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December 2, 2024 - January 7, 2025
Dzmare
Three Seagrass,
Haha
Two...
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it’s not speech at all, it’s a networked collectivity.”
Haha
“It’s the fungus. That’s how. They give it to their babies, and it—wakes them up, that’s as close as I can tell.
Haha
“I think I am going to eat this fungus,”
Maybe all humans are subject to anaphylaxis when it’s ingested? Why would he think he’s safe?
“And then I’ll be able to talk to them directly.”
of algorithmic information-sharing processes
algorithmic information-sharing processes already in use in law enforcement.
the S...
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proprioception
Shard
Sc...
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Science Minister Ten Pearl
EIGHT Antidote
He didn’t need a Shard, exactly. He needed a Shard pilot, who would let him into a Shard.
Nineteen Adze’s order to commit the Fleet to the total destruction of a whole planet
Haha
Haha
Second Legion—
He needed one, and one appeared—except. Except it was the Shards which took the mail on fastest-courier override through the jumpgate mail-system, when the destination was the Fleet.
He had made this soldier up, in a way.
he didn’t have anything but himself.
Lovely.
Haha
Haha
“Four Crocus,
half-done interstellar mail fraud was far worse than successful interstellar mail fraud.
Haha
Thirteen Muon,
Haha
some complex sort of punishment or possibly reward
Haha
Mad With Horizons
she couldn’t wait to get back and was worried about going back at the same time.
Haha
handheld microthrusters for close navigation in zero gravity,
“It’s a lot easier than you think. It’s a lot worse than you think.”
the Shard trick takes too much processing power for a little thing like a cloudhook. Or a mind. You need the ship.”
Haha with any other child it would be child abuse
It was terrifying. All of this was. But he’d left being scared somewhere outside the Shard,
He realized, for the first time in his life, that he had no idea what was about to happen to him.
Into the void, and into how it was screaming.
Nine Hibiscus.
Twenty Cicada.
“It’s a distributed system, and it’s out of balance because they don’t understand how we can be people and not be part of it.
It’d do—a lot of good, Mallow. To have a—...
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the depth of their cultural taboo, the central reason behind why Yskandr-the-man had died:
what they seemed to understand as a fundamental corruption of the self.
