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“I believe that at this moment there are alot of people studying, living this process, and wanting to creat something else, and this “something else” is socialism. Sometimes we want to make change but we still don’t know what we r building. Some say, “we are fighting for socialism for our children. Our children or going to see it”. We say “no”. You build socialism by practicing it.” 42 .

“After ww2 and the Nuremberg trials, informed consent was established as an ethical prerequisite for expirements on humans subjects. In the case of online experiments, however, this principle is widely flouted - usually, this consent is extorted from users via the general terms of use to which they agree when they sign up to a givens platform” - 97 This book is blowing my mind

“ the flexibility that facilitated creative work seems reminiscent of anti authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and it would certainly be nice to believe for a second that this could really be the new face of work. Unfortunately, this is not the case. For all the fine rhetoric cooked up in relaxed west coast offices, the organizational changes that they are actually promoting fuel exactly the opposite dynamic “ -42

“Amount men, “toxic” has now become a byword for “badass”. I propose the more straightforward “broken masculinity” as a potential replacement primarily because it accurately describes what where dealing with - a model of masculinity that’s completely broken - but also because it’s likely that men will walk around pugging their chests and declaring themselves “broken””. - 139

If lifting is mindless, it is mindfully so. -33