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One may celebrate the ancestors without approving of everything they’ve done.
“I don’t think Verdance would ever sell anyone away from La Ronge. Everyone they build is for a very specific purpose, and they own the germline. If it doesn’t work out, it’s probably cheaper to kill me and build someone else.” Slim grunted in sympathy. “All the more reason to stick to the rules, OK?” “Sure.”
She flounced into the cab and waved goodbye to the rubberneckers, as if they’d stopped out of concern rather than the urge to hate watch.
Human data was the easiest to get, but the hardest to interpret.
“Sometimes the best way to handle resources is to perceive when they aren’t resources at all. They are people.
A government’s job is to recognize people, to help them make their own agreements with each other—and if you do your job well, those people become your political allies.”
help them make their own agreements with each other—and if you do your job well, those people become your political allies.”
inland garden city called Thyme & Space.
The ERT used a harm-reduction model, which was aimed at de-escalating violence rather than starting it.
Cylindra’s attempt to diminish Moose’s work had backfired in an entirely predictable way, and the cat was receiving more leaks and tips than ever.
Nobody is really sure what the biobank was for, but archaeologists think it probably had some kind of ritual use. Back then, people had all kinds of superstitions about their genomes. They would send their genetic material to this biobank, and analysts would tell their fortunes by grouping them into categories like ‘West African’ or ‘European’ or ‘Indigenous American.’
sitting in a giant pile of rotting biomass right now,
democracy makes up for being annoying by also being slow.
revolution is actually happening in the boring details, like how you manage housing and water, or who is allowed to speak.
Instead of a virgin Pleistocene frontier, Sasky was like every other planet that Earth people had occupied—a chunk of rock and biomass, stolen and re-stolen so many times that even its humblest microbes were of decidedly sketchy provenance.
