Quotes from Annalee Newitz

Nothing made her want to strip a man naked more than knowing he had good ideas

Med agreed to keep an eye on Threezed, and Krish told the Free Lab sysadmin to release the mobile to him.

Private property is the smallest unit of warfare - The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook

Many of these accounts became popular with the American public, and family clans like "The Jukes" and "The Kallikaks" became widely known, entering the public imagination as poor, dirty, drunken, criminally minded, and sexually perverse people.

One of the reasons Sulfur didn't date very much was that they couldn't help falling a little bit in love with anyone who gave them an orgasm. It was exhausting and practically never led anywhere good.

Paladin had nothing to say to that, so he decided to pry. "What do you do?" "I make custom penises.

Families with nothing would sometimes sell their toddlers to indenture schools, where managers trained them to be submissive just like they were programming a bot. At least bots could earn their way out of ownership after a while, be upgraded, and go fully autonomous. Humans might earn their way out, but there was no autonomy key that could undo a childhood like that.

More likely, he would die before ever getting it. But he wanted to survive—that urge was part of his programming. It was what defined him as human-equivalent and therefore deserving autonomy. The bot had no choice but to fight for his life. Still, to Paladin, it didn't feel like a lack of choice. It felt like hope.

I vowed to remain quiet, to finish what I'd started, sending Jimmy to school. He would graduate in three months, then I would insist that we leave. I would carry out my part of the bargain and I would not lose Jimmy. And so we did move to San Francisco; my husband sent me through college, where I learned, among other things, about being a class traitor. I went my own way, away from him, and threw myself into the struggles of my generation, determined never to forsake my class again.

Paladin was sure that wasn't just some indenture algorithm weighting his decision matrix; it was his true desire.

I've read about bots who were built autonomous. But I didn't realize you were …" "Out in the world, being autonomous?" Med laughed. "Yeah." Jack laughed with her. "Robotics isn't really my area. I'm more on the genomics end of things." "Me too," the bot replied.

How can you be sure?" "Human networks are the most vulnerable," Eliasz replied.

Is that really what you want, or is that your programming?" Bug challenged. Actin sent a series of rude emojis. "It's what I want. It's my programming. I can't possibly know, and it's a completely uninteresting question to me. I don't even believe in consciousness. When I've got my autonomy, I'll still be programmed, and I'll still need a job researching brain interfaces.

The eugenic family studies had a very pronounced influence on social policy and medical practice in the early twentieth century. Conservative politicians used them effectively as propaganda in their call to end all forms of welfare and private giving to the poor. The burgeoning medical and psychiatric establishments used them to enlarge their fields, resulting in the involuntary sterilization and forced institutionalization of large numbers of rural poor whites.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

Look for what's there, but most of all, look for the relationships between things. Find the systems

I remember abortion being legal in the United States

Then, they took things to the next level: They founded an anonymized text repo together,

Sequence wants to be free.

In a country so steeped in the myth of classlessness, in a culture where we are often at a loss to explain or understand poverty, the white trash stereotype serves as a useful way of blaming the poor for being poor.

She was part of a social network that included artists and activists who were always hatching what they called "disruptive strategies" aimed at undermining all forms of authority: cultural, economic, scientific. Mostly their disruptions involved artistic fashion shows full of uselessly beautiful GMOs and tissue mods that said something about global recolonization.

She had a hot date instead of a long, numb night with her mobile.

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

What do you do?" "I make custom penises." Casey tapped the palm of his hand, beaming Paladin the address of a server packed with information on how to design and order the sex organs you'd always wanted.