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It strips away the parts of each individual’s identity that make us different and collapses our complexity into a unidimensional, static version of who we are and could be.

The budget airline pilots acknowledged the transmission, although their responses were difficult to hear due to the static sounds on the recording.

But now, it was paired with other tactics too: Isometric holds in the middle of reps, as a more static way to build muscle strength.

It transforms historically static records – think department of motor vehicles files, police reports and subpoenaed social media data like location history and private messages – into a fluid web of intelligence and surveillance.

It meant, for one night, the standings remained static.