Nathanael Green
@nathanaelgreen.bsky.social
- writer of fantasy & historical fiction
- assistant professor
- posts in English und Deutsch
- competitive bagpiper (yep, that’s real)
nathanaelgreen.com
- assistant professor
- posts in English und Deutsch
- competitive bagpiper (yep, that’s real)
nathanaelgreen.com
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Hello!!! Well I've officially hit the three decades alive milestone and from now on I'll be deeply serious at all times starting maybe
But here's some art of mine! It'd mean a lot if you gave it a share!
#DarkArt
But here's some art of mine! It'd mean a lot if you gave it a share!
#DarkArt
October 11, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Hello!!! Well I've officially hit the three decades alive milestone and from now on I'll be deeply serious at all times starting maybe
But here's some art of mine! It'd mean a lot if you gave it a share!
#DarkArt
But here's some art of mine! It'd mean a lot if you gave it a share!
#DarkArt
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der Oktober ist für mich ein März ohne Hoffnungen
October 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
der Oktober ist für mich ein März ohne Hoffnungen
Why are people using “to outreach” as a transitive verb? Like “we’ll outreach the client”
This makes no sense and hurts me. A little bit, but it still hurts me.
This makes no sense and hurts me. A little bit, but it still hurts me.
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Why are people using “to outreach” as a transitive verb? Like “we’ll outreach the client”
This makes no sense and hurts me. A little bit, but it still hurts me.
This makes no sense and hurts me. A little bit, but it still hurts me.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Pseudoscience is popular in part because it seeks to confirm our beliefs.
Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs.
Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.
Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs.
Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.
October 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Pseudoscience is popular in part because it seeks to confirm our beliefs.
Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs.
Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.
Science can be less popular in part because it seeks to interrogate our beliefs.
Good science, like good art and literature, can upset the established ways in which we see the world.
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This is part of the reason I started @resistanceschool.bsky.social .. not only to get around the political repression around teaching about race.
But also to be free of AI colonization.
We need to get back to the essence of learning together in groups. With other humans!
But also to be free of AI colonization.
We need to get back to the essence of learning together in groups. With other humans!
We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.
September 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is part of the reason I started @resistanceschool.bsky.social .. not only to get around the political repression around teaching about race.
But also to be free of AI colonization.
We need to get back to the essence of learning together in groups. With other humans!
But also to be free of AI colonization.
We need to get back to the essence of learning together in groups. With other humans!
Hoping for a little hope? This might help. No big promises, but I’m enjoying Rutger Bregman’s writing
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hoping for a little hope? This might help. No big promises, but I’m enjoying Rutger Bregman’s writing
Trying to collect all the books so I have proof that facts and thoughtful ideas once existed
September 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Trying to collect all the books so I have proof that facts and thoughtful ideas once existed
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Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
December 17, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
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That investment in AI is apathetic to the pedagogical success and social value of education because LLMs do not produce knowledge or critical thought, nor train others in that production. It is not a pedagogical tool, it is a product to address cost of labor under the pretense of productivity.
June 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
That investment in AI is apathetic to the pedagogical success and social value of education because LLMs do not produce knowledge or critical thought, nor train others in that production. It is not a pedagogical tool, it is a product to address cost of labor under the pretense of productivity.
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What if it were possible for a state to ban ALL book bans?
Rhode Island did just that.
Read more: authorsguild.org/news/authors...
Rhode Island did just that.
Read more: authorsguild.org/news/authors...
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What if it were possible for a state to ban ALL book bans?
Rhode Island did just that.
Read more: authorsguild.org/news/authors...
Rhode Island did just that.
Read more: authorsguild.org/news/authors...
“Why did we allow schools to become Silicon Valley profit centers?
Why did we replace human interaction with machines?”
www.afterbabel.com/p/big-tech-a...
Why did we replace human interaction with machines?”
www.afterbabel.com/p/big-tech-a...
The All-New Big Tech American School
A mother and former teacher sums up in 3 minutes what happened when schools became "Silicon Valley profit centers”
www.afterbabel.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Why did we allow schools to become Silicon Valley profit centers?
Why did we replace human interaction with machines?”
www.afterbabel.com/p/big-tech-a...
Why did we replace human interaction with machines?”
www.afterbabel.com/p/big-tech-a...
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Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.
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ICYMI: An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing concerns about increasing amounts of low-quality content created by AI’ 👇 #BookSky
Cambridge Dictionary adds new definition for 'slop' to reflect 'low-quality content created by AI'
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June 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
ICYMI: An AI-related definition of the word ’slop’ has entered the Cambridge Dictionary for the first time, ’reflecting growing concerns about increasing amounts of low-quality content created by AI’ 👇 #BookSky
Not to self skeet, but it seems timely:
June 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Not to self skeet, but it seems timely:
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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An entire industry is saying “fictional employees who openly lie to you and cost fifty billion dollars a year to maintain are the future of the economy”
June 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
An entire industry is saying “fictional employees who openly lie to you and cost fifty billion dollars a year to maintain are the future of the economy”
Up for a little poetry? This is just great.
“It Was The Damn Phones” by Kori Jane Spaulding
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“It Was The Damn Phones” by Kori Jane Spaulding
youtu.be/ouxed-5uxDM?...
It Was The Damn Phones
YouTube video by Kori Jane Spaulding
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June 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Up for a little poetry? This is just great.
“It Was The Damn Phones” by Kori Jane Spaulding
youtu.be/ouxed-5uxDM?...
“It Was The Damn Phones” by Kori Jane Spaulding
youtu.be/ouxed-5uxDM?...