This is not to say that men make and women use—far from it—only that the technological history we’re usually told is one about men and machines, ignoring women and the signals they compose.


“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six

“The party never stopped at Mick's place. He categorized three phases of a good drug binge: ascending, transcending, disintegration.”
― The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks
― The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks

“trauma interferes with the proper functioning of brain areas that manage and interpret experience”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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