Jesper Aagaard
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technopsychologist | associate professor | aarhus university |
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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.chantal//RYAN
10 days ago
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Carl T. Bergstrom
13 days ago
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
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Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images â and what that means for your career.
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/can-your-face-predict-your-salary-using-ai-personality-assessments-in-hiring/
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Garvin Brod
12 days ago
Curious about how smartphones shape childrenâs development? Weâre recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with
@orbenamy.bsky.social
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iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
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IWM TĂźbingen
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
https://iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jobs/1023-2025
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RenĂŠ Walter
13 days ago
We're talking a lot about cognitive offloading, but GenZ is oftentimes doing *emotional offloading* to AI chatbots. Basically, they seem to often use the chatbot as a great filter for everything socially relational.
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Colson Whitehead
19 days ago
Nice analysis of AIâs current writing style.
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the hype
23 days ago
I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
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Aubrieta E Rose đ đđđ
21 days ago
Seems more promising than "there was an em dash it must be fake!" And yeah, I might not be able to remember every detail about the stuff I've written, owing to my moth-brained memory, but you risk me launching into a loving 6 hour presentation if you ask me questions about a scene or character.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
19 days ago
TY
@tktk.bsky.social
for covering this and thank you to
@lbyock.bsky.social
and all the parents fighting this fight. There is little point to cell phone bans if students are on other devices all day.
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Tyler Kingkade
19 days ago
NEW on
@nbcnews.com
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www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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LA Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids
A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624
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Ian Hussey
22 days ago
Works the other way around too. âIf I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?â
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about 1 month ago
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, itâs a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and theyâre stealing it. Can you believe that? Weâre going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what theyâre up to
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk đđą
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". đ¨
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danah boyd
2 months ago
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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How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commissionâbefore Donald Trump fired meâtotally changed the way I see our political divide.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201171/alvaro-bedoya-ftc-became-populist
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Marcus Hutchins
2 months ago
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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Michael Eisen
2 months ago
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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Shannon Vallor
5 months ago
I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Canât Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner â Iâm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Todayâs microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrowâs mâŚ
https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/
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Ntina Tzouvala
5 months ago
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...
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World Athleticsâ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know â I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures âthe integrity of womenâs sportâ â but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
https://theconversation.com/world-athletics-mandatory-genetic-test-for-women-athletes-is-misguided-i-should-know-i-discovered-the-relevant-gene-in-1990-262367
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If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called âmiddle-sized dry goodsâ, weâve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isnât background noiseâitâs part of the conversation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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 introduceâŚ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X25000327
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Matti Vuorre
7 months ago
Consider yourself warned -
hal.science/hal-01816707
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issues.org/how-academic...
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www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
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Jeff Sharlet
7 months ago
I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?r=i691&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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lumberjack wharfie
7 months ago
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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Reece
8 months ago
Itâs not just biasedâgenerative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for
@wired.com
:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
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Hank Green
8 months ago
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trumpâs 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!!
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Michael Hobbes
8 months ago
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.
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Ever read a psychological study and thought, âWait⌠isnât this just proving what we already knew?â Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking âAre bad things bad?â isnât groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
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âAre Bad Things Bad?â: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw/release/1
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Dan Douglas
9 months ago
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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Michal Frackowiak, PhD
9 months ago
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.
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âAre Bad Things Bad?â: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw/release/1
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Ever read a psychological study and thought, âWait⌠isnât this just proving what we already knew?â Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking âAre bad things bad?â isnât groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
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âAre Bad Things Bad?â: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw/release/1
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John Semley
10 months ago
old Soviet joke: a man goes to a newsstand daily, picks up the paper, but never buys. one day the seller says âcomrade, why donât you ever buy a paper?â he replies, âIâm only looking for obituaries.â âbut obituaries are at the back, not the cover!â he replies: ânot the one Iâm looking for.â
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Pop Base
11 months ago
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
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Michael Hobbes
11 months ago
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 will strangle a horse' on itch.io
11 months ago
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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slate
11 months ago
we never shouldâve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldnât have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths
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Rob Sheridan
11 months ago
I donât want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I donât want to fuckin subscribe to software. I donât want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I donât want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I donât want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins
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Ron Chan
12 months ago
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.
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Brian Jacobson
about 1 year ago
Including the interview with
@katecrawford.bsky.social
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Medunderskriver pĂĽ dette indlĂŚg af
@stineliv.bsky.social
: Selvom intentionen er god, sü risikerer et forbud mod sociale medier for børn under 18 at skubbe denne mülgruppe ud i mørket - büde hvad angür social støtte, juridisk sikkerhed og demokratiske rettigheder.
jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik...
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Et forbud mod sociale medier for børn under 18 risikerer at gøre mere skade end gavn
Et forbud mod sociale medier for børn under 18 ür er en symbolsk lappeløsning, der ignorerer de udfordringer og muligheder, som sociale medier reprÌsenterer, samtidig med at det svÌkker deres demokrat...
https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/ECE17742486/et-forbud-mod-sociale-medier-for-boern-under-18-risikerer-at-goere-mere-skade-end-gavn/
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Interesting article arguing that co-present phone use isn't inherently bad, but may have good, bad, or even neutral consequences depending on context. Just like we found in âOn the Hermeneutics of Screen Timeâ (which isn't cited). One step closer to qual research
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20501579241298271
about 1 year ago
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Pavel
over 1 year ago
Well this is grim
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Benjamin Riley
about 1 year ago
NEW POST: What is the Pedagogy of the Depressed? It's what happens when you sit through three online "AI for educators" courses as I have recently.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
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Pedagogy of the Depressed
An illustrated guide to a smattering of online AI courses for educators
https://open.substack.com/pub/buildcognitiveresonance/p/pedagogy-of-the-depressed?r=3jrx37&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Hypervisible
about 1 year ago
ai bros are really giving the game away when they claim the tools are going to give us time for what matters but they are trying to eliminate art, relationships, music, grief, and mourning.
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Sad day for the phil-tech community. In just a year and a half, we have lost Bruno Latour (1947-2022), Ian Hacking (1936-2023), Albert Borgmann (1937-2023), and now Don Ihde (1934-2024). RIP Don.
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Nanna Scheldes nye Zetland-artikel âJeg har fĂĽet min søn tilbage igen: SĂĽdan gik det, da mobilerne blev smidt ud af klassevĂŚrelsetâ er et interessant casestudie i resultatet af â og problemet med â en meget kraftig journalistisk vinkling.
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Mastodon never really clicked, but here's to Blue Sky. Just went all-in and deleted my Twitter profile. It just got too bad. So it's either this now or I'll have to come crawling back to Facebook. Yikes.
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