Carrie Gillon
@carrieg.bsky.social
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Carrie Gillon
@carrieg.bsky.social
· May 5
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AI is a con. Listen to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social explain why:
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Canada is named as an attendee at an "international seminar" hosted by the Israeli military to discuss the lessons learned from Israel's two-year campaign of genocide against Palestinians. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
The IDF holding ‘international seminar’ on lessons learned from war
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www.timesofisrael.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Canada is named as an attendee at an "international seminar" hosted by the Israeli military to discuss the lessons learned from Israel's two-year campaign of genocide against Palestinians. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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AI doesn’t qualify as Can-con. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
CRTC updates definition of Canadian content, putting limits on AI use | CBC News
The federal broadcast regulator has released a new definition of Canadian content — and humans, not AI, must maintain creative control in order to qualify.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
AI doesn’t qualify as Can-con. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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A damning new report exposing how US weapons bound to Israel are being manufactured with parts made in Canadian factories and arriving at Canadian ports.
#cdnpoli armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
#cdnpoli armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
Arms Embargo Now!
Our new report has just exposed a massive pipeline of military aircraft parts and explosives flowing from Canada to Israel via the U.S., facilitated by a deadly loophole in Canadian law.
armsembargonow.ca
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A damning new report exposing how US weapons bound to Israel are being manufactured with parts made in Canadian factories and arriving at Canadian ports.
#cdnpoli armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
#cdnpoli armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
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“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
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Aside from every other repulsive thing about these Epstein emails, they offer direct confirmation of Michael Wolff as one of the sketchiest creeps in a teeming universe of gross behavior
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Aside from every other repulsive thing about these Epstein emails, they offer direct confirmation of Michael Wolff as one of the sketchiest creeps in a teeming universe of gross behavior
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
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If yall don’t do nothing else, I want you to let those AI videos go. Please. People are still being funny and cute in real life. Please join the rest of us back in reality.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If yall don’t do nothing else, I want you to let those AI videos go. Please. People are still being funny and cute in real life. Please join the rest of us back in reality.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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Now that we know that in several instances, ChatGPT has actively urged users to die by suicide/induced psychotic breaks in people, I’m also really curious to see what professional orgs in my field have to say about using gAI, thoughts, feelings, prayers, @historians.org?
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Now that we know that in several instances, ChatGPT has actively urged users to die by suicide/induced psychotic breaks in people, I’m also really curious to see what professional orgs in my field have to say about using gAI, thoughts, feelings, prayers, @historians.org?
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With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible.
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
ivacheung.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible.
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
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We’re welcoming new volunteers.
If you want to plug into pro-democracy organizing and help build a movement rooted in community and clarity - join us.
📅 Wed, Nov 12
🕖 7PM PT
🌐 Online
Sign up link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-...
If you want to plug into pro-democracy organizing and help build a movement rooted in community and clarity - join us.
📅 Wed, Nov 12
🕖 7PM PT
🌐 Online
Sign up link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-...
Democracy Rising: Volunteer Welcome & Onboarding
Get ready to join the movement for change! We're welcoming new volunteers to our team and getting everyone up to speed on how we're making d
www.eventbrite.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We’re welcoming new volunteers.
If you want to plug into pro-democracy organizing and help build a movement rooted in community and clarity - join us.
📅 Wed, Nov 12
🕖 7PM PT
🌐 Online
Sign up link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-...
If you want to plug into pro-democracy organizing and help build a movement rooted in community and clarity - join us.
📅 Wed, Nov 12
🕖 7PM PT
🌐 Online
Sign up link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-...
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
my fear of flying is “irrational”
Airport CCTV footage shows the UPS cargo plane's left engine fell off during takeoff, according to investigators.
Death toll from Kentucky plane crash rises to 12, black box recovered
Airport CCTV footage shows the UPS cargo plane's left engine fell off during takeoff, according to investigators.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
my fear of flying is “irrational”
I would vote for Lablabubu or Labubu labubu but I’m obsessed with reduplication
Should the plural of Labubu be Labubii?
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I would vote for Lablabubu or Labubu labubu but I’m obsessed with reduplication
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NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
Looking Inside Mark Carney’s ‘Extremely Orwellian’ Austerity Budget
Canadian Labour Congress DT Cochrane shares his first impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
pressprogress.ca
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
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In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Finally got the Covid and flu shots. Now to see if I feel like trash in 8-12 hours
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Finally got the Covid and flu shots. Now to see if I feel like trash in 8-12 hours
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue