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Prof. Caroline Roux

@carolineroux.bsky.social
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Professor of marketing at Concordia University (Montreal) | I study the psychology of resource scarcity | Geek, anglophile, wannabe foodie, not-so-crazy cat lady.

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Prof. Caroline Roux @carolineroux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I started following this artist on Twitter (many moons ago) because I found his cute drawings on post-it notes witty (even if they often hit too close to home 😅). Although he doesn't use post-it notes as often, his art (and use of alt text) is still very entertaining. Check him out!
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And you have to ask yourself: why was it worth $22M to them? Because to them math is just their most successful PR bid, (since the claims of AGI aren't sticking). They are betting that the (false) claim "We solved math, so we can solve everything" will gain them way more than $22M in market share.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Prof. Caroline Roux @carolineroux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Relistening to the episode @ifbookspod.bsky.social did on this book for no particular reason. ifbookscouldkill.buzzsprout.com/2040953/epis...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad - If Books Could Kill
In 1997, Robert Kiyosaki revealed the secret to lifelong success: Deliver grifty seminars and hire child slaves.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPodWhere to find us: TwitterP...
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026
it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"It’s easy to feel helpless when pushing back against the whims of giant, well-funded tech companies, but the recent rollbacks of some AI features stand as a reminder about the power of collective action."
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 18/08/2026
Opinion | We need to know what tools are being marketed to our students — tools designed to lure them into believing outsourcing assignments is the norm. chroni.cl/4gjsq4o
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Opinion | The Next Wave of AI-Cheating Technology
We need to know what tools are being marketed to our students.
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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 11/08/2023
As we approach students-don't-read-the-syllabus season, a quick reminder that professors don't read emails or follow instructions either 🧐
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
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Prof. Caroline Roux @carolineroux.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch (even if he won't have to say "penguin" very often; IYKYK).
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Prof. Caroline Roux @carolineroux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/07/2026
the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.
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The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
End of an era - although even with CloudResearch, I stopped using mTurk a while back. techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/a...
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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Periodic reminder that publishing papers is not the goal in and of itself. The paper is a mechanism for sharing what you have learned--sharing processes and outcomes that others should be aware of/should think about too. 1/3
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026
there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
How long is a million seconds? ​

First, let me ask you a question: How long do you think a million seconds is? In terms of days, weeks, years, decades, or whatever.

Turns out it's 11.5 days. That's it. Less than two weeks.
How long is a billion seconds? ​

Now, how about a billion?

A billion seconds is 31.7 years.

So a million seconds ago was last week, and a billion seconds ago was 1993.
How long is a trillion seconds? ​

Okay, last one. How long do you think a trillion seconds is?

A trillion seconds is 31,689 years.

A trillion seconds ago, humans were still in the Stone Age. Writing hadn't been invented. Agriculture hadn't been invented. We were hunter-gatherers using basic tools.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/06/2026
"Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 billion in new apartments in places nobody wants them...."
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AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 04/06/2026
Social platforms have started to automatically apply labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators. But you know what would be better? Letting us filter out the AI slop. Read more from @zombiewretch.bsky.social: buff.ly/9OMUCdc
Verge headline: Let us filter AI slop, you cowards
by Jess Weatherbed

Illustration of shrimp jesus surrounded by shrimp
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Solidarity with these students who want no part in this experiment: "A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers say.”
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How to Fight AI Brain Rot at School? For One Country, It’s With Free ChatGPT
The experiment offers one of the first large-scale looks at the effect that coordinated AI adoption can have on students’ reasoning, retention and confidence.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Read the latest Psychological Science in the Public Interest: The Political #Psychology of Economic Inequality @danieljconnolly.bsky.social, APS Fellow Nick Chater, APS Fellow George Loewenstein
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Why Is Economic Inequality the Status Quo?
The latest PSPI issue examines the political psychology of economic inequality and highlights the cognitive processes that sustain high levels of inequality across nations.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Hamster is wearing glasses, says “Studies find that if you write down what you’re worried about it can help calm you down.” Gator writes down “everything.”
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Kurt Munz @kurtmunz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
theconversation.com/nudge-theory...
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Nudge theory was all about taking responsibility – but it allowed big business to look the other way
Not all problems are caused by personal choices.
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 10/05/2026
It is absolutely wild that they should treat this "type of academic" as some novel breed.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/04/2026
"Once the prophecies of the strategic initiative have been brought to fulfillment, budget deficits will shrink, prestige and reputation will grow, that weird smell on the first floor of the student center will dissipate, and you’ll never be frazzled or beleaguered again."
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Introducing Our Lord and Savior, the College’s New Strategic Initiative
Higher education faces looming threats from every direction. Dwindling enrollments. The demographic cliff. The enduring myth that professors have t...
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 08/04/2026
Kills me that I drew this a year ago and it’s now more appropriate than ever…
So we’ve got a little illustration I’ve drawn of a daily newspaper but it’s a headline saying “For Fuck’s Sake What Now?!” With a little picture of a Trump looking figure under the headline, embedded in an extensive article covering the latest unhinged bullshit.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 07/04/2026
"No," the swordmaster said. "One does not refuse the king," the herald said. "I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war." "You will regret this!" "No," the swordmaster said.
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Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 04/04/2026
AI was supposed to save time. Instead, many workers are having to spend time and effort prompting, checking, and fixing flawed output. f-st.co/yFQbjk6
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Managing AI has become its own job
AI was supposed to save time. Instead, many workers are bogged down with prompting, checking, and fixing flawed output.
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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
www.sciencefriday.com/articles/its...
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The Long Push To Blame Systemic Problems On Individuals
"It’s on You" chronicles how corporations and behavioral economists pushed for huge, systemic problems to be fixed by personal choices.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Oil, gas, fertiliser, food, aluminium, MRI machines, medical devices, semiconductors, consumer goods, cars, trains, solar panels. This is a crisis for the ages. www.donotpanic.news/p/hug-your-l...
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Hug Your Loved Ones
I posted the below tweet yesterday.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/03/2026
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yes! An important thing that we miss is that a person’s ethics are not just limited to how they treat people, their science is also impacted by it! Our goal should be to cite the most rigorous science, which should take into account the researcher’s ethics!
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 23/03/2026
slowllm.lav.io
Offset
SLOW LLM is a browser extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name?
It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content.
You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name.
There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fun fact: plastic recycling basically doesn't exist. Only about 9% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, and only 1% more than once. www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1...
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Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse
A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.
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Prof. Caroline Roux @carolineroux.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
www.riddance.ai/p/why-are-17...
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Why are 174 AI news accounts trying to divide the US and Canada?
And what do Swedish fighter jets and potato bans have to do with it?
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We have a joke about journals, but it's not in our nature...
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve had a story published on @theverge.com. Feels good to have it be something so personal, and so close to long covid awareness day, too.
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Library Hentut 💙⭐🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @emmahalford.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️
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Wait a Minute…What If I Don’t Want to Use AI?
AI is everywhere right now. It writes summaries, explains theories, fixes grammar, and recommends playlists.But here’s the thing nobody says out loud: you’re allowed not to use it. Whether you feel…
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 17/03/2026
I have a p-hacking joke but I can't repeat it
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It is undeniable that there is a) both extraordinary new concentrations of wealth and b) those benefiting don't want to share it any way. The "Giving Pledge" was a nod to some form of social contract. Now, billionaires are walking away from it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...
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The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream
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