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Jonathan Corbin
Jonathan Corbin
@jonathancorbin.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist. Psych. blogger. “You even picked the ideal weather. Overcast and chilly. Perfect for staying inside and reading" voxpopsci.com
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He has $20 million in investor money. His partner is in prison for fraud for lying about the same exact product. Billy Evans’ ‘Theranos 2.0’ startup has patents, investors, and a missing CTO—but no product | Fortune share.google/KNmLAnMK6p6r...
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Everybody these days: We need more descriptive research! The descriptive research: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Trump says we’re building “more factories and plants right now than at any time in our history.” Factory construction hit a historic record under Biden and has fallen 31% since Trump took office. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Everyone please remember who broke this story when corporate media tell us how important White House access is. And remember what they use that access for. Because it wasn’t this.
As I first reported on Monday, Katie Zacharia is not a lawyer and has never been licensed to practice law. The WSJ reports that she took the California Bar Exam but failed. Nevertheless, Zacharia appeared on media programs for YEARS and repeatedly called herself a lawyer. Here's a super cut:
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Can't believe Jean Twenge, the woman who has dedicated her career to manipulating data about teen mental health, would manipulate data about teen sexuality.
I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
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Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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This spring, I wrote about the problems with the serial rapist model and why It's important to follow the evidence even when the data challenges our belief in a just world. The post is circulating again 💔 so I thought I would share it here. natematias.medium.com/when-science...
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I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.
The president of the United States says that "the New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested" for denying that the arena in which he spoke had empty seats. It's really bad! www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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The S&P 500 is near a record, but if you strip out the A.I. companies, it’s down 5% since late August. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.
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Courage is Contagious. Excellent article by Sylvia Chou. It takes a lot to stand up for the truth when there is a culture of fear but what we lose is so much more if we do not. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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Silicon Valley Disruptors reinventing Epstein from first principles
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
There's a list of pernicious, toxic things, deeply embedded in my culture. Auto-downloaded into worldviews by society without consent that are sick, and must be recognized and purged. The idea that larger bodies aren't beautiful is one I especially hate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
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Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...