Jason B Jones
@jbj.bsky.social
Teaching and learning with technology. Currently: Northeastern U. Previously Woolf, Trinity, CCSU, ProfHacker
edtech / digital humanities / LFC / &c
edtech / digital humanities / LFC / &c
I don’t mean to worry anyone but the dude beside me on the flight has been obsessively reading Quora, so I seem to have opened a portal to the distant past
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I don’t mean to worry anyone but the dude beside me on the flight has been obsessively reading Quora, so I seem to have opened a portal to the distant past
There are more new Christmas movies on Netflix this year than I was aware movies got made in total across all genres
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
There are more new Christmas movies on Netflix this year than I was aware movies got made in total across all genres
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People won’t believe us when we tell them syllabi used to be short. I barely believe it myself!
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
People won’t believe us when we tell them syllabi used to be short. I barely believe it myself!
Did not know we had solved all the important problems apple.news/AZLeceKEWRQy...
The Disappearance of Everyday Nudity — The Atlantic
American locker rooms are getting more modest. We’re losing something in the process.
apple.news
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Did not know we had solved all the important problems apple.news/AZLeceKEWRQy...
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
This email from the National Endowment for the Humanities is SO MUCH less ominous than the mobile preview implies
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This email from the National Endowment for the Humanities is SO MUCH less ominous than the mobile preview implies
IT at the uni where A teaches just sent out a message saying “we’re proud to invite macOS users to upgrade to Sequoia.”
Sequoia! It wasn’t a typo, either!
If I were finally letting users upgrade to an OS over a year old, I would not be “proud.”
Sequoia! It wasn’t a typo, either!
If I were finally letting users upgrade to an OS over a year old, I would not be “proud.”
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
IT at the uni where A teaches just sent out a message saying “we’re proud to invite macOS users to upgrade to Sequoia.”
Sequoia! It wasn’t a typo, either!
If I were finally letting users upgrade to an OS over a year old, I would not be “proud.”
Sequoia! It wasn’t a typo, either!
If I were finally letting users upgrade to an OS over a year old, I would not be “proud.”
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I am looking forward to reading this new book. 'Design for Privacy---Keeping Personal Information Private' rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design...
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am looking forward to reading this new book. 'Design for Privacy---Keeping Personal Information Private' rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design...
I feel like when we renegotiate our Microsoft contract we should include “Teams will recognize our name as a valid word” as a term.
They should also have to explain what “Northeaster n’s” means
They should also have to explain what “Northeaster n’s” means
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I feel like when we renegotiate our Microsoft contract we should include “Teams will recognize our name as a valid word” as a term.
They should also have to explain what “Northeaster n’s” means
They should also have to explain what “Northeaster n’s” means
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HTH turns 20! 🎉 We're celebrating live this Saturday night and we just released a best-of compilation on streaming services called Realistic Birthday Music! Details here: mailchi.mp/5dac90cc91ff...
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
HTH turns 20! 🎉 We're celebrating live this Saturday night and we just released a best-of compilation on streaming services called Realistic Birthday Music! Details here: mailchi.mp/5dac90cc91ff...
If I were ever in a ‘relationship’ with a bot, I hope my wife *would* divorce me, just on account of my complete loss of dignity and self-respect
www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...
www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...
AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next
Secret chatbot flings are creating new legal challenges for married couples when it comes to infidelity.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If I were ever in a ‘relationship’ with a bot, I hope my wife *would* divorce me, just on account of my complete loss of dignity and self-respect
www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...
www.wired.com/story/ai-rel...
A funny thing about Foreign Affairs is if you click the “download as PDF” button the website says “sorry, this is for subscribers only” … but obviously you can export any webpage as a PDF in a modern web browser, so 🤷♂️
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A funny thing about Foreign Affairs is if you click the “download as PDF” button the website says “sorry, this is for subscribers only” … but obviously you can export any webpage as a PDF in a modern web browser, so 🤷♂️
We don’t take candid, non-sports videos of human family members, but if we did: This morning on walkies with the dogs, A was shaking her head and laughing at a car, muttering repeatedly to herself “this mf honking at *geese*!”
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We don’t take candid, non-sports videos of human family members, but if we did: This morning on walkies with the dogs, A was shaking her head and laughing at a car, muttering repeatedly to herself “this mf honking at *geese*!”
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To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
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Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)
My mother is posting feet* in the family group chat
(Photos of an aunt’s broken, infected, surgery-requiring toe.)
(Photos of an aunt’s broken, infected, surgery-requiring toe.)
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My mother is posting feet* in the family group chat
(Photos of an aunt’s broken, infected, surgery-requiring toe.)
(Photos of an aunt’s broken, infected, surgery-requiring toe.)
South Yorkshire policeman for life Howard Webb suppresses crucial angle, makes up new offside interpretation.
It’s amazing the Prem lets itself be officiated by this gang of losers
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
It’s amazing the Prem lets itself be officiated by this gang of losers
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
Howard Webb defends decision to disallow Liverpool's goal vs Man City
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
South Yorkshire policeman for life Howard Webb suppresses crucial angle, makes up new offside interpretation.
It’s amazing the Prem lets itself be officiated by this gang of losers
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
It’s amazing the Prem lets itself be officiated by this gang of losers
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
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Congratulations to my amazing friend Amelia Acker for her new book. This book is going to be such an important contribution. Cannot wait to read it!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Congratulations to my amazing friend Amelia Acker for her new book. This book is going to be such an important contribution. Cannot wait to read it!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
A late-semester Tuesday holiday is just baffling to everyone: are we sleeping? Catching up? Fine—on work? on Stranger Things?
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A late-semester Tuesday holiday is just baffling to everyone: are we sleeping? Catching up? Fine—on work? on Stranger Things?
“Well … in the French Kojève makes this really clear … wait where are you going!”
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“Well … in the French Kojève makes this really clear … wait where are you going!”
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when you don't let them explain hegel
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
when you don't let them explain hegel
No big deal, just a former referee confused about the VAR protocols. (‘Clear and obvious error’ doesn’t come into it with offside, and all goals are checked for offside anyway—the process he described is completely at odds with reality.)
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I’d rather Van Dijk’s goal stood, but it wasn’t a clear and obvious error to deny him | Chris Foy
While it was a highly subjective call, VAR is not there to re-referee decisions like the offside against Andy Robertson
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
No big deal, just a former referee confused about the VAR protocols. (‘Clear and obvious error’ doesn’t come into it with offside, and all goals are checked for offside anyway—the process he described is completely at odds with reality.)
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Madness
Leave it to the HHS boys to depathologized HRT in order to pathologize menopause. “HRT has saved marriages, rescued women from depression, prevented children from going without a mother,” Dr. Makary said.
No, menopause does not kill women or cause divorce.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Madness
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I’ve seen enough. I am now fully prepared for Guillermo del Toro’s Middlemarch adaptation.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’ve seen enough. I am now fully prepared for Guillermo del Toro’s Middlemarch adaptation.
Whooo, this “Music by Men” song by Florence & the Machine … it *hits*
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Whooo, this “Music by Men” song by Florence & the Machine … it *hits*