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If the hoax served to highlight that issue, he suggested, then he had no problem with Collins's means of publicity. It is difficult to imagine anything that could be more discrediting to a civic leader than the remarks attributed to Smith.
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
And it cuts both ways— if awkwardness prevents premature consensus, it also inhibits the kinds of conversations that would allow us to reach a mature, informed consensus down the line.
Alexandra Plakias • Awkwardness: A Theory
problems.
LaTonya Wilkins • Leading Below the Surface
Toward situated interventions for algorithmic equity | Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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To be or not to be.
To some extent this is true: surely, when we write to raise awareness of an injustice or a problem, we intend to raise that awareness among the wider population to get them to join us in doing something about it?
Andrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
The issues are so heartbreaking and situations so urgent that the space of addressing complex social challenges is rife with burnout.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
- AI gone wrong
- Religious extremism