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Of course, they are not serious about protecting people. If they were, Facebook would have closed up shop when they started abetting genocides.
Certain Emotions Uttered at Random Intervals
Rob Horning
The “real images” vs. “fake images” framing invites us to forget the intrinsic “fakeness” of all images or, what amounts to the same thing, to believe that we used to have some privileged access to truth and reality before we went image crazy as a society but a special few of us could have it again.
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
For all the frustration and difficulty of writing a novel, I knew from the beginning of the process that I had been given something very important, a special gift, a blessing. It was like God had put his hand on my head and filled me with the most intense desire I had ever felt, not desire for another person, but desire to bring something into being that had never existed before. When I look back at those years, I feel touched and almost pained by the simplicity of the life I was living, because I knew what I had to do, and I did it, that was all.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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