Nate Angell
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Nate Angell
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· Feb 13
Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations
There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence, aka AI — or what I like to call sparkling intelligence, because everyone is using ✨✨✨ emojis and icons to signify AI. A...
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There's a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence: Read Are We Tripping? The Mirage of #AI Hallucinations from me and @annamillsoer.bsky.social to learn why you should replace the term "hallucination" with "mirage" in your discussions of AI: xolotl.org/are-we-tripp...
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Very kind review of my translation of Césaire's lost play by Laëtitia SAINT-LOUBERT. I like that she noticed a few things others had missed. Hope someday I get to thank her in person for the kindness.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Very kind review of my translation of Césaire's lost play by Laëtitia SAINT-LOUBERT. I like that she noticed a few things others had missed. Hope someday I get to thank her in person for the kindness.
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I'm old enough to remember when we used to call accounts like these "bots" and think of them as unwelcome information disorder...
Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Facebook and Instagram
They will have bios, profile pics and can share content
(via Financial Times)
They will have bios, profile pics and can share content
(via Financial Times)
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I'm old enough to remember when we used to call accounts like these "bots" and think of them as unwelcome information disorder...
Little known fact but Clinton’s entire presidential campaign was modeled on tetris, but unfortunately an opponent created a hole she couldn’t fill with a standard tetris shape…
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Little known fact but Clinton’s entire presidential campaign was modeled on tetris, but unfortunately an opponent created a hole she couldn’t fill with a standard tetris shape…
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Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
August 6, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
we wouldn't even need to misconfigure DNS if people would get off their lazy assess and just use numerical IP addresses
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
we wouldn't even need to misconfigure DNS if people would get off their lazy assess and just use numerical IP addresses
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I totally did not read this correctly the first time I
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I totally did not read this correctly the first time I
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controversial take nobody asked for: trying to hold a "middle-ground" position on the usefulness of genAI feels like being satisfied with 'regression to the mean' as acceptable standard 🤷🏾♀️
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
controversial take nobody asked for: trying to hold a "middle-ground" position on the usefulness of genAI feels like being satisfied with 'regression to the mean' as acceptable standard 🤷🏾♀️
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Hello from Time-change-with-a-toddler Land!
THE SCIENCE SUGGESTS THAT YEAR ROUND STANDARD TIME IS BEST.
I know it’s the least of our worries right now, but let’s get some data driven policy going and end this hellscape of twice a year time change.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
THE SCIENCE SUGGESTS THAT YEAR ROUND STANDARD TIME IS BEST.
I know it’s the least of our worries right now, but let’s get some data driven policy going and end this hellscape of twice a year time change.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time
According to a new analysis by Stanford Medicine scientists, changing clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to higher rates of stroke and obesity.
med.stanford.edu
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hello from Time-change-with-a-toddler Land!
THE SCIENCE SUGGESTS THAT YEAR ROUND STANDARD TIME IS BEST.
I know it’s the least of our worries right now, but let’s get some data driven policy going and end this hellscape of twice a year time change.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
THE SCIENCE SUGGESTS THAT YEAR ROUND STANDARD TIME IS BEST.
I know it’s the least of our worries right now, but let’s get some data driven policy going and end this hellscape of twice a year time change.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Gen AI is navigated through abstractions, which is ultimately reductive - and by definition, imprecise. You will never get an image of a specific thing, just some abstraction of the thing, and a problem of the 21st century was already that abstractions were flattening specificity.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Gen AI is navigated through abstractions, which is ultimately reductive - and by definition, imprecise. You will never get an image of a specific thing, just some abstraction of the thing, and a problem of the 21st century was already that abstractions were flattening specificity.
nobody expects the Monty Python Software Foundation!
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
nobody expects the Monty Python Software Foundation!
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I wonder how many "the Andrew formerly known as Prince" jokes are being made globally rn
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I wonder how many "the Andrew formerly known as Prince" jokes are being made globally rn
"you blink an eye, and literally a third of your country is eating up the dreams of fascist grifters"
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"you blink an eye, and literally a third of your country is eating up the dreams of fascist grifters"
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No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
This info should be included in all US voting guides. The US political reality seems like it has has almost no grounding in economic reality.
I’m doing a “Seven Days of Data Stories” project, where I’m trying to get better at building interactives while sharing things that I think are important.
This is the first! Visualizing the flow of tax money, and why 11 states pay into the federal government while the rest are dependent.
This is the first! Visualizing the flow of tax money, and why 11 states pay into the federal government while the rest are dependent.
The Federal-State Money Story
Interactive visualization of federal spending patterns across U.S. states. Explore which states receive more federal dollars than they pay in taxes, and how federal money flows through state economies...
dr.eamer.dev
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This info should be included in all US voting guides. The US political reality seems like it has has almost no grounding in economic reality.
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What could go wrong…?
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What could go wrong…?
forget patent law, I’m wondering if AI can answer a question about Betteridge’s law
Can AI hold office hours? This study evaluates #AI tools’ ability to answer specific legal questions based on a #patentlaw textbook used by many law schools.
Read: spkl.io/63324Akb1M
Subscribe: spkl.io/63328Akb1u
#AICommunity #LawSky
Read: spkl.io/63324Akb1M
Subscribe: spkl.io/63328Akb1u
#AICommunity #LawSky
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
forget patent law, I’m wondering if AI can answer a question about Betteridge’s law
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the mexican restaurant we like is feeding anybody who asks for free food as long as SNAP is shut off so now i'm going to eat my weight in cheese and onion enchiladas "to support them"
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
the mexican restaurant we like is feeding anybody who asks for free food as long as SNAP is shut off so now i'm going to eat my weight in cheese and onion enchiladas "to support them"
The New York Rangers are the only NHL team without a mascot.
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The New York Rangers are the only NHL team without a mascot.
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Pride is not the only emotion that you're allowed to have about your history. There are many others that can and do apply. It should not be a failing or a threat to your sense of self to acknowledge those other emotions. To speak them aloud as you watch history unfold.
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pride is not the only emotion that you're allowed to have about your history. There are many others that can and do apply. It should not be a failing or a threat to your sense of self to acknowledge those other emotions. To speak them aloud as you watch history unfold.
This paper on AI’s moral status is both flawed — because it requires consciousness for moral status — and unnecessary — we don’t need it to know that humans will not treat AI well if AI has moral status. Humans already treat everything badly, regardless of moral status.
Could we conceivably know what it is like to be an AI model, and thus what its ethical status should be? Intriguing argument from Helen Yetter-Chappell that we're in a worse epistemic position than wrt animal consciousness. #aiethics
Helen Yetter-Chappell, Guessing at Ghosts in the Machine - PhilPapers
As AI grows ever more complex and ubiquitous, its moral status becomes ever more pressing. But knowing whether an AI has moral status is only part of the ethical puzzle. To ...
philpapers.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This paper on AI’s moral status is both flawed — because it requires consciousness for moral status — and unnecessary — we don’t need it to know that humans will not treat AI well if AI has moral status. Humans already treat everything badly, regardless of moral status.
@wyden.senate.gov can you please talk to Jeff Merkley and get him off KOSA and Twitter?
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
@wyden.senate.gov can you please talk to Jeff Merkley and get him off KOSA and Twitter?
Oooooh. Look at what the mail brought today! Luscious Jackson album hot off the presses /cc @kates66.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Oooooh. Look at what the mail brought today! Luscious Jackson album hot off the presses /cc @kates66.bsky.social
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The good people behind the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure just released version 2.0.
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
#Infrastructure #OpenInfrastructure #POSI #ScholComm
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
#Infrastructure #OpenInfrastructure #POSI #ScholComm
The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v2.0, 2025)
POSI version 2.0 released October 2025
The POSI Adopters reviewed the version 1.1 principles and consulted with the community to create version 2.0, released in October 2025. The new/always-current ve...
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The good people behind the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure just released version 2.0.
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
#Infrastructure #OpenInfrastructure #POSI #ScholComm
openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
#Infrastructure #OpenInfrastructure #POSI #ScholComm