Time Saved. Lives Ruined.
That is the problem with machine governance. The machine speaks first. The human being reaps the consequences and gets the appeal form later.
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Aug
The Ten Percent Problem
The worst case is not that we fail to solve these problems. It is that we retain the technical ability to solve them and lose the collective ability to decide to.
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25
Aug
We Plugged In and Turned On Each Other
We did not lose the ability to talk to each other. We lost the ability to find each other. We lost what it means to actually be a neighbor, or to be a part of a community.
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24
Aug
America is at War With Itself
"Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness." -Internal Facebook Presentation, 2018.
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17
Aug
Floating Alcatraz
Rome did not fall because its soldiers got soft. Rome fell because it kept promising to hold more ground than it had men to hold it, and kept sending the same legions back out to cover the difference, and when the line finally gave, it decided the problem was the men standing on it.
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07
Aug
Where She Went, What She Did
The fight over abortion was won in court and lost in court, and while everyone watched the court, the enforcement moved. It moved to a camera on a light pole, a search box, a voluntary audit, and a reporting requirement a new director would like to make less voluntary. None of it is on a ballot.
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