Jason Miller
@euthydemus.bsky.social
College admissions & rhetoric coach, data tactician, coffee drinker, world traveler, and cat walker.
College Advising: https://veridiction.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-miller-iec/
College Advising: https://veridiction.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-miller-iec/
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Chefs kiss. The volume ‘Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Generative Al’ appears to teach you about hallucinations by having various fictitious references including to the non existent ‘Harvard AI Journal’
www.thetimes.com/article/8f7d...
www.thetimes.com/article/8f7d...
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Chefs kiss. The volume ‘Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Generative Al’ appears to teach you about hallucinations by having various fictitious references including to the non existent ‘Harvard AI Journal’
www.thetimes.com/article/8f7d...
www.thetimes.com/article/8f7d...
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Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token*
Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes.
Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.
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No one needs backstory for Gaston
More oratory for Gaston
These things are not mandatory for Gaston…
More oratory for Gaston
These things are not mandatory for Gaston…
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
No one needs backstory for Gaston
More oratory for Gaston
These things are not mandatory for Gaston…
More oratory for Gaston
These things are not mandatory for Gaston…
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Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
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It's easy to conjure the following path:
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's easy to conjure the following path:
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
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"Oracle’s rapid descent from market darling to market warning sign is revealing something deeper about the AI boom, experts say: no matter how euphoric investors became over the last two years, the industry can’t outrun the laws of physics—or the realities of debt financing."
Oracle’s collapsing stock shows the AI boom is running into two hard limits: physics and debt markets | Fortune
“The world of bits moves fast. The world of atoms doesn’t. And data centers are where those two worlds collide.”
fortune.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"Oracle’s rapid descent from market darling to market warning sign is revealing something deeper about the AI boom, experts say: no matter how euphoric investors became over the last two years, the industry can’t outrun the laws of physics—or the realities of debt financing."
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Searching for a book using a random quote from the book has gotten complicated.
December 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Searching for a book using a random quote from the book has gotten complicated.
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I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
ReCalibri
They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway
Dr.eamer.dev
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
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This is quite a thing from the people who brought you a copyright extension act that strains the rule against perpetuities. Actual human artists can't tell stories with your characters for decades to come, but Sam Altman's toy can put them into porn, no problem.
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is quite a thing from the people who brought you a copyright extension act that strains the rule against perpetuities. Actual human artists can't tell stories with your characters for decades to come, but Sam Altman's toy can put them into porn, no problem.
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Jerome Powell just straight up said the U.S. government is publishing fake jobs numbers. Things will really go off the rails when Trump replaces him next year.
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jerome Powell just straight up said the U.S. government is publishing fake jobs numbers. Things will really go off the rails when Trump replaces him next year.
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China’s leadership listens to experts unevenly. Knowing when their ideas matter helps explain shifts in Beijing’s strategy.
Do China’s Foreign Policy Experts Matter? How?
Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely
warontherocks.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
China’s leadership listens to experts unevenly. Knowing when their ideas matter helps explain shifts in Beijing’s strategy.
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
This is a trap; you’re going to end up with all four books, not just the first one that appear to be so innocently “on sale.” (#OnlyHalfJoking, 📚🤓📚)
Too Like the Lightning will be part of the upcoming Goldbox Fiction Finds collection for Kindle on Dec 11th. #torbooks
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is a trap; you’re going to end up with all four books, not just the first one that appear to be so innocently “on sale.” (#OnlyHalfJoking, 📚🤓📚)
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be a person willing to dig deep into methods and you will defang a lot of bullshit
Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
be a person willing to dig deep into methods and you will defang a lot of bullshit
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In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
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2025 Year In Review: Not feeling so great about the rule of law. Zero stars.
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
2025 Year In Review: Not feeling so great about the rule of law. Zero stars.
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You can’t have war crimes without a war. But you can have murder. Bombing people who are floating on the remains of a wrecked boat that was “broken in half” is murder, whether or not they wanted or intended to try to traffic drugs again in the future. And yes, if it were a war, it’d be a war crime.
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
You can’t have war crimes without a war. But you can have murder. Bombing people who are floating on the remains of a wrecked boat that was “broken in half” is murder, whether or not they wanted or intended to try to traffic drugs again in the future. And yes, if it were a war, it’d be a war crime.
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Admiral Holsey agreed to testify. This is how it's done.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Admiral Holsey agreed to testify. This is how it's done.
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It is an extremely important to time to support independent journalism. You may notice that I repost Techdirt's content all the damn time. That's because Mike Masnick is usually right and I think you should know about it.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It is an extremely important to time to support independent journalism. You may notice that I repost Techdirt's content all the damn time. That's because Mike Masnick is usually right and I think you should know about it.
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The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
This is so gross.
Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
This is so gross.
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The Right wing culture warriors are worried about professors getting tenure and becoming deadwood but are not at all worried about college football coaches with Golden Parachutes?
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Right wing culture warriors are worried about professors getting tenure and becoming deadwood but are not at all worried about college football coaches with Golden Parachutes?
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Guess who suggested that illegal orders should be ignored when Obama was president?
2016 video shows Hegseth saying the military cannot carry out unlawful orders | CNN
Hegseth described the refusal of illegal commands as part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.
www.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Guess who suggested that illegal orders should be ignored when Obama was president?
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Remarkable things happening on Facebook.
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Remarkable things happening on Facebook.