BANNED IN YOUR STATE

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Three Years Later

The Windows Broke. The System Didn't

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Laura Jedeed
May 29, 2023
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Ten thousand years ago today, in an undisclosed location, I lost my roughly 36-hour struggle to not be born and emerged into a world that looks nothing like it does today. No social media, no Internet, stone-age personal computers. The Soviet Union was still around, though not for long. We were on the cusp of the End of History, a fact I would learn at …

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