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Matthew L. Jones

@nescioquid.bsky.social
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“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton

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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 3h
Everybody, everybody, we're stoked to announce Princeton SocietalAI, focused on the empirical study of genAI on the ground in science, education and beyond and on producing superior forms. Come see @alondra.bsky.social, Brian Merchant, Audrey Watters Nov. 2 at our launch event.
announcement poster for PrincetonSocietyAI, Nov 2 12-630pm ChancellorGreen
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From the paper: "There is very little research on the role of class in career outcomes like hiring, pay, or promotion"
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amazing postdoc opportunity in history of modern mathematics at IAS surrounded by excellent mathematicians, historians of science, and STS scholars. www.math.ias.edu/~akshay/hist...
math.ias.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar, History of Modern Mathematics | Institute for Advanced Study
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Paging Dr Lina Khan to aisle 1
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every surveillance infrastructure is begging for a third party to exploit it, but this expose of Flock in the wild shows their stuff appears to make sitting ducks look like they have fully charged deflector fields.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Major and exciting opportunity
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The response of key Fields-medal winning figures in the mathematical community to the OpenAI 'result' of Navier-Stokes carefully navigates, in turbulent waters hard to model correctly, the Charybdis of facile technological determinism and the Scylla of accusations of luddism. mathandai.org
In recent months, the success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles. But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.

Often these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others. As in all creative professions, this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions. Moreover, without the willing mathematicians who must take care of their development and integration into the mathematical canon, AI-conceived ideas would never become fully alive and the crucial human transmission chain between mathematicians would be lost.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
tfw your worlds collide
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Having just added in class paper writing to syllabus things ….
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Typewriter repair became a critical skill in the US army right through the war and beyond. Jack Tramiel, who survived the holocaust, joined the army post-war. They trained him in typewriter repair. on leaving the army, he eventually used those skills to found Commodore.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A great summer school opportunity with Lorraine Daston, Dave Kaiser & Erika Milam #HPS #STS 👇
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just counting the days until I can write the LRB review of Nolans’s forthcoming cinematic version of the Theodicy. Why evil indeed.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Oh God," muttered Ford, slumped against a bulkhead, and he started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
science.org
A civic grammar for AI rights
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Happy Tom Lehrer Tuesday! Worried about WW3? Remember the bright side, no funerals to attend!
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Bolstering both the Privacy Act and FOIA should be on the (very long) list…
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
An extremely rich gathering—the philosopher - historian nexus needs to happen more often on all these concerns.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said. The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.
techcrunch.com
The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit
Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
O for the halcyon days when it seemed that the phrase “self-own” was headed for the history books as a footnote rather than a fundamental organizing principle for understanding a decade and a half.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Whoda thunk that wiretapping infrastructure might be vulnerable? I’m shocked, shocked there’s gambling in this establishment.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Isaac Newton refused to frame a hypothesis on the cause of universal gravitation to get out of his interview of Chotiner.
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this is absolutely not fine @edomaur.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
les dames dont je kiffe les mots en anglois : * Malka Older * Premee Mohamed * Tamsyn Muir * Mary Robinette Kowal * Martha Wells * Becky Chambers * Mur Lafferty * Sharon Lee (avec Steve White) j'ai un blanc.. c'est pas tout
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Current conditions in NJ: bright as day with a slight Eldritch horror vibe as winds begin to rise
Picture of three snow colored trees, with coloring that appears as if a silver print.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Funny (not funny) how all the so called “implausible hypotheticals” that privacy and civil liberties defenders raised keep being realized. Who’da thunk it?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...
therage.co
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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Charlotte Brives @charlottebrives.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection! #phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
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Cyco @cyco1414.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
caillou en forme de manette xbox
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Michael Gormly @michaelgormly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
'Tough break with your Aunt and Uncle, but they should have complied with the Stormtroopers'
Luke and Obi-Wan from Star Wars
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Robert Boyle would like to have a word …
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I know there are a lot of speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.
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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
So I'll close by saying that we're still here, and we're still doing interesting and relevant things. When you hear Renaissance, think of Surekha Davies, and Paula Findlen, and Sarah Ross, and Nic Baker, and Brian Maxson, and Lydia Barnett, and Kate Lowe, and Hannah Marcus, and Ada Palmer, and more.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We used to have nice things
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2025
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered For more info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065 #HPS 🗃️
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
you don't cast someone from the board game group because they favor low taxes and more carefully targeted regulations on industry you cast someone from the board game group because they don't accept the humanity of other members of the board game group
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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
For students interested in Émilie du Châtelet and/or early modern philosophy and science: please consider participating in the 2025 Libori Summer School (a hybrid event)! historyofwomenphilosophers.org/libori-summe... #philsky #earlymodern #academicsky
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The university leadership talking point condescendingly repeated last spring to explain why we weren’t fighting back was “we just aren’t popular with voters.” People may not report feeling affection elite institutions but they don’t support these specific attacks!
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In the Corporation Rim, everything has to be owned by someone.
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
RIP the great Tom Lehrer. From transubstantiation to non-proliferation, from Gropius and von Braun & Lobachevsky, from the AEC to the MLF, from the Elements to Fight Fiercely, his works opened worlds of sardonic humor, yes, but equally of learning, of culture, and history.
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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
SIGCIS 2025 deadline extended to Monday! Theme is POWER with keynote Lily Geismer. Going to be an epic year. Submit! And feel free to ask me any questions about it!
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