My favorite poster was the largest of them all. Printed in white ink was the title “Algorithmic Justice League”—the name I was using to describe the work I was doing. The name follows the “justice league” banner that many others have used since the turn of the twentieth century—decades before DC Comics adopted the term for their fictional worlds—to fight for societal change. In the early twentieth century, civic organizations used the phrase “justice league” in their fight for women’s suffrage (“The Equal Justice League of Young Women” [1911]), racial equality and civil rights for African
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