Carrie Gillon
@carrieg.bsky.social
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linguist, cat lover, nerd
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AI is a con. Listen to
@emilymbender.bsky.social
and
@alexhanna.bsky.social
explain why:
www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...
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https://www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/episodes/17096375-the-ai-con.mp3?download=true
11 months ago
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Bluebird of happiness
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This stresses me out. I’m sure it’ll all be fine but my anxiety is triggered by this 😵💫
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about 11 hours ago
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Feels hopeful for once
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about 14 hours ago
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
about 22 hours ago
Mainstream media: Avi Lewis is a radical extremist who will try to implement his father's communist horror dystopia and destroy the nation. *24 hours later* Mainstream media: Stephen Lewis was a bold visionary who showed everyone the best of what Canada could be through social democracy.
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Sacha Coward
2 days ago
Every. Goddamn. Company.
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I’m glad he lived long enough to see his son win last weekend
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2 days ago
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I get that in my field there are ok uses of the huge catch-all of AI, but I also need a club of people who refuse to use GenAI
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Kory Stamper
2 days ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRUE COLOR! 🌟 My second dumb book is out in the wider world today!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914...
I hope everyone enjoys this winding tale of how this bananas color definition (and it's ~3,000 sibling definitions) came to be:
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@korystamper.bsky.social
‘s book is out today! Happy bookday!
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2 days ago
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jesus fucking christ.
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3 days ago
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The Beaverton
3 days ago
Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal
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Editorial: Here's why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP - by a centrist Liberal
By Martin Kearns, man who has never voted NDP once in his life This weekend the NDP chose Avi Lewis as their leader. And as much as it pains me, a Liberal commentator who loves Mark Carney and would n...
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/03/editorial-heres-why-avi-lewis-is-the-wrong-choice-to-lead-the-ndp-by-a-centrist-liberal/
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Limón de Beauvoir
3 days ago
I love that the two most culturally significant references to Avi Lewis are 1) He is Naomi Klein’s husband 2) He is the brother of the casting director of Heated Rivalry
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🏳️⚧️Fae "Futch Auntie" Ver. Comrade 🦾
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I have no idea what she was yelling, but one Persian woman was clearly mad that people had No War in Iran and Stop Bombing Iran posters in the
#NoTyrants
protest. Like they were traitors for wanting the violence to stop
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The sound of mourning doves always reminds me of Phoenix
7 days ago
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Eric Ravenscraft
7 days ago
just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
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Laura Helmuth
11 days ago
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary)
cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Apparently my books aren’t in the list, but maybe you have a book or two in this
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10 days ago
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Jared Yates Sexton
10 days ago
The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
10 days ago
Also! We're still looking for a SPECIAL GUEST for City Square mall, so message if you have hot takes about everyone's favourite place to go for thai food during lunch break at vancouver council meetings
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It was 1C this morning, so I wore a toque and puffer. Meanwhile, the guy who got the bus at the same stop was wearing a short sleeved shirt. I know I’m a wimp but
10 days ago
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Anthony Moser
11 days ago
kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit
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I don’t remember the author, but my very Christian grandma gave me a bodice ripper when I was ~ 13. I’m pretty sure there was a rape scene, although I may have misinterpreted what was happening
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12 days ago
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Gull
12 days ago
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
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Matt Loar
14 days ago
I love how we're litigating the badness of the Totenkopf when that is LITERALLY WHAT "ARE WE THE BADDIES" WAS ABOUT
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I sometimes get to see wildlife in this metro
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Relatable
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Liberal Currents
14 days ago
"The core conceit remains that the American people are ultimately not responsible for the consequences of their own electoral decisions, nor are they really capable of enacting change in the face of corrupt and tyrannical elites."
www.liberalcurrents.com/iran-slopuli...
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Iran, Slopulism, and the Eternal Innocence of the American People
Popular sovereignty means we must all take responsibility for the outcomes of our choices at the ballot box.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/iran-slopulism-and-the-eternal-innocence-of-the-american-people/
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It’s infuriating we’re being ruled by such dullards
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15 days ago
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Oh you mean the doctors and nurses we’re poaching?
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15 days ago
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That final line
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🤷♀️ O clap your hands (Rutter) defeated Tomasz Szymkowiak! You: O clap your hands (Rutter) Win!! Enemy: Tomasz Szymkowiak Lose... Grade: C Result: Victory Finish: KO Turns: 11 Remaining HP: O clap your hands (Rutter) 2524/4385 | Tomasz Szymkowiak 0/3720 ATK/DEF: 1496/1385 vs 1244/720
wikigacha.com
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15 days ago
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Jessica Kant
16 days ago
The US invented the crisis in Cuba. We have been starving the island of resources for decades while pointing at the crumbling infrastructure saying “see this doesn’t work.” Meanwhile they can’t replace medical equipment because the US blocks manufacturers from sending parts. We are the problem.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
16 days ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Masterful gambit sir
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16 days ago
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Dr. Stephanie
17 days ago
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
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CJ Fogler
18 days ago
"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem
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juno rylee schultz
21 days ago
I don’t know dude. If James Baldwin was able to write all his work while his friends were being assassinated by the FBI, and while he was living in terror as a gay Black man … then maybe you can write without using A.I.
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Finally saw Sinners (thought it might be too scary but I watched it anyway) and oh my god. Incredible.
19 days ago
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Ew. This is the library my niblings go so I’m extra mad
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21 days ago
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Linguistic Society of America
21 days ago
Submit to TRILL, the first peer-reviewed venue for citable linguistics teaching resources. Share evidence-based class activities & assignments that support inclusive, equitable linguistics teaching. Deadline: March 15, 2026. Questions:
[email protected]
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I loved this episode about audio descriptions for movies and tv. Linguistic discrimination comes in all forms
overcast.fm/+ABKKVf7e8JU
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Chris’s Watchlist — Hyperfixed
This week - Chris is a movie lover, and there are dozens of classics he’s desperate to watch. But he can’t. Alex tries to help him. Please consider becoming a premium Hyperfixed member. You get bonus ...
https://overcast.fm/+ABKKVf7e8JU
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PhD in Linguistics, subfield formal semantics and syntax, now a linguist for a First Nation and a podcaster
@vocalfriespod.bsky.social
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Parker Laffin' gas these haz-mats
23 days ago
I'm Slop-Blocking you AiHoles
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Greg Pak
23 days ago
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
24 days ago
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/andrew-o-hagan/stay-classy
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Evan Greer
24 days ago
You will never make me care about US soldiers more than I care about the life of any other human being on earth. Never.
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cool calm and collected/@coolcalmcollected mastodon.social
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Kate / Katelyn Forrest
26 days ago
Pro AI is an instant block. "I just use Claude to refine my drafts so-" Fuck off. Block. You don't use the plagiarism engine of fascism for anything and frankly, any writer who uses it isn't a writer and just a disappointment.
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