Prof. Catherine Flick
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
- #UKHE folks, how are you dealing with all this grant submission pause stuff that's going on? I'm feeling increasingly despondent about my chances of getting anything and really feeling like it might not even be worth bothering given pauses in UKRI, overloaded charities, etc. Anyone else? #UKAcademia
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickExcellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickThis took me fucking ages
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickRead the full report here -> www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy...
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickHappy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickI do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
- As a philosopher, this is embarrassing
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickThis was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
- Oh you know I have the popcorn ready. Let's go already!!
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickWorth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
- Appreciating @rusty.todayintabs.com's COI disclosure today, spot on, lol
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickA show all about treachery, deceit, lying & backstabbing ends with faith, trust, integrity & a kept promise Absolutely nothing comparable whatsoever on telly #TheTraitors
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- No way in hell I could play The Traitors but I really wanna do that last mission
- Honestly some of the best telly around this show #TheTraitors
- Honestly if she wins this, Rachel deserves it. She has played such a manipulative game, she is brilliant. #TraitorsUK
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- Jade's outfits have been just gorgeous this whole time and she looks fantastic now #TraitorsUK
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickAs clergy pray, arrests begin
- I’m reading The Borrowers to my 6yo atm and now I’m starting to wonder…
- With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickThis paragraph is a doozy. Software, wiser than humans since 2026?
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- What is this?? Claude should have “good personal values”??? What does that even mean??? Arghhghgfhffh www.anthropic.com/constitution
- I mean this is a “don’t even get me started” but I’m going to do that to myself by getting in the car and driving to work now so I will hopefully work it out by shouting out the window at lorry drivers instead. Me: CLAUDE IS NOT A PERSON!!! Driver: WHAT???
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- Reporting for duty!!
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickThis is great - it's about time someone updated the discourse on LLM energy usage to reflect that coding agents use massively more prompts than occasional questions to ChatGPT Simon estimates that a day of coding agent usage comes out close to the energy needed to run a dishwasher
- Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickQ: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron? A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickDo you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org
- “Thank you!”
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine Flickonce again this just reads like a horror story
- NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickGrok is so much worse than you think.
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickTell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
- Finished some socks tonight.
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickThinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickALWAYS BULLY BIG CORPORATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS
- Left is what it originally said, right is what it says now Website was quietly updated overnight h/t @kortizart.bsky.social www.comic-con.org/cc/things-to...
- Incredible
- My 3yo is obsessed with “Not Now, Bernard” and I’m simultaneously horrified and impressed. Absolute pinnacle of a children’s book.
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine Flickwho could have predicted that stopping international students, care workers and nurses from coming to the UK would damage the economy/public finances while yielding precisely no political benefits? Oh. Me. [& lots of others obviously]
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickIn case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
- Reposted by Prof. Catherine Flickthey've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
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- Reposted by Prof. Catherine FlickBIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
