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Josh

@drjoshmoon.bsky.social
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AFOL, guitar player, higher ed, parent, MSU/OhioU, sports, dinosaurs. Wrote a diss on rock music. SW Michigan born & raised. Used to have way more hair.

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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've lived in a few different Midwest places from Elsie, MI to Indianapolis (I know, BIG TIME), but Athens, Ohio is the one I miss the most by far. Great campus, quirky energy, a lil spooky, access to nature, vibrant cultural life. Magical. I treasure my two grad school runs down there.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wow. I've seen some things in college football, but wow.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
People who think smiling, hyper-alert AI people appear warm and engaging have clearly never seen the "Black Hole Sun" video. It's all I can see most of the time.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There is one "big account" that used to be informative and full of quality historical analysis. This person's posting seems to have veered into a lot of snarky punching up, down, and sideways. The way attention appears to drive someone into a different type of indulgent posting is wild.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
When you need to check the behavior of questions and quiz banks in your Moodle Development environment so you create a category called "Questions about dinosaurs." Then you realize that years ago you already created a category called "Questions about dinosaurs." At least I'm consistent.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My bid to be an influencer.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It seems like questions about AI's behavior, function, and capability are more consequential than philosophical matters of its ontology and being.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Bluesky discovered sports. Fun.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My daughter asked what this app is. I said, "it's like Twitter for liberals." She burst out laughing.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4!?!?!?! 5-4!?!?!
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Smashing Pumpkins should help open the Obama Presidential Center.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
These dinosaur models by eli3D are gorgeous. I've printed so many and love each one. Commencement delayed by weather so I removed the supports. cults3d.com/@eli3D
Pink 3D print of an Amargasaurus resting its front legs on books in an office.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Heard "My Love" by Rick James for the first time. That was an experience.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I still think about the iconoclastic pedagogy and tech writer who took a job with a dubious ed tech company when the work fell apart. People have to eat, I get it.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I've annoyed that I know what Curtis Yarvin looks like well enough that I can identify an article about him in German before I even read his name.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Yesterday, I discussed Dua Lipa's "New Rules" as an Advice to Women song in the spirit that Daphne Duvall Harrison and Angela Davis use to discuss the blues tradition of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. It was a bit of a stretch, but not unreasonable I think.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I don't begrudge someone getting paid for their time and expertise, but I just found out a particular educational speaker makes a sixth of my salary for one talk. Didn’t expect that. Really questioning my life choices and professional ambition.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My feelings about AI can be a bit complicated, but I'm reasonably confident that having AI impersonate a specific person as an authority of what the individual would say is deeply flawed, be it a deceased loved one, figure in US history, or Jesus. I'm sure we all need an AdornoBot in our life.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Whatever one thinks about AI, I devoutly avoid Google Overviews. They're wrong or misleading so often. The web search experience continues to worsen.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump has been satiated at times by his ability to spin a narrative to his will and fabricate new realities. In complex foreign conflicts, that becomes increasingly difficult with a resolute adversary. It's clearly driving him to unhinged outbursts of anger. Deadly foreign policy by toddler.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
He was hacked, right? If not, how can anyone deny that the President is completely unwit and unwell?
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I just ate half of my fortune, which says something about quality of the cookie.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
MSU 2026 - 2027 starting center idea: Xavier Tillman Sr. "Only" 27, still has a year of college eligibility, making 2.5 million to sit on the bench in the NBA. Match it and let him mentor the young players. Why not? He has eligibility and there are no rules in college basketball anymore.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yeah, MSU is playing terribly tonight, but they've been missing an offensive gear for some time. How many players on this team do you trust to score consistently?
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"We're living in a world of digital limitlessness where Microsoft Copilot is going to make our lives easier and Office tools more efficient!" "Can I copy-paste images into Excel yet?" "Oh, that sort of technical capability is beyond imagination, but you can probably vibe code an agent to do it!"
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Watching NC State lose in the "first four" (still hate it), while MSU could really use another guard who can shoot, defend, and run some point is a bummer. I don't know that Tre Holloman ended up having the experience he hoped for, but that grass is often greener.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
First, I bothered to look up what a Billiken is for the first time. That was a ride. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken
en.wikipedia.org
Billiken - Wikipedia
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is my first March Madness on Bluesky, and it is rough. Is there anybody out there? Should I start posting into the void?
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
For whatever its limitations might have been, I definitely miss the online and in-person community of the Digital Pedagogy Lab these days.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I'm a bit of a gray area moderate on AI, but replicating the dead, be it public figures or family members, is an awful violation. Grief vs. financial exploitation have different motives, but even the former feels like something people need to be counseled against. The latter is capital ghouldom.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I know the entire world is trying to nickel and dime everyone, but I just realized I need a Paramount+ PREMIUM subscription to watch MSU basketball. Steaming has become such a racket.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Many of my conservative acquaintances claimed that Donald Trump would take sex trafficking seriously. They were excited when the Administration released the first wave of Epstein documents to friendly media. What do they think of Pam Bondi ranting about the Dow's gains when asked about Epstein?
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A few friends around Kalamazoo College know that my pie-in-the-sky, passion project is an interdisciplinary Senior Seminar titled "Dinosaurs in Culture." Something like this would be an option as a textbook. So cool! (this class is probably never happening, but still!)
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two things about the altered Nekima Levy Armstrong photo: 1. It's social and political meaning is 100% as horrible as everyone is saying. 2. I know tons of "independents" and "moderates" will insist it's no big deal. The last part is as dangerous as those who delight in it ghoulishly.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I added the Stylus add-on to Firefox and am now fascinated with experimenting with CSS options on the fly.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sometimes you have to stop agonizing over the nuances of word choice and tone and just send the damn email. However, you sometimes have to make an unnecessary Bluesky post first.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is exactly right. The idea that this violence will only come for people who "deserve" it is vital for Trump supporters. They believe, sometimes correctly, that they will be spared because they're the good, law-abiding, proper keepers of United States membership.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I know it's cool on Bluesky to be dismissive of anyone using an LLM as ignorant or worse, but I'm reminded how casually and widely people are using them as part of their daily life. Just happened to me at the barbershop with the barber and his customer, both regular users of GenAI in various ways.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
All the power and coding of Microsoft, and I'm fascinated by what its products CAN'T do. Easily take Attendance in a Teams class? Good luck! Loading all members of a Team into the Scheduling Assistant should be one button. Not there. Can Copilot find an available time for everyone to meet? Nope.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
You cannot pick up the pass interference call against Minnesota then call that pass interference against MSU. It isn't either call, it's the inconsistenty.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Attending a conference about AI and the Liberal Arts while refreshing Bluesky is a deeply dissonant experience, but I'm okay with that. Almost enjoy it? Welcome to modern life and "Meta-prompting for Metacognition."
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I should expect nothing less, but the fact that all the .gov accounts that joined Bluesky immediately started trolling to own the libs is wild.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
General observation: "imbricated" is definitely a word, and it is catching on with academics. I don't know that I'd ever heard it before, and now it's been twice in two days. Imbricated is not just for roof tiles anymore!
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Do people still live post through conferences? Is that a thing? Did the end of the hashtag on BlueSky kill the practice?
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I was reading a Reel by someone who considers themselves an advocate and experimenter of new tech, including AI music. They seemed quite shaken and nervous about Sora. When people who otherwise are excited evangelists get nervous, I take extra caution and notice.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Remember when your GOP-loving friends, family, and acquaintances would complain about how "divisive" Obama was?
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hey, if you want to win, you're gonna need to do a little war crime. Kill civilians first, ask for forgiveness (or don't) later. Wow.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So much near-parody from Hegseth today. Had to laugh at the "no hot yoga or stretching" part. Considering yoga and stretching can be excellent for overall fitness (anyone heard of Tom Brady?), it's proof what a performatively sexist display this is. Yoga is clearly too effeminate for a warrior.
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I'm reminded that many people who support Trump's intervention in Portland are less concerned about the consequences of domestic deployment of the military, actual crime rates, or Constitutionality, and more guided by "these people piss me off and Trump is going to show them who's boss."
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Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
"Share your favourite black and white movie." I don't know if this counts as a doc, but I'm going with it!
Bob Dylan from the documentary Don't Look back. He's holding a giant lightbulb in front of the press.
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