Florence Chee

Helen of Deanna Troi

no cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist

One of the unfortunate things about everyone feeling compelled to write about surveillance after the Ring Super Bowl ad is how many people resort to the idea that these are “just tools,” as if these technologies are separate from the context in which they were created.

Just blocked an account that was professionally despairmaxxing

States target workplace AI with notice, limits and oversight proposals Bills introduced Thursday in California, New York and Rhode Island would impose new restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence and automated decision systems in the workplace…

“Bills introduced Thursday in California, New York and Rhode Island would impose new restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence and automated decision systems in the workplace, aiming to ensure human oversight of employment decisions.” www.businessinsurance.com/states-targe...

A Dating App Based on Users’ Credit Scores Is Making a Comeback Just ahead of Valentine's Day, Score wants to be more inclusive.

“Bringing a major credit bureau into the dating process raises obvious privacy questions, especially at a time when consumers are already wary about data breaches.”
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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This.

When plenty of folks in power positions keep publicly saying games are the future of the film industry…the WGA needs to be ALL OVER IT.

Games writing is art involving scripting the equivalent of several-seasons-of-TV’s-worth of dialogue for performers.

NEW BOOK just unboxed! The Game Needs to Change: Towards Sustainable Game Design, edited by Patrick Prax, Dr. Clayton Whittle & Trevin York in which I have a chapter co-authored with Thorsten Busch and Tanja Sihvonen! More details at Routledge:
www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...

@fvandervlist.bsky.social and I are pleased to share that our book 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be published with Polity in June/Aug 2026!

We are reaching out to colleagues who teach courses where the book might be of interest for an inspection copy:
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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

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Our book just published open access - research across disciplines from Global North and Global Majority World. Big thanks to NORDICOM and International Observatory on Information & Democracy & 100s who participated along the way. Download at www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publicati...

What a delight to see you paying it forward, Rebecca! It means a lot to see the best parts of being a professor reflected in former students like you 🥰

SOON 🤓

the important thing to remember about 2026 is that 2015 was still only five years ago

The entire point of writing any scholarly work is to say something that hasn’t been said before, something meaningfully (not just statistically) different, that contributes to a new understanding in the field. LLMs are very good at finding what’s in the literature, not what’s NOT there.

Mushroom gracias

When ur burger comes like this, it's Chicago 🥰

Florence Chee lecturing in front of a powerpoint presentation slide that says AI Literacy in text with Sarah Connor in action from the movie Terminator 2

This slide from my #AILiteracy lecture is a crowd favorite 🤓

I texted my Mom that I was having fried otak otak in Manchester and she was quite tickled at that. I'm tickled that my Mom and I text about stuff like this 😜 #food #love #advent

Preorder website for the paperback edition of the book Digital Game Culture in Korea: the Social at Play, pictured on the left.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Super excited to announce that the paperback edition of my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play is going to be available early next year (March 2026). Direct link: www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...

The Ford Pinto - The American Museum of Tort Law Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company, 1981 The Pinto, a subcompact car made by Ford Motor Company, became infamous in the 1970s for bursting into flames if its gas tank was ruptured in a collision.

Great explainer about Ford Pinto case here: www.tortmuseum.org/ford-pinto/

@linkletter.org: "Over 50,000 UBC students were forced to use Proctorio during the pandemic & it was really upsetting to them. They felt like they weren’t being trusted. They felt creeped out by the eye tracking & head movement tracking that it does, and they were asking for help getting rid of it."

These little packets of pure comfort and energy. Of course with the egg butter 😋

Healing may look different from one person to another 😏

7am at the Zürich HB

Kitty sleeping on a cushion while doting visitor crouches down for a picture

Of course, on the same extremely busy day in the Netherlands, an early morning visit to Micky - The Space Cat at ESA ESTEC was a key priority (Didn't want to disturb his slumber at that moment but got to say hello a little later). So grateful for this brief little snuggle in the middle of shop talk!

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read