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“But that process is as much determined by public opinion as by platform owners. The moral container was only set after a public outrage. In this way, the expression of outrage is very much a part of setting boundaries around what we allow platforms to do. Outrage forces moderators to set the defaults.”
― Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It

“The biggest shame, our biggest shame, is that—as a child doing a simple homework assignment, or on a field trip, receiving hugs in a civil rights exhibit—I so easily internalized my nation’s wreckage. That because my sociocultural introduction to myself was framed by sorrow and inadequacy, I felt those things to be both my history and destiny. I internalized the obligation of apologizing, repenting, making up for myself. These were hard tasks to confront, as I did not know what I was apologizing for.”
― Morgan Parker, You Get What You Pay For: Essays

“Technochauvinism is a kind of bias that considers computational solutions to be superior to all other solutions. Embedded”
― Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

“We understand the quantitative through the qualitative.”
― Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech