Reposted by John BaxindineBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 4204126 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm the car that a three-year-old boy backed into traffic on a busy road at rush hour. (I got the car into accessory mode, then neutral, and it started down the hill by itself. I pounded on the brake but I wasn't heavy enough to depress the pedal.) 030 0
Reposted by John BaxindineNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What AI (LLM) boosters don't understand is that the use cases for LLMs are centered around people who know how to think, how to learn and how to say "I don't know". ChatGPT's public release in late 2022 was carcinogenic to thought 724451 0
Reposted by John BaxindineNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Humans not engaging in reasoned deliberation and who are relatively unskilled at critical thinking aren't proof against all humans having these innate capacities. We can't let Big Tech convince us otherwise. Literally, human life surviving this century depends on it. 23910 0
Reposted by John BaxindineJasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026It seems like there are ever greater reasons to write, and an ever diminishing reading public. A greater need for patience and deliberation, but only the appetite for furious cacophonies. And everywhere little princelings ruling over shattered, empty lands. 0318 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Agatha Christie John Creasey Ngaio Marsh Terry Pratchett Rex Stout 000 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you. 030 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A journalist asks the essential question of our time: 020 0
Reposted by John BaxindineMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202 120238 0
Reposted by John BaxindineAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Common Sense, published 250 years ago today. 8365362301 0
Reposted by John BaxindinePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2025I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish. 9264851555 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I got in the elevator and hit the down button. Whoopi Goldberg got in, also hitting the down button. The elevator went up. 030 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I walked out of Mee Noodle Shop on 9th Avenue in the pouring rain and turned to walk south, falling into step alongside a woman who was eating extremely wet pizza as she walked. It was Jane Lynch. I think I made a joke about paying extra for rain-topped pizza. 010 0
Reposted by John BaxindineElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025 135159643802 0
Reposted by John BaxindineElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 20/03/2025"As it happens, Columbia was founded in 1754 as King’s College. An imprudent choice now could result in the school becoming the de facto fief of an aspiring angry king." Let's make it trend: #ColumbiaCollegeofNoKing www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comA Warning for Columbia UniversitySurrendering to the Trump administration’s $400 million ransom demand would be a disaster for higher education and for the United States. 27325 0
Reposted by John BaxindineElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting. 520972 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is one of my favorite "public" historical documents. Quite a few of my German ancestors lived in Philadelphia in 1776; this was surely the Declaration they read. 030 0
Reposted by John BaxindineWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/02/2025But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 730460 0
Reposted by John BaxindineElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Trump and Musk have thrown a grenade into the national security apparatus and eventually it will go off. New piece w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com on the trust bomb hitting the invisible systems that make US foreign policy run. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comDoes DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?Uncertainty about access and authority will worry allies and tempt adversaries. 35328 0
Reposted by John BaxindinePaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10/12/2024A new JWST deep field. All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY. 16736219 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Musician: <runs wet finger over edge of glass to create a sound> It's a quarter-step sharp. <pours out a tiny amount> 140 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 16/11/2024that canceled TV series you'll never stop thinking about 050 0
Reposted by John BaxindineJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/10/2024the most dangerous place in the world is standing in between an NYT editor and an active verb with a clear object 101020201 0
Reposted by John BaxindineDr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 01/10/2024A lovely #Roman sculpture of four adorable little puppies, all curled up asleep together! It was found in #Pompeii, probably more than 2000 years ago - AncientBlueSky 010018 0
Reposted by John BaxindineCaleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2024A weak and low part of me enjoyed this 18th-century account of American hummingbirds by Peter Kalm. (From @birdhistory.bsky.social's recent newsletter about reports of abundant bird life in early America: birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-in-t...) 1218543 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 23/05/2024...and shit pay for (and treatment of) musicians. Not that anyone cares about that. 020 0
Reposted by John BaxindineWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 08/05/2024I wish you all joy of the worm. 729671 0
John Baxindine @jbax.bsky.social · 23/10/2023The only work by Natalie Zemon Davis that I have read is The Return of Martin Guerre. It is a masterpiece not only of historical interpretation but of concision. (Naturally, the musical version removed everything that was interesting about the true story.) 000 0
