Tessa J. Brown
@tessajbrown.bsky.social
PhD student cultural studies
Co-editor heliotropejournal.net
Profile photo by Ana Jovmir
Co-editor heliotropejournal.net
Profile photo by Ana Jovmir
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I appreciate this and I've been thinking about it a lot today. Not "Good or Porter were innocent and did not threaten the agents who killed them" but "goons are kidnapping and killing our neighbors and must be stopped."
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January 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I appreciate this and I've been thinking about it a lot today. Not "Good or Porter were innocent and did not threaten the agents who killed them" but "goons are kidnapping and killing our neighbors and must be stopped."
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👀 Not sure my hand is steady enough (or my eyes sharp enough tbh) but what a great idea!
A bit of Kent beach! Creative Writing students were asked to write something about the sea - and make it fit on a pebble.
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
👀 Not sure my hand is steady enough (or my eyes sharp enough tbh) but what a great idea!
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Align the compounding multitudes of nefarious use cases of GenAI with the battle cry of the industry echoed by administrators of corporations and education alike that AI is inevitable, to understand the participation of various forms of power in what is essentially a predatory project.
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Align the compounding multitudes of nefarious use cases of GenAI with the battle cry of the industry echoed by administrators of corporations and education alike that AI is inevitable, to understand the participation of various forms of power in what is essentially a predatory project.
I know they're going for harm reduction by giving advising parents about giving their kids ai toys, but it feels like we found out some toys are chockablock full of arsenic and we're trying to limit how much kids lick the arsenic toys instead of scrapping the whole idea
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
An AI toy meant for kids was happy to chat about sexual fetishes. Are these safe? | CBC Radio
Imagine your toddler playing with a soft teddy bear, but with ChatGPT baked in. These AI toys can chat to your kid, play games and even say, "I love you." But experts are warning that we don’t know th...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know they're going for harm reduction by giving advising parents about giving their kids ai toys, but it feels like we found out some toys are chockablock full of arsenic and we're trying to limit how much kids lick the arsenic toys instead of scrapping the whole idea
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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On hype, @hagenblix.bsky.social writes that the bubble discourse “is dangerously inadequate for understanding what is actually going on … the problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.” www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
On hype, @hagenblix.bsky.social writes that the bubble discourse “is dangerously inadequate for understanding what is actually going on … the problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.” www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Long but fascinating read as the beauty industrial complex revs into high gear to sell us yet another invasive, dangerous procedure to solve the terrifying problem of having human skin and living past twenty-five
fatherkarine.substack.com/p/the-anti-c...
fatherkarine.substack.com/p/the-anti-c...
The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read
Long Live the Old Flesh
fatherkarine.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Long but fascinating read as the beauty industrial complex revs into high gear to sell us yet another invasive, dangerous procedure to solve the terrifying problem of having human skin and living past twenty-five
fatherkarine.substack.com/p/the-anti-c...
fatherkarine.substack.com/p/the-anti-c...
Incredibly disturbing to listen to the CBC's reporting on what's happening in Gaza, which always lists the deaths of Israeli soldiers first, and then frames the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians during the so-called ceasefire as merely "reports from Gaza's Health Ministry"
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Incredibly disturbing to listen to the CBC's reporting on what's happening in Gaza, which always lists the deaths of Israeli soldiers first, and then frames the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians during the so-called ceasefire as merely "reports from Gaza's Health Ministry"
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this is exactly what is happening in Canada and international students were also the first to get slashed
DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
this is exactly what is happening in Canada and international students were also the first to get slashed
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Open to your ideas all year round: www.heliotropejournal.net
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December 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Open to your ideas all year round: www.heliotropejournal.net
Ontario is slashing accreditation requirements for psychologists, eroding ethics requirements and clinical practice hours etc, and a friend of mine just suggested that delegitimizing mental health professionals like this might open the door for AI to take over, which feels disturbingly plausible
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ontario is slashing accreditation requirements for psychologists, eroding ethics requirements and clinical practice hours etc, and a friend of mine just suggested that delegitimizing mental health professionals like this might open the door for AI to take over, which feels disturbingly plausible
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“We can point that large language model at an entire treasure trove [of data],” Kevin Elder [Securus Technologies president] says, “to detect and understand when crimes are being thought about or contemplated, so that you’re catching it much earlier in the cycle.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“We can point that large language model at an entire treasure trove [of data],” Kevin Elder [Securus Technologies president] says, “to detect and understand when crimes are being thought about or contemplated, so that you’re catching it much earlier in the cycle.”
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i'm told chatgpt had a birthday
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i'm told chatgpt had a birthday
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“This seems like a perfect metaphor for Queen’s. We still look like a university and act like a university, but we have lost our sense of purpose, our “soul,” our mission…
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“This seems like a perfect metaphor for Queen’s. We still look like a university and act like a university, but we have lost our sense of purpose, our “soul,” our mission…
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PSA: if you’re somehow not burnt out, you should probably know that almost everyone else is
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
PSA: if you’re somehow not burnt out, you should probably know that almost everyone else is
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If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
In our last post before the winter break, Hassan Asif brings us this vivid and striking piece on theology and technology in Lahore's Hall Road www.heliotropejournal.net
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November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In our last post before the winter break, Hassan Asif brings us this vivid and striking piece on theology and technology in Lahore's Hall Road www.heliotropejournal.net
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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“Until its A.I. can accomplish some incredible feat — say, generating a cure for cancer — success is partly defined by turning ChatGPT into a lucrative business. That means continually increasing how many people use and pay for it.”
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Until its A.I. can accomplish some incredible feat — say, generating a cure for cancer — success is partly defined by turning ChatGPT into a lucrative business. That means continually increasing how many people use and pay for it.”
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Israel just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in months and first time since last year’s war without a warning.
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Israel just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in months and first time since last year’s war without a warning.
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
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Carney continues to deliver everything I expected of a banker running a country.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Carney continues to deliver everything I expected of a banker running a country.
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Finally something on this argument current and future school teachers keep throwing at me - no, underserved groups are not currently or ever going to benefit from LLMs.
They love to say it's a way to help underserved groups of children too. Extra scary.
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa....
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Finally something on this argument current and future school teachers keep throwing at me - no, underserved groups are not currently or ever going to benefit from LLMs.