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Julie Carpenter, PhD

@jgcarpenter.com

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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

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

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

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 · 3h

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 11h

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

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 8h

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 10h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

Whoa 😮

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

“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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 8d

I can feel that my first blood transfusion from Monday really kicked in today, which is a weird sensation! So strange to suddenly feel almost healthy again.

Also, a sickly roboticist who gets a blood transfusion needs to be an origin story. I am a trope.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 5d

That’s a baby werewolf for Halloween, not a dog. Still 14/10, would howl with him at the moon.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 6d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 6d

Children of the Corn
Hereditary
Rosemary’s Baby

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 6d

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social, a researcher at @dairinstitute.bsky.social. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 6d

Yesterday I got my COVID booster and flu shot. Every year I’m thankful to science for access to both.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 7d

Sickened by what happened in Manchester, and even more sickened by people who can’t seem to tell the difference between the state of Israel and a few Jews just going to temple.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 7d

You’re using a fake "community rep" strawman to smear American Jews as a bloc.That’s lazy scapegoating. "Virtually every Jewish community" is your invention. Jews hold diverse, conflicting views. Painting millions with one brush is how trolls launder antisemitic tropes.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 7d

Traci, diaspora Jews are not Israeli. A good faith example: I am an American and Jewish and can therefore do fuckall about Netanyahu, any more than you can. I do not have a supersecret dual relationship that connects me to Israel. See how that works? If not, then you're being willfully ignorant.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 8d

Same!

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 8d

Pass. Not similar, Davecat! No bad no.

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