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How AI Detection Software Turns Professors into Cops, Tech as Systems of World-Making, and More
A conversation with agroecologist Maywa Montenegro
Soo Oh
Deputy Managing Editor • she/her
Soo Oh is a deputy managing editor at CalMatters and The Markup. Prior to that, she was the data editor at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. She has reported stories, analyzed data, coded interactive visuals, and built internal tools at the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Wall Street Journal, Vox.com, the Los Angeles Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2018, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she researched how to better manage and support journalists with technical skills.
(Photograph by Cristian Gonzalez.)
The Breakdown
How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike
We know early warning systems save lives. Give yourself extra time when disasters come your way
Hello World
Rejecting Dogmas Around AI, User Privacy, and Tech Policy
A conversation with AI scientist Jonathan Frankle
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The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border
“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup
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Car Insurance, Cats, and Racial Discrimination
Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized
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Michigan’s “Fair and Reasonable” Reforms Allowed Car Insurers to Charge More in Black Neighborhoods
An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
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How We Investigated Car Insurance Loopholes in Michigan
We found that Michigan’s reforms allowed auto insurers to charge higher rates in Black neighborhoods
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Why Stopping Algorithmic Inequality Requires Taking Race Into Account
Let us explain. With cats
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How to Get a Discount on Your Car Insurance
Step 1: Buy more insurance. Yup, you read that right
Languages of Misinformation
When Government Bureaucracy Fails Them, a Collective of Indigenous Migrants Figure It Out Themselves
The Concejo de Pueblos Originarios combats vaccine misinformation, translates for fellow migrants in court, and works with linguists to create new Indigenous words.
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