@leslie

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Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️‍🌈 auDHD 🎓 PhD candidate 🍉 Psyber.Space for the pod🎙️
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PhD StudentApplied Psychology, concentration in media and technology
MAMedia Psychology, Tech and Innovation concentration
BAOrganizational Psychology
United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: "It stops here" - LGBTQ Nation

One advocate accused the U.S. of being “willing to lie” to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system."

LGBTQ Nation

We’re not using solar energy to a decent capacity because the Tech Nazis fight us tooth and nail, but also they want to put giant mirrors in space and reflect the sun down at night for solar power.

These are deeply stupid and evil people.

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/116279620384519003

The USian war against Iran, explained by Iran so that the average-and-below USian can understand.

#NoWar #Iran #uspol #OilPrices #Hormuz

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807

Reminder that applications for this position are open until April 13. We've already received 240+ applications so maybe it isn't advisable for us to continue to open this position, since we read every single application. So no "AI" generated ones please, don't think we can't tell.

If you know someone who would be great for the position, or if you yourself would be, please apply. 👇🏽

"Give 100%" is one of the most psychologically corrosive phrases in American work culture, and this week on PsyberSpace we pull it apart. Where it came from. What it costs. Why everyone's 100% is not the same number. And what the four-day workweek research tells us about what we've been optimizing for all along (spoiler: it wasn't worker output). https://bit.ly/4dBQmQr
PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | The 100% Myth: Why Giving Everything Is Costing You Everything

Why “Give 100%” Is Corrosive: Sustainable Performance, Burnout, and Reserve CapacityHost Leslie Poston examines the phrase “give 100%” in American work culture, tracing it to Protestant work-ethic ...

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World
New PsyberSpace: the psychology of why "common sense" isn't common, why it feels so self-evident to whoever's invoking it, and why that feeling says more about the perceiver than the situation. Also: who benefits when one group's assumptions get called universal truth.
https://bit.ly/4uuDh1l
PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | Why Common Sense Isn't Common

Common Sense or Power Move? The One Question That Reveals the DifferenceHost Leslie Poston argues that “common sense” is often used to end conversations and universalize one person’s perception rat...

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World

LLM AI chatbots are designed to agree with you, validate you, and keep you engaged. In most contexts, that's fine. In a mental health crisis, that's acceleration. Listen to this PsyberSpace episode on what the research actually shows about AI emotional support, and why it's everyone's problem, not just teenagers'.

https://bit.ly/4s3Wndk

Listen now 🎧 Forever Wars Shrink the Future: What Endless War Does to the Human Mind

War does not just destroy bodies, homes, and institutions. It can also shrink people’s sense of tomorrow.
This episode looks at the psychology of endless conflict, chronic threat, future orientation, trauma, and what happens when whole populations get pushed into emergency mode. https://bit.ly/4l3x9ZL

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | Forever Wars Shrink the Future: What Endless War Does to the Human Mind

Forever War and the Stolen FutureHost Leslie Poston examines a hidden psychological cost of “forever wars”: they don’t just create fear and grief, they change how people relate to time—shrinking ho...

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World
Age gates sold as protecting kids from social media will be used for content moderation, law enforcement, marketing, political control. Always. Every time. Without exception. That's what function creep means. New PsyberSpace® on why this is the oldest trick in the book. https://bit.ly/4k66r27
PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | Your Data Is Already Breached: Why Age Verification Makes It Worse

The Illusion of Digital Safety: How Age Gates and Digital IDs Miss the MarkIn this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston digs into the ineffectiveness and risks of age gates and digital ID ver...

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World
"Therapy isn't working" might mean you need a different approach, not that you're broken. New episode breaks down CBT, DBT, EMDR, somatic work, psychedelic assisted therapy & more - who they help, who they don't, and why matching matters. https://bit.ly/3LpJ5rg