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Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️🌈 auDHD 🎓 PhD candidate 🍉 Psyber.Space for the pod🎙️
Meta lost two major child harm lawsuits this week. Deserved.
The fix everyone's already pushing: age verification, digital IDs, biometric scans.
Meta spent $26.3M lobbying for those exact laws in 2025. Their platforms face zero new mandates under the bills they're funding.
So what problem does this actually solve, and for whom?
New episode: https://bit.ly/3PPYpiQ
The fix everyone's already pushing: age verification, digital IDs, biometric scans.
Meta spent $26.3M lobbying for those exact laws in 2025. Their platforms face zero new mandates under the bills they're funding.
So what problem does this actually solve, and for whom?
New episode: https://bit.ly/3PPYpiQ
PsyberSpace: Understand Your World | Meta Lost. Now What?
Meta Verdicts, Kids’ Harm, and the Push for Age VerificationHost Leslie Poston reviews two jury verdicts finding Meta liable for harming children: a New Mexico case ordering $375 million in civil p...
Verdant Square NetworkUnited Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: “It stops here” https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/united-nations-rejects-u-s-effort-to-erase-trans-women-it-stops-here/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #lgbtq #lgbt
billy joe bowers 🗽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.
eVOTErra – #RhRRRE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/116279620384519003
The USian war against Iran, explained by Iran so that the average-and-below USian can understand.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).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 ...
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.
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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...
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'.
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...