@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
leslie5d ago
This week I’m talking about the ethics and psychology of TV shows that depend on deception, humiliation, manipulation, or engineered conflict to work. Why do we accept it as entertainment? What does it do to contestants? And what does it do to us as viewers when harmful behavior gets packaged as normal, funny, or strategic? https://bit.ly/4eioRM7
PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | When TV Makes Harm Look Normal: Why We Keep Watching

The Ethics of Reality TV: Deception, Conflict, and What We NormalizeHost Leslie Poston examines the ethical and psychological costs of reality and reality-adjacent TV that relies on deception or en...

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world
leslieApr 8
Fun award for early career researcher (not affiliated, just sharing): https://www.science.org/content/prize-award/nomis-and-science-young-explorer-award
leslieApr 8
New PsyberSpace on the psychology of synthetic junk and what it's actually doing to your attention, your trust, and your sense of meaning. #AISlop
https://bit.ly/4dC3ZPW
leslieApr 8
This made me laugh: https://gist.github.com/artfwo/63eaaffdb47cbba342b04f989bd9463b
The_Devils_Dictionary_of_Vibe_Coding.md

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leslieMar 31
Good mail day ;) #PsychologyHumor
leslieMar 30
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
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...

PsyberSpace: Understand Your World
leslieMar 24
Verdant Square NetworkMar 23
United 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
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
leslieMar 24
billy joe bowers 🗽Mar 23

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.

leslieMar 24
eVOTErra – #RhRRMar 23

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

leslieMar 24
Timnit Gebru (she/her).Mar 23

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. 👇🏽