Nate Angell

Great conversation with Nate Angell on content provenance, ranging from Creative Commons C2PA to ISCC to the new Humanright mark. (here's a short excerpt from our conversation) #AI #HI #creativecommons #humancreator

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Hot take: The issue is not AI, a complex of technologies, but the current business, regulatory, and social deployment of genAI. It’s not really a tech problem to solve and misrecognizing it so blinds us.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

I feel like what most cis folks experience is the heavily gender-coded cultural experience of “feeling” male or female which seems to them easily mappable onto their biological sex. If folks knew how thick the cultural overlay was they might not feel so settled. Culture is thick but invisible…

glad to hear the phone was "found", but I'm still waiting to hear about the gold coins...

It will be cool to get the gold coins, but we all know the phone is in the woods don’t we?

That’s a great practice lock picking op. That’s how I learned. Still living off the gold coins…

Def pickable

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Having once worked making slides for management consultants I can envision a marked increase in quality when AI takes over, even with all its miraging…

Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge An academic position as a Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture.

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Now if we could only figure out where all this lint is coming from…

Somewhere, someone has a Georgebot that they prompt to get ahead of what George might post on the socials…

Black and white photograph of James Baldwin holding a cigarette.

Happy birthday James Baldwin, born on August 2, 1924.

If you're at #fossy, my talk about power dynamics, relicensing, and forks starts at 11:45 in the Science of Community room (333), and even if you aren't here, you can still have a look at the slides: fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/u... #fossy2025

Opinion | A.I. Is Not a 21st-Century Enlightenment

“We formulate the questions, drive the inquiry … and we search … for answers that reinforce what we already think we know. ChatGPT has often responded, with patently insincere flattery: ‘That’s a great question.’ It has never responded: ‘That’s the wrong question.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...

hearing @vyruss.org's #fossy talk "RAGtime with Postgres" and noting the hesitation to use the term "hallucination" for #AI. Suggesting the proposal @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I make to use #AImirage instead: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

anybody in town for #fossy hanging out in PDX tonight?

We also talked about efforts to mark content in an #AI age for authorship, provenance, and use like @creativecommons.bsky.social #CCSignals, the developing ISO standard International Standard Content Code #ISCC from @iscc.bsky.social, and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity #C2PA.

Human Intelligence™ - Nate Angell Human Content provenance, Creative Commons, ISCC, CP2A and more

I had the opportunity to join the Human Intelligence podcast from @humancreator.bsky.social hosted by @nedworking.bsky.social and Kira Cleveland. Hear me wax on and off about open content in a world with #AI — or what I like to call ✨sparkling intelligence✨ www.humanintelligence.news/p/human-inte...

2 CHAOSS circle logo earrings. CHAOSS logo and CHAOTIC stickers

I’m here at #fossy and have a few CHAOSS earrings and stickers. Find me if you’d like some. With my bright purple hair, I’m not hard to find 😂 #fossy2025

FAQ from @archive.org on becoming an FDLP. TL;DR it's a feature, not a bug. Onward (next time with fewer acronyms).

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The enshittification is already here —it’s just not very evenly distributed…

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

I went to kindergarten in Idaho Springs and I never thought I’d see the day…

Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

My favorite Zotero feature is collaborative bibliographies…

I need husband: AI beauty standards, fascism and the proliferation of bot driven content - AI & SOCIETY Generative AI is proliferating on social media at an alarming rate. Images are generated and disseminated with political agendas, particularly in right-wing spheres. These AI-generated images often de...

If you are concerned about the spread of AI online you may be interested in my latest paper. "I Need Husband" it starts with creepy images of women and continues from there:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preservation as Resistance: Digital Preservation and Preservation as Practice - MYFest25 Mon 28 Jul 2025 @ 14:00–15:00 - Historically, specific types of knowledge have always been more likely to be preserved, whether because of the types of materials (digital, analog, oral) or the inequit...

Come join me & @asamehimae.bsky.social & talk about how preservation is an act of resistance & a way to enact socially just praxis in your teaching! We are so excited to be part of @equityunbound.bsky.social ‘s #MYFest25! Preservation as Resistance: Digital Preservation & Preservation as Practice

RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service

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