I kind of flipped out, and was motivated to finish this blog piece, when I saw this: “UK government wants to use computers to cut civil service jobs: Yes, you r

I kind of flipped out, and was motivated to finish this blog piece, when I saw this: “UK government wants to use computers to cut civil service jobs: Yes, you read that right.” The idea — to have citizen data might be put into and processed by a computer — is hideously toxic and broken; and usefully reveals the kind of thinking that makes morally crippled leaders all across our system love this technology.