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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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National Science Foundation (NSF) Announces Launch of the Open #Knowledge Network, A National Open-Data Platform Connecting More Than 40 Knowledge Graphs www.infodocket.com/2026/09/25/n... #opendata #data #knowledgegraphs #AI #MCP

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 26/09/2026

Sorry our wall of fire only addresses inbound traffic…

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Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations

One of the most misleading terms is “AI hallucination”. Use “AI mirage” instead. Why “mirage”? Don’t make me tap the preprint > papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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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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You need hard copies right?

Oh now you’re james brown

I swear to the gods that all we did was have those plastic refrigerator magnets down low and our daughters grew up to be like a cross between George Elliot and the Supreme Court…

There may come an interesting time when he gets to consider what is his kryptonite…

This may be the most lasting effect — literacy!

I for one welcome the day when all our news comes from OR women ham radio operators

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I was holding up really well in the face of "Nobody's actually heard 'Tucker Wetmore' discourse," as I, a hemorrhoid relief appreciator…

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Oblique Strategies - Wikipedia

Time to whip out ye olde Oblique Strategies deck from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and draw a card en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique...

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Seems ironic that the most inferior court could also be supreme…

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Perhaps they have not been sufficiently indoctrinated to car culture by looking at the recommended number of Richard Scarry Busytown books…

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what if they traded murders with another random traveler to avoid prosecution?

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+100 to more daughters

scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 24/09/2026

AI policy is dominating #UNGA81 dialogue.🌐 Who’s holding the steering wheel? Are we going in the right direction? Are we going too fast? Are we going off a cliff? 🤔 Read my essay with @hlandemore.bsky.social via @noemamag.com.🙏 We must let the people set the pace of frontier AI!💯 #LLAP🖖

A split-panel graphic featuring a left-aligned, faded-red column of people crossing a street set against the tiers of an empty black-and-white amphitheatre with a right-positioned pink circle accent promotes the Noema Magazine-published essay Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI. The piece is co-authored by Helene Landemore, Damon Wells ‘58 professor of political science at Yale University and distinguished researcher at Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy, 2025 Right Livelihood laureate and 2026–27 Carnegie distinguished fellow.
https://civic.ai/

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 23/09/2026

Alternate take: the last truly great Disney animated feature movie songs were Bare Necessities and I Wanna Be Like You in 1967

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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

absolute bangers left and right, this page should be required reading at every ischool:

Consider two cases of what the information metaphor explains badly: language and knowledge. Like many others, Beniger treats language as principally a vehicle for transmitting or evoking information (pp. 840°). Seeing language in terms of information makes language (like everything information touches) an engineering problem. "Communication" becomes the great solution, that is, people agreeing to use common signs and symbols to refer to the same "information." Thus you place human sociality within the realm of physics rather than politics; the essentially contestable nature of many of the topics of human discourse thus gets portrayed as an obstacle to be overcome by a consensus of signs or a smooth transmission of "information" rather than as a permanent feature of human society arising from differences of experience and power. The urge to engineer away the messiness of talk is an abiding one in the twentieth century, it accounts in part for the phenomenal diffusion and application of concepts from mathematical communication theory in the 1950s and 60s. There is so much wrong with the conception of language as information processor that I don't know where to begin. Allow me simply to assert: language does; it does not transmit (or if it does, that is the least of its functions). With it humans cajole, wheedle, seduce, hate, politic, assert, perform, and of course, promise. It creates worlds, it is not only about the world "outside." As Beniger notes, many of its functions are ritual ones. But these are not merely "preprocessing, " as he suggests, but the essence of human life. Play, poetry, drama, religion, love, politics all involve horribly uninformative, even anti-informative, uses of language. A conception of language as information processor denigrates the ways that language shapes and structures consciousness rather than just provides it with content. In his 1848 essay on the literature of power and the literature of knowledge,

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This reads like a borges/kafka mashup…

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Just did that last week! It was great!

Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Is SI pronounced like “sigh” or like “si” the word for yes in Spanish?

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Wait. Is that the trestle on the Banks-Vernonia trail?

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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"Archiving Machines" and "The Patina of Distrust" are co-winners of this year's Best Information Science Book Award from ASIS&T! We're proud to be able to provide both of these books #openaccess. Congratulations authors!

Two book covers on a grey background: "The Patina of Distrust" and "Archiving Machines"

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 21/09/2026

Social media algorithms don't allow us to understand or control what we see online and why... until now! Top scholars @jonathanstray.com and @noupside.bsky.social are sharing @mysky.social, a tool that allows users to adjust their feed’s priorities and explains why certain posts appear over others.

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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

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I think calling an unexpected name like Thor would work better shouted in public than Fluffy, especially when the little fluffball finally shows up...

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Today's question: Do people think through the vibe they will give off yelling at the park when they name their dogs?

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Just when you think you can't find exactly the GIF you're looking for

Wow! Did not know "criminy" derived from "Christ's money"...

Criminy! It’s stochastic parrots all the way down!!!

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 18/09/2026

a demonstration of how to be a parrot without being stochastic 🤣

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Best popsicle you ever had! Piňa colada! Mangolada! Ice Queen paletas in Portland OR. #getdeel #drbombayicecream #snoopdogg #SNOOPISHIRING