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Joseph Jones

@jonesj.bsky.social
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Librarian and Textician § Inopinum intactumque – Martianus Capella

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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ironically, perhaps, the pedagogy this implies looks like the traditional elite liberal arts education … The form of instruction that mass higher education abandoned as unaffordable might well return as ancient technology for building a future-proof product. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The University after AI
This paper develops an analytic framework to offer strategic guidance to rebuild or reform universities through the AI era. We review the history of universitie
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The product graduates need is not a body of knowledge to fit a career, but a demonstrated capacity to acquire the next technology faster than the market can standardise it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The University after AI
This paper develops an analytic framework to offer strategic guidance to rebuild or reform universities through the AI era. We review the history of universitie
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here is an externalized version of my lifelong personal wetware quandary ... how to get back. ––– The longstanding default? If it matters it will stick. ––– A while back, days of brute force wishing eventually dislodged the name of the guy who rented the downstairs apartment when I was 8 years old.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Imagine hot-pooping around your own navel for 2295 words & using "leech" for "leach" while getting lost in the franticism #booksky ––––––––––––––– maryhkchoi.substack.com/p/keys-open-...
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Keys Open Doors
Reflecting on my first book published ten years ago; DJ Khaled's memoir The Keys
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Let Spring in East Vancouver Creep You Out #altgoth #foundscene
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Del Houston @delhouston.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
On the road between Houston and Corpus Christi. #Houston #Corpo
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New idiom encountered today "Go down for the dirt nap"
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ho-hum zzz ... in the online NYT xword as syndicated to Seattle Times botches & distortions not rare – for the most part, degenerated puzzles remain solvable, but take lots more work – typicals = gaps/shifts mismatch the clues, clues for last verticals cut off www.vulture.com/article/new-...
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An Existential Crisis in the Crossword Community
For the first time in its 84-year history, the New York Times accidentally published an unsolvable grid.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
A brief history of how the $$$ uni $$$ ate up the di....... of the ...versity
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Forms of the word mitigate pervade what I find posted online about llm / ai by the upper-tier "research" base where I happen to be institutionalized
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Super unusual to encounter a feature film that gets so many elements so right Start with script, casting, settings, camerawork Cuneiform theme may be the apex of this cinematic mountain range Ich bin dein Mensch (2021) is also prescient
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
If I feel like a stateless agent can I think that I exist?
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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I've said this to fellow academics for months: “most people are using the free version of AI tools. The free version is over a year behind what paying users have access to....The people paying for the best tools, and using them daily for real work, know what's coming.” shumer.dev/something-bi...
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Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Whats up? Bluesky always asking. This & now.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
this such-a-hoot haplography is brought to you by @stefanfatsis.bsky.social (who slightly abridged his Unabridged … ) ———————————————————————————— Josh deftly edited my original Slate story (and many other stories), immeasurably improved this book's manuscrpt, and listened to me whine in between.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Corpus Linguistics vs one SCOTUS schmotus on the meaning of the term ——————— « bear arms » ——————— #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In terms of physical bibliography, how does the new 30th anniversary edition of infinite jest compare with the still-for-sale 1996 hardback edition? How Gemini AI responds to that bookish question – #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The story of Σωτάδης (3rd century BC) Greek poet who lived in Alexandria that ancient & fabled city then young #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The frivolous "ends" of formal schooling, as John Milton perceived in a pamphlet of 1644 addressed to Samuel Hartlib: • Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente #outcomes
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Brymo @brymo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I really like the color and textures of this photo! #278 taken 7:12 pm #photography #art #abstract #abalone
Macro photograph of an abalone shell
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
@ayjay.bsky.social ——————— Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost ——————— oopsie alert to @princetonupress.bsky.social
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saintmaker.bsky.social @saintmaker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“A Texas Still Life in Black and White” Near Comanche, TX #Scape #ClassicMono
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"whether caving is not endemic to every facet of the academic ecosystem" ... PS : this is not caving as in spelunking #dorkakademia
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Happenstance know-nothing reading of Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler – 2021 ——— Expecting jaded first-person narrator to go subversive and to one-up gauzy Felix after his preclusionary pop-off ——— Surprised to watch narrator spiral off into trad & agentless oyly ponder of self-subjection ——— #booksky
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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress. Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
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eyeconic.me @eyeconicme.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Once upon a time it was somebody's home. #ArtYear #Artshow #Photography #iphonephotography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #home #BlueSkyArtShow #NewMexico #GhostTown
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
"What we need now is a history of collapse for the 99 per cent" —————————— aeon.co/essays/the-g...
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The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My review of Why Religion Went Obsolete (2025) ————————————————— www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Aleph's review of Why Religion Went Obsolete
5/5: The purpose of this review is to extract a few nuggets and narrative strands from the massive surrounding overburden of numeric ore that an academic sociologist feels required to accrete.Genre ma...
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Fun to see my experiential recollection of the November 2024 turn to Bluesky quantified ————— doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
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Redirecting
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2025
New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky rdcu.be/etk07 The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +
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The impact of language models on the humanities and vice versa
Nature Computational Science - Many humanists are skeptical of language models and concerned about their effects on universities. However, researchers with a background in the humanities are also...
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Pungent page on persuasion from Richard Russo way back in 1997 #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"And since the only things that might be helpful are the things that cannot be said, I am without a strategy for the present circumstance." William Henry Devereaux Jr (as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails) Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997 #collegenovel #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
In the dialectic of the academy the supplicant purchaser is seen to entwine with the supplicant purveyor at the vanishing point of symbiotic stasis
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Ever more strongly suspecting how spring 2025 will go down in my personal history as the moment where I regularly consider what various AIs have to say about new questions arising for this librarian towards the end of a lifetime spent inside the question business www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
… many artists say they are particularly concerned about AI’s ability to mimic certain styles, which artists have honed for years … I howned mymesis to the paint of seaming so scharp that I came to byleave I was sum original scissors-pasty romantiac #whartz www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Viral AI-made art trends are making artists even more worried about their futures
ChatGPT-generated action figures and Studio Ghibli-inspired illustrations have dominated the internet in recent weeks, reigniting artists' concerns about their livelihoods.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
… I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit … On Writing / Stephen King (born in 1947) #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
… The ‘easy’ way to go in academia today is to focus on simple(r) things – do what everyone can do, follow the steps of the ones who came before you, do some little, simplistic research that can be considered ‘just good enough’ to be ‘scientific’. … aeon.co/essays/what-...
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What it takes to be a glyph-breaker deciphering ancient languages | Aeon Essays
The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you have a taste for the ridiculous sublime of anti-statist satire hang out with Wang astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold... #booksky
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Shadow Ticket 384 pages 7 Oct 2025 lithub.com/thomas-pynch...
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Thomas Pynchon is publishing a new novel this fall.
Mark your calendars, Pynchon fans. Today, Penguin Press announced that they will be publishing a new novel by the famously reclusive American master this fall, on October 7. The novel, his first si…
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
L'origine du mal (2022) ... a Ripleyesque poser worms her toxic way into a fractured sort-of family that dwells in an isolated picturesque villa ... and sometimes she looks a lot like ... Donna Tartt ... #filmsky #moviesky #cinema 🎬
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
How angels fly in the 21st century === aeon.co/essays/why-p...
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Why physics today stands on the wings of angels and demons | Aeon Essays
When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Cat's Eye Nebula
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Funny how « oneiric » is so not a « dreamy » word === Έλληνες ≠ βάρβαροι
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Going forward my eye is going to be peeled for Gorton aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If I had a pet pig I'd name it «Generis» so I could call it by name ... Sooey! Generis
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NPR @npr.org · 23/02/2025
"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.
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Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read
"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What tortures a snowman? Deficiency of tin Turns a snowman into an owman #happeningnow
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Web site now up for new reference book ——————————————————— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——————————————————— Release projected for later 2025 medium.com/@tartt-abc/t... #booksky #writingcommunity #selfpub #indie
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Tarttologizing
a librarian investigates Donna Tartt and The Secret History
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Isn't sublime always supernatural? Something wizened this way comes ...
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