Jonathan Corbin
@jonathancorbin.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist. Psych. blogger.
“You even picked the ideal weather. Overcast and chilly. Perfect for staying inside and reading"
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“You even picked the ideal weather. Overcast and chilly. Perfect for staying inside and reading"
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I have libertarian friends who make great points about the dangers of powerful governments and the value of privacy and free association.
I have democratic socialist friends who make great points about the value of universal government services.
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I have democratic socialist friends who make great points about the value of universal government services.
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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
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🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info.
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.
Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.
Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.
futurism.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info.
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.
Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.
Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Why does it feel like you hit a certain age and you just seem to lose easy access to a particular range of emotional amplitude?
I've generally considered having a fairly narrow range to begin with a bit of a blessing, but sometimes it also feels like missing out on some depths.
I've generally considered having a fairly narrow range to begin with a bit of a blessing, but sometimes it also feels like missing out on some depths.
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Why does it feel like you hit a certain age and you just seem to lose easy access to a particular range of emotional amplitude?
I've generally considered having a fairly narrow range to begin with a bit of a blessing, but sometimes it also feels like missing out on some depths.
I've generally considered having a fairly narrow range to begin with a bit of a blessing, but sometimes it also feels like missing out on some depths.
Still incredible to see what an absolute failure every single American institution has been in the face of authoritarianism.
Congress most of all, followed by the Supreme Court, and the so-called "4th estate".
Congress most of all, followed by the Supreme Court, and the so-called "4th estate".
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Still incredible to see what an absolute failure every single American institution has been in the face of authoritarianism.
Congress most of all, followed by the Supreme Court, and the so-called "4th estate".
Congress most of all, followed by the Supreme Court, and the so-called "4th estate".
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December 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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You would've seen this chart before: sometimes called a 'hedgehog' chart. When projections just stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the shifting trend.
From 2015 to 2019, Australia's power sector emissions followed the hedgehog: overperforming against expectations, thanks to strong RE policy
From 2015 to 2019, Australia's power sector emissions followed the hedgehog: overperforming against expectations, thanks to strong RE policy
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You would've seen this chart before: sometimes called a 'hedgehog' chart. When projections just stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the shifting trend.
From 2015 to 2019, Australia's power sector emissions followed the hedgehog: overperforming against expectations, thanks to strong RE policy
From 2015 to 2019, Australia's power sector emissions followed the hedgehog: overperforming against expectations, thanks to strong RE policy
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Trump just pardoned ANOTHER alleged white collar crook — live entertainment executive Timothy Leiweke — who was indicted by Trump's own DOJ this past July for conspiring to rig a bidding process.
A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.
A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Trump just pardoned ANOTHER alleged white collar crook — live entertainment executive Timothy Leiweke — who was indicted by Trump's own DOJ this past July for conspiring to rig a bidding process.
A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.
A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.
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I don’t understand how Susan Collins’s votes to confirm RFK Jr. and Kavanaugh won’t sink her the most if Democrats hammer on it. Make an entire ad called “Lazy Susan” and talk about how her refusal to stand up to Trump has undermined public health, allowed ICE abuses, and cost Mainers re: Canada.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I don’t understand how Susan Collins’s votes to confirm RFK Jr. and Kavanaugh won’t sink her the most if Democrats hammer on it. Make an entire ad called “Lazy Susan” and talk about how her refusal to stand up to Trump has undermined public health, allowed ICE abuses, and cost Mainers re: Canada.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Fadeout of cognitive training remains one of the more replicable
findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Fadeout of cognitive training remains one of the more replicable
findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
findings in psychology in this preregistered study of 300 preschool children. Well-done study with a 4 year follow up. The language gains either faded or the control group caught up.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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This is an excellent thread about varieties of eugenicist thought and why we should worry about so-called "positive" benefits. Biology educators & psychologists have noted the way we (often) teach genetics seems to "cause" more essentialist thinking so one may imagine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Humane genomics education can reduce racism
Moving instruction “beyond Mendel” can counter inaccurate, essentialist views
www.science.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is an excellent thread about varieties of eugenicist thought and why we should worry about so-called "positive" benefits. Biology educators & psychologists have noted the way we (often) teach genetics seems to "cause" more essentialist thinking so one may imagine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What's one of the most mind-blowing and famous solos in modern history and why is it Cory Henry's solo on Lingus?
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Snarky Puppy - Lingus (We Like It Here)
YouTube video by GroundUP Music NYC
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December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What's one of the most mind-blowing and famous solos in modern history and why is it Cory Henry's solo on Lingus?
youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc?...
youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc?...
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
This criminal has never suffered any real consequences in his life.
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This criminal has never suffered any real consequences in his life.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
You Were Probably Taught to Read Wrong | Otherwords
YouTube video by Storied
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December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Two paths to global relevance:
1. Hub of research and technology innovation.
2. Unstable, violent regime
Trump seems to prefer option 2.
1. Hub of research and technology innovation.
2. Unstable, violent regime
Trump seems to prefer option 2.
“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025.
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Two paths to global relevance:
1. Hub of research and technology innovation.
2. Unstable, violent regime
Trump seems to prefer option 2.
1. Hub of research and technology innovation.
2. Unstable, violent regime
Trump seems to prefer option 2.
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“It’s the Christmas season and the Secretary of Defense took a beloved children’s character and depicted him blowing up drug smugglers. You have to look at that and wonder: What the hell is wrong with these people?” — Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
“It’s the Christmas season and the Secretary of Defense took a beloved children’s character and depicted him blowing up drug smugglers. You have to look at that and wonder: What the hell is wrong with these people?” — Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Costco Wholesale has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking the Court of International Trade to consider all tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act unlawful.
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
nbcnews.to
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Costco Wholesale has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking the Court of International Trade to consider all tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act unlawful.
I can surround my baby with fun plushie toys, and she crawls towards the cord in the wall every time.
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I can surround my baby with fun plushie toys, and she crawls towards the cord in the wall every time.
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Every day I get angrier abt that wretched Harper’s Letter, and the broader feckless, bothsider-poisoned media environment that treated it as legit.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every day I get angrier abt that wretched Harper’s Letter, and the broader feckless, bothsider-poisoned media environment that treated it as legit.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
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Roughcut Media Network
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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