John Baxindine
@jbax.bsky.social
Old-school note scribbler and ivory tickler • www.jbax.net
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I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
I owe it all to @bcdreyer.social.
If you have two followers, you are ahead of half of all Bluesky accounts.
If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I owe it all to @bcdreyer.social.
(picnic, lightning)
Trump on Iran's leader: "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."
June 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
(picnic, lightning)
I got in the elevator and hit the down button.
Whoopi Goldberg got in, also hitting the down button.
The elevator went up.
Whoopi Goldberg got in, also hitting the down button.
The elevator went up.
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 5:42 PM
I got in the elevator and hit the down button.
Whoopi Goldberg got in, also hitting the down button.
The elevator went up.
Whoopi Goldberg got in, also hitting the down button.
The elevator went up.
I walked out of Mee Noodle Shop on 9th Avenue in the pouring rain and turned to walk south, falling into step alongside a woman who was eating extremely wet pizza as she walked.
It was Jane Lynch.
I think I made a joke about paying extra for rain-topped pizza.
It was Jane Lynch.
I think I made a joke about paying extra for rain-topped pizza.
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 5:40 PM
I walked out of Mee Noodle Shop on 9th Avenue in the pouring rain and turned to walk south, falling into step alongside a woman who was eating extremely wet pizza as she walked.
It was Jane Lynch.
I think I made a joke about paying extra for rain-topped pizza.
It was Jane Lynch.
I think I made a joke about paying extra for rain-topped pizza.
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Tech bros and tech journalists pretending reading books to sand will somehow cause it to become sentient will never not be funny.
April 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Tech bros and tech journalists pretending reading books to sand will somehow cause it to become sentient will never not be funny.
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"As it happens, Columbia was founded in 1754 as King’s College. An imprudent choice now could result in the school becoming the de facto fief of an aspiring angry king."
Let's make it trend: #ColumbiaCollegeofNoKing
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Let's make it trend: #ColumbiaCollegeofNoKing
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
A Warning for Columbia University
Surrendering to the Trump administration’s $400 million ransom demand would be a disaster for higher education and for the United States.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"As it happens, Columbia was founded in 1754 as King’s College. An imprudent choice now could result in the school becoming the de facto fief of an aspiring angry king."
Let's make it trend: #ColumbiaCollegeofNoKing
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Let's make it trend: #ColumbiaCollegeofNoKing
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.
Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
danieldrezner.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.
This is one of my favorite "public" historical documents. Quite a few of my German ancestors lived in Philadelphia in 1776; this was surely the Declaration they read.
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is one of my favorite "public" historical documents. Quite a few of my German ancestors lived in Philadelphia in 1776; this was surely the Declaration they read.
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But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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Trump and Musk have thrown a grenade into the national security apparatus and eventually it will go off. New piece w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com on the trust bomb hitting the invisible systems that make US foreign policy run. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?
Uncertainty about access and authority will worry allies and tempt adversaries.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Trump and Musk have thrown a grenade into the national security apparatus and eventually it will go off. New piece w/ @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com on the trust bomb hitting the invisible systems that make US foreign policy run. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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A new JWST deep field.
All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
December 10, 2024 at 9:42 PM
A new JWST deep field.
All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Musician: <runs wet finger over edge of glass to create a sound> It's a quarter-step sharp. <pours out a tiny amount>
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Musician: <runs wet finger over edge of glass to create a sound> It's a quarter-step sharp. <pours out a tiny amount>
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Epidemiologist: the water in the cup has evidence of legionella, you need to clean your cooling system.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Epidemiologist: the water in the cup has evidence of legionella, you need to clean your cooling system.
Optimist: the cup is ½ full
Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty
Land and climate expert trained in counterfactuals: ok, how much water was in the cup yesterday? How much was in the cup last year? And how much was originally in the cup before humans started altering it for drinking purposes?
Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty
Land and climate expert trained in counterfactuals: ok, how much water was in the cup yesterday? How much was in the cup last year? And how much was originally in the cup before humans started altering it for drinking purposes?
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Musician: <runs wet finger over edge of glass to create a sound> It's a quarter-step sharp. <pours out a tiny amount>
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Musician: <runs wet finger over edge of glass to create a sound> It's a quarter-step sharp. <pours out a tiny amount>
November 16, 2024 at 11:25 PM
that canceled TV series you'll never stop thinking about
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
that canceled TV series you'll never stop thinking about
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the most dangerous place in the world is standing in between an NYT editor and an active verb with a clear object
October 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
the most dangerous place in the world is standing in between an NYT editor and an active verb with a clear object
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A weak and low part of me enjoyed this 18th-century account of American hummingbirds by Peter Kalm.
(From @birdhistory.bsky.social's recent newsletter about reports of abundant bird life in early America: birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-in-t...)
(From @birdhistory.bsky.social's recent newsletter about reports of abundant bird life in early America: birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-in-t...)
August 31, 2024 at 3:30 AM
A weak and low part of me enjoyed this 18th-century account of American hummingbirds by Peter Kalm.
(From @birdhistory.bsky.social's recent newsletter about reports of abundant bird life in early America: birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-in-t...)
(From @birdhistory.bsky.social's recent newsletter about reports of abundant bird life in early America: birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-in-t...)
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...and shit pay for (and treatment of) musicians. Not that anyone cares about that.
The Justice Dept. sued Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over claims it has an illegal monopoly in live entertainment. The tactics, the U.S. argues, have resulted in higher prices for consumers. nyti.ms/3WSK6eL
May 23, 2024 at 3:28 PM
...and shit pay for (and treatment of) musicians. Not that anyone cares about that.
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May 17, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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I wish you all joy of the worm.
May 8, 2024 at 2:38 PM
I wish you all joy of the worm.