The Ghost in the City
A city redesigned so that pausing reads as a fault condition, and what that costs the people whose bodies need to stop.
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A city redesigned so that pausing reads as a fault condition, and what that costs the people whose bodies need to stop.
Facial recognition fails unevenly, and hardest on the people it was never built for. That failure is a vulnerability you can put on your face.
Insurers are swapping your birthday for a biological age score. The markers it reads are gendered, so menopause gets priced as accelerated decay.
The demand that you be readable is the demand that you be governable. On legibility, the trap of visibility, and why opacity is the freedom left.