..."Going down these accidental rabbit holes is a pivotal step of concept and world building to me."

100% cosign this. I think of projects I've worked on and how many inspired details come from just mucking about in art books or history articles or whatever random doodle rabbit holes. SO many. 2/2

From the article, I like this from concept artist Kim Hu: "...going through archives & real world references will allow you to stumble upon things you have never thought of before, informing and branching out your ideas further." 1/2

That's why this work by More Perfect Union and ConsumerReports is so incredibly precious. Our institutions are currently radically unprepared, unfit, and (worst of all) uninterested in exposing and properly regulating this.

It's harmful and it's invisible because most people encounter it within their individual device or web browser: isolated, alone, without the ability to meaningfully compare.

If there has been systemic discrimination (there has) and that shows up in your datasets (it does) then your high tech AI-powered dynamic pricing is racism/sexism/etc. discrimination at scale.

I mean— it IS illegal discrimination. I mean: In a sane world, more people would just call it what it is. Connect the dots. AI driven dynamic pricing is necessarily weighted by problematic biases embedded in historical data.

This has been the only significant lifehack innovation in my wardrobe in the last 5 years, can confirm

This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's first public release on November 30, 2022. tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

"placed in government shelters"
"kidnapped"
words words words

What's really "costing the economy" is companies charging high prices for zero meaningful innovation and bad service and companies serving shareholders & VCs instead of customers. Maybe this article is just rage bait, if so, congrats, I feel rage.