an even slightly better-adjusted world would not be one where companies put things like this as "benefits" when trying to recruit people

this is giving me deja vu www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

the hegemony of the car is outta control dude. can't even verify my identity on a job application cos my ID card is legit but not a car licence, and it only accepts those 😐

oh heck no

but it strikes me as ironic because not only are "AI" and markets not inherently good at solving problems and bad at solving many (most? idk), the idea that they specifically solve "knowledge problems" is extra wrong with "AI" when it famously has a "black box problem"

and "humans can't be trusted to decide things" neoliberal thinking that philip mirowski writes about. with all the elitism and technocratic governmentalism hidden beneath "consumer choice" (and even the language of democracy even tho it is fundamentally antidemocratic in the bad way) that implies

There is a famous mantra from the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." This applies very well to the punishment bureaucracy. It is not the solution to what ails the human spirit, our collective society, or the desperate planet. Never let anyone scare you into forgetting that.

always

hopefully a premonition not just a dream

another one down. good easy thought provoking short one