technology and society quotes from the past week

“Facebook is useless without friends. My only friend is, like, my grandma”

“research about the Internet done by white ppl that rarely acknowledges the salience of race but clings to a fantasy of a color-blind web”

“when Google finally launches a search engine for women, we will be capable of locating the websites targeted at us”

“Social media seem like a new way to buy the bulk of us off with affect“

“The discourse of the comment section invites readers to round the essay up to scandalous”

“a person close enough to the toilet to connect to it via Bluetooth with their phone could take control of it”

“Aha, I am a Cultured person in a Cultured space and I am Experiencing Books”

“Cop Selfies are illegitimate selfies complicit in the fetishism of violence”

“Anyone who thinks that texting lacks nuance has failed to mine the vast emotional potential of the Emoji keyboard”

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