The Victim Was Michael Jordan's Father. The Sheriff Was My Great-Uncle. The Jury Wasn't The Only One Kept In The Dark.

The verdict of history is that they were villains. The verdict of their own lifetimes, delivered by everyone in a position to do anything about it, was that they were survivors, and in more than one c...

These systems absorbed the language of the dispossessed and are now being handed to the people doing the dispossessing, freshly prompted for neutrality.

"Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness." -Internal Facebook Presentation, 2018.

There is a version of this story where you call it a failure, a system that broke down, let someone slip through, malfunctioned in ways that can be corrected. That version is a lie.

Twenty weeks of training to get the badge. After that, no obligation to record what you do with it, and no external mechanism that will notice a pattern unless someone already knows which pattern to l...