Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge.
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The hidden underpinnings of the world were revealed only when they were gone.
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We’ve deceived ourselves into thinking data is a camera, but it’s really an engine. Capturing data about something changes the way that something works. Even the mere collection of stats is not a neutral act, but a way of reshaping the thing itself.
The Atlantic has published Ta-Nehisi Coates in two world-class articles, “The Case For Reparations,” which investigates the damage dealt to blacks through this country’s long tradition of housing discrimination; and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which examines the toll of white supremacy as American policy on black life in the United States.
But if the pyramid-shaped structures and huge bright lights that resemble a city aren’t enough, Ceres has more to offer. According to scientists, the dwarf planet is split into a rocky core and an icy mantle and is believed to have an internal ocean of LIQUID WATER under its thick coating of ice.
“Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It’s the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy.
“But that’s less interesting than what just happened in the U.S.