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That robots lacked sensitivity is a long running trope of science fiction. And yet now we are surprised. https://www.ft.com/content/228da8ca-75ce-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9691

The Make Works Chrome extension: “#What is the Make Works extension?A plug in for your Chrome browser that shows you alternative ways to manufacture products on the IKEA website.When you are browsing a product; for example a chair, table, sofa or lighting on IKEA.com; the extension displays columns of related data that suggest alternative ways to manufacture, repair or replace that item.”

(via extension.make.works)

I think another thing is we have to get beyond the blame to the systemic and cultural and leadership issues that actually led to decisions being made. So if we just end up going, oh well, it's because of the cladding or it's because of this, and yes we need to hold people culpable for what they've done but there's broader systemic issues that need to be addressed. ... we need to begin to understand what kind of competing tensions people are facing. ... why did they choose the cheaper cladding not the more expensive cladding? What do you need to do to create a culture and a system that is founded on true care? How do we take care of our people? Not how do we follow rules or save money.

Gill Kernick via Understanding Regulation - Risk - Grenfell Tower Fire

I like Kernick's perspective, it urges us to go beyond a structure/individual perhaps instead to ask about care vs control

Micro transactions for a 25c fee, reciprocity and friendship - “It’s nickel-and-diming everything, literally.”

(via Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are - The New York Times)

Surveil / survey

Workshop at the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

John Naughton is right. Discussing tasks rather than jobs is the point. But tools - and the capabilities they afford their users - matter too.

(via Come friendly robots and take our dullest jobs | John Naughton)

Technological opposition movements: morals, strategy and tactics of resistance (Uber’s practices are morally unacceptable – but a boycott won’t help | Hannah Lownsbrough)

Dublin entry and exit

Dublin Futurist

Today, situating the bust. When was it realised? What ended? In whose interest? #economy #society

#society #economy

Translating infrastructures into narratives. #wind #ireland #grid #110kv #map #2006

#map #110kv #grid #ireland #2006 #wind

£1. Instant disposable BBQ with 450g charcoal briquettes and starter sheet, ready to cook in 20 minutes, cooks for up to 1.5 hours. We have a great range of items for picnics, barbecues, garden parties and days out, all at Amazing Value for the perfect Summer at Poundland (at Hove Lawns, B'ton n Hove beach)

And here's a new version of the Knowledge Democracy. Thanks Frans

Frans Berkhout is in SPRU talking about the "new knowledge democracy". This is the old one.

Connecting the Innovation for Sustainability literatures and ideas. #seminar9

#seminar9

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