Laura Carter

@LauraC_rter@scholar.social
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I use #feminist theory and #queerTheory to think about data. Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley. Brit in ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ. Mother of #budgies.

Former: Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute; PhD in #gender, #data and #humanRights at the University of Essex; enrichment student on data and ethics at the Alan Turing Institute; researcher on #LGBTI rights at Amnesty International.

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websitehttps://www.lauracarter.net/
locationDuwamish land / Seattle
It's a "Fuck ICE" Solstice.

dont worry we're definitely not using ai in any way that would be bad, we're just using ai in the ways that we are lazy.

Please trust us that using the ai in the ways that we are lazy will not make us lazy so as to require using ai in a way that would be bad.

Not silly enough to omit this receipt and absorb the cost of the breakfast sandwich myself, though.
It's been so long since I travelled for work that I forgot itemised expense claims are a thing and that therefore I might feel a bit silly submitting a receipt for breakfast from a place called 'Eggslut'

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Found out that the guy who excavated Ur (and discovered ea-nasir's house) gave all the 4000 year old sumerian streets names like Paternoster Row and Church Lane. iconic british moment
The NS (the Dutch train company) was selling some old emergency brakes, and well... one thing led to another, and now I have this in my home ๐Ÿ˜‚
giving impressionable still-developing young men "ai girlfriends" who cannot ever say no and that they can customize with sliders and parameters down to minuscule detail will probably break them in unfixable ways and permanently foreclose on their healthy participation in human relationships but beep boop what does computer know

It's really indicative of her failings as the leader of our Equality and Human Rights Commission.

She is clearly someone who has not had to consider the idea of the closet, or masking, in any sort of shallowness never mind depth... Does she really think that people leave their majoritised "authentic selves" outside the workplace? That straight people don't discuss their straight lives?

Or is it only queer folk that have to leave their authentic selves at the door?

#UKPol