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Dawn Gilpin

@drgilpin.bsky.social

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Associate dean for research & PhD director at ASU's Cronkite School. I study complex mediated social systems, from organizations to (sub)cultures. Also: semipro cat herder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, perfume aficionado, and shoe lover. She/her .. more

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Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 3d

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 3d

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 5d

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

JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 6d

My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be:

1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn!

2. Treacherous as the Sea!

3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth!

4. All shall love the new me, and despair!

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 6d

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 11d

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 13d

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 27d

The Rudy Giuliani of political polling.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · 28d

Sometimes I still miss the Fail Whale.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Dec 10

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Dec 10

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Dec 9

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Dec 7

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.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Dec 1

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

matt @windows98support.bsky.social · Dec 1

Oh shit waddup

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matt @windows98support.bsky.social · Dec 1

Oh shit waddup

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Oct 24

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

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

www.bbc.co.uk

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Oct 8

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Oct 8

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.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · Sep 29

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.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · Sep 29

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 24

It's Infrastructure Week all over again.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 16

Happy birthday!

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 15

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

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 13

Icon behavior, frankly.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

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.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

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.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

"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.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

arstechnica.com

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm walking into the supermarket after work as a young woman is exiting. When she sees me, she stops.
I am wondering whether I know her & should recognize her in the wild. She interrupts my thoughts: "Your outfit is SO CUTE!" I thank her. "OMG slay!" She mimes a camera click.
It feels like a win.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 4

I brought up Becca Bloom in class today, and NONE of the students (all women) knew who she was.

I'm still processing my feelings about this.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 22

I really love a good monsoon storm. #desertliving

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