It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names. - Arthur Chu

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I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was. . . I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.

Arthur Chu

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

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When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.

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For a lot of geeks, gaming is all about stripping who you are completely and entering this imaginary space, this world that's made for you, where winning and losing have nothing to do with real life.

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From the beginning, the internet has been dominated by white men. So if you wanted to be a part of the internet and you weren't a white man, you had to adapt yourself to their world.

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Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

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Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive. . . Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

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This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

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