John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is evidence that Gary may have personal issues preventing him from forming meaningful relationships which are totally unconnected to his employer www.wired.com/story/tech-b... 413727
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Grand Canyon Butcher of Bakerstown Seaperson 1642 Boise Dauphin 000
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Me grabbing a muffin when another department uses our common room for a meeting. 000
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026John Leguizamo could be the first person nominated for an Academy Award for playing a character who threw a puppy off a cliff 000
Reposted by John JonesDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/12/2025From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values. 17789147
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 13/06/2025When I worked at Best Buy in Lexington, I saw John Michael Montgomery twice. The first time, I sold him an absurd (to me, a broke kid) amount of camcorder batteries. The second, he brought in his camcorder for repair after it was rained on and warped when he tried to dry it with a hairdryer. 010
Reposted by John JonesMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/05/2025The one time I felt bad was when an Informatica marketing person came by and yelled something like "who do we thank for this party?!?" and people yelled "TECHDIRT!" instead of Informatica. Oh well. Anyway, if Salesforce wants to throw us a party too, let me know. 31151
Reposted by John JonesLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This was a fun explainer because it was written two days ago and half of the public health infrastructure it refers to is either incommunicado or destroyedvox.comEggs are pricey again. What’s the government doing about it?And four other burning bird flu questions, answered. 8444108
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled was getting us to watch a commercial before a movie trailer. 000
Reposted by John Jonesghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/01/2025my bar for quality is a lot higher on obvious AI output than it is for human output: I’m interested in reading your B-minus tweets but absolutely uninterested in reading the B-minus stuff you got the AI to say 1124615
Reposted by John JonesMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Kids today don't like school, a totally new thing that has never happened before. bsky.app/profile/daed... 28142380
Reposted by John JonesInternet Archive @archive.org · 31/12/2024KICK OFF THE NEW YEAR WITH THE INTERNET ARCHIVE! 🍾 Starting at 12:01am ET, we'll be revealing the creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 that are entering the public domain in the US. Learn how you can celebrate throughout January: blog.archive.org/2024/12/26/c... 121747622
Reposted by John JonesAnna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 26/12/2024This is a good thread. And as well as the huge financial hit and the threat to safety, there's the way car culture erodes community. It creates a lot of people who effectively live in fearful bubbles. 2244
Reposted by John JonesChristian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Never lived in Japan. But I spent enough time in Berlin that I almost lived there (3 1/2 weeks at a time for months), and the quality of life there is vastly better than here. Noah Smith says crime is the #1 disadvantage of the U.S. I disagree; it's cars./1 www.noahpinion.blog/p/yes-americ...noahpinion.blogYes, Americans are much richer than Japanese peopleGDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good. 7817
Reposted by John JonesDr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Anybody teach a unit on crisis communication and willing to share their materials with me? Bonus points if you do so through a case study or simulation. 113
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 16/12/2024“Mary could marry any man in town. She doesn’t want to. She wants George. She takes the measure of George, seeing something in him that he can’t see, and which is perhaps only partially visible to us. What Mary sees in him does not reflect any of the abortive visions George has for himself.”thebulwark.comThere Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning. 010
Reposted by John JonesHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024This is a very good and important paper for scholars of race and identity. Also just one of those papers you read that makes you wonder how this wasn’t done much sooner. Highly recommend it. 39732
Reposted by John JonesBethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 09/12/2024#TeamRhetoric, what books/articles on composition theory & pedagogy have worked in your classes recently? What do new teachers really need to be learning about right now? I'm teaching our MA composition seminar this spring -- it's been a couple years so I'm looking to spruce up my syllabus. 093
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 06/12/2024When I was a kid, I thought the line, “I want a yacht and really that’s not a lot” from Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby” was “I want a lot and really that’s not a lot,” and I think my version is better. 000
Reposted by John JonesJennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Can I share another gem from this piece that I think is super relevant to current discussions of GenAI? Lately I've seen more on here about how AI relies on exploited labor in the Global South for data labeling & content moderation. Selfe described this dynamic quite clearly more than 25 years ago. 2155
Reposted by John Jonesmuscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 04/12/2024pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people 137133824074
Reposted by John JonesMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/12/2024tell your friends and foes 1010616
Reposted by John JonesCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024People dressed as Nazis are Nazis this isn't a street performance of Sound of Music 10857311267
Reposted by John JonesA. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 12/10/2024If anyone’s trying to figure out a Halloween costume and has a 3d printer, a friend of mine just published a Moo Deng chestburster 😹😹😹 cults3d.com/en/3d-model/... 633108793
Reposted by John JonesFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/10/2024I think that it’s going to be hard to regulate AI and I also think it is absolute nonsense to believe that it’s too hard and we should give up now. Humanity is very good at coming up with clever solutions for things, including “crushing horrible little men like Sam Altman.” 711517
Reposted by John JonesMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Johnson, dripping with sweat: "I believe it was Werner Heisenberg who first noted that, at the very basic fabric of spacetime, certain things are fundamentally unknowable" 723235
Reposted by John Jonesjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2024republicans do literally everything they can to hobble disaster response and then blame the results on the people trying to do their jobs 362291386
Reposted by John Jonestweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 04/10/2024nothing good comes of people thinking computer programs might be useful 2437
John Jones @johnmjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Completely sideways to this discussion, but the idea that we could handle flying cars is madness. 100
Reposted by John JonesStephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Ohio Republicans passed one of the country’s strictest voter ID laws in 2023, excluding common types such as student IDs. The result: Thousands have already been prevented from voting and the proportion of rejected provisional ballots has surged www.cleveland.com/open/2024/10... 8157104
Reposted by John JonesPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2024media.tenor.coma man with a beard is holding a flashlight in his hand .ALT: a man with a beard is holding a flashlight in his hand . 211917
Reposted by John JonesAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 03/10/2024FRIENDS, TODAY I AM DELIGHTED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO: THE FLYTRAP we are a collective of 10 feminist writers + artists building a worker-owned, reader-centered publication because we are ding-dang tired of tech bros and venture capitalists ruining feminist journalismkickstarter.comThe Flytrap: Bringing Back the Feminist BlogWorker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm 271034385
Reposted by John JonesLe Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 03/10/2024This makes me want to cry and also track all of the people involved down and make them go muck houses in Asheville 0153
Reposted by John JonesL Chupacabra: The Pope Of Chili Town @lchupacabra.bsky.social · 02/10/2024 152674745
Reposted by John Jonesdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Reporter here. I'm interested in connecting with folks involved in using Ham radio to aide in the #Helene response, or those who may have benefited from such services. DMs are open. 9187124
Reposted by John JonesTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/10/2024Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC) 7232301665
Reposted by John JonesJohanna Bozuwa @jbozuwa.bsky.social · 01/10/2024NEW REPORT! Planning to build faster: a solar case study. We argue that fast, equitable solar deployment requires the federal government take a more active role in coordination and planning. @cplusc.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgPlanning to Build Faster: A Solar Energy Case Study - Roosevelt InstituteIn a new Roosevelt Institute analysis in collaboration with the Climate and Community Institute, authors Johanna Bozuwa, Dustin Mulvaney, Isabel Estevez, Adriana DiSilvestro, Kristina Karlsson, and Su... 27231
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