John Jones
@johnmjones.bsky.social
Digital media and rhetoric professor at Ohio State.
When 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.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When 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.
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The 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.
Anyway, if Salesforce wants to throw us a party too, let me know.
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The 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.
Anyway, if Salesforce wants to throw us a party too, let me know.
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This 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 destroyed
Eggs are pricey again. What’s the government doing about it?
And four other burning bird flu questions, answered.
www.vox.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This 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 destroyed
The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled was getting us to watch a commercial before a movie trailer.
January 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled was getting us to watch a commercial before a movie trailer.
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my 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
I’m interested in reading your B-minus tweets but absolutely uninterested in reading the B-minus stuff you got the AI to say
January 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
my 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
I’m interested in reading your B-minus tweets but absolutely uninterested in reading the B-minus stuff you got the AI to say
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Kids today don't like school, a totally new thing that has never happened before.
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January 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Kids today don't like school, a totally new thing that has never happened before.
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KICK 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...
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...
December 31, 2024 at 4:18 PM
KICK 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...
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...
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This 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.
Never 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...
Noah Smith says crime is the #1 disadvantage of the U.S. I disagree; it's cars./1
www.noahpinion.blog/p/yes-americ...
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people
GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
www.noahpinion.blog
December 26, 2024 at 8:28 PM
This 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.
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Never 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...
Noah Smith says crime is the #1 disadvantage of the U.S. I disagree; it's cars./1
www.noahpinion.blog/p/yes-americ...
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people
GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
www.noahpinion.blog
December 26, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Never 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...
Noah Smith says crime is the #1 disadvantage of the U.S. I disagree; it's cars./1
www.noahpinion.blog/p/yes-americ...
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Anybody 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.
December 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Anybody 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.
“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.”
There 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.
www.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2024 at 12:01 PM
“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.”
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This 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.
Highly recommend it.
Just published on APSR First View: "Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior" by Allison Anoll, Lauren Davenport, and Rachel Lienesch. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 13, 2024 at 1:51 PM
This 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.
Highly recommend it.
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#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.
I'm teaching our MA composition seminar this spring -- it's been a couple years so I'm looking to spruce up my syllabus.
December 9, 2024 at 10:54 PM
#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.
I'm teaching our MA composition seminar this spring -- it's been a couple years so I'm looking to spruce up my syllabus.
When 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.
December 6, 2024 at 1:37 AM
When 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.
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Can 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.
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.
December 5, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Can 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.
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.
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pretty 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
United Health just deleted this page from their website lol
December 4, 2024 at 9:50 PM
pretty 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
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tell your friends and foes
December 1, 2024 at 9:55 PM
tell your friends and foes
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People dressed as Nazis are Nazis this isn't a street performance of Sound of Music
“Police responded at 1:12 p.m. to a report that one of the people in the group sprayed pepper spray or mace at a passerby. Callers reported the group was using racial slurs at minorities on the street, shouting about Jewish people and white power and appeared to be armed, police dispatchers said.”
Police respond to reports of people dressed as Nazis marching through Columbus' North Side
Columbus police are responding as social media videos show about a dozen people dressed as Nazis marching through the Short North and Victorian Village.
www.dispatch.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:07 PM
People dressed as Nazis are Nazis this isn't a street performance of Sound of Music
Steve Martin is the Menendez Bros. DA?
October 25, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Steve Martin is the Menendez Bros. DA?
Hoo-boy
“All three died from fentanyl overdose. Now, all three have been brought back to life with artificial intelligence to be the spokespeople for Kansas City’s newest fentanyl awareness campaign, Unfinished Legacies.”
AI ‘Revives’ Victims in Kansas City, Mo., Anti-Fentanyl Campaign
An advertisement being shown in a movie theater and headed to social media uses artificial intelligence to depict three people under the age of 25 who died from fentanyl overdoses. It was created by t...
www.govtech.com
October 18, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Hoo-boy