I am reading Chapter 6, "Ineligible to Serve: Getting a Job" from Cathy O' Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction (2016). Her book argues that "big data increases inequality and threatens democracy." Specifically, she argues that many of the most important decisions of our lives (like going to college, getting a job, landing credit, getting insurance) are determined by algorithms and big data that merely reproduces and in the worst cases aggravates human prejudices. She calls these algorithms and big data: WMDs, or Weapons of Math Destruction.

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I read from Tomás Rivera's short story collection ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him [1971] (translated by Evangelina Vigil-Piñon, 1987). The selections are: "The Lost Year," "The Children Couldn't Wait," "The Little Burn Victims," "The Portrait," "When We Arrive," and "Under the House."

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