Michael Fenichel

@drmike
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Social scientist, clinical psychologist, & observer of the ways people are thinking, acting, & communicating.

Past life: music, audio engineering/recording, radio, photography

My 'homepage' which spans from the past Millennium to the future, is stuffed with reflections of my lifelong interests: #psychology, #photography, & #Internet / #media

@ http://www.fenichel.com

PsychologyClassic Psych - "Current Topics in Psychology": http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml
'Cyberpsychology' / Social MediaOnline Behavior, Communication & Experience: http://www.cyberpsychology.com
PhotographyTravel & nature photography @ http://www.fenichel.com/fenfotos + Flickr @ https://bit.ly/FlickAlbums
Internet Fun: My Archiveshttp://www.fenichel.com/archives.shtml
Michael Fenichel12h ago

From the #AI / #Futurism / #psychology / #behavior Department

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/study-do-what-chatgpt-tells-us

#ChatGPT

Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It’s Totally Wrong

Human users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up.

Futurism
Michael Fenichel12h ago

#FollowTheMoney #TrumpVirus

What would any big #CrimeFamily story be without the long #TrumpKushner relationship?

https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/bessent-kushner-55-billion-ea-deal-epstein

Maybe the #TrumpEpsteinFiles are also #TrumpKushnerEpstein & Co.

Between the spew of #war & #shutdown, and #GQP pushing still for more #evil and money to be taken from #WeThePeople with nary a word about the obvious solution in a deficit: #TaxTheRich and use the money for "Americans first" before further subsidizing billionaires' wars & profits.

#truth

Is This Why The Treasury Secretary is Blocking Epstein's Financial Records?

Bessent, Kushner, and the $55 billion EA deal nobody is connecting.

Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice
Michael Fenichel22h ago

I ❤️ Canada - our peaceful, sane neighbor!

Like much of the world that watches, it surely looks a whole lot like this.

https://x.com/mark_slapinski/status/2039803725145854180?s=20

Funny/not funny.
Sad & evil, #TrumpVirus plague Season 2, w/ its #media #WordSalad spew.

#Truth is always the basis for the best #humor / #parody

Nobody could make this #TrumpVirus #media messaging up.. "Perfect". Like Sir.

Thank you yet again dear neighbors to the North, for continuing your sense of humor and gentleness.

#TrumpEpsteinFIles

Michael Fenichel1d ago

Meanwhile, #Apple turned 50 this week, some say sparking the greatest (r)evolution in human history....

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2026/04/01/five-times-apple-changed-the-world-in-its-first-50-years/

Happy Golden Anniversary!
But... buyers beware, too! 🍎 📱

> 50 years of Apple: Five moments that changed how we live

Cupertino computer titan celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 1

#technology #AppleComputer #iMac #iPhone #technology #computing #computers #smartphones #SteveJobs #SteveWozniak #RonaldWayne

50 years of Apple: Five moments that changed how we live

From the Apple II to the iPhone, the Cupertino company has revolutionized how we work, shop and play

Silicon Valley
Michael Fenichel1d ago

Cute.

Bye bye....

#Bondi #Redacted #TrumpVirus #Truth

Show threadMichael Fenichel1d ago

He had a feeling in his BONES - &/or his #BrainSpurs

Sir #TrumpVirus the Great -
#King of "all the best words".
"Perfect, really".

The Toddler Dictator wearing his terrific #cognitive clothing, which is so beloved by #MAGAMike, the #GQP #cult, and his #media enablers of #disinformation, fighting against #truth & #democracy

Sponsored by #nepotism & #evil

Michael Fenichel1d ago

#Dementia Donnie & his big, beautiful, uh, #BrainSpurs #psychopathology #truth

#TrumpVirus #dementia #WordSalad

Michael Fenichel1d ago

😱

https://apnews.com/article/trump-bondi-zeldin-justice-department-4b1bf39326d2d2c3fd41cadff91dd75b

This is a bit of a surprise, but not....
Guessing even #war abroad, at home, & in that big, beautiful, uh, brain, were not enough to quash #TrumpEpsteinFiles

Or maybe completely expectable, given how this is the guy who gave #Maxwell a sweetheart deal from Sir.

> Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of his former personal lawyers, as the acting attorney general.

Why #Bondi "is transitioning" to the private sector must be quite interesting.

Pam Bondi is out as Trump's attorney general

President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general. Bondi's departure ends the contentious tenure of a Trump loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw firings of career employees and investigated the Republican president’s perceived enemies. Thursday's news follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation that made Bondi the target of angry conservatives. Trump has named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting attorney general, though three people familiar with the matter say he has privately discussed Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin as a permanent pick.

AP News
Michael Fenichel1d ago

Meanwhile... in our Merry old land of #TrumpVirus #misogyny and #malevolence ...

Dr. Mary Trump takes note:
> The Unspeakable Misogyny of the Trump Regime

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-unspeakable-misogyny-of-the-trump?triedRedirect=true

> Hatred of women is a weapon and a strategy

The Unspeakable Misogyny of the Trump Regime

Hatred of women is a weapon and a strategy

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump
Michael Fenichel1d ago

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-news-viewers-no-clue-181313836.html

Important #truth about #media & its power to inform (or not), arouse reaction (or not), & the choice between informing vs. spinning for the choir, without risking 'enlightenment'.

My first published research ( #Journalism Quarterly ) looked at the NY Post (screaming) headlines vs. NY Times.

Guess which - based on content analysis and reader reaction - provided actual facts vs. scary, reaction-seeking big headlines & sub-headlines making a mockery of actual " #news ".

Fox News Viewers Have No Clue Trump’s Approval Rating Has Cratered

Trump’s approval ratings are sliding into historically weak territory. Fox News has largely sidestepped the story—even when its own polling shows the decline...

Yahoo News