Dawn Gilpin

I love how obvious it is that neither of them can actually skate.

Oh yes, that was always fun. I know a couple of people who do that on purpose as a bit, but... not most.

One of the small tortures of being active in any media fandom these days is the constant reminder that most people don't know the difference between "canon" and "cannon." There are an alarming number of the latter pointed at people's heads.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

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...