{"id":6346,"date":"2012-05-03T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2012-05-03T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:54:03","slug":"glitch-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/glitch-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"glitch jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/placer-county-courthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6347\" title=\"placer-county-courthouse\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/placer-county-courthouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"434\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em>[The Placer County Courthouse, in Auburn, California &#8212; imagine it swarmed by a glitch jam.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/03\/151919620\/computer-glitch-summons-too-many-jurors\">reported this morning<\/a> on a traffic jam in California caused by an algorithmic glitch &#8220;accidentally summon[ing] 1,200 people to jury duty on the same morning&#8221;. An excellent reminder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/unknown-unknowns\/\">tendency of algorithmic dysfunction to manifest as physical dysfunction<\/a>, and (at a relatively small scale) of the potentially\u00a0disproportionate\u00a0impact of glitches when they are <a href=\"http:\/\/videos.liftconference.com\/video\/1177435\/kevin-slavin-those-algorithms\">translated from dataspace into<\/a> an infrastructural system. The glitch may be as simple as having accidentally swapped the 0 indicating &#8220;do not come in&#8221; for the 1 indicating &#8220;come in&#8221;, but the resulting jam is rendered in aluminum autobodies and on asphalt corridors where it is much more difficult to clear than it was to create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Placer County Courthouse, in Auburn, California &#8212; imagine it swarmed by a glitch jam.] NPR reported this morning on a traffic jam in California caused by an algorithmic glitch &#8220;accidentally summon[ing] 1,200 people to jury duty on the same morning&#8221;. An excellent reminder of the tendency of algorithmic dysfunction to manifest as physical dysfunction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,5],"tags":[713,386,714,715,668,402],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-landscape","category-urbanism","tag-algorithms","tag-california","tag-glitch","tag-jam","tag-the-new-aesthetic","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}