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SteveThompson

@SteveThompson@mastodon.social

PhD. Rhetorics of terrorism, media, and AI. Taught at Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, UC Davis, Clemson.

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SteveThompson, to journalism
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Most journalists aren't equipped to not fall into this trap. Keeping in mind, journalists have partisan biases, too. Journalists vote.

"Don't fall for MAGA's 'election integrity' con job"

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/19/dont-fall-for-magas-election-integrity-con-job/

"Journalists — and the rest of us — need to quit parroting Republicans' transparent lies about voting"

SteveThompson, to iran
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"Iranian President Is Missing After Helicopter Crash in Dense Fog"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-19/air-fleet-of-iran-s-raisi-involved-in-incident-iranian-state-tv

"Raisi was in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province to inaugurate dam
President’s entourage includes foreign minister, also missing"

SteveThompson, to random
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"Love Hormone Oxytocin Eases Loneliness"

https://neurosciencenews.com/loneliness-oxytocin-26137/

"A new study finds that oxytocin, the 'cuddle hormone,' can reduce acute feelings of loneliness and enhance bonding in group therapy settings for individuals experiencing chronic loneliness.

While not a cure-all, oxytocin shows promise as a supportive tool during therapy, potentially helping patients better navigate the initial challenges of addressing their loneliness."

SteveThompson, to iran
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"Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi spent 11 years in an Iranian prison. His crime? He stood for the right of Israel to exist."

https://aish.com/the-ayatollah-who-supports-israel/

SteveThompson, to random
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"Bird Brains: Jays Show Episodic-like Memory"

https://neurosciencenews.com/bird-episodic-memory-26134/

"A new study finds that Eurasian jays exhibit episodic-like memory, a type of memory previously thought to be unique to humans. The birds were able to remember incidental details of past events, such as the visual characteristics of cups used in a food-hiding experiment.

This finding suggests that episodic memory may not be exclusive to humans and could aid jays in finding stored food."

SteveThompson, to ai
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"How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/how-china-is-using-ai-news-anchors-to-deliver-its-propaganda

"News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible"

SteveThompson, to random
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Don't 'tour' Afghanistan.

"Gunmen kill three Spanish tourists in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province"

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-801602

"Friday's attack was among the most serious targeting foreign citizens since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021."

SteveThompson, to art
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"Photographer wins lawsuit against alleged painter who plagiarized her work"

https://boingboing.net/2024/05/17/photographer-wins-lawsuit-against-alleged-painter-who-plagiarized-her-work.html

"Two years ago, I wrote about Jeff Dieschburg, an artist in Luxembourg who took [w]ork by others, made trivial edits, and won awards with paintings of the results."

SteveThompson, to random
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"Billionaires willing to kill democracy for trillions in tax breaks"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/16/2241045/-Billionaires-willing-to-kill-democracy-for-trillions-in-tax-breaks

SteveThompson, to random
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"Media Ignore Quietly-Revised UN Figures of Hamas-Reported Civilian Deaths"

https://honestreporting.com/media-ignore-quietly-revised-un-figures-of-hamas-reported-civilian-deaths/

"In December,...civilian casualty figures reported by #Hamas...indicated discrepancies...reported numbers, particularly those of women and children compared to men and combatants, are significantly exaggerated.

A May 9 OCHA update...significantly altered the portrayal of casualty figures...the #UN effectively conceding the untrustworthiness of Hamas figures...parroted by various media outlets."

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"The claim that the vast majority of casualties (approximately 70%) are women and children has been reported widely by the international media, which cite the Gaza Health Ministry as their source while frequently failing to mention that it’s run by Hamas.

Despite these revisions being available on OCHA’s website for days, the international media has blithely continued to regurgitate erroneous statistics in countless articles."

SteveThompson, to Palestine
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RELEASE THE KIDNAPPED HOSTAGES!

"Arab League calls for 'immediate' ceasefire in Gaza, establishment of Palestinian state"

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/05/16/bahrain-arab-league-summit-gaza-israel/6921715894759/

SteveThompson, to random
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"Even Clarence Thomas Can See That the 5th Circuit Is Just Making Up Nonsense"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/cfpb-funding-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-fifth-circuit-nonsense.html

"The conservative justices finally sent a strong message to a rogue lower court. But the sanity might not last."

SteveThompson, to stocks
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"'Good one, Donald': Biden Roasts Trump As Stock Market Hits Record Highs"

https://meidasnews.com/news/good-one-donald-biden-roasts-trump-as-stock-market-hits-record-highs

"Trump's words are coming back to haunt him – and Dark Brandon is making sure of it."

#Biden #DOW #market #Trump #stocks

SteveThompson, to OpenAI
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"OpenAI inks deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT" 🤔

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/16/openai-reddit-chatgpt-deal

SteveThompson, to random
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People who follow this guy deserve what they get.

"RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism"

https://www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr-election-denialism/

"Robert F. Kennedy's campaign—and his life's work—have laid the groundwork for supporters to blame his inevitable loss on an elite conspiracy."

SteveThompson, to ukteachers
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Congrats, Dorothy Jean Tillman II, and welcome!

"A Chicago teen entered college at 10. At 17, she earned a doctorate from Arizona State"

https://apnews.com/article/teen-phd-doctorate-arizona-faabf1ca930f141f6a9690419d7a2b47

"In between came associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

When Tillman successfully defended her dissertation in December, she became the youngest person — at age 17 — to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at Arizona State...

Most of her classwork was done remotely and online."

SteveThompson, to random
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"Judge overseeing Giuliani bankruptcy castigates former mayor’s ‘troubling attitude vis-à-vis the law,’ rejects bid to appeal $148 million defamation judgment"

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/i-am-disturbed-judge-overseeing-giuliani-bankruptcy-castigates-former-mayors-troubling-attitude-vis-a-vis-the-law-rejects-bid-to-appeal-148-million-defamation-judgment/

SteveThompson, to Futurology
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"Dreams Dull the Distress of Emotional Memories"

https://neurosciencenews.com/dreaming-emotional-memory-26099/

"Dreaming helps prioritize and diminish the severity of emotionally charged memories. Participants who reported dreaming had better recall and were less reactive to negative images.

The research suggests that dreams actively transform emotional responses by reducing next-day emotional reactivity. This could lead to interventions that enhance dreaming to aid emotional processing."

SteveThompson, to Wisconsin
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"Wisconsin judge throws Alito’s words back to conservative lawyer in ballot drop box case"

https://lawandcrime.com/voting-rights/wisconsin-judge-throws-alitos-words-back-to-conservative-lawyer-in-ballot-drop-box-case/

"A justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s words back at a conservative lawyer urging the court to keep absentee ballot drop boxes illegal."

SteveThompson, to nyc
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“Stop this from getting out"

https://www.wjcl.com/article/michael-cohen-testimony-trump-trial/60778463

"Star witness Michael Cohen directly implicates Trump in testimony at hush money trial.

Donald Trump's fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his celebrity client tasked him on several occasions to stifle stories about sex that he feared could torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign."

SteveThompson, to jazz
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RIP "David Sanborn, Renowned Jazz Saxophonist and David Bowie Collaborator, Dies at 78"

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/david-sanborn-jazz-saxophonist-dead-1236001258/

"Renowned jazz saxophonist David Sanborn, who collaborated with David Bowie and Stevie Wonder, died at 78 from prostate cancer."

SteveThompson, to random
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"Macron party candidate says she was tricked into ‘neo-Nazi’ group photo"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/macron-party-candidate-says-she-was-tricked-into-neo-nazi-group-photo/

"Valerie Hayer, vying for European Parliament role, says she didn’t notice racist slogans on clothing of men she took a photo with"

SteveThompson, to random
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"Welcome to the Laser Wars"

https://www.wired.com/story/laser-wars-us-military-laser-weapons/

"The United States Army has officially sent a pair of high-energy laser weapons overseas to defend American troops and US allies against enemy drones, the service recently revealed, marking the first publicly known deployment of a directed-energy system for air defense in military history. And, according to a top official, those weapons are actively blasting threats out of the sky."

SteveThompson, to random
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"Actor Steve Buscemi randomly punched in Manhattan"

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/actor-steve-buscemi-randomly-punched-in-manhattan/

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