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The author claims that technology in law enforcement doesn't actually reduce crime. Her use of statistics really shocked me. In explaining how the Oakland police department scanned license plate numbers to identify stolen cars, she clarified that "[o]nly .1% of license plates scanned match[ed] [those of] stolen cars" (Broussard 60). This is crazy since the police had to spend extra money to store all of this data!

Update from 1/26

In re-reading section 1, I looked up the term "technochauvinist." While Broussard provides a def, the term is used often so I wanted to ensure I got it. When I researched the term, I discovered Broussard coined the word in 2018 in her first AI book. In that book, she described technochauvinists as people who think "tech is always the solution" (Cobbe). This tracks b/c she asks the reader to question why we use tech.

I will never look at a ponytail the same way.

Thank goodness the book has moved from scaring the crap out of me to offering some solutions!

This book is both engaging me and terrifying me. I am in!

This book is so good that I would write an in-depth academic analysis comparing it to Water Dancer just for fun.

I cannot explain how great this book is.

This book had me with an introductory map and prologue about language.