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No one tracks the ideas that don’t happen. To watch as these dreams get pared down, hacked away. A beautiful ice sculpture and they end up with an ice cube. An ice cube in a tray of parking.”
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
The black poor faced “double Jim Crow,” he believed. “I’m black and I’m poor so I’m segregated against twice.”
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
That snapshot of semiautomated urban life comes from a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). The nonprofit spent 14 months investigating the city’s use of algorithms and found they were used across 20 agencies, with more than a third deployed in policing or criminal justice. For many systems, city agencies would not provide full details of how their technology worked or was used. The project team concluded that the city is likely using still more algorithms that they were not able to uncover.
Algorithms Quietly Run the City of DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
wired.com
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