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Regina Tuma

@obspsy.bsky.social
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Social and Media Psychology; Critical Media Psy; Psy of Social Media, Psy of AI and Big Data, Faculty in Media PSY PhD, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara CA

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2025
The new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” aims to explain why superintelligent AI would eliminate humanity. But along the way, the authors “fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims,” Adam Becker argues:
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The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The accelerationists and the doomsayers are two sides to the same coin and neither should be heeded
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/08/2025
A majority of undergraduate students use AI for classwork, several studies show. Ian Bogost spoke with college students to explore their motivations behind using the tool—and the painful revelation professors may face this in classrooms this fall.
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College Students Have Already Changed Forever
Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/07/2025
For decades, a group of Argentinian women led an extraordinary campaign to find their stolen grandchildren.
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Searching for the Children of the Disappeared
A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren.
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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
AI chatbots lean slightly leftwards - despite what Grok has been doing lately. My latest for @economist.com Espresso
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Jozef Imrich @jozefimrich.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Late Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials are retiring under worse conditions than Early Baby Boomers. Later generations will likely face even worse retirement conditions due to pending and proposed policy changes economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...
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Retirement Then, Now, and Next - The New School SCEPA
by Teresa Ghilarducci and the SCEPA Team Download the PDF here. This policy note is part of SCEPA’s “Tracking the Retirement Crisis” series. This series was made possible in part through the gene...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The New York Times' "coverage of anything remotely political is poisoned by its obsession to prove its neutrality by taking cheap shots at the left, no matter the cost to its obligation to accuracy and fairness." @froomkin.bsky.social hits the 🎯 as usual weighing on NYT's recent hitjob on Mamdani.
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The sad, sad state of the New York Times | Press Watch
Trolling the libs is par for the course
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
There were 28 nationwide injunctions against Biden, and the Supreme Court didn't have an issue with any of them. I wonder what changed.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you're interested in seeing what the conversation on X looked like on Saturday morning, as the information warriors there went to work framing the shootings of Democratic lawmakers for political gain, I made an interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 12/06/2025
What's the Future of Media under Trump 2.0? | LIVE with Tara McGowan of @couriernewsroom.bsky.social & Lincoln Square Executive Editor @sjdemas.bsky.social www.lincolnsquare.media/p/whats-the-...
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What's the Future of Media under Trump 2.0? | LIVE with Tara McGowan & Susan Demas
Here's a hint: The mainstream national media won’t save us.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I know there are lots of serious & important things going on in the world right now but I just learned I completely missed this show on Long Island last year of George Grosz's 1940s "Stick Men" series & as someone who loves Grosz's late work I'm just totally gutted😞 www.heckscher.org/exhibitions/...
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George Grosz: The Stick Men - The Heckscher Museum of Art
George Grosz (1893–1959) created the “Stick Men” series in Huntington, New York, where he lived from 1947 until shortly before his death. Featuring hollow figures in an apocalyptic landscape, this…
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Here is the official Harvard University website! www.harvard.edu Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!! +1 617-495-1000 The link to the Free Government courses is ... pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Very glad to see this out: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Special Issue Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...
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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The GOP now seems to be made up of people who’d have survived the Milgram experiment without much stress. I can’t get over their ability to justify ever-more-horrifying shocks Trump is giving to human beings, the system—and they’re coming up with more ever-more-horrifying versions of their own.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
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Regina Tuma @obspsy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Dear @nytimes.com There can be NO DISAGREEMENT on Canadian sovereignty. The correct answer on a test would be that Canada is a sovereign country. The unwillingness to recognize that fact merits a failing grade for the student questioning that fact. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
“They disagreed about Canada’s sovereignty” 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NotebookLM was already one of the best AI apps for academic work. Now it supports 50+ languages. • Summarize papers • Generate audio overviews of papers • Ask question about papers • Prepare study guides All this in your own language and that too for free.
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lockit.bsky.social @lockit.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Axios @axios.com · 01/04/2025
Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.
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Cory Booker's epic Senate speech puts Democrats back in the spotlight
Democratic voters grown impatient with leaders who won't counter Trump more aggressively.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2025
"The most jarring aesthetic in this burgeoning MAGA stagecraft is the unbridled embrace of face-altering procedures: plastic surgery, veneers, and injectables like Botox and fillers. The overall look has since been disparagingly referred to as 'Mar-a-Lago face.'"
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
AP: Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America apnews.com/article/bord...
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Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America
U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞
Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Have questions about the recent news on Medicaid and what it means for New Jersey? Join me at my Medicaid town hall this Friday at 6:00 PM. RSVP here Bit.ly/LM_TH for more details.
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Darlena Cunha @darlenacunha.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
One small thing: i signed up to phone bank for Josh Weil for district 6. There is a special election in Florida on April 1. The two house seats are in deep red districts but if dems win them, they flip the house. If you want to phone bank, you can do it from anywhere. Sign up! mobilize.us/s/TO6Bdo
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Phonebanking for Josh Weil for Congress! · Mobilize
Calling on all Floridians and Americans beyond - we have a real opportunity to make a change in Congress! Meet Josh Weil - a single father, public school teacher, and progressive running for Florida...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
Bubble chart of follower counts for top right-leaning versus left-leaning online shows
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Regina Tuma @obspsy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Vote them out. History will not be kind. @chuckschumer.com @fetterman.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov #SenDurbin #SenKing @shaheen.senate.gov #SenGillibrand #SenSchatz #SenHassan #SenPeters
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it. The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Regina Tuma @obspsy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@chuckschumer.com Resign! We need new leadership! #SchumerResign
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No longer can this be the face of our fight for democracy! Chuck needs to resign.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.
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Regina Tuma @obspsy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@chuckschumer.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social Schumer is not a leader.
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Nicole Sandler @nicolesandler.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I just called both of my senators from AZ- Kelly & Gallego - to demand they vote no on the continuing resolution. I was able to leave vm for Gallego. Kelly's vm box was full in DC, Phoenix & Tucson! Unreal. Use 5calls.org to contact your senators now. Please.
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Columbia deportation case is bad enough on its own — but the precedent is worse. People can be deported without breaking a law because of a vague reference to foreign policy.
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Regina Tuma @obspsy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The headline e makes NO sense. Emergency call To Orwell 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It’s the same dynamics over and over again, from “voter fraud” in 2020 to “waste and fraud” now. Set the frame, manufacture evidence to fit the frame (through fabrication, misinterpretation and mischaracterization), amplify that evidence to reinforce the frame, repeat ad nauseam.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 05/03/2025
“The [Trump] administration has dismantled a number of federal guardrails to protect the integrity of our elections," @larrynorden.bsky.social told @apnews.com. This "sends a terrible message...about where the administration stands on election security."
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Justice Department is reviewing prosecution of Colorado clerk who supported Trump’s election lies
The Department of Justice is reviewing the prosecution of a former Colorado clerk who was convicted in state court of helping President Donald Trump's supporters access confidential data about the 202...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...
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The Left Needs Media That Competes — and Wins
The Right’s growing success with working-class voters wasn’t won with policy papers or think tanks; it was built through media that speaks their language. If the Left wants to compete, it needs to bui...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
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Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
They were not physically escorted out of the chamber when they made outbursts to Biden. So why was Al Green? I tell you why because Biden took it like a man, and Trump thinks he’s a king, and his minions think they have to protect his ego. REPOST
MTG and Loomer yelling at Biden in the chamber
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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