Notes on articles, ideas in progress, and things worth thinking about. Mostly for me — but you're welcome here too.
On Algorithmic Neutrality and the Myth of the Unbiased Model
A reaction to a recent paper on fairness in machine learning — and why "neutral" is always a political choice.
ReadWhat Rawls Gets Wrong About Data
The veil of ignorance assumes we can strip away context. In a world of persistent data traces, can we ever really?
ReadAmsterdam in Winter: Notes on Urban Loneliness and Infrastructure
What cycling infrastructure tells us about who a city thinks it's for.
ReadReading: Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics
Notes on sovereignty, death, and the colonial logic embedded in contemporary governance structures.
ReadWhy "AI Ethics" Is Not Enough
Ethics frameworks are increasingly used to manage critique rather than address it. A short provocation.
ReadThe Noble Lie Revisited: Plato, Palantir, and Predictive Governance
On the ancient justification for deception in service of social order — and how it maps onto contemporary data surveillance.
ReadAlways open to discussion, pushback, and good arguments.
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