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American Judge

The normal is gone

The Silver Scream

On heebie-jeebies past and present

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

Colin Horgan

Colin Horgan is a writer and journalist in Toronto.

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People As Platform

What Uber, bespoke perfume makers, and the rest of us are building December 2017
On Amazon’s Mechanical Turk job board, a recent posting simply read “enter missing data.” The task was described as “add and edit data from a pdf.” The pay: 25 cents. Amazon describes Mechanical Turk, a website that has been operational since 2005, as providing “an on-demand scalable, human workforce to complete jobs that humans can do better than computers.”…