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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BYU College of Social Sciences’ distinguished alumni lecture today: Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a 2021 History graduate (she finished her degree after being elected) currently defending the integrity of our state’s election system and privacy of voters against attacks from the Trump admin.

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes and: for anyone reading here, a reminder that humans designed the “agents” to work this way.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On top of all of this, Cox notoriously preaches one thing and does the opposite.

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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’

Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In potentially related news, I paid $72 to fill up my Nissan Altima with gas today.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been critical of Berhalter’s play in the past, but he’s really turned it on out late and won me over. #USMNT

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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We outlaw hacking, building nukes, etc., & regulate misc activities that represent realized or *potential* threats, and yet, these billionaires’ AI toys are allowed to do things that would get us arrested. Money’s power is bonkers. I’m no doomsday alarmist, but…come on! www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census

OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@benjaminepark.bsky.social delivers the annual Leonard Arrington lecture at the historic Logan tabernacle.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1. “Old English” doesn’t just mean “English as spoken a long time ago.” It refers to the earliest spoken form of English + died out ~500 years before Shakespeare was born. 2. There’s no need to add an “e” to Old, unless you also add “800” after “English” and have the malt liquor in mind.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does he … not know what Old English is? It doesn’t just mean “English from a long time ago.”

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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Holy Sith: Dark Side Cults and Religiosity on Ancient Moraband

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians

theguardian.com

Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve seen enough. Brighton’s winning the league. #BHAFC #UpTheAlbion

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I submitted my tenure file last month. In my narrative statement describing my teaching, I included this paragraph. In response to AI, I’ve opted to lean even more into assigning reading, research, and writing.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(To clarify, Lepore is arguing exactly what I do: “Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.”)

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My goodness. If researching and writing and teaching and mentoring isn’t your thing, go find another job. That it literally what you’re paid to do. I hate this timeline.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work.” Well, yeah. That’s the point! It’s literally what professors do for *work*!

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh well. Thats 5 wins for the Seagulls in the last 6 contests at Old Trafford. Up the Albion!

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brighton beat Man U today (hooray!). I’m excited they’ll garner something more than a brief mention on the EPL podcasts tomorrow. The annoying thing is that it’ll be framed entirely around what ManU did wrong/what this means for them, instead of what BHAFC did right/what it means for them.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.” Some of us have been pointing this out for years.

nytimes.com

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Filled up for $4.79/gallon today. Not great.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if this was in an evangelical movie about the antichrist you'd think it'd be a bit much

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Post stays. WMU got screwed. Time ran out, game was over. Clock was clear. What BS. And Whittingham is still a tool.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me to my 10yo (a City fan): “City just signed Enzo Fernandez.” 10yo, sardonically: “I thought there was ‘No Room for Racism’ in the Premier League.”

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Joseph Lowery @joeclowery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

👀 Sources: MLS is fully returning to the U.S. Open Cup. All 27 U.S.-based MLS teams will participate in a revamped version of the country's longest-running soccer competition 🏆 Reporting with @benwright.bsky.social for @backheeled.com ⤵️

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Sources: MLS to return all of its teams to the U.S. Open Cup

All 27 U.S.-based MLS teams will return to a revamped version of the country's longest-running soccer competition.

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Students need traditional training - language skills, paleography, source analysis, and synthesis - to be able to even begin to work with these tools.

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tonight I taught myself what a “radicant” is and learned how to simplify + solve radical equations. I think.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Helping my middle schooler + high schooler with math I have no memory of ever learning (either because I never did, in fact, learn it or because I learned a different method) is truly something else.

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Fiona Shameless: Never Again

ALT: Fiona Shameless: Never Again

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ahhh, that makes much more sense. Ha. Those first 30 minutes were definitely a thrashing.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 4-3 loss doesn’t seem like much of a thrashing (especially when BHAFC were missing all but one starting midfielder and forwards), but Martinez was a nice pickup in goal. Also, this was Brighton’s fourth match in 10 days, so I feel pretty positive overall.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Did you see how quickly GenAI offered ‘feedback’ on this essay I wrote?” Cool. Why is that a good thing?

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“This would take professional animators weeks to make!” Okay, so what?

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Perpetually confused by pro-AI boosters pointing out how *fast* GenAI produces art, writing, etc. As if speed were a virtue in and of itself. Why does animation need to be produced quickly? Why rush writing? I genuinely don’t get it.

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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The property clause of the Constitution says Congress, not the president, decides whether to sell federal property. But … the Constitution also gives Congress control of spending and the power to declare war so #Yosemite constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Watched it earlier this week (before Tim Curry’s passing).

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We don’t deserve public school teachers. Overwhelmed with gratitude with how much they love and care for and teach my children.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

2026 marks 50 years of American Studies at BYU. The director celebrated by gifting custom Chuck Taylors to faculty.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think French ignores the many aspects of traditional GOP ideology to which Trump has acceded, including the most central, such as tax cuts for the rich, which has been the major legislative accomplishment of both of his terms, climate change denial, conservative judges, deregulation, and so on.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's almost like not doing the assignments that are supposed to help you understand and master the material interferes with your ability to understand and master the material. Curious.

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Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There’s several options. See here: makefamilytree.org and here: familytreecraft.com for just two examples.

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