"They go to Maryam’s hotel, sneaking around the feeds in the lobby like teenagers because Maryam’s room is designated single.
...
“Mira, amor meu,” Núria starts. The Catalá possessive pronoun makes it sound so much more intimate and real than Núria’s usual flippant use of the endearment."

-- #MalkaOlder, #StateTectonics

#quote #meu #possessive #Catalan

“Why are you working on the mantle tunnel?” Roz asks some time later.
...
“If I don’t do it, who are they going to hire?”
...
“They’ll hire someone who doesn’t care as much as I do, that’s who. Someone who’ll set up some pretty, very pretty, very fragile straw people”—she shapes them in the air—“very pretty, very convenient environmental concerns that will be very easy to fix, and then they will tell them how to fix them, probably with a product they sell.”
...
“Yes, maybe they’ll sell it like greenwashing, but often, they find a way to ask someone to pay them for using the extra land or material or whatever to make it supposedly safer, and then—” ... She pauses for a sip, and Roz dives into the breach. “It must be frustrating, though. Do they listen to you?”

-- #MalkaOlder, State Tectonics

#quote #environmental #correct

Ihr wisst nicht, wie häufig ich im Deutschen versehentlich "genki" sage, weil das für den jeweiligen Satz einfach das passendste Adjektiv ist, und damit für Verwirrung sorge /o\. Was kann ich dafür, wenn unsere Übersetzungen alle umständlicher sind?!

Fühlte mich von #MalkaOlder|s "The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti" Reihe sehr verstanden, wo im Englisch der Zukunft viele Lehn-Worte aus einem Dutzend Sprachen vorkamen, weil sie Leerstellen schließen, darunter genki. 

❝ Privacy=Freedom, a radical Luddite government that prohibits feeds and electronic monitoring systems within its borders, holds only two centenals, one in California and one, where Roz has just learned Maria grew up, in Thailand. Roz remembers hearing that there is a substantial colony of Swedes there.No escaping the awkward now. “So, how do you do it? Not having any Information…” ... “We do have journalists, you know,” Maria says. She sounds amused. “Everyone thinks we’re these extreme, anti-technology renegades. But we use all kinds of technology as long as it’s not invasive, and there’s nothing extreme about not wanting every moment of your life recorded from multiple angles.”
...
“Sure, but…” Roz thinks about everything she uses Information for, all the time. “If you’re driving, and you come to an intersection, how do you know what vehicles might be approaching from either side?”“Well, we try not to design blind intersections,” Maria says. “And we use mirrors.”Mirrors! Ingenious.

-- #MalkaOlder, Null States

#quote #privacy #PrivacyMatters

"... But I’ll tell you, I can’t think of a single case when telling people what they should want works out well.”“We don’t tell people,” Roz points out. “We offer them Information and pretend it’s neutral. We help them choose, and tell them it’s their choice.” She hopes the sarcasm comes through; ...'

-- #MalkaOlder, Null State

#quote #information #choice

"Time and again, ­we’ve heard large corporations urging a risky new technology on us, one that they say is totally safe and entirely necessary. ... But we are in favor of knowing the dangers before we commit ourselves to expensive, disastrous projects that will benefit a tiny few."

-- #MalkaOlder, #Infomocracy

#quote

Listening to THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES (2023) by Malka Older

#TheMimickingOfKnownSuccesses #MalkaOlder #AudioBook

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