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Current mood: I get to spend the next 5 years investigating how to best help students and practitioners be forward-thinking about ethical issues and harms in technology design, thanks to

Update on the bonkers omegaverse copyright lawsuit- a bogus DMCA claim for @thelindsayellis's video about bogus DMCA claims. AMAZING EXAMPLE of a complete misunderstanding of fair use. Let's talk about

Like technical debt, #EthicalDebt is the unpaid cost of future "bugs" that aren't fixed during technology design--but those bugs are harms to individuals or society. @LifeofNoods and I wrote about

hey academics, guess what? you're allowed (even supposed to) have free time and to do what you wish with it: a thread inspired by someone asking me how I possibly

Hello, new tech feature, let's do a speculative harm analysis to consider ways that terrible people might use you (and maybe what could be done about it?): a thread.https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1273306563994845185 (1)

One of our classes has been the victim of some really intense zoombombing, and all I can think about is that this is exactly why ethical speculation around unintended consequences