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The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land, and who is therefore necessarily passive and uncritical – in short, a victim. When food, in the minds of eaters, is no longer associated with farming and with the land, then the eaters are suffering a kind of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
It’s axiomatic that any system preying upon the vulnerabilities of the many, to profit the few, is both a moral and ethical atrocity. Capitalism embodies such a system.
Capitalism as Mental Illness, by Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson
Decision making. The first group involves using computers to automate consequential decisions. These are called automatic decision systems and they are often used, for example, in the process of setting bail, approving loans, screening résumés, or allocating social benefits. These uses are contentious, and rightfully so, because they have extreme ramifications for people who are subject to the system’s recommendations.
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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