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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 #EMF2024.
Aussie expat from Gamaragal country, mum to 2 humans and 4 chickens. Rural Leicestershire. Dances Morris with Black Annis.

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A friend of mine lives in NZ and saw this poster, I mean teens can be picky but this is probably going a bit far

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A few weeks ago I did a TEDx talk, it’s finally been published!

https://youtu.be/oYyb5K6wVeE?si=XMc6ynlBbOgOVAzF

In it I talk about why so much tech is bad for society and what we can do to push back.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Our local councillor is a Tory and has been posting those signs around that have the Tory candidate on them. Does anyone know where I can get some signs that say “vote tactically, stop the Tories” or something

CatherineFlick, to random
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I made a Downpour game about building the #EMF2024 arcade, you can play it here: https://downpour.games/~liedra/let-s-build-the-emf-arcade?p=zle

#emfcamp @v :D

CatherineFlick, to random
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Did you make a downpour game for ? Do you have a bunch of pictures and would like to make a downpour game for ? Would you like to play a bunch of games other people made? Go see them all here: https://downpour.games/eventkiosk/emf

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Being at #EMF2024 with kids is a different experience. Sitting listening to the music of null sector drinking club mate and eating pretzels while the kids sleep. Kind of nice to wind down after a busy day rescuing crows and wrangling arcade machines, children, and speakers!

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I’ve been very quiet as I’ve been busy #EMF2024 but I’m going for a walk and wow, what have we created lol, this is amazing

CatherineFlick, to random
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ffs, WHY
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112492255719842981

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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Last @emf orga meeting tonight! We'll increasingly be on site now that buildup has started. Can't believe we're finally here. Always a huge rush at the end. My life is currently outlined as "before EMF and after EMF" and the "after" seems a long way away still!

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https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/ I had a good laugh at this headline

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Made a thing!! Thanks to dad for some suggestions on the engineering and excellent tube wrangling. And thanks to all my followers who suggested materials! https://mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick/112439027576222333

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10 years or so ago I went to Australia and saw that the big thing was bao buns. Now it’s finally caught up here. Like bubble tea and good coffee the UK is roughly a decade behind Australian culinary trends. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/20/sales-of-bao-buns-on-a-roll-as-britons-fall-in-love-with-asian-treat

CatherineFlick, to random
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Village WhatsApp groups are such great spaces to find out how people think the internet works. Just write “is anyone having trouble with their internet?” And immediately you’ll get all kinds of bizarre theories about what to do to get it back. Today’s: “we had a power cut so it might take a while to come back on”

CatherineFlick, to OpenAI
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Exactly what I talked about in my TEDx talk the other night - the incentives just don’t align with making responsible technology. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher #openai

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It’s happening!

A picture of me standing next to a sign with my name and profile on it as a speaker at TEDxStaffordshireUniversity

CatherineFlick, to random
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This Defector article is spot on about Kevin Roose. He’s a consummate band wagon jumper, licking the boots of SV VCs and other useless fools. https://defector.com/if-kevin-roose-was-chatgpt-with-a-spray-on-beard-could-anyone-tell

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I have a TEDx rehearsal today for my talk. I’m pushing the timing a bit so I need to talk faster! 😅

CatherineFlick, to random
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I'd like to make a canopy for our outdoor folding trolley for #emfcamp mostly so the kids have somewhere a bit weatherproof during the festival. I'm thinking olde times oregon trail style round canopy, so could be made with some sort of flexible tubing, cable ties, and a tarpaulin. Does that make sense? Does anyone know what sort of tubing I could use for that?

(not buying one off amazon or wherever because they're all coming from china and won't get here in time and also boo amazon)

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Can someone just give me some sort of anaesthetic and wake me up when the LLM hype has fizzled out please? I don't want to have to watch everything I've said will happen actually happen (yes this is re: new OpenAI model)

CatherineFlick, to LLMs
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Just FYI, if you have older parents or other family members, set up some sort of shibboleth with them so they know what to ask you if you ever call them asking for something. These new generative models are going to be extremely convincing, and the idiots in charge of these companies think they can use guardrails to stop it being used inappropriately. They can't. #genAI #LLMs #chatgpt

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I printed a hexpansion with a fidget spinner on it? I dunno, I don’t even use fidget spinners. I guess wanted to see if it worked! (It does!) #emfcamp #emf2024

CatherineFlick, to Eurovision
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Normally I love to watch and live-toot but as Israel continues to be involved despite their horrific violence in Gaza, I can’t support the show tonight. Good luck to all the other contestants.

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Absolutely gutted for my friends at Microsoft/XBox today. Shuttering studios that produced excellent and well received games just shows that the incentives in this industry are all messed up. Very distressing.

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Edit: I’m off to bed so this offer is done, thanks!

If anyone here would like to go to #emfcamp #emf2024 but can't afford a ticket, DM me; offer stands while there are still tickets on sale. (you'll need to get to/from Eastnor and BYO camping gear though, sorry) https://www.emfcamp.org

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