Carrie Gillon

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Me too. It wasn’t like I was super pro-gambling before but now im like burn it to the ground

Day 1, Obscure Etymology Advent Calendar:

dog

Origin unknown.

Traumatizing

Also similar to “bear down” from University of Arizona, which also makes me think of that

It’s true

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

I’m glad I’m on an anti-AI list on here. Imagine defending this shit

Elbows up. Hammers up.

💪🔨🤖

Also, I hate being told I’m an American - North American, sure. But stop speaking for everyone living in the Americas. Some of us reject the label

How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

Graphic with a dark teal background. At the top, white text reads “BC all party Electoral Reform Committee.” Below it, a yellow box with black text says “recommends a.” Under that, two large yellow rectangles with bold black text read “BC Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform!” Along the bottom of the graphic is an illustrated row of raised hands of various skin tones and clothing colors.

Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10

2025 has been an eventful year for Canada's identity. To commemorate the year, The Society for Canadian English is choosing a 2025 word of the year (CWOTY), based on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.
Have your say: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...

“Gretz brought the loonie in the room and everybody went nuts. It was a gong show in there.” Me in @defector.com on the hockey-related rise of "gong show"

A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

No… and I’m realizing now he was more of a pre-nazi than nazi, but I had no idea until a few years after I finished my diss

I cited a nazi (also unknowingly). Huge guy in the history of my field

Naming a rapist is just …

My ads are much more boring, which I am grateful for

I was never cool in high school, so maybe I don’t count, but I loved the Beatles and Nirvana at the same time

No, they’re just eugenicists

It’s not just about tariffs
It’s the threats of annexation
It’s the detentions at the border
It’s the feeling we’ve been discarded as an ally

Elementary school. One of my teachers creeped on most of the girls in my class (though not me, for some reason I will forever be grateful for)

Probably. I was instantly irritated so I couldn’t relate to holding back

I’m only 7 minutes in and I was worried you were being too nice. Not Peter, he was reacting the same way I was (have to wait to listen to the rest unfortunately)

Raccoon

🦝 Raccoon

The IDF holding ‘international seminar’ on lessons learned from war * * *

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...

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.

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...

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.

AI doesn’t qualify as Can-con. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...