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From Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism by danah boyd
If you ever hear that implementing algorithmic decision-making tools to enable social services or other high stakes government decision-making will increase efficiency or reduce the cost to taxpayers, know that you’re being lied to. When implemented ethically, these systems cost more. And they should.
From Forget Comic Sans. Mistral Is the Typeface You Should Love to Hate by John Brownlee
What started as a typeface that was meant to amalgamate the autographs of the most sophisticated men of the 20th century had instead evolved into a font most commonly used, at least subconsciously, because it looked as if it had been angrily sprayed by a teenager out of a can.