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Julie Carpenter, PhD

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Researcher of people and technology. AI & attachment. Learning scientist. UXR. Golems. Robots. Cat pics. New book, “The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze.” jgcarpenter.com

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · Nov 10

Someone on this app suggested science communicators & researchers create a Spotify list of some of our interviews in case anyone wants to dive deeper into our work. Say less! Great idea & I encourage others to do the same. 🧪 🤖 #AI #ethics #robots #scicomm #spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/47A...

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 3h

And some biiiig stretches, too, Gonz. 🐈

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 3h

Conkers are more like gachapon than labubus imo but ok.

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 6h

Updated to four doctors and one outpatient procedure this week. That’s a lot. 😝

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 11h

The salmon caught in an existential scream. 🙀

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 11h

May his memory be a blessing. 😞

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 2d

Peter Thiel's essay on Moore's Watchmen is going around. I wrote about the religious fervor behind the flavor of AGI we're getting (including from Musk and Thiel) in this article (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 1d

Three doctors appointments this week with different specialists and follow ups. Diagnosis can be grueling, mentally and physically. Wish me luck, please.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 2d

Kelsey.

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 2d

INNOCENT.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

Hello! I’m a researcher and fwiw that’s not how science works. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

Rage bait. MW, we’re already all on edge don’t do this.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

!!!

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

Fwiw I’m 💯 positive that the facial recognition technology they’re using on the crowds isn’t ready for frogs.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

Hello! I’m a researcher and fwiw that’s not how science works. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

🎯

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 5d

trying to figure out how this fits with rfk's theory that covid was “ethnically targeted” to spare ashkenazi jews and i think the answer is just that rfk is a giant antisemite.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 5d

Last year, I interviewed computer scientist Richard Sutton. He won the Turing Award for his work on reinforcement learning. He's also a pro-extinctionist who's okay with humanity being replaced by AI, and he thinks democracy is a terrible form of government. Here's the interview.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

Fwiw I’m 💯 positive that the facial recognition technology they’re using on the crowds isn’t ready for frogs.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 7d

The Youth have alllll the flavors of Mad Dog now, too.

GenX had purple or red. Both colors tasted and acted like prescription cough medicine.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 7d

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 8d

Whoa 😮

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 10d

I love us the most when we're respectfully quibbling and learning from each other. #tradition

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 10d

I feel slightly numb and mostly exhausted at the amount of antisemitism posting about antisemitism has triggered on my BlueSky posts

Being Jewish on social media means having to expect it, and I’d almost got desensitised it

Almost

To all the antisemites, I say: f*ck you

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