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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I genuinely do not want Marsha Blackburn to be the next governor of Tennessee. What's the maximum I can give to a candidate?

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you send me an email, and the first word of the first sentence is "It," I reserve the right to think mean, nasty things about you.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Took a break from Blue Sky. I need to come back. I saw this and thought, "Only in America."

A screenshot from ABC News with tags for a news article including "Gun Violence" and "Good News."

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I have a lot of types of least favorite emails, but "it won't let me emails" rank near the top. What is the "it" in your email? What is the action that "it" is preventing you from doing? So much of our email communication would improve if we could eliminate "it" from our writing.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I created some HTML/CSS code that works with @archiveofourown.org so that a writer can render playing cards in their stories.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I want to introduce people to the concept of active verbs. Active verbs create sentences that are not passive. My brain takes your passive-voice sentences and immediately forgets them. Do you want me to ignore you? Speak in passive voice. Do you want me to react? Use the active voice.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Hey! This is my student! (I'm in the second photo.)

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Today I learned that this command: chmod 007 filename ... will set a file so that only users who aren't the owner or aren't in the group can edit it. It also makes the file feel like a British secret agent.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Any date written in ISO 8601 format is valid! Also, I'm only supposed to use two digits for the year? *eye twitch*

I've written the date "2026-04-10," which is a valid ISO 8601 format. The error says, "Please enter a valid date using the format of month, day, and two-digit year.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are go for launch for all humanity!!!!! 🇺🇸🇨🇦🚀 Godspeed, Artemis II!

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A student showed me a website for an AI service. It was pretty obvious that all the pages advertising the service were written by AI, including paragraphs that criticized the product, using real Reddit comments.

Image was taken from the company website that read, "Be aware that Kali GPT is not an official tool developed by Offensive Security. It is more of a GPT-based interface with added Kali-related knowledge. Some users have described it as just a GPT-4 chatbot built by a marketing team."

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It's a nice evening for some SimCity.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I got a doctor's checkup after years of not stepping inside a doctor's office and months of my wife telling me to get a checkup. I got my results back: they're perfectly normal. Whew.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I've been reading about Swatch Beat Time, a time representation system developed by the Swatch corporation in the late 1990s. I want to bring it back. I also want it added to the ISO 8601 standard. I propose these examples for the standard. 2026-03-26@722 2026-03-26@722.7 2026-03-26@722.79

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

One of my research students came by my office. I was running some Python code directly in the Linux terminal related to his research. He looked at my screen funny. "This isn't PyCharm or Google Colab. How are you doing this?" He didn't realize that Python predates all Python IDEs.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Blue Sky is better for my mental health than Threads or Twitter. I need to hang out here more.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I went to an event tonight with 100 or so people that I didn't know, and when I came home, I didn't have a meltdown. Yay. Personal growth.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ten years ago, I wrote a book. Today, a student walked into my office, showed me a copy of my book, and asked me to sign it. It's the first time anyone has asked me for my autograph.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My little brother tells me that he's now a graphic designer for two different UFL teams and one NFL team. I had to look up what the UFL was.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I announced on Facebook about how my power went out, and we had to keep our iguana warm with our body heat. My dean said that she would deliver her portable generator straight to our house. (The power came back on a few hours later. Everything is good.)

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Get yourself a camera that can take a beating and record ICE every day.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Wait... Is Duolingo getting.... better?

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The year is 2026, and I need to locate the exact email in my Outlook inbox that contains the attachment I require. Gmail solved this problem in 2004.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

“But despite OpenAI’s talk of supporting health goals, the company’s terms of service directly state that ChatGPT and other OpenAI services ‘are not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition.’”

arstechnica.com

ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 03/01/2026

I know this is yesterday’s news and feels relatively unimportant now but just want to note that this is ongoing and X and xAI continue to do absolutely nothing about it despite being able to end it by pressing a single button.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Professor Darren Michael will return to his position as a tenured professor at Austin Peay State University.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I dreamed that I was building model rockets with Mark Rober last night. Super chill. Super nice.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I am horrified by this. This year I learned that I can be fired for sharing a news article on my private social media or for giving a student a low grade.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/12/2025

NEW: Hours before it was set to air an episode about migrants shipped to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, “60 Minutes” pulled the episode, preemptively caving to Trump. Just like that, the beloved show we have known is dead, Marc Elias writes.

democracydocket.com

“60 Minutes” Obeyed in Advance

Read more here.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Here's my Atari 2600 collection. What should I add?

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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Me: Opens up new journal article about how AI extracts racial data from digital pathology slides and then is biased and racist Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"

A pop-up on the Cell Reports Medicine page for the article:
ScienceDirectAI: Ask ScienceDirectAI, what is your research question>

Research faster with ScienceDirect AI

Ask complex questions your way and instantly find what you need from millions of peer-reviewed, full-text articles and book chapters.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Michele Reiner snapped this photograph. She was murdered last night. The subject of this photo had this to say about the death of her and her husband.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Today is the last day of the semester. I think I'm going to play Banished all night long. I want a game where I can peacefully escape everything.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Second full calendar year of Duolingo

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I asked Google Gemini to generate a photo-realistic image of a baseball game. Perfect. No notes.

My prompt was "Generate a photo of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the LA Dodgers. Make this image be as photo realistic as possible." The image generated depicts two baseball mounds (each with its own pitcher), with the batter standing in the infield (not at home plate), and eight additional fielders.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I want to see sports teams return to making team photos in this style.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I am today years old when I learned that Doom 64 is a completely different Doom from Doom I and II. I always thought Doom 64 was just a port of earlier Doom games.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I finished my seventh as Program Chair of the ACM Mid-Southeast in Gatlinburg, TN.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

One of my favorite use cases of AI is simply providing a wealth of information about a student and then saying, "Write me a letter of recommendation."

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Twice this week, I've told a friend that they've shared some AI slop. In both instances, the content appeared to be a news article with an AI-generated image. These friends are intelligent, and they honestly believed they were sharing valuable news content.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Dr. Rebecca Darrough (Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at APSU) died over the weekend from an illness. She was a dedicated colleague.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The official Stranger Things social media profile picture is Oscar from Sesame Street dressed as a demogorgon.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We had a pretty good snow in Clarksville this morning.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

SIGNATURES
For Cornell University:
Michael I. Kotlikoff
President of Cornell University
Office of the President
300 Day Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education):
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istant Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
For the Department of Health and Human Services:
Paula Matana S
Paula M. Stannard
Director, Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Effective Date:
14/7/2025.

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James Church @jcchurch.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I use this teleprompter software, not for reading scripts for recorded video lectures, but for just reading in general.

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