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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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multifarious

the multifarious forms of structural and physical violence that come with inequality

—p.82 What inequality does to people (73) by Bob Hughes
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belie

The notion that computers demonstrate capitalism's creativity is finally belied by the computer's history.

—p.37 Technofatalism and the future--is a world without Foxconn even possible? (15) by Bob Hughes
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when a few people persuade the majority

Equality, not competition or hierarchy, is 'the mother of invention'. Progress slows or goes into reverse as soon as ideas are appropriated by hierarchical organizations. Inequality is sustained when a few people persuade the majority that there is no alternative. [...]

—p.9 Introduction (11) by Bob Hughes