AMAZONIAN ASSUMPTIONS

The Amazon Glitch-Snafu-Hack (depending on whom you read) has been much in the news the last few days, but this piece at the Washington Post - which speaks to the heart of the assumptions in Amazon's "algorithm" - is especially worth reading.

The issue with #AmazonFail isn't that a French Employee pressed the wrong button or could affect the system by changing "false" to "true" in filtering certain "adult" classified items, it's that Amazon's system has assumptions such as: sexual orientation is