Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Re Amz customer profile: "Product Preferences: Consistently replenishes tennis consumables" ---> this is too much; we have to regulate this kind of invasive profiling 010
Reposted by Jonathan Goodwindoleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote a screed: www.wastebooks.org/posts/old-wi...wastebooks.orgOld Wine in New BottlesNescire Aude 033
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Latest Miéville not on display in local Rouse's. 052
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026the tennis early in the second season a bit more realistic than usual filmed attempts, which I appreciated 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It amazes me how some academics never learned from S&W! 020
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I sometimes still see "honestly, that's a load-bearing observation," a small but real datum 040
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It does seem like the Bertrand Russell, these-were-early-totalitarians-with-kypteia-being-secret-police, interpretation is "in effect," though I think his primary interest is the whole patristic Greek-pantheon-as-demons (angels, middle spirits...), which he returns to in tech. form in Long Sun. 150
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I just returned to Latro last night. Synchronicity, the acausal unifying principle? Hard to dispute. (His anti-Athena agenda somewhat odd, inviting esoteric interpretations...) 140
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026David Rasche was underused in Succession, esp. given that the same writers, etc. gave him such a good part in In the Loop. But that's the only example I'm willing to entertain! 000
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026He must have been haunted by the future depicted in "Seven American Nights." 030
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"Millions more who have never read the poem nonetheless know its story thanks to the 1984 song 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. [citation needed]" 040
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I noticed an isometric CRPG that was set in the WH40K storyworld, which seemed pretty interesting. Maybe that'll be my gateway... 030
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026See that Cosma Shalizi here was puzzled as well by the popularity of Warhammer 4k: bactra.org/weblog/algae...bactra.orgBooks to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2026 130
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I think they rolled up a psionicist, frankly, but burn-out is pretty fast. 050
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026streaming popup asking me if I like the show I'm binging---surprisingly good question. They put those bits to use, after all. Consumer information I mean. 000
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026"A senior C.I.A. official was arrested last week after investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence, a small fortune that he apparently brought home from work, according to court papers." $40m 'small fortune' per NYT style guide. 040
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I found this image in Anger's Hollywood Babylon, scanned it, and used it as the display image on my web page in 1998 or so: web.archive.org/web/19991004...web.archive.orgJonathan Goodwin 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026That's the Louisiana method. It may sound like MMT, but it's actually a great deal more sophisticated than that. 100
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's a phased operation. Next is Canva. Then Cava. then (Ca)lifornia. Then all the C compilers. 042
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026currently doing a complete read through of Crowley myself. There's a "lot going on" in The Deep. 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026One imagines the grizzled post-apocalyptic prospector's dismay at yet another group of chronoadventurers seeking Jitson's Portal in the old Entre deux fougères building. 030
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026a shiver in the Kharg, missiles raining in the dark, meantime, south of the strait, ships hold everything... 000
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026To be fair, there was quite a lot of codswallop circulating about Joyce at this time, but still: 100
Reposted by Jonathan Goodwindoleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 24/04/2026www.wastebooks.org/posts/chu-au... 021
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The rumors that Nanaimoteuthis haggarti communicated telepathically and still broadcasts certain earworms and the kernels of whimsical posts from abyssal vents are just that---rumors. 020
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Light-source puzzles involving monsters in the dark are thin grue for players at this point. 041
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My son is a senior in HS, and I got interested in admissions data (sadly enough). The volume of applications to UCLA does not seem viable with any imaginable selection process. Sortition really seems best under those circumstances. 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026the pan aves --> pandemonium pathway well grooved, though I of course have no idea if allbirds is an id app, a restaurant, or some heretofore-unimagined thing. 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026If you've read The Third Policeman, I could imagine an amusing riff on the nested boxes with different models, makes, and hues of the cars inside this little car. 130
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026It's from that Ted Chiang story about free will. It lights up before you push it. Nobody likes it. 030
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Dougie from beloved tv serial Twin Peaks (3rd series) could read the Hawking radiation from his void orb to play the slots, or so I've been told. 150
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Mildly curious if the base rate literature has any conjectures that doctors are selected somehow for being bad at it. 000
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It does raise a question: are there novels that maintain the canons of probability but for a single Waffle-Haus teleport? 000
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026There's an analysis of the claude code leak going around that seems almost certainly written by one of claude's models. Short sentences getting shorter at the end of a paragraph, in a kind of reddit-cadence, that's the essence of online. 110
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Need a reliable heuristic for spelling "Gigerenzer"---can't even come close most of the time. 000
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Shouldn't Parade magazine and Marilyn vos Savant have paid royalties to the descendants of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...?en.wikipedia.orgJoseph Bertrand - Wikipedia 020
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Long-serving faculty senator here: yes they certainly will, but not as much over zoom, oddly. 110
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Fisher's lady who tasted tea, Dr. Muriel Bristol, was an algologist, which is not in fact a student of sadism, unless you consider sustained attention to algae, their properties & doings, necessarily painful. 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I've long thought about writing a paper arguing that nothing called a fallacy is one in literary scholarship. Characters are people (to the extent we understand them). The author's intention is complete and final (more or less). How it makes you feel is data (?) 120
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I want to check in with the "nothing ever happens" folks to see what's really going on. 020
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I remember them. I was active from pretty much the earliest days of academic blogging (Invisible Adjunct comment threads) and got reprimanded by Luker on several occasions for impertinent remarks. 110
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I'm sure there are people who hear the story about Thales and the olive presses and think: you must be very smart indeed to make a lot of money. 130
Reposted by Jonathan GoodwinTHE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 25/02/2026Various philosophies 048194
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I'm looking forward to reading your book, as I'm very interested in the topic. Do you happen to write anything about the idea of a 'causal loop' in ecology, as a difficulty of narrating it? Perhaps a niche interest of mine... 110
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026reminds me a bit of coming home late, turning on the tv, and immediately concluding that my roommates were filming an ersatz Headbangers' Ball in a bedroom and displaying it, through a cable I hunted for but could not find, on said tv. 010
Jonathan Goodwin @joncgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I wouldn't mind a browser plug-in to convert paleontological species names in wiki pages to literal English equivalents: it would be easier to understand "beasthead" or "ugly dog teeth in cheek" or "lizard ass"---at least at first. 040
Reposted by Jonathan GoodwinLetters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin 157102983045
