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Dawn Gilpin
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Associate dean for research & PhD director at ASU's Cronkite School. I study complex mediated social systems, from organizations to (sub)cultures. Also: semipro cat herder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, perfume aficionado, and shoe lover. She/her .. more

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 9d
The Rudy Giuliani of political polling.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 11d
Sometimes I still miss the Fail Whale.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 16d
Assolutamente! I have to aggiungere italiano à la melange, para completar el cuadro.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 16d
I'm a little terrified at how far I got into that before even realizing you were mixing languages...

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 17d
I used to say that my Dash was a cat made by someone who'd only ever seen giraffes. There's something about gingers...

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 19d
I asked Chat GPT to give me a Wrapped-style summary of my year. It said my “overall vibe” for 2025 was “Resilient, and extremely tired of being resilient.”

Rude, but accurate.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 21d
This is especially hilarious since I mostly use Spotify to listen to random classical music while working. But hey, sure.
Spotify Wrapped result showing a listening age of 25, which does not correspond to the poster's chronological age. To put it mildly.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 25d
I really need to find a home with a coat bath. What a quality of life improvement that would be!
windows98support.bsky.social matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 25d
Oh shit waddup

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matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 25d
Oh shit waddup

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Oct 24
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Oct 8
I like it. But S6 is also my favorite season of BtVS, so... 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Oct 8
After years of studying disinfo and wading around in various online toxic waste zones, nothing has made me despair more about the current state of media literacy than the discourse surrounding this album release.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · Sep 29
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 24
It's Infrastructure Week all over again.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 16
Happy birthday!

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 15
Yes! There is a different calculus for distance during the warmer seasons here...

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 13
Icon behavior, frankly.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6
It's actually something I love about living here--this kind of thing happens daily. I haven't experienced it as much in other parts of the country, and definitely not in Europe.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6
It also doesn't prevent them from sharing what they remember reading with others. But it does prevent them from going back to check passages for accuracy.

Destroying a training dataset at least doesn't attempt to keep others away from the source material, but it does still raise thorny ethical Qs.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6
"Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to... destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models."

Burning books doesn't erase their memory or impact on people who've already read them.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.
arstechnica.com

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6
I'm walking into the supermarket after work as a young woman is exiting. When she sees me, she stops.
I am wondering whether I know her & should recognize her in the wild. She interrupts my thoughts: "Your outfit is SO CUTE!" I thank her. "OMG slay!" She mimes a camera click.
It feels like a win.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 4
I brought up Becca Bloom in class today, and NONE of the students (all women) knew who she was.

I'm still processing my feelings about this.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 22
I really love a good monsoon storm. #desertliving

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Dirk Diggler @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 7
It's related to the first law of conferences, which is that the session(s) you're most interested in attending will be scheduled at the same time as your own presentation.

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redthespian - Charlie Morningstar's Attorney @redthespian.bsky.social · Aug 6
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 4
Same!

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · Aug 4
Ditto!

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 4
Student journalists really are out there doing the work.
jfallows.bsky.social James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 4
Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump." Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 4
Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump." Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.