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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez

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“I see you as everything you tell me you are or want to be.”
― Edward Underhill

tags: love, queer-love

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“Perhaps we've been killed these hundred years and are only ghosts. It's as if I had been through all this before; as if I'd already had a mortal wound here in the throat.”
― Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

tags: dispair

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“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

tags: albert-einstein, they-both-die-at-the-end

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“I wanted man to become master! So he wouldn’t have to live from hand to mouth! I didn’t want to see another soul grow numb slaving over someone else’s machines! I wanted there to be nothing, nothing, nothing left of that damned mess of a social hierarchy! I abhorred degradation and suffering! I was fighting against poverty! I wanted a new generation of mankind! I wanted ... I thought ...”
― Karel Čapek, R. U. R.

tags: robots

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“I blame science! I blame technology! Domin! Myself! All of us! We, we are at fault! For the sake of our megalomania, for the sake of somebody’s profits, for the sake of progress, I don’t know, for the sake of some tremendous something we have murdered humanity! So now you can crush under the weight of all your greatness! No Genghis Khan has ever erected such an enormous tomb from human bones!”
― Karel Čapek, RUR. Rossum's Universal Robots

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