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   Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) (golgaloth@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 11:57:35 JST Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)

   Tech bros should not be in charge of anything.

   #books #reading #AmReading #yikes

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     Robin Adams (robinadams@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:23:16 JST Robin Adams

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     Fahrenheit 451:

     '"Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.”

     “Snap ending.” Mildred nodded.

     “Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs. Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors. Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”

     Mildred arose and began to move around the room, picking things up and putting them down.

     Beatty ignored her and continued: “Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes! Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought."'

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 03:45:25 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Robin Adams

     @robinadams @golgaloth Rollerball...
     Clerk: ...The books you've ordered are classified and have been transcribed and summarized.
     Jonathan E.: Who summarizes them?
     Clerk: I suppose the computer summarizes them.
     [...]
     Clerk: You could go to the Computer Center where the real librarians transcribe the books. But we have all the edited versions in our catalog. Anything I think you'd want.
     Jonathan E.: Well, I see that this is not a library and you are really not a librarian.