Julie Carpenter, PhD

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Research and writing about people, technology, and culture. Not fun at parties. Talks about golems a lot. jgcarpenter.com
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Websitehttps://www.jgcarpenter.com
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Current Twitter@drjgcarpenter
Former/Locked Twitter@jgcarpenter

My Twitter account was compromised and I am now @ drjgcarpenter there.

If you like, you can verify the new @ drjgcarpenter by checking my personal website jgcarpenter.com, where I have updated the info as well.

Will now continue my regularly scheduled lurking. :)

I've been saying this since jump, but this business I'm in has people in it that are trying to craft a narrative about creating something so powerful and mysterious only they can make, stop, or control it, framing themselves as the heroes of their own sci-fi stories.
The biggest tech innovations of the last 10 years. 😁
I love it when for-profit academic journals want to charge me to view the final published version of my own article.
I've been saying this since jump, but this business I'm in has people in it that are trying to craft a narrative about creating something so powerful and mysterious only they can make, stop, or control it, framing themselves as the heroes of their own sci-fi stories.

My Twitter account was compromised and I am now @ drjgcarpenter there.

If you like, you can verify the new @ drjgcarpenter by checking my personal website jgcarpenter.com, where I have updated the info as well.

Will now continue my regularly scheduled lurking. :)

My presence on the blue bird site has been compromised. Just an fyi in case you see my (former, I guess) account there acting bananas or sending you DMs.
I love my job, but I do find it frustrating how much of my job consists of repeatedly arguing obvious stuff like "phrenology is bad even if a computer does it" and "using probabilistic lossily-compressed text databases to guess next words is not sentience" and "understanding Merkle trees does not guarantee you'll make tons of money in speculative trading of unregulated currencies" to students and peers and occasionally university administrators.
The former Special Agent in charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division has been charged with a multiple crimes including money laundering and violating U.S. sanctions on Russia. Charles McGonigal is accused of working with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. McGonigal allegedly received nearly a quarter million dollars in cash while still working for the FBI. I'd imagine they will be adding more charges with a superseding indictment. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ex-counterintel-head-fbi-new-york-mcgonigal-arrested-rcna66995
Ex-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, violating Russia sanctions, taking money from former foreign agent

Charles McGonigal, ex-head of counterintel for the FBI in New York, was arrested for money laundering, violating Russia sanctions, and taking money from a foreign national.

NBC News

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