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7 years, 4 months ago

whiteness is a thing that other people choose for you

"You're also not white. You ever hear those heritage-not-hate types, that myth that the Irish were the first slaves in America? They're an interesting bunch. They're so close, you know, so close to understanding that whiteness is a thing that other people choose for you. People are white if whitene…

—p.123 Radicalized Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow
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our appliances take away so much freedom to begin with

"[...] I understand your idea here, that you're selling us more freedom. but that's only because our appliances take away so much freedom to begin with, and then sell it back."

"But no one forced you to choose Boulangism. You chose a product that came with restrictions, and in return., you got a…

—p.95 Unauthorized Bread (9) by Cory Doctorow
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was there enough money in the world?

[...] a kid who'd learned to search the darknet for ways to control technology designed to control them. A kid who was outraged at being asked to forget how to do that and go back to being meekly controlled.

Would a kid like that ever work on commission, installing official unlocking codes in th…

—p.86 Unauthorized Bread (9) by Cory Doctorow
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the whole rotten business, that was the problem

Salima had thought of Wye as her ally, every bit as offended by the locked-down world of Dorchester Towers as she was. But Wye had been working long hours for Boulangism and its new sister companies. She thought the problem was that Salima didn't want to get into trouble. Salima had been thinking t…

—p.84 Unauthorized Bread (9) by Cory Doctorow
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everything could be a product

[...] They've been watching the darknet boards, they know that everyone's been figuring out how to jailbreak their shit while we've been getting restarted, and they figure all those people could be customers, but instead of paying for food we sell them, they'd pay us to use food someone else sold t…

—p.83 Unauthorized Bread (9) by Cory Doctorow