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A city that suffered obvious, massive trauma when I was very small—but to which no one refers now. The city died on their watch, and there is a communal sense of misplaced culpability about it. This is what dying industrial cities smell of:
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“When she focused in on tech and surveillance, she began tapping into deep and latent cultural fears about the many ways that previously private parts of our lives have become profit centers for all-seeing Silicon Valley giants.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Life is just too damn short to let someone else’s opinion steer the wheel,”
― The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
― The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
“But aside from some grumbling, there was weak resistance among progressives to the way vaccine manufacturers were profiteering from the pandemic, and so Bannon became the one taking on Big Pharma’s greed—but, once again, via unfounded conspiracy theories rather than the real scandals.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“algorithmic oppression is not just a glitch in the system but, rather, is fundamental to the operating system of the web.”
― Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
― Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
“Likability is a con, and we're falling for it[...] Is there such a thing as a likable woman? Can you think of one? And if she exists, could she be anything but the ultimate manifestation of everything we hate about the water we swim in, everything we're forced to be? Likability in a sexist, racist culture is not objective - it's compulsory femininity, the gender binary, invisible labor, whiteness, smallness, sweetness. It's letting them do it. If someone is universally likable, I don't trust that person.”
― The Witches Are Coming
― The Witches Are Coming
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