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CatherineFlick

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk

Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, Staffordshire University. Co-I IGGI CTD, Future Virtual Economies projects. Vice Chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. Responsible innovation, tech ethics, video games, “AI” & crypto sceptic. Erdos: 3; Bacon: 3. She/her.

Moderator mastodon.me.uk, content co-lead for https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf.
Aussie expat from Gamaragal country, mum to 2 humans and 4 chickens. Rural Leicestershire. Dances Morris with Black Annis.

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andypiper, to random
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I see a Mastodon & Fediverse Friends meetup on the schedule! 👋🏻 @Floppy 👏🏻 ... I shall have to bring some swag, then! https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/700-mastodon-me-uk-and-fediverse-friends-tootup

chartier, to random
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End of an era https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows

jtruk, to random
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I imagine there's a reasonable intersection between @emf visitors and owners?
If you have a Badger, you can put Iain's code on it to get listings for the main stages!
The Badger 2040W updates live (thanks @dannixon's API!). The earlier non-W edition uses the included static schedule (a tiny bit of that code from me).
https://github.com/IainYa/Badger-2040-W-emfcamp-Now-Next

ernie, to random
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Hard to disagree with this take.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

parismarx, to tech
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African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.

https://www.wired.com/story/low-paid-humans-ai-biden-modern-day-slavery/

AmericanScream, to crypto
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TechnoEthicist American Scream
Just a reminder: still don't answer "the Ultimate Question" which remains unanswered after 15 years: Name one specific (non-criminal) thing blockchain is better at than existing non-blockchain technology?

Now a decade & a half of talk with no substance.

CatherineFlick, to random
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BCS ITNow interview with me dropped today! It is about ethics and games. Apologies, there doesn’t appear to be an online version and it’s too long for alt text :(

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apolaine,
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@CatherineFlick congratulations! It’s here online by the way, but paid access only: https://academic.oup.com/itnow/article-abstract/66/2/4/7676788

CountBinface, to random
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It’s meant to be.

blair_fix, to random
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Backfire on the blockchain!

As Bitcoin hashing tech got more efficient, guess what happened to Bitcoin's energy budget. That's right, it went (way) up. Another example of the Jevons paradox.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/05/18/a-tour-of-the-jevons-paradox-how-energy-efficiency-backfires/

phones, to random
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If you're struggling to find a phone number thats availble try our new page. https://phones.emfcamp.org/number/available
This is the sort of Cursed UI you get when you let an engineer do front end stuff...

solderandchaos, to random
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Orga. Orga is my project. I keep forgetting this.

mattgrayyes, to random
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For @emf, I’m making Mastodot, which in theory prints toots that are hashtagged for the event!

clacksee, to UKpolitics
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Bring on the !

Come On GIF by Max Morpheus: Bring it

clacksee,
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Don't tell me Sir Beige Starmer is just as bad as Richie Rich Sunak. He isn't. I'm not saying he's going to be good. He isn't good. But he will categorically not be as bad for as many people as the Tories.
Would we do better under a different system? Yes.
Will some things improve less than we would all like? Yes.
Are there some policies where Labour isn't much different from the Tories? A few.

It's still going to be a HUGE improvement to the vast majority.

barnoid, to random
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Find all of these?
"I am going to get them"

jonathanhogg, to random
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Yeah, so, in case trying to shepherd the installations at EMF 2024 wasn't already enough, I will also be performing! Super-excited to be back doing this show with @feralfive. Get yer truth toots to us on the hashtag and I will suck them into the live visuals.


https://mastodon.social/@feralfive/112484546646997495

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory

puts on family violence policy hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on IT hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on medical ethics hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on data analyst hat :blob_cat_ohnoes: :oh_no_bubble:

puts on anarchist hat :blobredpandanarchist: :oh_no_bubble:

bo_brinkman, to random
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The biggest and hardest part of my job as a software engineer is helping people see that they are miscommunicating, and fixing it.

In the AI future I'm looking forward to having 30 minute 1:1s every few months with Windows to get re-aligned on how we will decide when to turn on Sticky Keys.

rodhilton, to random
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A friend is switching from IC to management, and was asking for advice. She hadn't thought of what I suggested so it's probably worth sharing more broadly:

Get someone promoted. ASAP.

The more junior someone is, the easier this is a. Whatever the promo process is at the company, follow it, and get someone a promotion, ideally within your first quarter.

Almost every "tell us about a time when" question you get asked in a manager interview can be answered with the story of doing that.

gilduran, to random
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Trump's use of Nazi "reich" terminology to frame his campaign isn't an accident -- it's a Trial Balloon. As usual, he's floating offensive and outrageous idea to push extreme ideas and test public reaction. More at FrameLab with @georgelakoff

LINK: https://www.theframelab.org/unified-reich-trump-campaign-goes-full-nazi/

JonTheNiceGuy, to boardgames
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Going to and like to play or card games?

We've got 2h "workshops" on Friday and Saturday where you can come along and play some games, a bit like a board game cafe, but without the cafe or the per -hour charging.

We'll have some games or bring your own. Look in the schedule [ https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/ ] under "Workshops" for "Board Games"!

matthewskelton, to random
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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jeffjarvis, to random
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What the hell is "superalignment"? When the "safety" people buy the BS of AGI, it's hard to know whether to take them seriously. We need safety without the superlatives, grounded in present-tense reality, not macho computer dreams and nightmares.

OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher

j2bryson, to random
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Milley’s comments about the second world war echoed in my head. It was, frankly, jarring to hear a recent top US official defend Israel’s mass killing of Gazan civilians by invoking wartime massacres that not only preceded the Geneva Conventions, but helped justify their creation.

‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

parismarx, to tech
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Remember when tech CEOs whipped us into a frenzy about generative AI changing everything? Those days are long gone.

Google and OpenAI’s latest demos show the bubble is deflating, but they’re still going to seize as much power as they can before the crash.

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

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Today's moment of vertigo brought to you by realising we now have more submissions to the CfP than we had *attendees *at 2012

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