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/**
 * Return concrete system-failure map cards.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function twoia_system_failure_blueprints() {
	return array(
		array(
			'area'    => __( 'Government', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'title'   => __( 'Policy Gets Laundered Through Procurement', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'url'     => home_url( '/public-records-and-foia/contracts-show-policy/' ),
			'problem' => __( 'Surveillance and scoring systems often arrive as contracts before they arrive as democratic debate. The public sees the press release; the real power sits in scope of work, data-use clauses, audit rights, renewal terms, and retention schedules.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'profit'  => __( 'Vendors get renewals and data integrations; officials get capability without a direct public fight.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'harm'    => __( 'Residents inherit the monitoring, the cost, the data exposure, and the weak correction path.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'pull'    => __( 'RFP, contract, invoices, amendments, vendor emails, training material, audit rights, data-sharing agreement, and deletion policy.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'action'  => __( 'Demand a public vote before renewal and publish the clauses that decide access, retention, sharing, audit, and termination.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
		),
		array(
			'area'    => __( 'Justice', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'title'   => __( 'The Courtroom Is Mostly A Pressure System', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'url'     => home_url( '/false-positives/errors-travel-faster-than-corrections/' ),
			'problem' => __( 'The public imagines trials. The real system runs on pleas, pretrial detention, charging leverage, risk labels, fines, fees, warrants, and background checks that keep punishing people after the hearing is over.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'profit'  => __( 'Courts, prosecutors, jail systems, fee collectors, supervision vendors, and screening companies benefit from pressure that looks administrative.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'harm'    => __( 'Poor defendants, families, tenants, workers, and people with old records pay through lost liberty, debt, housing, employment, and reputation.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'pull'    => __( 'Plea-rate data, bail schedules, jail population reports, risk-assessment validation, fee contracts, expungement rules, and correction logs.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'action'  => __( 'Ask local courts to publish monthly plea, bail, detention, fee, warrant, diversion, and record-clearance numbers in machine-readable form.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
		),
		array(
			'area'    => __( 'Economy', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'title'   => __( 'Private Dossiers Decide Public Life', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'url'     => home_url( '/surveillance-systems/data-brokers-are-shadow-infrastructure/' ),
			'problem' => __( 'Credit reports, tenant screening, employment screening, insurance models, broker segments, debt files, and identity verification systems decide who gets housing, work, loans, services, and dignity.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'profit'  => __( 'Screeners, bureaus, brokers, landlords, lenders, insurers, employers, and collection firms benefit from one-way files that people see too late.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'harm'    => __( 'People are denied housing, jobs, credit, insurance, or services based on stale, wrong, partial, or context-free records.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'pull'    => __( 'Adverse-action notice, source report, vendor name, dispute file, data source, retention rule, and downstream correction proof.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'action'  => __( 'File the dispute, demand the source, preserve the denial, and require proof that the correction reached every recipient.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
		),
		array(
			'area'    => __( 'Records', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'title'   => __( 'Delay Is A Governance Strategy', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'url'     => home_url( '/public-records-and-foia/' ),
			'problem' => __( 'A right to records is weaker when agencies stall, over-redact, inflate fees, search the wrong office, or release documents after the vote, contract renewal, hearing, eviction, firing, or investigation already happened.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'profit'  => __( 'Agencies and contractors benefit when time kills public pressure and denial language sounds more authoritative than the missing records.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'harm'    => __( 'The public loses the ability to intervene before policy, spending, surveillance, and punishment become facts on the ground.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'pull'    => __( 'Request log, search terms, no-records explanation, exemption index, fee estimate, extension letter, appeal decision, and released record set.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'action'  => __( 'Track deadlines, demand search details, ask for rolling release, appeal vague exemptions, and publish the denial beside the request.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
		),
		array(
			'area'    => __( 'Algorithms', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'title'   => __( 'Risk Scores Convert Poverty And Noise Into Suspicion', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'url'     => home_url( '/ai-surveillance/inference-is-not-proof/' ),
			'problem' => __( 'A model can turn missing data, proxy variables, old arrests, medical debt, neighborhood labels, school discipline, and platform behavior into a score that looks neutral because the human bias is buried upstream.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'profit'  => __( 'Vendors sell speed and scale; agencies and companies get deniability; reviewers get a number they can rubber-stamp.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'harm'    => __( 'People get denied, flagged, priced, watched, moderated, or investigated without knowing what evidence mattered or how to fix it.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'pull'    => __( 'Validation studies, feature lists, data dictionaries, override logs, appeal policies, bias assessments, and human-review procedures.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'action'  => __( 'Demand the error rate, the appeal path, the override authority, and public proof that human review changes outcomes.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
		),
		array(
			'area'    => __( 'Call To Action', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'title'   => __( 'Pick One Local Machine And Put It On The Record', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'url'     => home_url( '/start-here/if-you-want-something-useful-now/' ),
			'problem' => __( 'Fighting “the system” in the abstract burns people out. The winnable unit is a named office, vendor, dataset, policy, docket, contract, fee, camera, model, or denial.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'profit'  => __( 'Power benefits when the public stays general. Specific records create friction.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'harm'    => __( 'Nothing changes when anger cannot find the document that proves the decision.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'pull'    => __( 'One narrow records request, one written official question, one preserved denial, or one correction request.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
			'action'  => __( 'Send it today. Then publish the paper trail without exposing private people.', 'two-identities-anonymous' ),
		),
	);
}