Dawn Gilpin

My brother-in-law arrived in Bologna with an entire suitcase full of Velveeta and Campbell's tomato soup. For real. (And finished it before they left, at the end of their two-week stay.) So... it happens, but yeah. It's definitely weirdo behavior.

I kind of love that the day began with a magical solution for turning crappiness into happiness. It set just the right tone going into the weekend. ✨🌵🪨 #opalite

RIP to an absolute legend.

It's a strange world, that one.

Quote with 5 jobs you've had

1. Chocolatier shopgirl
2. Men's accessories sales
3. Packaging machinery customer service
4. Door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales
5. Technical translator and interpreter (Italian-English)

I love a resort hotel where the bar restroom is both larger and fancier than my entire apartment.

I'm so glad The Pitt is back to take my mind off Heated Rivalry for an hour.

As a Dawn, I approve and co-sign this plan.

Authenticity is kind of the defining floating signifier of the times.

The last line is really the key, I think. Not that people have lost interest in authenticity, but that we're constantly trying to figure out what that means and looks like in these digital environments--not just from AI, but also humans and corporations trying to perform/exploit it.

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

The Rudy Giuliani of political polling.

Sometimes I still miss the Fail Whale.

Assolutamente! I have to aggiungere italiano à la melange, para completar el cuadro.

I'm a little terrified at how far I got into that before even realizing you were mixing languages...

I used to say that my Dash was a cat made by someone who'd only ever seen giraffes. There's something about gingers...

I asked Chat GPT to give me a Wrapped-style summary of my year. It said my “overall vibe” for 2025 was “Resilient, and extremely tired of being resilient.”

Rude, but accurate.

Spotify Wrapped result showing a listening age of 25, which does not correspond to the poster's chronological age. To put it mildly.

This is especially hilarious since I mostly use Spotify to listen to random classical music while working. But hey, sure.

I really need to find a home with a coat bath. What a quality of life improvement that would be!

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

I like it. But S6 is also my favorite season of BtVS, so... 🤷🏻‍♀️

After years of studying disinfo and wading around in various online toxic waste zones, nothing has made me despair more about the current state of media literacy than the discourse surrounding this album release.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

It's Infrastructure Week all over again.

Happy birthday!

Yes! There is a different calculus for distance during the warmer seasons here...

Icon behavior, frankly.

It's actually something I love about living here--this kind of thing happens daily. I haven't experienced it as much in other parts of the country, and definitely not in Europe.

It also doesn't prevent them from sharing what they remember reading with others. But it does prevent them from going back to check passages for accuracy.

Destroying a training dataset at least doesn't attempt to keep others away from the source material, but it does still raise thorny ethical Qs.

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

"Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to... destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models."

Burning books doesn't erase their memory or impact on people who've already read them.
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