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   Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 01:42:40 JST Clive Thompson

   who could have seen *this* coming

   https://futurism.com/neoscope/23andme-selling-data

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     anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 01:42:37 JST anderbill

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @clive in addition to Brave New World, i found Science As Salvation by Mary Midgley (https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/24430307) informative and on point.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 01:42:38 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     The sick nature of the guys from Silicon Valley goes as far as envisioning editing the human genome to "improve" people.

     If no one has watched Brave New World various adaptations or read the novel, it is time to do so now.

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     anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 06:06:01 JST anderbill

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     @clive @GhostOnTheHalfShell also a nice read; Midgley can be quite droll in her critiques (today we call that "shade"). this book changed my thinking about science

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 06:06:02 JST Clive Thompson

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     • anderbill

     @band @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     good one