Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice

"...the law cannot be reduced to the fact. Sadly, and in order to become more effective, but also in order to maintain a certain form of legitimacy, there is a tendency in law to rely on facts such as they are given, for instance, by economists, etc. It is becoming very difficult for law to keep its singular modes of enunciation and verification: the juridical regime of truth has nothing to do with the algorithmic or statistical regime of truth, or even the regime of truth in physics or in economics."

The Digital Regime of Truth: From the Algorithmic Governmentality to a New Rule of Law

https://iainmait.land/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf

I posted about some of my passengers' justice-induced traumas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286085

Punishment is always counter-productive to correct the behavior of people who are "drowning": addicts, members of the under-class, children who've yet to fully mature (brain is still developing until 25 years), etc.

to me, the fact that david plouffe is working with zuckerberg removes an doubt (if there was any to begin with) that mark is going to run for president. he will be close to macron's age in 2020, though still younger. shares are trading at 25 cents on the dollar in a market predicting his presidential run: https://www.predictit.org/Contract/5534/Will-Facebook's-Mark...

just sitting here thinking about him, im kinda torn. my first thought is that he is too young, and has too narrow a breadth of experience. it will be interesting to see how macron fares in france, maybe useful as a point of comparison. zuckerberg is utterly uncharismatic, which i think is a plus- it helps refocus things on issues and ideas and not personality. he is also competent, and not a criminal, or criminally intentioned as far as i can tell. i havent paid very close attention to him though, does it seem like he gives alot of thought to morality and justice? and, of course, it also seems very dangerous to give someone the presidency who controls so much of the media.

i will say that the prospect of having a president with an intimate understanding of software dev would be great for modernizing lots of the agencies, which would really help i think.

what do you guys think? i hadn't really thought about it too hard till now, but its obviously going to happen, so better to opine before the spin machines get going.

edit: the replies here are totally kneejerk and thoughtless. it reminds me of how people seem react to anything new. i dont really give a shit about the guy but given that its a real possibility, its worth talking about, unless you think our current political state is good and we dont need to do anything.

A lack of charisma might be desirable in an elected official but it is a huge problem for a candidate.

I also wonder why you think that a President understanding software would be especially important in reforming an agency; the actual day to day of implementing reform via software seems pretty delegable.

The thought terrifies me.