Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026Always on the cutting edge for abusively terrible customer support, Verizon’s first help page for travel comes with a helpful slop warning 110 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026Jackpot: can't read UN researchers' report on AI environmental impact because the UN University repository is offline, presumably as part of the general php/4/whatever conflagration 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026No, you're reading the sign wrong. It says, "Hope??! AGAIN???" 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026The introduction to the cited paper ("Field Theories with 'Superconductor' Solutions," 1961) gives a good flavor of his intellectual style: 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026though he preferred floppier bucket-style hats, he was known for the "sombrero potential," illustrated by Wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_s… 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Yes! I have finally made it! I am a Public Intellectual now! 140 4
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026@kjhealy alignment chart or it doesn't count 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Editorial standards at the LRB sadly fallen. Imagine letting "Klingon" get by for "Ferengi"! (Parry, "Keeping up with the Kims," 24 Sept. 2026) 010 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026when you think "excellent risk management and compliance," which university names come immediately to mind? 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026If you need a little joy, just consider the etymology of "candy," which takes you from Anglo-Norman, around or across the Indian Ocean, and over to South India (OED 3rd ed., last revised 2020): 210 2
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026the "position type" options for searching Rutgers job ads (jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/search) are a little discouraging, frankly 110 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026customer feedback for the friendly neighborhood knowledge-enclosure rentier 130 3
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026#lrt My institution's library "has" plenty of these "books"; what it does not have is an English literature librarian, or any collections budget for my field 132 3
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026modern technology ruined our attention spans…by supplying books with pages already cut, depriving us of a "soothing and elegant occupation" (Publishers' Circular, Oct. 15, 1898) #guillotine 130 3
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026@triplingual that remark was really a learning opportunity for me 010 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026thanks to the wrecking of the Dept of Ed, however, USA testing and data collection had huge gaps, and the USA's results come with a giant asterisk. Here's a chalkbeat report www.chalkbeat.org/2026/09/08/pisa-r… 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026in other great edtech news, OECD testing of 15 year olds shows an association between "AI" use and worse scores across subjects 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026Whoa, missed the great news from March! Blackboard (formerly Anthology, formerly Blackboard) is back, "debt-free and focused on enabling transformational teaching and learning"! #debtfree 220 2
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026The LLM-generated bulleted list with bolded catchphrases is the new long-scrolling single-page website with circular founder headshots (web aesthetics which scream "tech bullshit") 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026this Deming guy clearly knows all the right people 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026it's okay everyone, we can go back to talking shit about Harvard again www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/9/3… 120 2
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026Wagner enhanced by the digital age: youtube auto-captioning of the Rhinedaughters' song. Wallala, man. 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026As for the elephant in the pandoc-room (but the last two sentences fill me with dread) 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026@ncecire.bsky.social yep, you can tell because it's got both authors and one of them is a doctor 110 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026link[.]springer[.]com is down on a Saturday morning in late August. We need those articles! Surely THIS will be the spark that lights the fires of revolution. Come, brothers and sisters! 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026Realized Cambridge University Library felt so cozy and familiar on first visit because all the signage is in Gill Sans, still my font for slide presentations 10 years after giving up Keynote 111 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026I think this is saying that the reason is spam and slop. The whole surface of the enlightened Web is radiant with triumphant calamity. www.cos.io/blog/osf-changes-a-note-… 002 2
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026the Telegraph, you say? Really? TIL Michael Maxwell Scott (later Sir Michael) had a regular SF roundup there from pretty early days, 1960, until his death in 1989. OTOH, Telegraph gonna Telegraph 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026"sick" (appreciative) (Daily Telegraph, March 2, 1962) 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026Meyer, "Effects of Education as an Institution," spent 12 years in my "should have read" Zotero collection; prompted by @kjhealy post, finally read it. Really pioneering work in the subtweet field 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026one of the omitted paragraphs contains a truly surprising application of Bourdieu's idealization of autonomy within the social field 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026Wacquant is writing about the sociological and political defects of prison abolitionism, but I can think of lots of uses for his term "community fetishism" newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/arti… 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026that was back when literature took to the streets (Bookseller, Oct. 14, 1927: 70. The caption: sic) 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026Grace Blakeley looks on the bright side jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopol… 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026Melanie Mitchell's latest "no, human intelligence is not like that" essay, good as always. It strikes me that the attributes "AI" lacks are also deficient in its perpetrators yalereview.org/article/melanie-mitc… 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026Learned recently that the ubiquitous .io domain signifies “Indian Ocean (territories)”of the UK, which forcibly removed Diego Garcia’s indigenous population in 1971 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026Alternatively (suggests an anonymous well-wisher) this could be my big break into soc, I just have to make the domain squatter a good "certified" offer via their convenient platform 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026Another scholarly-org blog vanished into bit-rot, this time sociology's contexts dot org (via @philipncohen.com) 120 2
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026remember when organizations had blogs and stuff? the cleanup took me back to "On the Human," from the National Humanities Center, which now looks like this 002 2
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026also discovered that the elaborate archive of DH 2014 conference abstracts, dharchive dot org, now looks like this. Another triumph for the experts in digital text archiving 010 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026slop is made by making pulp: library book acquisition displaced & precluded by process of buying & digesting (literally!) books into undifferentiated data capital www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-bu… 100 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026("Linguistics and Poetics," 1960, q.v.) 010 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026Diana Wynne Jones's childhood encounters with the great tradition of children's writing, magically personified 110 1
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026All beautifully plausible, except that search committees never tell you why in a rejection letter inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinio… 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026oh for god's sake #toxicmaxsecurity 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026Always love to see new athletics expenditures data. In 2024–2025 Rutgers-NB Athletics made $116M in revenue but achieved an all-time record in spending of $193M. Go Knights! knightnewhousedata.org/fbs/big-ten/… 000 0
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026Booksellers please note! Ambiguous utopias and historical studies should not be confused. Wouldn't want any conclusions to be drawn! (Bookseller, November 22, 1980: 27) 040 4