Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026At the same time, I get the utter gall and lack of sense when the industry marketing is saying, "your AI bot can make you a dinner reservations!" Thank you for solving this crisis. Can it pick up the check? 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's also frustrating to navigate a world where brilliant people who I deeply respect are still arguing, "these are useless, nonsense machines. If you're finding them useful, you're delusional or a fool." 110
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm not liking because of an injury, but I'm grateful to have more NFL/sports coverage on here. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'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. 011
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wow. I've seen some things in college football, but wow. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The mechanism of the lie is a gross misrepresentation of debates about whether teachers and administrators could respect a student's gender identity, yeah? Calling students by their preferred names and genders against parents' wishes is being spun as "transitioning." 041
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That's awesome. My son attends NMU, and we were able to visit him this summer. It was a privilege to be there. The view from Sugar Loaf is amazing. Enjoy! Eat a pasty or four. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Upper Peninsula or Northern Lower? The UP is worth it. One of the most beautiful places in the Midwest. Marquette/Munising is a great summer spot. 100
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026People 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. 030
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026There 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. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026When 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. 020
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026When you read too much popular music scholarship and can infer what the author meant to type. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It seems like questions about AI's behavior, function, and capability are more consequential than philosophical matters of its ontology and being. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Amazing the lengths our foreign adversaries would go to in order to defeat Kamala Harris. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026As I think more, this is a "luxury surveillance" example. How much disposable income does one need to even consider this idea? I track all my spending. If I have food in the fridge, gas in the car, and my family is good, I challenge myself to not spend money for days. AI buying for me? Fluff off. 0162
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026For one (of many), the promise that it will know you so well as to spend your money without your input is is comically nefarious. 1211
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Nice! That's great you found something that works for you. Majority of my patches are knees and elbows, and I've just acclimated to them. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'll live with mine. All-time undesirable side effects. Fatal infections of the perineum? No thanks. 100
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This whole thing is painful. My feed barely has any incidental sports content or commentary. Suddenly, it is filled with hot takes and people being snarky to each other about interpretations of FIFA rules and norms. They jumped right from parsing Alito and Kavanaugh to this. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026My daughter asked what this app is. I said, "it's like Twitter for liberals." She burst out laughing. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The Smashing Pumpkins should help open the Obama Presidential Center. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026These 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 110
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Heard "My Love" by Rick James for the first time. That was an experience. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I posted on LinkedIn for the first time today to talk about the phenomenon of students who I have never met sending me connection requests. It was just my wordy, slightly clunky voice. Felt almost subversive. Which is also my new brand. 🤣 150
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I 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. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Uh, no. I did not. I also believe that you can have a historical interest in the Second World War, even the rise of the Third Reich, and stop waaaaay short of a "nazi phase." 2120
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I'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. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Yesterday, 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. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I 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. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I typed "AdornoBot" and now feel like I lost brain cells. 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026My 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. 100
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Whatever one thinks about AI, I devoutly avoid Google Overviews. They're wrong or misleading so often. The web search experience continues to worsen. 110
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Trump 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. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Right, dinosaur documentaries didn't invent this framing. I've just seen it SO many times with similar beats and settings that I'd love to see someone get creative with a different way to present this story. 130
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I appreciate the layers of depth and insight. Even on a more "casual viewer" level, the standard conflict-based dino doc narratives are getting stale. How many of this trying to eat that, earthquake, volcano, climate change, starvation and drought, etc., do we need? Mix it up somehow. 120
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026It's a real phenomenon. "I may not love everything that's going on, but the alternative was incarcerated transgender people receiving gender affirming care, and that's unacceptable." 2171
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026At the very least, "Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all rolled into one" is unmistakably a threat. If you can't recognize that, you are either being intentionally disingenuous or are not reading the post with any clarity. Generally, does this sound like the President is well? 121
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026He was hacked, right? If not, how can anyone deny that the President is completely unwit and unwell? 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I love when someone thinks they're dropping a thought bomb on me by bringing up the NBA and saying 48/6 = 8 and 40/5 = 8. I get it. Let's adjust the rules to be more forgiving for college players 000
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026My primary experience on Bluesky is reading Big Accounts share writing and hot takes, as well as offering withering criticism of anyone who uses Gen AI for anything. It's definitely informative but not a very engaging place. 010
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Ten years ago, I might have gotten badly worked up about something like this. I don't want to see UM win a basketball title, obviously. However between my age and the state of the world, I have been granted more perspective about what matters. I would still pay $100, but I work in education. 160
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026"The woods have these things called 'deer.' You wouldn't believe it. White tails and everything. Who knew? I guess some people shoot them, which is a little sad, but people need to eat so these deer can be food, feed a family, the kids, they all love it. Maybe we'll serve deer in the ballroom..." 050
Josh @drjoshmoon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Nothing about Trump is really "funny" anymore, but he has so many of those ridiculous go-to's like taking something people are generally familiar with (be it the resurrection of Christ or the word "groceries") and talking like he's sharing newly discovered wisdom. 170