E_Baillieul
@ebaillieul.bsky.social
https://fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6337446 <- fund Yellowhammer, reproductive justice and care in AL, MS, FL
Somerville, MA, USA.
Eats Cheetos, often.
“Good Lord! Is this the road that Jonah went?”
Somerville, MA, USA.
Eats Cheetos, often.
“Good Lord! Is this the road that Jonah went?”
AI isn’t a lawyer, and lawyers who have relied on AI have, um, run into trouble. Publishing houses may be using AI in far less fraught ways but it remains true that AI is *not a lawyer* and should not be relied on for legal work. www.404media.co/lawyer-using...
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...
www.404media.co
December 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
AI isn’t a lawyer, and lawyers who have relied on AI have, um, run into trouble. Publishing houses may be using AI in far less fraught ways but it remains true that AI is *not a lawyer* and should not be relied on for legal work. www.404media.co/lawyer-using...
1. Voice transcription- AIs can hallucinate while doing that: www.science.org/content/arti... - also, good technology thats not AI already does this? That’s true of a lot of adaptive uses of AI. 2/3
AI transcription tools ‘hallucinate,’ too
Study finds surprisingly harmful fabrications in OpenAI’s speech-to-text algorithm
www.science.org
December 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
1. Voice transcription- AIs can hallucinate while doing that: www.science.org/content/arti... - also, good technology thats not AI already does this? That’s true of a lot of adaptive uses of AI. 2/3
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You 🫵🏿 are supposed to do all the good you🫵🏿 can… because you 🫵🏿are good
December 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
You 🫵🏿 are supposed to do all the good you🫵🏿 can… because you 🫵🏿are good
Like, ok, I don’t know how to make LLMs work for higher ed but I DO KNOW HOW to simply not use them 🤷♀️
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Like, ok, I don’t know how to make LLMs work for higher ed but I DO KNOW HOW to simply not use them 🤷♀️
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Here's a great place to start: US farmers have made more money than non-farmers every single year since 1998.
Yes- *after* you take out farm debts & expenses.
Sources I used to make the graph: ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... , ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... for data for 2020 onward.
Yes- *after* you take out farm debts & expenses.
Sources I used to make the graph: ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... , ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... for data for 2020 onward.
May 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here's a great place to start: US farmers have made more money than non-farmers every single year since 1998.
Yes- *after* you take out farm debts & expenses.
Sources I used to make the graph: ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... , ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... for data for 2020 onward.
Yes- *after* you take out farm debts & expenses.
Sources I used to make the graph: ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... , ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul... for data for 2020 onward.
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always after he explained what he believed as a Jew, he was barraged by emails from concerned students asking why he didn't believe Jesus was the son of God. And he said,
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
always after he explained what he believed as a Jew, he was barraged by emails from concerned students asking why he didn't believe Jesus was the son of God. And he said,
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.