Julie Carpenter, PhD
@jgcarpenter.com
Researcher of people and technology. AI & attachment. Learning scientist. UXR. Golems. Robots. Cat pics. Book: “The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze.” jgcarpenter.com
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It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
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Consider: Visa restrictions shaping who participates in AI research. Defunding of scholarship on algorithmic discrimination. Federal preemption of state AI laws. This is not deregulation.
January 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Consider: Visa restrictions shaping who participates in AI research. Defunding of scholarship on algorithmic discrimination. Federal preemption of state AI laws. This is not deregulation.
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Golem restock! Just finished painting a batch of rainbow golems, so they're finally back in stock after we sold out during Hanukkah. :D
I'll be working on restocking the other variants over the next week!
Question: would y'all want the option to add a keyring if it cost $3-5?
I'll be working on restocking the other variants over the next week!
Question: would y'all want the option to add a keyring if it cost $3-5?
Resin Golems, Pride Golem Figurine
A handmade resin skull utilizing the colors of the specified pride flag. A great Pride gift or coming-out gift!
nerdykeppie.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Golem restock! Just finished painting a batch of rainbow golems, so they're finally back in stock after we sold out during Hanukkah. :D
I'll be working on restocking the other variants over the next week!
Question: would y'all want the option to add a keyring if it cost $3-5?
I'll be working on restocking the other variants over the next week!
Question: would y'all want the option to add a keyring if it cost $3-5?
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Beyond that, I return to @jgcarpenter.com, who I think had a smart formulation for platform policy workers on the right balance to take with AI videos that mock the dead.
indicator.media/p/digital-de...
indicator.media/p/digital-de...
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Beyond that, I return to @jgcarpenter.com, who I think had a smart formulation for platform policy workers on the right balance to take with AI videos that mock the dead.
indicator.media/p/digital-de...
indicator.media/p/digital-de...
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That doesn't mean nothing's changed. As @jgcarpenter.com told me "AI impersonation shifts desecration from depicting someone to ventriloquizing them [...] That’s not just cruelty; it’s an authored performance that borrows the authority of the person’s likeness.”
‘Digital desecrations’: when deepfakes are used to mock tragic deaths and what platforms should do about it
Synthetic videos of Renée Good are the latest form of technology-facilitated dehumanization
indicator.media
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
That doesn't mean nothing's changed. As @jgcarpenter.com told me "AI impersonation shifts desecration from depicting someone to ventriloquizing them [...] That’s not just cruelty; it’s an authored performance that borrows the authority of the person’s likeness.”
I joined the @cyborggoddess.bsky.social podcast to talk about how cultural assumptions, power, and interpretation shape the way robots are built, deployed, and understood, and what that reveals about us.
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
S4E6: Robots and The Human Gaze with Dr. Julie Carpenter – Cyborg Goddess
cyborggoddess.opened.ca
January 14, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I joined the @cyborggoddess.bsky.social podcast to talk about how cultural assumptions, power, and interpretation shape the way robots are built, deployed, and understood, and what that reveals about us.
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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Behind schedule, but S4E6 of Cyborg Goddess is up!!
I interview @jgcarpenter.com about her fascinating research into our relationships with robots, and something she calls 'the human gaze'.
Get it here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#feminism #robots
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
I interview @jgcarpenter.com about her fascinating research into our relationships with robots, and something she calls 'the human gaze'.
Get it here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#feminism #robots
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
S4E6: Robots and The Human Gaze with Dr. Julie Carpenter – Cyborg Goddess
cyborggoddess.opened.ca
January 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Behind schedule, but S4E6 of Cyborg Goddess is up!!
I interview @jgcarpenter.com about her fascinating research into our relationships with robots, and something she calls 'the human gaze'.
Get it here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#feminism #robots
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
I interview @jgcarpenter.com about her fascinating research into our relationships with robots, and something she calls 'the human gaze'.
Get it here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#feminism #robots
cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
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He seems to know nothing about fiction or science. Wrote about the problem here:
Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the World
Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the World
heiup.uni-heidelberg.de
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
He seems to know nothing about fiction or science. Wrote about the problem here:
Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the World
Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the World
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Giving this talk in Feb: www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/where...
Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet | Jackman Humanities Institute
The Jackman Humanities Institute invites you to the 2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet" and reception on Monday, February 23, 2026, with Teresa He...
www.humanities.utoronto.ca
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Giving this talk in Feb: www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/where...
Every tech CEO misunderstands their so-called favorite stories, especially the parts about restraint, ethics, collective governance, and not having emperors.
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Every tech CEO misunderstands their so-called favorite stories, especially the parts about restraint, ethics, collective governance, and not having emperors.
Are we doing starter packs again? Include me in your niche #AI-critical, #mediaTheory, #HAI, #ethics, #UXR lineups, please and thank you. <3
January 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Are we doing starter packs again? Include me in your niche #AI-critical, #mediaTheory, #HAI, #ethics, #UXR lineups, please and thank you. <3
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When visibility in enforcement encounters arrives late, selectively, or through informal recordings rather than accountable systems, it doesn’t clarify what happened, it narrows who gets to interpret it.. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall):
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
When visibility in enforcement encounters arrives late, selectively, or through informal recordings rather than accountable systems, it doesn’t clarify what happened, it narrows who gets to interpret it.. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall):
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhD
Enforcement footage doesn’t just document events, it structures interpretation. It invites viewer interpretation without context, shifting scrutiny onto recorded people while institutions remain opaque. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Enforcement footage doesn’t just document events, it structures interpretation. It invites viewer interpretation without context, shifting scrutiny onto recorded people while institutions remain opaque. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
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Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women.
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.
“She sparkled.”
May her memory be a blessing.
May her memory be a blessing.
KARE 11
@kare11.bsky.social
Jana Shortal
Renee Good’s wife has a statement. Hear it in full no edits, here.
@kare11.bsky.social
Jana Shortal
Renee Good’s wife has a statement. Hear it in full no edits, here.
January 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
“She sparkled.”
May her memory be a blessing.
May her memory be a blessing.
When visibility in enforcement encounters arrives late, selectively, or through informal recordings rather than accountable systems, it doesn’t clarify what happened, it narrows who gets to interpret it.. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall):
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
When visibility in enforcement encounters arrives late, selectively, or through informal recordings rather than accountable systems, it doesn’t clarify what happened, it narrows who gets to interpret it.. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall):
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
Enforcement footage doesn’t just document events, it structures interpretation. It invites viewer interpretation without context, shifting scrutiny onto recorded people while institutions remain opaque. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Enforcement footage doesn’t just document events, it structures interpretation. It invites viewer interpretation without context, shifting scrutiny onto recorded people while institutions remain opaque. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
This @iethics.bsky.social panel conversation on autonomous weapons is up! Accountability, human oversight limits, & consequences of lethal decisions delegated to systems optimized for speed. These questions are no longer theoretical, & not confined to military contexts.
youtu.be/3lJhGbVIjSg?...
youtu.be/3lJhGbVIjSg?...
Code, Command, and Consequences: Ethics in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
YouTube video by Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This @iethics.bsky.social panel conversation on autonomous weapons is up! Accountability, human oversight limits, & consequences of lethal decisions delegated to systems optimized for speed. These questions are no longer theoretical, & not confined to military contexts.
youtu.be/3lJhGbVIjSg?...
youtu.be/3lJhGbVIjSg?...
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Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Walz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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On innercalling w/ Dr. Victoria Ranade, we unpacked how AI is designed to engage us, why it shouldn’t be treated as therapy or emotional counsel, and what we lose when we outsource understanding and decision-making to systems that optimize engagement, not wellbeing.
open.spotify.com/episode/5GhJ...
open.spotify.com/episode/5GhJ...
#38. Dr. Julie Carpenter (AI Hidden Dangers Explained: What You Need to Know)
open.spotify.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
On innercalling w/ Dr. Victoria Ranade, we unpacked how AI is designed to engage us, why it shouldn’t be treated as therapy or emotional counsel, and what we lose when we outsource understanding and decision-making to systems that optimize engagement, not wellbeing.
open.spotify.com/episode/5GhJ...
open.spotify.com/episode/5GhJ...
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ChatGPT Health doesn’t replace healthcare; it consolidates health data and inserts an always-on AI interpretive layer between patients and care. New post (no paywall), "ChatGPT Health and the Expansion of Infrastructural Intimacy":
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
ChatGPT Health doesn’t replace healthcare; it consolidates health data and inserts an always-on AI interpretive layer between patients and care. New post (no paywall), "ChatGPT Health and the Expansion of Infrastructural Intimacy":
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
ChatGPT Health doesn’t replace healthcare; it consolidates health data and inserts an always-on AI interpretive layer between patients and care. New post (no paywall), "ChatGPT Health and the Expansion of Infrastructural Intimacy":
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
ChatGPT Health doesn’t replace healthcare; it consolidates health data and inserts an always-on AI interpretive layer between patients and care. New post (no paywall), "ChatGPT Health and the Expansion of Infrastructural Intimacy":
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...