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The Feed & The Thread - September 4, 2026

We explore the tension between flashy interfaces and the hidden algorithms driving them, questioning whether we’re paying a high price for "spectacle debt" as Patrick Neeman argues in his analysis of Minority Report. While Nick Babich shows how to use AI to audit design systems for consistency, we also examine community discussions on the physical and ethical costs of opaque interaction logic. This episode asks if the interfaces we build actually protect users from the complex, often biased systems running underneath.

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