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This is not feminism. This is corporate media doing what corporate media has always done and trying to fool you into thinking there’s some cooler, nobler angle. Spoiler: There isn’t.

— Bitch Media, You’re Getting Hustled By Bustle

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Of course Alexa knows all the things you ask it — but that's only the beginning.

— Ina Fried, What Amazon knows about you

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Facebook’s claiming that it is not selling user data is like a bar giving away a free martini with every $12 bag of peanuts and then claiming that it’s not selling drinks. Rich user data is Facebook’s most prized possession, and the company sure isn’t throwing it in for free.

— Michal Kosinski and Casey Newton, Why we can’t stop debating whether Facebook sells data

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Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.

Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.

— John Nash (Russell Crowe), A Beautiful Mind

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Not too long ago TV Guide had a million subscribers who paid the magazine to point them to the best shows on TV. These shows, it is worth noting, were free to the viewers. TV Guide allegedly made more money than all three major TV networks it 'guided' combined.

— Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

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Niander Wallace: Mere data makes a man. A and C and T and G. The alphabet of you. All from four symbols. I am only two: 1 and 0.

'K': Half as much but twice as elegant, sweetheart.

— K (Ryan Gosling), Blade Runner 2049

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Finding truth is more than a search for data. It’s an excavation of self. You have to keep going, no matter where it takes you. Because nothing can stay hidden forever.

— Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), Altered Carbon, Season 1: The Wrong Man

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Jai Wilcox: Datatech, It's a computer security clearance. It's like comic-con for nerds.

Annie Walker: Isn't that just comic-con?

— Annie Walker (Piper Perabo), Covert Affairs, Season 1: Communication Breakdown

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Corporate loves its data. I'm not sure it'll actually make a difference, but it does give us an argument.

— Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez), The Good Doctor, Season 1: Oliver

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All the cool services are getting data dumps—that little link you click somewhere in a settings menu that triggers the service to send you all the data it collects from you (and everything you’ve used it to do, theoretically).

— David Murphy, What's in Your Instagram Data Dump and How to Get It

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It's also possible to see the data Facebook has collected on them over the years. This includes old messages, poke history and which advertisers have access to your data.

— Kaya Yurieff, Your Facebook Data Scandal Questions Answered

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We’re seeing more requests for access to publishers’ first-party data. Everyone’s trying to claim they should own the data in the marketing relationship. It’s an aggressive ask, so hopefully publishers are considering the ramifications.

— David Spiegel, 'An aggressive ask': Publishers bristle at agencies' demands for first-party data

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This is one of the craziest things about the modern age. We would never let the government or a corporation put cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on us. But we just went ahead and did it ourselves because — to hell with it!

— Dylan Curran, This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you

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Snap is building out the same kind of API that just got Facebook into a whole mess of trouble.

— Kurt Wagner, Snapchat is building the same kind of data-sharing API that just got Facebook into trouble

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Facebook is surveillance capitalism.

— Andrew Keen, Mark Zuckerberg is ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,’ author Andrew Keen says

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Big data can absorb individual voices, so much so that the self, the interpreter, may seem vulnerable, even lost.

— Sara van den Berg, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

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A hot-standby is a PostgreSQL replica that allows you to run read-only SQL queries, contrary to a regular standby that does not allow any SQL queries to be executed.

— Yorick Peterse, Scaling the GitLab database

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The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

— Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

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What does a baby computer call its father?
Data.

— Hyuna_The_Hyena, What does a baby computer call its father?

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A lag time exists between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.

— Jennifer Egan, Black Box

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Among the violent, there is always a plan for escape.

— Jennifer Egan, Black Box

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Fear and excitement are sometimes indistinguishable.

— Jennifer Egan, Black Box

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People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures.

— Jennifer Egan, Black Box

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The United States alone holds over 45 percent of the global pharmaceutical market. In 2016, this share was valued around 446 billion U.S. dollars.

— Statista, Topic: Pharmaceutical Industry in the U.S.

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With over 45 billion messages sent a day in the US, and endless evidence that messaging is eclipsing social networking in terms of the number of monthly active users the jury is in: Messaging is the world’s new media channel.

— Vivian Rosenthal, Why Emojis and Stickers Are Big Business

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Time spent up-front understanding all of the nuances and intricacies of the data is time well spent.

— Marck Vaisman, Bad Data Handbook: Cleaning Up The Data So You Can Get Back To Work

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We have become like the most primitive paleolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.

— Marshall McLuhan, Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)

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I'll bet the rest of my professional career that the future of your business is big data and machine learning applied to the business opportunities, customer challenges, and things before you.

— Eric Schmidt, Alphabet's Eric Schmidt: 'Big data is so powerful, nation states will fight' over it

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Machine learning only works when you have data — preferably a lot of data.

— Adam Geitgey, Machine Learning is Fun! Part 3: Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks

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Who the hell wants to have a police officer put their hand on them or yell and scream at them? It’s an awful experience. Every black man I know has had this experience. Every one of them. It is hard to believe that the world is your oyster if the police can rough you up without punishment. And when I talked to minority youth, almost every single one of them mentions lower-level uses of force as the reason why they believe the world is corrupt.

— Roland G. Fryer Jr., Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings

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On TV, there’s another war. Around and around and around. Even the most entrenched believers in the new global order have a mounting sense that some fundamental mindshift is needed. The contradictions of late-capitalist life put increasing pressure on our psyches to synthesize the data, yet insights come only in fits and starts. They appear like desert mirages, dazzling us with their promise and then dissolving into sand.

— Rob Wipond, Opening the Door - Adbusters | Journal of the mental environment

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To Google, Auletta's book is just a series of ones and zeros—and not very many of them, compared with a movie. To Auletta, those ones and zeros were exceptionally expensive to create—at least in terms of time—since the technology that has revolutionized the cost of distributing text hasn't dramatically changed the nature of writing it. Reporters can access online databases and interview sources by Skype, but they still have to read documents and ask the right questions. In cases like this, 'information wants to be expensive.'

— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

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Well the global brain is not something that's electronic and it has nothing to do with the World Wide Web and it has nothing to do with the Internet; we were World Wide Webbed and Internetted 3.5 billion years ago when life first began.

— Howard Bloom, Disinformation: The Interviews: Uncut & Uncensored

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