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the emergent property of any network of super black boxes archive/abolish-silicon-valley

When a large-scale crisis hits, it is tempting to attribute it to a conspiracy between the powerful. Images spring to mind of smoke-filled rooms with cunning men (and the occasional woman) plotting how to profit at the expense of the common good and the weak. These images are, however, delusions. I…

—p.11 Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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there are no ‘goodies’ or ‘baddies’ in this book archive/abolish-silicon-valley

[...] Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at the mercy of cruel circumstances that have been generated by an inhuman, mostly unseen network of power relations. This is why there are no ‘goodies’…

—p.2 Preface (1) by Yanis Varoufakis
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there are no ‘goodies’ or ‘baddies’ in this book archive/abolish-silicon-valley

[...] Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at the mercy of cruel circumstances that have been generated by an inhuman, mostly unseen network of power relations. This is why there are no ‘goodies’…

—p.2 Preface (1) by Yanis Varoufakis
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I have nothing to offer you any more

Yiorgos Chatzis went missing on 29 August 2012. He was last sighted at the social security office in the small northern Greek town of Siatista, where he was told that his monthly disability allowance of €280 had been suspended. Eyewitnesses reported that he did not utter a word of complaint. ‘He se…

—p.9 Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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in this manner, the issue was decided

She would have it, this baby. She grabbed for the baby's other arm. She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back.

But he would not let go. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard.

In this manner, the issue was decided.

—p.125 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Popular Mechanics (123) by Raymond Carver