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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 · 10/10/2026
Scare quotes courtesy of decades of widespread journalistic and political complicity in genocide.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Scare quotes courtesy of decades of widespread journalistic and political complicity in genocide.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The scare quotes are entirely unnecessary.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The degree and frequency with which I have to remind my (retired journalist) southeast asian dad that the majority of stuff he gets forwarded on WhatsApp is actually A.I. slop, cannot be overstated 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Indeed. And don’t forget WhatsApp 🙃… a huge source of discussion/information/disinformation all over the non-Anglophone world.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wait til you find out that many journalists get their news and content ideas from social media !
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I did elaborate further in a follow up. I actually agree with you. And I’ve *also* been generally appalled at the state of both social media algorithms and news outlets for good information. It’s a shit show out there. And yes, journos get way too much of their leads from what bubbles up on socials.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To be clear I share your concerns re: Americans in general not being aware of stuff out of their bubbles/ news outlets being problematic. As a Canadian tho we’ve already experienced a news embargo through socials & it has made me realize I was relying too much on SM as my main source of news
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I never go on X anymore even though I have an account still… but I *have been following what is happening in India because I follow news/ subscribe to a variety of journalistic sources. I feel like this is a reminder that getting news mainly/only from social media has always been problematic.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And yet still better than his acting 😳
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
“Force enabled.”
A girl, called “every company”, is playing a tuba called “AI,” right into the face of someone called “me.”
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Evergreen
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Being a politics prof usually feels like an endurance sport, but these days it feels more like high speed, high intensity interval training.
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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pete Hoekstra must be expelled immediately.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Literally just posted this myself. The un-diplomatic behaviour or the US Ambassador has been atrocious. I understand the difficult costs of escalating tensions by expelling him.. but mollifying him for this long comes at a cost too. The basic rules of diplomacy should matter more than ever.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Many people are saying: Hoekstra should have been PNGed ages ago.
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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 · 24/09/2026
Well I suppose the next step is to… stop? Just.. stop “being an AI guy.” The world has way too many of those presently and we need to have way fewer…
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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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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It was finding out about P!nk’s comportment in all of this that had me crying into my nostalgic CD collection last week. But as we note of course- small disappointments in comparison to genocide and war crimes. Sigh.
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Finding out P!nk is a G-denier was the heartbreak for me. Never cared much for Ed’s music, personally. The real heartbreak though, as we all note, is what is happening to the Palestinian people.
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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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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Literally writing one that I keep having to re-plot because shit keeps happening that makes it read like a transcription of the bloody news
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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
PSA: Do not put a hashtag in front of Wasian because I regret to inform you that (even on here) it's all por*-bot accounts. 🫣
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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
You’re killing me Emily
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
No. Stop it. TOO SOON. 🥴😊
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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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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One of my super brilliant students in my Gender & IR seminar wrote a fantastic paper on “doll diplomacy,” which is an actual fascinating thing. But the bros obsessed with fantasy toy money would never….
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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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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
YeAh bUt rEgULaTiNg bUsInEsS iS SOCIALISM aNd STATE TYRANNY BrIAn
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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 · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: New Adults on the Block Destiny’s Woman FreezePlay Midway Fire Billi Vanilli Death Bus for Hottie The Catastrophically Hip WHAMMO The Guess Why
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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is amazing
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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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Jen Mustapha @jhmustapha.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yes I am so sick of the gaslighting. And frankly, it’s so refreshing to see a document/policy like this that doesn’t have some version of the phrase “Ai is here to stay, so we must figure out how to work with it.” No, it fucking isn’t and no we fucking do not.
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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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