Nate Angell
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Nate Angell
@xolotl.org
· 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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Milestone alert: We're celebrating our first anniversary today! In just one year, we went from an idea on a blog post to sending 8.6 *million* users 23.5 *billion* posts across thousands of feeds created by thousands of brilliant, creative people who are working together to create a better internet.
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Milestone alert: We're celebrating our first anniversary today! In just one year, we went from an idea on a blog post to sending 8.6 *million* users 23.5 *billion* posts across thousands of feeds created by thousands of brilliant, creative people who are working together to create a better internet.
Tell me you have not read Charlotte's Web without telling me you have not read Charlotte's Web:
"Operation Charlotte's Web" = the name of the current immigration "enforcement action" in North Carolina
"Operation Charlotte's Web" = the name of the current immigration "enforcement action" in North Carolina
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Tell me you have not read Charlotte's Web without telling me you have not read Charlotte's Web:
"Operation Charlotte's Web" = the name of the current immigration "enforcement action" in North Carolina
"Operation Charlotte's Web" = the name of the current immigration "enforcement action" in North Carolina
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Tackling AGI and human literacy at the pointy end of a semester convening 100s of undergrads has hollowed me out. The essay below got my optimism flowing again - no small thing 🪴
“Without human literacy, you might assume that words and their order are all that matter.” I happened on this @eryk.bsky.social post from way back in August and love the move to put human literacies up against AI literacies. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
a man in a suit and bow tie asks how did i get here
Alt: Clip from the Talking Heads music video for Once In A Lifetime, showing David Byrne in a suit and bow tie on his knees asking to the heavens with open arms: “How did i get here?”
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Tackling AGI and human literacy at the pointy end of a semester convening 100s of undergrads has hollowed me out. The essay below got my optimism flowing again - no small thing 🪴
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
“Without human literacy, you might assume that words and their order are all that matter.” I happened on this @eryk.bsky.social post from way back in August and love the move to put human literacies up against AI literacies. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
a man in a suit and bow tie asks how did i get here
Alt: Clip from the Talking Heads music video for Once In A Lifetime, showing David Byrne in a suit and bow tie on his knees asking to the heavens with open arms: “How did i get here?”
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“Without human literacy, you might assume that words and their order are all that matter.” I happened on this @eryk.bsky.social post from way back in August and love the move to put human literacies up against AI literacies. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
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In 1862, @saulelbein.bsky.social writes, suffering textile workers streamed into a Manchester meeting hall. At stake: whether Britain should join the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. Proponents of "kitchen table politics" can learn a lot from what happened next.
New, on Heat Death!
New, on Heat Death!
Lions at the Kitchen Table
Saul considers the Lancashire Cotton Famine, political mythmaking and the cynical trap of "affordability"
heat-death.ghost.io
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In 1862, @saulelbein.bsky.social writes, suffering textile workers streamed into a Manchester meeting hall. At stake: whether Britain should join the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. Proponents of "kitchen table politics" can learn a lot from what happened next.
New, on Heat Death!
New, on Heat Death!
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I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
linkletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
linkletter.org/update-33-th...
❤️ LOVE ❤️ that this @angelagunder.bsky.social interview kicks off by doubling down on the power of pluralizing "literacy" to open up all the possibilities of manifold LITERACIES. View the podcast to learn why you also need to add "CONSTELLATING" to your vocabulary 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=duWX...
Angela Gunder: AI for humanity
YouTube video by ASU Enterprise Technology
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
❤️ LOVE ❤️ that this @angelagunder.bsky.social interview kicks off by doubling down on the power of pluralizing "literacy" to open up all the possibilities of manifold LITERACIES. View the podcast to learn why you also need to add "CONSTELLATING" to your vocabulary 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=duWX...
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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.
www.jwilonline.org/wp-content/u...
www.jwilonline.org/wp-content/u...
www.jwilonline.org
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.
www.jwilonline.org/wp-content/u...
www.jwilonline.org/wp-content/u...
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.