Matthew Clapham
Jul 28, 2023

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Thanks for this, Jessica.

It also ties in with the appalling 'clean' Chinese restaurant story from a couple of years ago:

https://ny.eater.com/2019/12/6/20999639/lucky-lees-greenwich-village-clean-chinese-closed

Looking for that link, I found that when entering 'clean chi...' in Google, it immediately suggested 'clean chinese restaurant near me', a worrying example of how search and text prediction algorithms can perpetuate phrases and hence ideas. The restaurant closed down in ignominy after just a few months, but its spectre lives on in algorithm form.

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Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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