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Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-31 at 01:15

Ursula Franklin—technology thinker, physicist, metallurgist, Quaker, and committed pacifist—is one of the people whose work I return to the most when things are bad.

I tried to write about her great short checklist for making decisions about technology and I ended up writing a whole post about just the first item, which the real foundational one.

https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/

"The viability of technology, like democracy, depends in the end on the practice of justice…"

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Written by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] on 2025-02-01 at 00:08

@kissane i really appreciated that post. I've kept a copy of her Massey Lectures on my phone for over 7 years now, it's a touchstone for me.

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