#automating inequality

[goforbronze]

Today's Read.

Very much recommend if you have the mental/emotional capacity to learn about the many many ways that a lot of modern tech is used as a policing tool, situated in the historical context of the American "Poor House" movement/ideology and it's reliance on dehumanization.

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[sakura-affirmations]

I find the philosophy that sees human beings as unknowable black boxes and machines as transparent deeply troubling. It seems to me a worldview that surrenders any attempt at empathy and forecloses the possibility of ethical development. The presumption that human decision-making is opaque and inaccessible is an admission that we have abandoned a social commitment to try to understand each other.

- Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality