ladylark.bsky.social
Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
👤 Joined on 25 July 2023
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@ladylark.bsky.socialBut here's Ben Affleck for the science bit
Show PostBest of luck with it, it'll be awesome!
Show Post“Weizenbaum understood ELIZA’s use of the first person to be a lie and warned his colleagues against it; Turkle agrees. “Whenever a program says ‘I,’ it’s a deception,” she writes. “That is the original sin of artificial intimacy.”” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Show PostReally great insights here as to the current research repository ecosystem in the UK. (I have long wondered where is the UKRI equivalent of Zenodo: this write up shows various hosts, tensions, and opportunities in the UK research space).
Show PostEvery time. So, the work of Design includes intervening in systems to change incentive structures so that it's harder to make number go up by harming more than helping. But that is the most annoying, protracted, least well-compensated (if at all) work for any designer to participate in.
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