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Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

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People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they’ve woken me up. I lose my way in...more

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It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

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You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.

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So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they’d work, whether people would use them. I mea...more

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Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

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That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’...more

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If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to...more

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He handed Mae a piece of paper, on which he'd written, in crude all capitals, a list of assertions under the headline "The Rights of Humans in a Digit...more

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Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly s...more

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I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into o...more

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Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

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Director of Ensuring the Future