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Sari Azout

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  • Freedom People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you. You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look. What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.
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  • The Japanese tested their bioweapons on Chinese prisoners. The Tuskegee Institute tested syphilis on African-Americans. We were either nicer or dumber than they were, because we tested Shiri’s Scissor on ourselves. We had a private internal subreddit where we discussed company business, because Brad wanted all of us to get familiar with the platform. Shiri’s problem was that she’d been testing the controversy-network on our subreddit, and it would just spit out vacuously true or vacuously false statements. No controversy, no room for disagreement. The statement we were looking at that day was …
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