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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:07:38 JST Matt Blaze

   Trying to find the healthy balance among freaking out, reacting sensibly to what I'm freaking out about, and appreciating and nurturing the things that are still normal.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:07:36 JST Matt Blaze

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     A friend of mine, an artist, said (paraphrasing) that he's recommitted himself to making art, and to remembering that art is important.

     I think it's critical to remember that there are many ways to effectively respond to evil, some direct, some indirect. Our daily mundane work, our art, our culture, can all be acts of resistance.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:47:06 JST Matt Blaze

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     I'm coming at this as an engineering and law professor. I'm right now using this as a forcing function to ask myself what the role of engineering education is in a world where technology is increasingly harnessed for evil, and of legal scholarship in a society in which the law's role as a protector of the weak and powerless has been greatly diminished.

     It's good to ask these questions from time to time. I wish it wasn't quite so urgent.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 06:12:05 JST Matt Blaze

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     This seems like a good place to re-up an academic job at Georgetown that will be a great opportunity for someone.

     We've got an open position for a Professor of Computer Science, Ethics, and Society. This will be a senior appointment (with a named chair) in CS, with a joint research appointment in the recently formed Center for Digital Ethics.

     I'm part of both CS and CDE, and I've found Georgetown to be an amazing place for interdisciplinary work (and amazing students).

     https://apply.interfolio.com/129971