Quoting Ether in Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, St. Martin's Press, Ch. Day 1, p. 21, 2024

Those things didn’t even exist fifteen years ago! I bet you’re having a physical reaction right now at the thought of being untethered from it. Look at how well they’ve trained us! Constant sharing, constant tracking, everything offered up for scrutiny. See, that’s the one thing the system can’t tolerate today: privacy. In private, dangerous ideas happen, unique individuals are formed, cool secret boxes are moved. They can’t have that, can they?!?

— Ether in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, St. Martin’s Press, Ch. Day 1, p. 21, 2024

8:24am on October 27, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


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