Sublime

“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”

Daniel J. Solove, a law professor who writes about privacy and surveillance, argues that the novel presciently captures the dilemma of the modern subject of information technologies. Concerns about data collection and predictive analytics, he argues, have focused too much on Orwellian fears—the notion that the state is surveilling our most private

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We need modern philosophers -- much better philosophers than me -- to wrestle with modern questions. It would be foolish to be the generation with the most individual agency and the least intentional thought about what to do with it.

Moro’s decision to accept the job of justice minister in the new Bolsonaro government badly damaged his credibility. But it was perhaps not a surprising one. Certainly not to Janot, the chief federal prosecutor and the man who had set up the Curitiba task force in the first place. In his memoir, Janot said that he had been sceptical of the Curitiba

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