Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)

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Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee.
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Object permanence: Correcting the Disneyland Railroad's Morse code; Breathalyzer source-code; Teaching Little Brother to math students; Arson attacks on Ferguson's Black churches; Tom Lehrer in the public domain.
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Pluralistic: AI's "human in the loop" isn't (30 Oct 2024)

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AI's "human in the loop" isn't: A moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor.
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