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Chloë Lum

@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
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Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. linktr.ee/ChloeLum

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wages were won through people power. We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity, based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0...
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine listening to the radio to hear music you don’t like, just so you can tell yourself your tastes aren’t siloed. Is that something real people actually do? Because it sounds positively masochistic to me.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me: spends 30 years making abrasive art that is repulsive to most people Also me: absolutely heartbroken that people don’t love my abrasive art
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I could have never guessed how important sweaters, and having a wide assortment or them, would be to my life before moving to Edmonton.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The iced coffee discourse makes me glad to have never worked a corporate job in my life because wtf. These unwritten rules sound completely irrational and bizarre to me.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
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I don't know where to start with this but... Grammerly is now offering "expert review" of your work by living and dead academics. Yes, dead ones - without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputations. Obscene.
It may be possible to opt out of having YOUR work used to train genAI - https://lnkd.in/eXZB6TY8'
The post includes a screenshot of an option for "Expert Review" in Grammarly from "Selected Experts, David Abulafia, Historian specialising in Mediterranean and global medieval history, author of the Great Sea
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the US economy & our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable… that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more than you spend…“
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interesting, disturbing thread:
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ema 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦🍁 @ema2ca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More confirmation of WHY you need to say NO to the first 5 ballots. They are RACIST! (The remaining 4 ballots are unconstitutional, so NO on them too.) #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Referendum #SayNoToTheNine #Remain on 10th.
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Referendum questions 'scapegoat' immigrant communities: Parkland Institute report
Alberta immigration referendum questions scapegoat immigrant communities, according to a new Parkland Institute report.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That poor baby. Doug Ford knew accidents like this would happen. "The speed camera, which was near the crosswalk where the teen was hit, had been removed as part of a provincial government directive..." #GiftLink 🎁 #OnPoli #ToPoli #WalkTO #BikeTO www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
According to the statement of claim, the boy suffered multiple injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, vision loss in his right eye, multiple skull/facial fractures, carotid artery injury, colonic injury and ongoing cognitive, psychological and behavioural effects.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We live in a horror movie.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was seated next to a engineer specializing in water infrastructure and usage this evening and all I could think to ask was if he had read Imperial by William Volmann. He hadn’t. Now I want to read Volmann but can’t remember if I sold all my books of his last downsize or if they are still packed.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A stament that could only be made by someone who has never studied art history or art and has never spent time talking to art professionals.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don’t think any caterer in the history of catering companies has *ever* eaten their own vegan options.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There seems to be a bit of misinformation circulating on social media about my latest @albertaviews.bsky.social column and what it actually says. So perhaps you’d like to read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. (Feel free to share, it you are so moved.) #ableg #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli
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Alberta's Referendum Questions - The Noxious Nine - Alberta Views
Nine disingenuous, malicious referendum questions, push-polls, designed to incite social division and undermine confidence in the country.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
YES to Canada 🇨🇦, reason, and compassion❗ NO to the 9❗ As the (ridiculous) Alberta referendum nears, let's keep the message simple. VOTE❗ Much of the motivation for referendum based on xenophobic and regressive BS. My take 👉 thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... cc @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
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Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus
The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Syllabus= done, class portal=prepped, week by week map of lectures, demos, and workshops=done, guest artist= sorted, readings=uploaded. I’m as ready as I’ll ever be for class on Wednesday.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can’t tell who is more baby brained; the people who insist that ‘woke’ was a serious constraint on them, or the academic who argue that Gen AI is no different from any computer usage whatsoever.
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UnpopularLesbian: Private Investigator of Stuff and All That @unpopularlesbian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I hate this game of Choose Your Fighter and I refuse to praise Doug Ford for anything. Great that some politicians aren’t traitors on top of being corrupt, cruel pigs who are more than thrilled to roll around in and fling some shit at the bigger pigs for as long as the spotlight stays on.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Alberta separatism is a white/Christian nationalist project.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m so confused on how art gets shown in this city. The local art museum just opened a show with some *serious* heavy hitters of Canadian contemporary art in it. And yet neither the promo email nor the section on the website devoted to the show list any of the artists.
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Nagwan Al-Guneid @nagwanyyc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Alberta saw record resource revenues. Yet billions have gone toward wasteful spending and questionable projects that delivered little value for Albertans. Look at this list of UCP wasteful spending of taxpayer money – all drawn from publicly reported spending:
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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We really need to invest in the next generation of camp
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You really gotta be a champ to consistently choose the kind of roles Curry did.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Someone, please make sure John Waters is ok.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I thought folks might want to know that there is a Dolly Parton rose out there. Edmonton is too cold for tea roses but perhaps some of you in warmer zones might want to try em, they are stunning. Obviously. plantfinder.mobot.org/PlantFinderD...
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Rosa 'Dolly Parton' - Plant Finder
Rosa is a genus of about 150 species of deciduous (occasionally evergreen) shrubs and climbers noted for their beautiful, often fragrant, single, semidouble or double flowers which are borne singly or in clusters on often prickly stems clad with 5-9 leaflets often having toothed margins.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Carney basically forced to be tough because Trump pushed his luck. Some real trace vision would be nice. Perhaps one that didn’t involve such heavy reliance on US tech.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Same.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment
Some industry leaders fear voter backlash is turning into a lasting political crisis.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’m listening to an interview with someone who has become an expert on kids’ online safety. At one point they compare the internet today to the ‘better’ internet of the 90’s where they talk about how amazing search was, text messaging, MySpace, and early Facebook. Hmm.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The university has implement an online portal, called Simple Syllabus, to ostensibly make things faster and easier for faculty and lectures. Friends, would you believe an online form with a million separate sections to fill out is *not* faster nor easier than drafting a word document?
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My phd work has had me mostly reading disability studies and performance studies so reading art history to prep the reading list for the class I’m teaching is a nice return to an old friend.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trying to get things done with fibromyalgia is always a bit of a farce.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
All summer I have been telling myself I’d reach out to do sone studio visits with fellow artists in town and I’ve been too poorly and now the summer is ending. I swear, *someday* I will make friends in Edmonton. Not today, but someday.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How long till slop completely overcomes the entire internet?
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Excellent thread on choosing family estrangement.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Middle aged folks, we need to do better on this front!
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 15/07/2026
Revised! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
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Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies
The ubiquity and ease of use of large language models makes it easy to overlook the interactional and interpretive processes at play. To understand the attraction of this technology we need to trace i...
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As someone who lives grocery shopping almost as much as I love cooking and eating, going to the produce shop, the Latine shop, and the Asian supermarket in one day is a pretty great Saturaday afternoon. Even hit the pet store to get groceries for the cat. Now to label and jar my new spices!
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ai users will insist ‘it’s just a tool’ and that those if us who don’t use it are fools. And yet they seem *very* upset about folks knowing when they are using said tool.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I should be working on my course outline, instead I’m riding the side effects of having my gabapentin doubled and really hoping it lets up soon. NEISVoid
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
FIGHT THIS! #ableg #abpoli It does not have to happen. Your air and water and noise levels do not need to be polluted by this absolutely nonessential monstrosity.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is excellent.
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We need to be saying this loudly and clearly: These people have lost their fucking minds.
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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
From June 2025: "If we understand industrial CO2 as debt, then heat is the interest on that debt. (...) our CO2 debt level has become unsustainable, and the ‘interest’ un-payable — to the point that we now find ourselves in the default zone." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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John Vaillant: Mark Carney should understand better than anyone why Canada is burning. Here’s how he can change course
Many reasons for our intense wildfire season are well-known. Our leaders need to do the math in order to save our economy - and us
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
People don’t like being spied on. Who knew?
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 08/08/2026
Our @breachmedia.ca story from last week shows how multiple university security managers denied knowledge of these student surveillance networks even after we got records showing their existence, membership and activities. 2/ breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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