Lesley Carhart 
Just a warning, I am immediately blocking, and sometimes server blocking on, "stop posting about politics if you're a insert profession here" takes. Technology is politics. Education is politics. Security is politics. The people who work in these fields, and more, are intimately impacted by politics. Some peoples' lives, families, and livelihoods are in danger. It's all politics, stop content and tone policing if you're one of the few people who's currently insanely fortunate to be relatively unimpacted. It's asinine.
Eric McCorkle@hacks4pancakes Take, maybe hot, maybe not: scientists, engineers, and experts generally have a responsibility to consider the political implications of our work and be involved in policy. Because technology is in most cases, neutral, it falls to humans to guide it in the right directions.
Mary Branscombe@emc2 @hacks4pancakes technology is absolutely positively NOT neutral: Kranzberg's first law is 'Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral' to which I always add the corollary that it is an amplifier. things that are OK at human scale become inhumane at inhuman scale. I call it the tyranny of efficiency and it's important we don't fool ourselves about how much guiding we get to do