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The systems should be interactive, so that people can examine how changing data, assumptions, rules would change outcomes. For more than a century, the Flint River, which flows through the heart of town, has served as an unofficial waste disposal site for treated and untreated refuse from the many local industries that have sprouted along its shores, from carriage and car factories to meatpacking plants and lumber and paper mills.

My Rise has hints of Golden Warrior and Powerful Queen / My Rise is full of smiles and a joy I've never seen. Fortunately, a majority of Americans have access to safe water, a luxury most of us probably enjoy with little thought. If it's not by her well-meaning yet homophobic Jamaican aunties, then it's by her equally well-meaning yet racist queer friends.The problem is further exacerbated by ‘digital scientism’ (my phrase) – an unwavering faith in the reliability of big data. The spread of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create major unemployment and all the fallout from that. In an economy increasingly dominated by a tiny, very privileged and insulated portion of the population, it will largely reproduce inequality for their benefit.