Jesper Aagaard
@aagaard.bsky.social
technopsychologist | associate professor | aarhus university |
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
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I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.
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Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...
If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry
Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduce…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Consider yourself warned
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
May 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Consider yourself warned
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
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I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
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It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
April 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
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The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
April 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
tmb.apaopen.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
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one of the most celebrated artists of all time who painted dozens of self-portraits and the top image is AI-generated lol
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
one of the most celebrated artists of all time who painted dozens of self-portraits and the top image is AI-generated lol
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Very happy to see more and more critical perspectives in my field. Just had a pleasure to read @aagaard.bsky.social's recent conceptual analysis of "value-laden technopsychological concepts" which is a valuable publication worth reading. Will share some quotes below.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
tmb.apaopen.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Very happy to see more and more critical perspectives in my field. Just had a pleasure to read @aagaard.bsky.social's recent conceptual analysis of "value-laden technopsychological concepts" which is a valuable publication worth reading. Will share some quotes below.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
tmb.apaopen.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
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old Soviet joke:
a man goes to a newsstand daily, picks up the paper, but never buys.
one day the seller says “comrade, why don’t you ever buy a paper?”
he replies, “I’m only looking for obituaries.”
“but obituaries are at the back, not the cover!”
he replies: “not the one I’m looking for.”
a man goes to a newsstand daily, picks up the paper, but never buys.
one day the seller says “comrade, why don’t you ever buy a paper?”
he replies, “I’m only looking for obituaries.”
“but obituaries are at the back, not the cover!”
he replies: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
old Soviet joke:
a man goes to a newsstand daily, picks up the paper, but never buys.
one day the seller says “comrade, why don’t you ever buy a paper?”
he replies, “I’m only looking for obituaries.”
“but obituaries are at the back, not the cover!”
he replies: “not the one I’m looking for.”
a man goes to a newsstand daily, picks up the paper, but never buys.
one day the seller says “comrade, why don’t you ever buy a paper?”
he replies, “I’m only looking for obituaries.”
“but obituaries are at the back, not the cover!”
he replies: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths
January 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths
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I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins
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Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.