A pervasive bias where human creations—institutions, systems, artifacts, knowledge—are treated as if they were impartial, objective, and free from the human interests that produced them. The Bias of Impartial Things projects neutrality onto things that are anything but neutral: science shaped by funding and paradigm, technology embedded with values and assumptions, culture carrying centuries of history, economics built on particular theories of human nature, law encoding power relations, secularism reflecting specific historical struggles. The bias treats these human products as if they fell from the sky, as if they weren't made by particular people in particular times with particular interests. It's the ultimate fetishism: forgetting that humans made the human world, and treating that world as natural, neutral, inevitable. The smartphone isn't impartial; it's built with minerals mined by children, designed by engineers in Silicon Valley, powered by algorithms trained on biased data. But the Bias of Impartial Things sees only the device, not the world that made it.
"The algorithm is impartial—it just processes data." Bias of Impartial Things: treating a human creation as if it weren't human. The algorithm was trained on historical data full of bias, designed by engineers with assumptions, deployed by companies with interests. But the bias sees only code, not context. The thing seems impartial; the world that made it disappears. Impartial things are never impartial; they're just things whose making we've forgotten."
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Get the Your God is those things mug.A fanfiction short story from a Marvel property where the characters get pissed at the writer for producing a rapefic as the ending portrays him getting chased for doing so, it's the fanfiction counterpart to what becomes The Fandom Writer. The character A. J. Poe introduced to The House of Pain E-Zine was the Gothic Horror backlash to finding such stories.
The horror story directly cites the Chick Tract called "Doom Town" which is the most realistically drawn tracts of the era that easy drawn influence from Charles Beaumont's short story chronicling glorified heterophobia called The Crooked Man. Emerged in Dec 23, 2002 as I was active with the site AuthorsDen and ThoughtCafe at the time. Noted for the copyrighted characters breaking the fourth wall and collectively imply "Blood on the Water" as the alleged writer flees screaming for help and going "oh crap." This kind of story makes the cult horror short from 2004 have a nastier sting.
The horror story directly cites the Chick Tract called "Doom Town" which is the most realistically drawn tracts of the era that easy drawn influence from Charles Beaumont's short story chronicling glorified heterophobia called The Crooked Man. Emerged in Dec 23, 2002 as I was active with the site AuthorsDen and ThoughtCafe at the time. Noted for the copyrighted characters breaking the fourth wall and collectively imply "Blood on the Water" as the alleged writer flees screaming for help and going "oh crap." This kind of story makes the cult horror short from 2004 have a nastier sting.
Original fiction writers in the underground finding a story on fanfiction in 2002.
What are you reading as the chat goes on aim?
"There is this one story written by the screen name of ' MyPlague' based on a 2000s era Marvel animated property where Stan Lee might be a tad pissed."
What story is that!
"The Day All of The Things"
I think there's an original fiction horror story introduced to FictionPress.com and later to the House of Pain E-Zine as it's a guess he found this piece back then. The Fandom Writer as it was written by a cult webmaster who invaded Clive Barker's E-Zine when he was 24 with something he did at 20. The same era of this story he introduced a true story to the dark literature plethora as it's shocking how it's extremely hard with the language and a chilling candid dialog between him with a near-victim of his classmate from 7th grade homeroom. He later commented on the said piece, "They're going to kick your ass for producing a rapefic."
What are you reading as the chat goes on aim?
"There is this one story written by the screen name of ' MyPlague' based on a 2000s era Marvel animated property where Stan Lee might be a tad pissed."
What story is that!
"The Day All of The Things"
I think there's an original fiction horror story introduced to FictionPress.com and later to the House of Pain E-Zine as it's a guess he found this piece back then. The Fandom Writer as it was written by a cult webmaster who invaded Clive Barker's E-Zine when he was 24 with something he did at 20. The same era of this story he introduced a true story to the dark literature plethora as it's shocking how it's extremely hard with the language and a chilling candid dialog between him with a near-victim of his classmate from 7th grade homeroom. He later commented on the said piece, "They're going to kick your ass for producing a rapefic."
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