h1>Books about the political zeitgeist in America right now</h1>
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<td><ahref="https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=C2CA28F89CE636509E3B49D43A51DE3C">Everything You Love Will Burn</a></td>
<td>Vegas Tenold</td>
<td>Casual</td>
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<tdclass="snippet">Surrounding him was a handful of NSM members, many of them clearly old enough to qualify for Medicare. "Jeff said he was bringing numbers," Matthew said. "I didn’t realize he meant cumulative age."<br>"We have shields, they have osteoporosis," Miles said.</td>
