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Mara is Currently Reading

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Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

by Karen Barad

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Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Watsujiō Tetsur's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan (Modern Japanese Philos (Dis))

by Tetsuro Watsuji

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Book cover for Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Ruha Benjamin

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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. —TONI MORRISON

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“I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

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“The woman’s eyebrows are statement brows, and the statement is: I am fucking fabulous and don’t you forget it.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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“She takes a quick moment to send a text to her son, reminding him that he’s sleeping his life away and should have been up and at it before her. He is, after all, a young man with a whole world to conquer. Late mornings, Vera believes, are only for toddlers and Europeans.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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“Simple as it sounds, that bit of information means the difference between feeling like you’re taking a ride, and feeling like you’ve been taken hostage.”
― Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

tags: autonomous-driving, technology, user-experience

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“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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