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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/
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CW: Long thread/13
It'll tell you do throw even *more* Black kids up against a wall and search their pockets. The more you do this, the more knives you'll find, and the more you'll go back and do it again.
This is what #PatrickBall from the #HumanRightsDataAnalysisGroup calls "#EmpiricismWashing": take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures.
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