This @sarahkendzior.bsky.social quote pops into my head every time I see liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsom
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This @sarahkendzior.bsky.social quote pops into my head every time I see liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsom
I cannot tell you how spot on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is in this video and how this basically encapsulates the exact moment I and many Black women are navigating. *sighs*
if we are going to make this move in relation to corporate work, could we also make it in relation to capitalism in general?
The true measure of a neologism’s success…
I don't understand why we only get superman and spiderman movies when there are like 100 muppets and every single one of them has leading man/woman potential
My Dinner with Andre but with Statler and Waldorf
I welcome the addition of “algorithmethod” to the lexicon and hope to see it in Merriam-Webster’s social feed soon. We will find it handy I think as our infosphere becomes even more flooded by such content, authored not just by that one guy, but by countless bots that act via pure algorithmethod.
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should…
Dang it. I’m now literally singing that in my head…
Cars are my go-to analogy for LLMs too. Our libidinal relationship with cars has been supported by decades of creative works — songs, shows, movies, books — that help us equate car ownership/driving with personal freedom, status, good living, etc. Will LLMs have a similar PR machine?
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when you say "hallucination", do you mean "mirage"? 🤣
just when you thought AI couldn't be anthropomorphized more
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I mean if it’s quirky humor you want, I only consume about 8 liters of water per day…
of all the racquet sports, paddleball definitely makes the most racket 🤣
Similar. Be interesting to see if discussion leads to how all the truths are negotiated via rhetorical truth.
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Very cool. However we just did a rice census at our house and found 13 varieties! Should I get 13 of these?
Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below. janabacevic.net/against-acad...
The most glaring issue with this statement is the centered text.
youtu.be/Fpr-IK92Hcs from Animal House en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_...
for me, the most potent idea in Marxism has always been fetishization: the insight that commodified entities take on a life of their own
I mean let’s face it. This is the destiny of all human expression in a world dominated by AI…
“we neither shout nor are heard”
The earth revolves around the sun? Oh. Recent. How about mediated perceptions of reality are more impactful than reality?
TOGA TOGA TOGA!
google circles lol
The Tor network was meant as a safety valve against authoritarian Internet censorship. Now that those authoritarian measures are being mainstreamed in supposed liberal democracies, it’s natural that we now see pressure to pull funding from Tor. 🧵
A fabulous article by Tiago Lubiana, Wikimedian in Residence for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social, on the amazing work he completed during his time with BHL. #LoveBHL #Wikidata #WikiCommons #Wikipedia diff.wikimedia.org/2025/08/30/p...
mmmm…baby cheese
Is it a critique of soup or a celebration of soup?
Who else is old enough to remember McD’s brief flirtation with pogs illustrating logical fallacies? Those were the days…
Raise your hand if you think Wyoming’s AI data center should get two senate seats, a house seat, and three electoral college votes
Love it when neighbors help each other out…
My advice for journalists & election officials: “Think thru possible rumors that might emerge in upcoming elections, identify the misunderstandings those rumors rely upon, & develop [and] deploy prebunking messaging that helps fill in conceptual gaps these rumors & intentional falsehoods exploit.”
❤️ “we argue that GenAI systems function as “context machines” that must inherently address three interpretive challenges: situatedness (meaning only emerges in context), plurality (multiple valid interpretations coexist), and ambiguity (interpretations naturally conflict).”
Wait. Kirsten Ostherr, my buddy from Brown? Love it when worlds collide…
New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
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Maybe serve only ice cream?
I mean, it’s tubemeat all the way down… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_...
Whoa. I wonder what we call it when we have inverted totalitarianism AND white supremacy?
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A sad open Internet milestone: The Typepad blog platform is shutting down. It served writers well. I had one of my blogs there -- called "Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc." (dangillmor.typepad.com) -- and am pondering where to move my many, many journalism-related posts.
At this point, if you continue to post, I’d say ghost.org
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will both work on the open source, document-oriented database system, per the annoucement at Open Source Summit Europe.
Is the expression of thought the same thing as thought?
I've been the "Design Indexer" in rez at the Cooper Hewitt library this 😎. On Sept 10 we'll explore library resources that frame the INDEX itself — the Index of 🇺🇸 Design (the prjct's namesake), the index card, the manicule 👈, etc — as a material, designed thing, esp contra AI's indexical flattening
Sounds good, but will Clippy step in and advise? “It looks like you are identifying a range, use an en dash!” Or “It looks like you may be using an em dash to introduce something. Have you tried a colon?”
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English may be a little more friendly to stretching language as we don't have an Académie over here ;) Love to hear if/how "mirage/mirager" resonates...
Doesn’t that discount the possibility that he wrote many more columns, maybe all filled with super smart takes and deep wisdom, that the NYT just chose not to publish? Unrelated: have you seen Everything, Everywhere, All at Once?
It’s short ;) Love to hear your thoughts!
Amen. And also the metaphors used to describe AI are faulty, like “hallucination” as @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I raise in our paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Custodial staff are *indispensable* to schools reaching climate/sustainability goals. And they can be, and are, part of all-school approaches to mental health & restorative justice.
As the formal name of Mexico in English is “The United States of Mexico”, it seems correct to think of all Mexicans as US citizens.
Oh thank you for this! Mirage as a verb is also a stretch in English. Would a French speaker “get it” if one said something like “L’IA a miragé ces fausses citations”?
His Human Literacy framing is dope — what a way to think about time well spent: to human better. I might make it plural — Human Literacies — to emphasize that there is more than one way to read our countless human conditions and experiences.
This phrase by @eryk.bsky.social about the qualities of genAI outputs is already haunting me: “like adding water to sugar until the sweetness dissolves”…
This is one of the most profoundly affecting essays I've read this year, maybe ever. Amid personal heartbreak @eryk.bsky.social offers a testament to the poetic nature of being human, and our shared humanity. We must stop bowing and praying to the neon gods we've made.
Thank you for engaging Pierre! I’d be interested to know if it works well in French too. It’s basically the same word right? Will “mirager” work as a verb?
I can tell you feel strongly about this. Peace out.
Certainly not going to happen if we don’t work on it. I’m ok working on things my children might benefit from after I’m gone. A person who’s been hit by cars twice
I would love more policy that supports transportation solutions that don’t continue the dominance of automobiles, which have far greater negative effects than just accident death and injury. How they shape our built environment and sociality alone are reasons enough to phase them out.
I hear that argument. We argue problematizing it is worth it to build AI literacies. I at least put it in scare quotes or use phrases like “so-called hallucination”.
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
Would you entertain using a different term for AI mistakes that doesn’t anthropomorphize it? @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I wrote about why: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
there’s only a very brief time when they are old enough to understand but before they couldn’t care less
This is correct.
Maryland is a European city?
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani opening city-run grocery stores or Eric Adams handing potato chip bags filled with cash to reporters, both candidates have provocative ways of getting food to New Yorkers.
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One of the best convos @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I have had yet on the problematic concept of AI's so-called "hallucinations". Love that we got into how the "mirage" metaphor works better to evoke the complex feelings humans experience in using #AI. www.thetechhumanist.com/2025/08/21/t...
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today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."
Turns out we no longer have the puzzle so my vision of your kiddo standing on it and you asking if there’s a map nearby is crushed
It’s like bonking into the edge of the world in Minecraft
Reminds me of the time our team learned about this: “Google Docs has a character limit for the entire document, including comments, of 1.02 million characters. There is also a limit of 2,048 characters per comment. Once this limit is reached, you will be unable to add or edit more comments.”
When our half clones were little we had a huge foam USA map puzzle. I wonder if we still have that…
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#FOMO
We’re getting the @betaworks.com space setup for tonight’s #ProtocolsForPublishers event that starts in a few minutes. I’m the MC, and we’ve got talks by @ivansigal.bsky.social, @devingaffney.com, and @ruperts.world
Tom Waits recording Bone Machine (1992)
possibly the smallest tech product announcement ever: Arrow keys now move an object by a pixel distance in Google Slides workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/08/move...
In both cases (media and education), one’s motivation for learning how the business works should be so one can help try to change how it works.
While I share in appreciating how LLMs demonstrate deconstructivist ideas of the world as text, @tedunderwood.me raised this point too & I didn't want to lose sight of the very materialist deployments of LLMs involving money/power/knowledge/people/tech. I blogged about it: xolotl.org/putting-the-...
Great thread Matthew! Given this symbol grounding issue, I hope you will join me and @annamillsoer.bsky.social in problematizing the term "hallucination" to better support AI literacies. You can read more about our proposal for alternative terms: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Local to my natal sate of CO which is not familiar with hurricane warnings
Calling twitter a nazi bar is annoying because that implies living nazis it’s more like a warehouse with a bunch of roombas covered in swastikas.
Single issue dater
Admit that I came here to say that and also anyone who did deserves the GIF reaction