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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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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 6m
Funny when I first read this I thought it was Heineken and was shaking my head with the same agreement I would have for Heinlein…
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 12h
in 2020 I discovered I had not really given enough respect to the existentialists because up until that point I had not suffered enough. it is now 2025 and I wish we had the writings of the weird-as-shit ancient greek guys because I think I am coming to understand insanity as a philosophical program
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 11h
Have to admit it sounds better than being and nothingness…
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h
/4 I was trying to give a litigation update to the Board of Directors and three of them were wearing those big inflatable animal costumes. They kept squeaking against the leather chairs and I couldn't concentrate. Then the hippo sprung a leak and made this farting sound for five minutes.
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 17h
Ack so sorry! Keeping an eye out!
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Iowa OER @iowaoer.bsky.social · 21h
We recently finished a project to update our #OER Toolkit, a collection of resources from across the web pulled together to support OER leaders. Reviewing & organizing the content took some time, but we hope it will support our community!

Access the toolkit on our site: iowaoer.com/iowa-oer-too...
Announcement graphic. Now available! Access handouts, guidance, images, and other resources from across the web to support your OER efforts.
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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 1d
In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 22h
One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 21h
Any convo that leads to Stuart Hall is a win in my book
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 22h
And now we know what the collective noun is for Jen Waters
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Reclaim Hosting @www.reclaimhosting.com · 22h
If you are working with students in a Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting or a Wordpress Multisite, we want to hear from you! We are running a student competition to showcase and it's open for entries! blog.reclaimhosting.com/open-for-ent...
Open for entries: Reclaim's Student Showcase
If you are working with students in a Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting or a Wordpress Multisite, we want to hear from you! We are running a student competition to showcase emerging voices from…
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 22h
You can’t put too many Jen Waters into Edmonton
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d
Have you interrogated the power dynamic that enables your privilege to publicize nonconsensual representations of the sentient being who depends on you for sustenance? Also here’s my cats
Two dark brown cats curled up together sleeping in the form of a heart.
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d
So many threads! The imaginary and all the sci fi automata etc. The conceptual and all the math. The material and all the networking and digitization. The economic and all the rationality. Etc etc etc
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d
the bear would like a word
Photo of California governor Gavin Newsom wearing a suit and tie, standing in front of US and CA flags, in such a position that the bear on the CA flag looks like it is tapping him on the shoulder.
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 1d
it's times like these when I turn to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique...
Oblique Strategies - Wikipedia
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d
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John M. Jackson @johnxlibris.bsky.social · 7d
The Emory Open Education Initiative is a new program that provides mini-grants to faculty members who want to transition from commercial course materials to open educational resources (OER). 📚 scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/new...
Oxford College faculty first recipients of Emory Open Education Initiative mini-grants
The Emory Open Education Initiative is a new program that provides mini-grants to faculty members who want to transition from commercial course materials to open educational resources (OER). This s…
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 3d
Not to a Colorado boy!
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 4d
My 🧵got a little longer than intended, so one last thing: save everything you can. About your own history, the history of our country, the history of the fuck shit they are currently engaged in. Save flyers, books, videos, interviews. Save it ALL. Document everything you can. Online and offline.
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 4d
I’m a disability scholar + a scholar of archives (2 of my dissertation subfields). Was just talking to a friend about how to practice hope, and I thought I’d share this:

The MAGA project has already failed from an archival perspective because they don’t understand how archives work. A brief 🧵:
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 4d
I mean you had me with the first post. Who are you trying to convince? 🤣
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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 4d
I’m a disability scholar + a scholar of archives (2 of my dissertation subfields). Was just talking to a friend about how to practice hope, and I thought I’d share this:

The MAGA project has already failed from an archival perspective because they don’t understand how archives work. A brief 🧵:
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 5d
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 5d
What if the thing I want you to be talking about IS your hourly rate?