Becky Kazansky
@pondswimmer.bsky.social
scholar of risk & refusal | independent advisor on digital rights, tech & climate justice | postdoc on AIDEMCRACY at Goldsmiths, University of London | ex research lead at Engine Room | https://beckykazansky.net/about/
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This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”
Hey thanks! Correct link to report here www.theengineroom.org/library/new-.... I keep meaning to write a little reflection on this (and certainly hope to do more such research in the future).
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts - The Engine Room
Research on the use of chatbots in humanitarian and civil society organisations.
www.theengineroom.org
June 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hey thanks! Correct link to report here www.theengineroom.org/library/new-.... I keep meaning to write a little reflection on this (and certainly hope to do more such research in the future).
Today the neighbors are blasting ‘Halcyon’ by Orbital, of ‘Hackers’ fame, across the courtyard. I will miss my Berlin soundtrack 😢
May 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Today the neighbors are blasting ‘Halcyon’ by Orbital, of ‘Hackers’ fame, across the courtyard. I will miss my Berlin soundtrack 😢
I remember Max Liboiron covering this issue in ‘Pollution is Colonialism’
May 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I remember Max Liboiron covering this issue in ‘Pollution is Colonialism’