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 🇺🇸. 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.

pronounsshe/her
websitehttps://www.lauracarter.net/
locationDuwamish land / Seattle
Laura Carter8h ago
RLM Art Studio ✊ Art 4 Justice1d ago
It's a "Fuck ICE" Solstice.
Laura Carter3d ago
Foxes in Love3d ago

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/803372535018307584
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Laura Carter4d ago
CJ "siege" Bellwether4d ago

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.

Show threadLaura Carter5d ago
Not silly enough to omit this receipt and absorb the cost of the breakfast sandwich myself, though.
Laura Carter5d ago
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'
Laura CarterDec 15
Paris MarxDec 15

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/worst-person-tech-2025-round-one

Laura CarterDec 13
historic drystone sheep dykeDec 11
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
Laura CarterDec 10
Jesse @39C3Dec 9
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 😂
Laura CarterDec 8
Computer FactsDec 8
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
Laura CarterDec 7
Show threadpenwing (they/them)Dec 7

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