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Carrie Golus
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Editor of The Core, the alumni magazine for UChicago's College • YA author on sub • Rep: Jes Trudel, The Rights Factory • carriegolus.com • #AuthorsGuild • #SCBWI • 💙 📚 🌱
Hungry now

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I salute In-N-Out Burger for launching a whole ass Book-It program
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Stunning contrarian op-ed from @adapalmer.bsky.social in the new issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed:

www.chronicle.com/article/ther...

“This is a dire moment to enter the work force.

It is a perfect moment to spend four to seven years acquiring rare and valuable skills ...
Opinion | There Has Never Been a Better Time to Start a Ph.D.
The work force is a mess. But deep skills will always be in demand.
www.chronicle.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“There are so many rewards in the book industry but also so many problems, and sometimes the difference between success and failure, as in most pursuits, from finding a great apartment to finding a romantic partner, is nothing more than luck.“

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lithub.com/dont-let-the...
Don’t Let the Publishing Industry Get You Down (It Happens to the Best of Us)
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I’ve talked to college students, masters program students, and professionals at Comic Con in my roles as author and freelance writer and former editor. I…
lithub.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“On Jan. 17, 2025, Biden declared that the...ERA, first passed by Congress in 1972, was finally ratified...Yet because Biden didn’t instruct the archivist of the United States to formally publish the amendment, his announcement fell dead from the bully pulpit.“

WHAT

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...
Jill Lepore Thinks the U.S. Constitution Might Break America
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The largest U.S. copyright settlement in history

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September 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposted by Carrie Golus
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News
A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...
www.cbc.ca
August 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I feel like “SWEET JOE PYE WEED!” would make an excellent expletive.

Like the kind of thing you could say when you hurt yourself within earshot of your grandmother

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August 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“ … while English and communications majors often ended up with lower-paying jobs, their positions also included more substantive duties that were more likely to call on what they’d learned in college.”

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www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
The Surprising Truth About Which College Majors Are Actually Useful at Work
A sociologist studied how students get internships and jobs, and who really uses their degrees.
www.chronicle.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today I learned about a German shepherd called Knapweed Nightmare, the first dog trained to sniff out the invasive plant spotted knapweed 🤩

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August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Carrie Golus
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Having a child qualifies you to write a children’s book the same way that using a toilet qualifies you to be a plumber.“
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www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The Celebrity Picture Book Boom
What should we make of the recent onslaught of stories from the stars?
www.newyorker.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It me. Except with one more cat
What I'm doing when I say I can't go out because I "already have plans". Photo from my collection, no date/info.
August 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have never felt so excited to learn that my personal data has been subpoenaed
The way I am already spending my Anthropic suit money. Dreaming big and hoping it’s a business-killing win that lands me a couple hundred bucks!
August 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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huge shoutout to whoever at Rice who made this syllabus generator that calculates when all the dates of your classes are going to be

additional shoutout to my supervisor who sent it to us with a list of the holidays and important dates pre-made

saved me an hour

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
August 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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"We committed the largest copyright violation crime ever and now we're being faced with the largest copyright class action ever?!? WHAT THE HELL?!?"
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
arstechnica.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I blame the corn

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July 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just by the keywords, you can tell what a fascinating interview this was
July 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Da Pope!
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May 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites" the University of Chicago Library has launched has launched the "UChicago Data Mirror." For starters, it includes NPS and Census data. Good to see more stakeholders involved mirroring data. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/u...
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May 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“Wrong and strong”—something Pope.L often said to his students at UChicago.

Once they had taken in his critique and were ready to revise their work, Pope.L would encourage them to “do it wrong and strong.”

tableau.uchicago.edu/articles/202...
“Wrong and strong” | Tableau
tableau.uchicago.edu
May 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“Pick any era, and you can name an authoritarian who tried to napalm academia.“

Wow, what a powerful (if disheartening) opening sentence

lithub.com/how-the-brot...
How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom
Pick any era, and you can name an authoritarian who tried to napalm academia. But you might not know that the brothers who gave the world Hansel and Gretel once became victims and heroes, too, or h…
lithub.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
How to turn a dog into a cat, or a hat into a cake
#ai

mag.uchicago.edu/uchi-con
Poisoning the machine
Visual artists are under threat from generative AI. Computer scientist Ben Zhao explains how his tools Glaze and Nightshade protect them.
mag.uchicago.edu
May 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM