Everything People : A New Economic System for our Future

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It was ultimately the determined, relentless efforts of the Flint community—with the support of doctors, scientists, journalists, and citizen activists—that shined a light on the city’s severe mismanagement of its drinking water and forced a reckoning over how such a scandal could have been allowed to happen. This was the most humbling / limit pushing yet awakening and completely empowering experience," wrote Tiesi on Instagram. As the process of our gathering draws to a close, a polyvocal hybrid film has emerged, offering a small glimpse into a group’s attempt to connect and form against punitive contexts that strive to diminish, reduce and disappear. If you start at a place of inequality and you use algorithms to decide what is a likely outcome for a person/system, you inevitably reinforce inequalities. But their understanding and them being there for me probably helped me keep it together as well as really deal with it.

Algorithms are surely helpful but likely insufficient unless combined with human knowledge and political will.The city found itself in a precipitous decline: Flint’s population has since plummeted to just 100,000 people, a majority of whom are Black, and about 45 percent of its residents live below the poverty line.

I was all for it but Mariah was like, 'Uh huh they aren't going to be Googling us, learning about all their new brothers and sisters, no we aren't playing,' " he said, adding with a laugh, "Mariah is still mad at me [for doing it anyway] to this day. But there will be negative changes: 1) There will be an increased speed of interactions and volume of information processed—everything will get faster. Respondents were allowed to respond anonymously; these constitute a slight majority of the written elaborations. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to launch an immediate emergency federal response to the disaster.Optional cookies require your consent for us to enable them to collect analytics that help us improve the site. Algorithms are defined by people who want to sell you something (goods, services, ideologies) and will twist the results to favor doing so. Doc Searls, journalist, speaker and director of Project VRM at Harvard University’s Berkman Center, wrote, “The biggest issue with algorithms today is the black-box nature of some of the largest and most consequential ones.