Can we please skip to the bit where it's too expensive and everyone realises that it's not worth the money? https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/
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Prof. Catherine Flick
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mastodon 4.6.9Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire. Co-I IGGI CTD. Vice Chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. Co-EiC ACM Games: Research & Practice. Responsible innovation, tech ethics, video games, “AI” & crypto sceptic. Erdos: 3; Bacon: 3. She/her.
Moderator mastodon.me.uk, content lead for #EMFCamp.
Naturalised British, Aussie immigrant from Gamaragal country, mum to 2 humans, 5 chickens and 30,000 bees. Rural Leicestershire. Dances Morris with Black Annis.
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Please note in the background: a tildagon and Shaun the Sheep from #emfcamp, a Gravity Knight from my students, and various political bits like the Working For A Google-Free City poster from Meatspace Press.
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Ahh, RIP Bill Oddie https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/27/bill-oddie-naturalist-and-broadcaster-dies
I grew up watching The Goodies. One of my favourite shows at the time! The one with the giant cat was my fave.
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(I am the reason the University of Malaga now has an ethics review committee, you're welcome)
Cleaning up an entire litre of milk from the floor, under the cupboard, under the robot vacuum dock and from all the power cords around there was not on my initial todo list for today
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wtf sort of verification is this? no fucking way am I going to run whatever is in my buffer that you probably put there. I assume this must be some sort of hijack right?
Always exciting to get a Royal Mail delivery notice - this time it’s from “Printing”. Wonder which of the many many printed things I ordered for #emfcamp this one is? 😂
Seriously though these companies that don’t put their actual name in the “from” field for deliveries suck 🫠 or maybe it’s RM that sucks. Who knows.
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jfc EU research projects still really have a lot of problems with ethics/participation/consent - I encountered a load of these when doing a cross-border project a decade ago, and it was VERY FRUSTRATING
Curious about #emfcamp #emf2026? A great interview with one of our orga members @SamLR@chaos.social went out to show a little behind the curtain of our non-profit, volunteer run science/tech/art/culture/games/weird hobby festival https://gfsc.community/emf-camp-community-spotlight/
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I grumpily wrote a review that basically said "you should have done this better"
The content team for #EMF2026 #emfcamp has a mastodon instance now - @content@social.emfcamp.org ! Follow for updates, calls for help, and anything else we can think of!
I love my second, unpaid but extremely fulfilling job 😅
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@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk YOU WOULD THINK SO
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(I am the one hold-out on the peer review, you can see my report and the response if you click on the one with the red X on it on the right)
In Hastings for the Jack in the Green festival where I danced with my Morris side, Black Annis! A lovely weekend of Morris dancing finishing with the procession up to the castle where the Jack is slain to bring summer back.
#jackinthegreen
#hastingsjackinthegreen
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Absolutely nothing else they could do. Nothing else. https://fortune.com/2026/06/05/openai-anthropic-microsoft-ceos-congress-bioweapon-safeguards/
In case you missed it, the #emfcamp call for participation is open! https://www.emfcamp.org/cfp
I really look forward to the weird and wonderful things you all submit this time around.
If you are an EU citizen please look at this official EU petition to ban conversion practices in the EU. They need a very large number of signatures before the end of tomorrow. Get your family and friends to sign too! https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
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@annaleen@wandering.shop @older@wandering.shop Amazing, congratulations!!
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@janamarie@mystical.garden wow, that is gorgeous!
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@jess@blop.social nope! I have stickers and T-shirts coming in and idk which it is 😂 none were estimated to be today either 😂
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Finally: So discussions about the technical capabilities (all posts are public), reasonableness of expectations (people are paranoid) and all of these other objections are moot if you are a responsible person developing tech that interacts with that community. Engage with the community, respect that community, and don't get mad if that community rejects your tech if you didn't do the legwork to discover the normative expectations of behaviour within that community. #bsky #bluesky
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Addendum: yes the mastodon (and general fediverse) community is fairly fractured, with wildly different ideas about how the fediverse should operate and that's okay too. If that's going to be the case, make your thing opt-in. (See how the mastodon Search stuff was done for an example.)
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Three: A normative expectation for mastodon is that posts stay on servers that share your server's norms. There are many and varied reasons for this, many of which are reasonable, some of which are perhaps a bit paranoid, but how reasonable or paranoid they are does not invalidate them as reasons for normative expectations of behaviour within the mastodon environment for their community. You don't have to like or agree with it, but you should respect it when interacting with the community.
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk @flangey@chaos.social @content@social.emfcamp.org looks like you just did! (welcome!! :) )
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@grajohnt@chaos.social nope I refuse to believe
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So the responses to this are interesting! Some “kids are cute”, some “yay moving away from fossil fuels” and then some real bah humbug “cars are still terrible regardless, boo” responses that seem to think telling me this will help somehow?? Ah well. When there’s more than 2 buses a day to my rural village let me know ok
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Two: A community's normative expectations need to be taken into account, for example, that posts are only easily visible to a certain subsection of the fediverse. These expectations may (and often are) completely disconnected from the technical capabilities of the service (e.g. that posts are publicly available), and that's okay. We encounter these expectations of behaviour despite capabilities for different behaviour all the time in the real world. Social contracts regulate them.
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@molly0xfff sending supportive hugs!!
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@d@waferbaby.com @jonty@chaos.social for a very long time! One of my oldest U.K. friends 🥰
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@leeg@fosstodon.org ahhhh what!! Okay next time def gotta say hi properly and not just “ahhhh where are we supposed to be” and “why are we stopped” hope you had a good day!!
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@jonty@chaos.social @d@waferbaby.com even longer! Since the late 90s? Early 2000s? I don’t even remember
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@DreadShips@mastodon.me.uk 🥲 Glorious 🥲
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@MortenBay congratulations!!
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@jonty@chaos.social @d@waferbaby.com wait how do you know each other then
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@ukscone@cupoftea.social yep we gotchu, summer will come
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@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social we were out in the garden today too! Got back in just before that first downpour. Planted out my cucumbers and tomatoes in the greenhouse and asters and some other mystery annuals that I can’t remember what they were in the flowerpots.
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@writefreely@writing.exchange ahh nothing quite like the old “ask and ye shall receive” method of bug fixing 😂
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@ukscone@cupoftea.social I’ve asked my Morris side! (We’re from Leicester)
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@flangey@chaos.social @content@social.emfcamp.org I'm just excited that the Content team gets a Con-Tent this time*!
*NB it's actually a portacabin but what's a few solid walls between friends
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@d@waferbaby.com @jonty@chaos.social oh yeah there was, yes that was weird. And it really does feel like a billion years ago 😆