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Book cover for The Age of Miracles
A bleed of brightness was spreading directly overhead, a sliver of sun returned to us, as if by miracle. Now we could see the outline of the whole thing, a thin circle of light with a blinding bulge on one side, like a diamond on a ring.
Brian
If they saw diamond ring as it was getting brighter, and if it were dark for four minutes, it must’ve been a total eclipse, so why didn’t she mention the enormous black hole in the sky? :/
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Cathy O'Neil
“At the federal level, this problem could be greatly alleviated by abolishing the Electoral College system. It's the winner-take-all mathematics from state to state that delivers so much power to a relative handful of voters. It's as if in politics, as in economics, we have a privileged 1 percent. And the money from the financial 1 percent underwrites the microtargeting to secure the votes of the political 1 percent. Without the Electoral College, by contrast, every vote would be worth exactly the same. That would be a step toward democracy.”
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Reza Negarestani
“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

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Timothy Geithner, STRESS TEST

Julian Fellowes
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
Julian Fellowes

Rorke Denver
“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”
Rorke Denver, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

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