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As an example, Campolo and Schwerzmann describe how 23andMe try to use data to “objectively” define ethnicity, an arbitrary sociopolitical concept invented by humans.
> To categorize a consumer's ancestry via DNA from a saliva sample, 23andMe relies on a group of initial testing subjects who are asked to self-identify based on what they know about their ancestors and their geographic origins. 23andMe then draws the lines around what it considers as forming a distinctive population by identifying and labeling genetic patterns discovered in the dataset.
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
That which we see shapes not just what we think, but how we think.
New Dark Age
James Bridle
We undertook the privilege of the virgin abundance of this land without any awareness at all that we undertook at the same time a responsibility toward it. That responsibility has never yet impressed itself upon our character; its absence in us is signified on the land by scars.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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