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"I didn't feel much remorse for what I'd done...I would have liked to have tried explaining to him cordially, almost affectionately, that I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything."

"Then he asked me if I wasn't interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was good as another and that I wasn't dissatisfied with mine here at all."

"In this sense the algorithm does start learning about you. You give it pieces of yourself, and in doing so enter a relationship, continuously renegotiating between the algorithm and your revealed preferences to help construct your identity. Rather than knowing you, then, the algorithm moreso guides you into who you will become."

“The algorithm simultaneously unites us and divides us by creating a common online culture and then dividing us into smaller and smaller groups for us to create our own subcultures.”

“The gift is not in the blood but in the stories, the axioms, the experiences garnered from centuries of living on the outskirts of a dubious democracy.”

“This was not just another evil done by another state, but an evil done in my name…I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel.”

"visibility is one of those really pernicious notions because not only do most people misunderstand what visibility is about (or ought to be about) but because they most often see _hyper visilibility_ and, in their bitter envy, decide that _this_ is what their goal should be and something worth working towards."

"transmisogyny was a necessary part of colonialism exerting its hegemonic power over colonies. and this, of course, is also connected to the forced spread of christianity across the globe."

im like 10 pages into this and it’s so bad i like billy-ray belcourt but god

“Whiteness, the idea, the identity tethered to no nation of origin, no place, no gods, exists only if it can expand enough to defend its position over every group that challenges the throne…For that situational dominance to reproduce itself, there must be a steady pole.”

“The networks of capital, be they polities of organizations, work most efficiently when your lowest status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never competent enough to save your own life.”

“Changes in language tend to come from below.”

i will finish this book ... eventually

is the protagonist named alexandra? i didn’t think she was, but J referred to her as such. am i missing something?

i feel like i’m watching a train crash

never read a book like this one

seemingly minor thing but this book claims that marsha p. johnson “literally threw the first stone [at stonewall]” which is just not true. https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/05/2... this is a super common misconception, but one that is definitively false, and it frustrates me that this book is spreading misinformation.

“Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms language is humanity’s most spectacular open source project.”

"Internet writing is a distinct genre with its own goals, and to accomplish those goals successfully requires subtly tuned awareness of the full spectrum of language."

if this is going the way i think it’s going with luke im gonna be mad

may is so evil omg

adam is completely right as far as i’m concerned