Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm

Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm

@stepru.com

Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com‬

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Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

Ce ne sont pas les #Claude, #ChatGPT, #Grok et #SpaceXAI, et #Gemini qui sont dangereux pour la survie de l’humanité, ce sont les #GigaChat et #AliceAI (Russie), #ParsGPT (Iran), #Deepseek (Chine), qui ne suivront aucune loi internationale ni contrôle de l’#IA. www.lapresse.ca/affaires/tec...

lapresse.caIntelligence artificielle | Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI et Google sont accusées d’avoir conclu un accord illégalUne nouvelle action en justice accuse Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI et Google d’avoir conclu un accord illégal visant à ralentir le rythme de leurs développements respectifs en matière d’intelligence ar...
Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

Just read "Do Emotional Ads Persuade? Evidence from Real-Time Campaign" in @polcommjournal.bsky.social. Very interesting results, but they studied the 2016 campaign. So much has changed since covid and Trump. Not sure if the results are still significant in 2026. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comDo Emotional Ads Persuade? Evidence from Real-Time Campaign Advertising ExperimentsWe evaluate whether campaign advertisements that generate larger emotional reactions also generate larger persuasive effects in contemporary elections. We analyze 29 weeks of experiments conducted ...

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New Scientist
@newscientist.com

Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier’s Mothers of Invention gives the nine Greek muses new voices – and lets them loose on creativity. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan enjoys a fun, if acerbic, new history

newscientist.comCan the Greek muses of ancient myth explain modern society? | New ScientistAstrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier’s Mothers of Invention gives the nine Greek muses new voices – and lets them loose on creativity. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan enjoys a fun, if acerbic, new history

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Princeton University Press
@princetonupress.bsky.social

A leading tech insider reveals how AI may threaten our democratic institutions and enable autocracy—and how to guard against this. AI and Political Freedom by Matthew Botvinick arrives October 6 (1 December UK pub). Learn more: buff.ly/SYrT6H1 #PoliSci #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Thierry Libaert
@thierrylt.bsky.social

Heureux de cette belle nomination au Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental. La mandature 2026-2031 vient de démarrer. Elle prend pour moi un sens particulier car je pourrais faire le pont avec les enjeux et travaux du Comité Economique et Social Européen.

Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

#shopify CEO #TobiasLütke sparked outrage by suggesting seniors and poor Canadians shouldn’t be able to vote. —> #CEOactivism #CEOpositionning #credibility #legimacy #reputation #issuemanagement www.thestar.com/business/opi...

thestar.comDavid Olive: Shopify’s Tobias Lütke wants to deny seniors the vote. Maybe we should deny billionaires their soapboxesShopify CEO Tobias Lütke sparked outrage by suggesting seniors and poor Canadians shouldn’t be able to vote. David Olive argues this billionaire rubbish is dead wrong.
Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

Don’t get us wrong: We love #AI. We love #ChatGPT and #Claude, but when MIT Media Lab Nataliya Kos’myna, PhD, told us the impact of AI on our brains is “like #TikTok and #fentanyl had a baby,” well, she got our attention. apple.news/AcGK9xyIRT-u...

apple.newsIs AI Ruining Your Brain? This Expert Says Yes—But There Are Ways to Restore It. — Men’s HealthYour critical thinking, your attention span, your memory: They might already be cooked. But there are ways to reverse the effects of off-loading your life to ChatGPT.
Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

#Turkey must balance the new agreement with its #NATO obligations and its complicated relationships with #Iran and #Russia. #Pakistan will want to avoid being drawn into Middle Eastern wars while managing tensions with #India, insecurity along its western border and close ties with #China.

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com

A new ‘NATO of the East?’ Why the Mecca pact isn’t quite what it seems

theconversation.comA new ‘NATO of the East?’ Why the Mecca pact isn’t quite what it seemsThe Mecca agreeement is best understood as a form of strategic insurance for three governments seeking greater protection and political influence beyond traditional American guarantees.
Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

@polcomm.bsky.social On politicalcommunication.org/upcoming-aps..., you say: "the Political Communication Section will offer selected students reimbursement ... for travel to Philadelphia", but on connect.apsanet.org/apsa2026/, the conference will be held in Boston.

politicalcommunication.orgUpcoming APSA Conferences – PolCommUpcoming Conferences of the American Political Science Association   APSA 2026 Annual Meeting   “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild” Boston, MA September 3-6, 2026 2026 AP...
Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

Montréal demeure une des grandes villes universitaires du monde. Elle se classe au 20e rang mondial du #QS Best Student Cities 2027 : 1ere ville universitaire au Canada et 2e en Amérique du Nord, derrière Boston. Elle devance Toronto, 22e, NYC, 23e, Vancouver, 33e. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

lapresse.caVilles universitaires | Montréal, toujours parmi les meilleures au mondeMontréal demeure une des grandes villes universitaires du monde. Mais son étoile brille un peu moins fort qu’il y a quelques années.
Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

Super interesting article: A plate geodynamic game changer: Effects of the 66 Ma #Chicxulub asteroid collision By Amit Segev, Nadav Wetzler, Craig O’Neill, and Gideon Rosenbaum www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comA plate geodynamic game changer: Effects of the 66 Ma Chicxulub asteroid collisionAt the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, the 7 − 19 km diameter Chicxulub asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, triggering g…

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Peter Singer
@petersinger.info

A utilitarian philosopher and a Christian theologian debate about animals: One of us says animals matter because they suffer. The other says animals matter because they are God’s creatures. Listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #PeterSinger #AnimalWelfare #Debate

abc.net.auWhy do animals matter? - ABC listenDo to a dog what we do to a factory-farmed pig, and you’d be arrested.  Do it to ten thousand pigs in a shed, and it’s breakfast.  Most of us say cruelty to animals is wrong.  And then most of us a...

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Peter Singer
@petersinger.info

In this special episode of Lives Well Lived, I am the guest on my own show. Recorded shortly after my 80th birthday, Kasia and I discuss how my ideas have changed, whether philosophy can help us live better, and what moral progress requires from us now. 🎧 Listen to the full episode, link in bio.

Stéphane Prud’homme MA, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm
@stepru.com

Dr Salomon is real 🧠😂 A Neurosurgeon Studies the Brain Close to Death. He Believes the Soul Transcends the Body. #consciousness #thesecretofsecrets #DanBrown apple.news/Al7J9eyqWSzO...

apple.newsThis Neurosurgeon Studies the Brain Close to Death. And He Believes the Soul Transcends the Body. — Popular MechanicsDoes your brain really reveal the metaphysical? Here’s what brain science can—and cannot—tell us about immortality.

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Claes de Vreese
@claesdevreese.bsky.social

“The company behind ChatGPT said Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent” AI agents should *not* be described as human-like. They are not. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comOpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident’Firm behind ChatGPT reveals autonomous agent powered by its tech chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself

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The Lancet
@thelancet.com

Neurology is entering a biologically informed era. Tania Nikolcheva, Gavin Giovannoni, and Tharick Pascoal join our Editors to discuss their landmark studies from The Lancet's special issue on neurology. 🔊 Listen now: spkl.io/633237145W

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DrArchivalGenomics
@ehekkala.bsky.social

Seems relevant 🧪🌏🤔

Paul Guinnessy@paulguinnessy.bsky.social

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇

gizmodo.comHere's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate LatelyMeteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.