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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 · 17/07/2026
Atlantic has achieved a singular category – • occasional click-through from story aggregator • certain paywall • almost never care enough to go through the possible rigamaroles to dissolve the paywall • ergo DNR (did not read) ha ha ha
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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 · 18/05/2026
yes The Raspberry can delight but plums own the show for flavors & consistencies & seed discreteness as curated maturation brings out idiosyncracy & gamut & internal gradation – Santa Rosa / Mirabella / Red Heart / Damson / Yakima / Victoria / Amber / & etc #BeyondDispute #CertifiablePlumFreak
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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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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Closer to home you could prospect for a Jay Gatsby memorial at St. Olaf College?
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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 · 12/03/2026
… John Milton had this to say in 1644 …
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Out of waiting around to reinvent the wheel yet one more time I now have acquired a model to upscale my vocab by ... auto-carhology
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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
sometimes pragmatism like an aging bicycle chain pops right off the sprocket
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
More like a night where all the cows are black? Greek pantheon so long defunct Way before Buffalo Bill even
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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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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Adam, on the generation of an help meet: Necessity is the invention of mother
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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
only now do I know that it was not
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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 · 09/01/2026
This piece provoked me to musings around an earnest so-hard-at-work universalizable templutonic process – then to surge off, with felt repulsion, towards incarnate counter-casting – et voilà – Rimbaud on deck for shipwreck
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Dive into those archives ===== Do not try to go the Hudsons Bay store on Portage Ave Make no acquaintance with 1242939 B.C. Unlimited Liability Co. #tips ===== See whether Canadian Tire still anchors at Polo Park & you can spot a HBC brand there Climb the hill at Grant Park Plaza #outings
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I assert phenomenological evidence of longterm memory that started a bit before the age of 3 ...
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This notion brings to mind a tale of a trade book of popular history that assiduously fails to cite a likely known indie print source that long precedes its own salient thesis ...
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
tawtfulismus www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tZ...
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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 · 06/12/2025
In August I chanced to grab a grocery store lunch in the small town that is fashioned & zoned by the munici-pal to serve as the Hallmark movie set. Wanna make megaschlocks? You gotta dominate the blocks.
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
oopsie alert #3 to @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
oopsie alert #2 to @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The US terminological authority for book-level subject description – LCSH – stands deaf to dislikes because usage rules
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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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Joseph Jones @jonesj.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Thousands of micro-fiefdoms, each ruled by cliques enforcing their own ideological boundaries"
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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 · 14/09/2025
you lexify "slop" into quotation marks & spark quick rootaround that finds this www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLo...
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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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