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Jen Mustapha

@jhmustapha.bsky.social
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Political “Scientist.” Asian-Canadian. Vaccine Enthusiast. Prof. Writer. Lover. Fighter. Sometimes, I get fired up. She/Her Opinions mine alone, re-posts are not endorsements etc etc

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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What the f*** are we doing here folks
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Add to this the half an hour of every hour it seems to take me to navigate dual factor authentication widgets on literally every entry point of my work-related websites because network credentials change constantly for security reasons and everything thinks I’m using a “new device”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
hey so fun fact if you feel the need to share the words 'I am not complicit' there is a good chance that you actually are
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s been a bit of a tough week for this Xennial gal. I don’t expect my pop culture favourites to be flawless gods & heroes above reproach, but I do wish for them not to be genocide minimizers and literal Pink-washers of a malignantly violent military occupation.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 08/09/2026
Canada joins Europeans in pledging ban of Israeli settlement goods, @withfilesfrom.bsky.social reports nationalnewswatch.com/2026/09/08/c...
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Canada joins Europeans in pledging ban of Israeli settlement goods
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
GOOD.
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Donald Glover's Surprised 'Good' Reaction
Alt: Donald Glover's emphatic ‘Good' Reaction GIF
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Apparently Grok and Claud are also having issues. Inshallah.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 02/09/2026
Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”
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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning
Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
But sure let’s keep breathlessly touting the benefits of Ai and build more data centres… www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The best part of my summer social media cleanse was missing the peak stupidity of the entire 'Wasian' discourse. Jesus Horatio Crackers I cannot with the internet anymore.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I mean yeah.
Headline from cbc.ca “Stressed out about politics? It could be impacting your health
Major events can cause anxiety, loss of sleep, loss of appetite and even depression, researcher says”
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nah guys, unclutch your pearls… that’s not how the poem goes. Some faces are just meant for the leopards.
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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This actually might be the tweet of the year. Seriously.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23/08/2026
Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States
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Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States
OTTAWA - Following public comments in which Conservative MP Jamil Jivani blamed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for failed trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Canadians across the countr...
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What a time(line) to be alive
An X post from Anthony Scaramucci that reads ‘Carney now leads the West’
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What level of late-stage-capitalist hell is this? www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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You can't buy anything on these food delivery and shopping sites. Here's why that's the point | CBC Radio
Mock shopping sites are giving people the thrill of browsing, filling a cart and checking out, without spending a cent. As the trend spreads worldwide, some are using it to rethink compulsive spending...
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 17/08/2026
As an adult, I accept that some things must be a little stupid. But I can’t abide this many things being this stupid.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What are we doing here folks
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sentences like “Ai is not going anywhere” and “Ai is here to stay” are ones I do not wish to see in any administrative teaching guidance communications at my liberal arts PSE institution, yet here we fucking are.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Your move, Orcas 🛥️🫍
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
OMG YES. And when it comes to the breathless optimism around how loud & wrong people are about what *AI* actually is (including in academia), I feel like all these people are enthusiastically building their own guillotines & then, equally enthusiasctically, lining up to 'try it out for themselves.'
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
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I haven't heard people talking about this, but AI is an absolute game changer for doing historical research. History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts— a massive logistical/memory problem made so delightfully easy with agentic research. 1/
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I did an OCR conversion of all my PDFs to make text files, built a semantic search index, and can just let my agents roam free to answer questions, fact-check, dig up interesting stories, quotes, etc. It takes a lot of the hard work out, as well as a lot of the human error. 2/2
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“As a librarian, I think it’s important to see this as…helping people reclaim their autonomy over whether they want to use AI tools,” Bailey said. “It’s important, especially when it can be so difficult not to use them, and when the design seems to force adoption” Librarians to the rescue (again)
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We could all do without this apocalyptic fire season every year 😭. Yet here we are. It’s great that our govts are scrambling to build more data centres all over Ontario bc obviously that’s what we need- massive heat generating facilities that guzzle water & suck up power from an ailing grid 😞 /s
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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
>wake up >global security architecture has degraded further >go to sleep >global security architecture has degraded further >wake up >global security architecture has degraded further >go to sleep >global security architecture has degraded further
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Being able to teach courses like this are part of what I love about my job
NEW COURSE

'Security Politics and Imagined Futures:
Democracy vs. Dystopia'
Poli Sci 4452G
Excited to offer this special topics seminar in the coming winter term!
Very limited spots- Make sure to check the prerequisites before registering
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Currently re-reading @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social 2015 novel ‘The Water Knife’ for about the 5th time and continue to marvel at how terrifyingly prescient it is. One of my all time #favouritebooks
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The world is making all of us wonder the same thing
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I am absolutely reeling about the passing of dear, sweet @raulpachecovega.bsky.social . Hold your loved ones close and hug them tight like he did any time you would meet him anywhere....
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 17/05/2026
yes of course we expect authors to check every citation what the fuck are you talking about
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
News outlets are reporting on a letter to PM Carney, signed by 190 former diplomats, about sanctioning Israel- and none of them actually link to the letter. Does anyone have a link? I cannot find this letter anywhere.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
TIL that Alan Dershowitz was [checks notes] a democrat this whole time?
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Unless the robots are curing cancer, spare me the breathless headlines.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The @theglobeandmail.com editorial team needs a basic lesson in IR theory. Despite what the armchair pundits keep saying, the #CarneyDoctrine is NOT Realpolitik. It is NOT Realism. It's an assertion of the power of Social Construction- & of Canada's need to take an active role in *making the world*
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Well, that latest Sunday morning address from @mark-carney.bsky.social was a rich text...
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is bone chilling. Number 21 is straight-up genocidal.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
University admins need to recognize that blithely normalizing AI and cozying up to the sector without thoughtfulness or reflection is deeply misaligned with their duties of care towards students www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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JD Power cancels summer internships leaving 25 Western University students hanging | CBC News
JD Power has rescinded summer internships for more than 20 Western University students just weeks before they were set to join the company, leaving them scrambling with no backup plans.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The writers of this season aren't even trying anymore.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"As a nation that attaches great importance to the rule of law Japan will continue to provide firm support for the ICC." Japan's top diplomat extends 'firm support' to ICC amid criticism from US: www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-paci... #ICC #Japan
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Japan's top diplomat extends 'firm support' to ICC amid criticism from US
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi hosts ICC President Judge Tomoko Akane in Tokyo - Anadolu Ajansı
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I wish my weekly political science lectures would stop being demonstrated in real time…
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Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In sum, get ready for a ‘forever war’…
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just live broadcasting his sundowning dementia rants. It’s really something.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s
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