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Nate Angell

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#communications & #community @nudgital.com. Wandering IQ. Raised by wolves. Friend to cheese. he/him. All posts #CCBY. Mastodon: https://social.coop/@xolotl

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · Feb 13

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...

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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Aspen Digital @aspendigital.bsky.social · 1d

The public AI movement advocates for AI systems to be publicly accountable and accessible. We've grown the #PublicAINetwork from a small group of academics to an international nexus. How did we get here? @b-cavello.bsky.social and Eleanor Truman tell our story: www.aspendigital.org/blog/two-yea...

Miniature diorama of construction workers at work on a computer board (PCB).

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn’t expecting to call upon Ol’ Blue Eyes to lay out what we’d need in 2025

🎃 The Pantastic Mr. Pox 🦠 @mrfox.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy Frank Sinatra calling some jerk kids “Nazi Werewolves”

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 18h

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a woman is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

Alt: The kombucha girl meme: a woman in a black shirt is making funny faces of acceptance and disgust.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 1d

Huge milestone today! As of this morning, *Over 20%* of all ATProto accounts have accessed feeds powered by @graze.social. We're just about to surpass 8m lifetime readers, all looking for a new way to control their experiences online. On to the next 8m!

A juggler of worlds, https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3608ac54-4339-4583-99e2-3447dd1ae8c2/

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 21h

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 1d

It was wonderful to be in conversation with @derekbruff.bsky.social and @maritjmacarthur.bsky.social about the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach on the Intentional Teaching podcast. intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...

Peer and AI Review of Student Writing with Marit MacArthur and Anna Mills - Intentional Teaching

Today on the podcast, we learn about one initiative that offers a path forward for AI and writing instruction. It’s called the PAIRR Project, where PAIRR stands for peer and AI review and reflection. ...

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d

came here to say this

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Christina(Tina) Hex Hendriks 🎃💀👻 @renissance1.bsky.social · 1d

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Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation donating $50 million to historically Black Atlanta colleges

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is donating $50 million to Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Have to say I thought we’d do more with Steamboat Willie being in the public domain. I thought our entire society would be reorganized around being able to do whatever we wanted to the vile boat mouse

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d

it does seem like it would be fun to bring "korsakoffing" into common usage, as in "ChatGPT just korsakoffed all over my bibliography..."

Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d

cue Tom Waits: "my Aay Eye has been drinking..."

Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d

your excellent thread made me wonder what you would think about the argument @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I make to call AI hallucinations “mirages” instead — phenomena generated by a system perceived from a POV: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations

There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d

I’m not arguing but it is sorta fun just to say his full name…

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I actually would not mess with that cat. Sitting there like an apex predator without a care in the world.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 2d

ATProto is a team sport - we build better together. That's why, effective today, we're opening up access to the enriched archive we use to power Graze, so anyone can build great services on top of ATProto without reinventing the wheel. Read more in the @leaflet.pub post below for details!

Announcing the Graze Archives

A brief tour of the S3 requestor-pays archives of the Graze turbostream and freshly-announced megastream

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 2d

I hereby declare a law: Any reduction in the number of colors or shapes in the flag of the USA is a fascist signal. see also 👀 US Airways

Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 2d

In less than 2 months of its existence, the National Design Studio has been cranking!

There is now their site ndstudio.gov (1 page), americabydesign.gov (1 page), trumpcard.gov (1 page) and now trumprx.gov (1 page).

That’s right, they’ve added four (4) whole pages of content! Take that, haters!

National Design Studio

The National Design Studio is leading the America by Design initiative working to improve how Americans experience their government.

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 3d

On Wednesday 10/15 at 6 PM, City Council will be hearing the first two pieces of legislation related to Portland's response to the federal government.

A short 🧵on this meeting:

There are three items on the agenda: The first is the Urban Forest Plan. The other two are about the federal gov't.

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City Council holds regular meetings at 9:30 a.m. on the first, second, fourth and fifth Wednesday and 6:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month. If there is sufficient business, additional meetin...

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 2d

Stares in cultural studies…

Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 2d

While I was joking, it is also true that there can be ethics in tool choices. But I would not be so quick to equate tool choices with psychology as some paper authors might be… 😀

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 3d

I think it’s complicated and people’s relationships with AI are a mix of other factors and how AI is deployed as a social technology. What I don’t think is that you can measure something like narcissism or psychopathy with an instrument like that and make correlations based on such “data”.

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 3d

The fact that the study was limited to Chrome users might explain the correlation with psychopathy…JK

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 6d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

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