“Tech sucked up our personal experiences and data, organized it with artificial intelligence, manipulated us with it, and created behavior at a scale that brought out the worst in humanity.”
― How to Stand Up to a Dictator
― How to Stand Up to a Dictator
“It's absurd to see people who have spent a lifetime standing against racism, being accused of racism, by racists.”
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“History shows that in the absence of violent leveling events, inequality was commonly quite high relative to its theoretical maximum and could remain high for extended periods of time.”
― The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
― The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
“Books are ports of entry to perceiving the experience of life differently, and that’s as powerful as it gets—that’s alchemy.”
― Nonbinary: Personal essays exploring gender outside the binary and carving out space.
― Nonbinary: Personal essays exploring gender outside the binary and carving out space.
“Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation.”
― When We Cease to Understand the World
― When We Cease to Understand the World
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