“There’s a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley”

“Drones date online, but drones don’t think about it the way that humans do”

“The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet”

“We have a billion folks using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day”

“Throughout Zuckerberg’s talk, people and Facebook friends were used interchangeably“

“there is general, assumed agreement on what social media is even as there is significant doubt as to whether society exists”

“There’s a stereotypical Pinterest user and I can’t escape the feeling that it is what I have become”

“The Like button tears aside this veil to reveal the cloying, pathetic, Willy Lomanesque need of marketers to have their brands be well-liked”

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