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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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Whoa 😮

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 6d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

Children of the Corn
Hereditary
Rosemary’s Baby

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 5d

“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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

Same!

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 6d

Pass. Not similar, Davecat! No bad no.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 6d

The transfusion is a stopgap measure, a temporary solution until a diagnosis is made. I feel good today, though, so I'll take it.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 8d

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 9d

Gus just prefers the added layer of floor flavor.

Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 9d

Choose your character. I feel like the melted watch on the tree branch, tbh.

a painting of a cat with a clock in the background that shows it 's time to go

Alt: A zoom in on part of Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" painting, with two melted pocketwatches and a gray, amorphous blob that has a GIFs disturbing addition of a moving pink eyeball.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 9d

Ok, that's cool dream content, though.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 9d

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Donate to help Julie Carpenter medical and living expenses, organized by Amy Bensinger

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 19d

I spoke with Michelle Kim in S. Korea about the complex ethics of eldercare and social robots. It's a topic I dive deeply into in my book "The Naked Android," too. Kim wrote a nuanced piece on the problems and promises of social robots and seniors.
restofworld.org/2025/korea-a...

AI robot dolls charm their way into nursing the elderly

ChatGPT-powered robotic seven-year-olds are taking over some work from caregivers, to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren.

restofworld.org

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