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''Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier -

"To free yourself, to be more authentic, to be less addicted, to be less manipulated, to be less paranoid … for all these marvelous reasons, delete your accounts."

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''Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier -

"Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward. The relative ease of using negative emotions for the purposes of addiction and manipulation makes it relatively easier to achieve undignified results. An unfortunate combination of biology and math favors degradation of the human world. Information warfare units sway elections, hate groups recruit, and nihilists get amazing bang for the buck when they try to bring society down."

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'Ten' Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier -

"Now everyone who is on social media is getting individualized, continuously adjusted stimuli, without a break, so long as they use their smartphones. What might once have been called advertising must now be understood as continuous behavior modification on a titanic scale."

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"Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier -

"The core process that allows social media to make money and that also does the damage to society is behavior modification. Behavior modification entails methodical techniques that change behavioral patterns in animals and people. It can be used to treat addictions, but it can also be used to create them."

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''Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier -

"The core process that allows social media to make money and that also does the damage to society is behavior modification. Behavior modification entails methodical techniques that change behavioral patterns in animals and people. It can be used to treat addictions, but it can also be used to create them."

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quote from "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout" by Cal Newport -

"“Those who suffer for others do more damage to humanity than those who enjoy themselves,”"

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quote from "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout" by Cal Newport -

"Carlo Petrini launched a new movement that he called Slow Food. A corresponding manifesto defined its goals: Against those—or, rather, the vast majority—who confuse efficiency with frenzy, we propose the vaccine of an adequate portion of sensual gourmandise pleasures, to be taken with slow and prolonged enjoyment. Appropriately, we will start in the kitchen, with Slow Food. To escape the tediousness of “fast-food,” let us rediscover the rich varieties and aromas of local cuisines."

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quote from "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout" by Cal Newport -

"It seems like the benefits of technology have created the ability to stack more into our day and onto our schedules than we have the capacity to handle while maintaining a level of quality which makes the things worth doing. . . . I think that’s where the burnout really hurts—when you want to care about something but you’re removed from the capacity to do the thing or do it properly and give it your passion and full attention and creativity because you’re expected to do so many other things."

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quote from "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout" by Cal Newport -

"PSEUDO-PRODUCTIVITY The use of visible activity as the primary means of approximating actual productive effort."

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quote from "Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout" by Cal Newport -

"busyness, seeing overload as an obstacle to producing results that matter, not a badge of pride. It also posits that professional efforts should unfold at a more varied and humane pace, with hard periods counterbalanced by relaxation at many different timescales, and that a focus on impressive quality, not performative activity,"

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If a woman came to the hospital with a lethal fetal anomaly, she had no option but to carry the pregnancy to term. The outcome was traumatic for both the mother and her doctors.

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It’s four years,” he said. “Do something positive for someone else every day. Mentor a young person. Do good work. Be involved in your community. That makes a difference.”

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We’re a great nation because we’re a good people

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"Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel" by Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus -

"Writers create what they do out of their own frightful agony and blood and mushed-up guts and horrible mixed-up insides. The more they are in touch with their insides the better they create."

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"The Andy Warhol Diaries" by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett -

"Skinner’s contention that “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do,”"

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"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"The more you describe a memory, the more likely it is that you are making a story that fits your life, resolves the past, creates a fiction you can live with."

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"The Chronology of Water: A Memoir" by Lidia Yuknavitch, Chelsea Cain -

"All I know is that her weird made my weird feel better."

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