Joseph Jones
@jonesj.bsky.social
Librarian and Textician § Inopinum intactumque – Martianus Capella
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
• Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente
#outcomes
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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
• Divinity • Law • State Affairs • dolce far niente
#outcomes
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I really like the color and textures of this photo!
#278 taken 7:12 pm
#photography
#art
#abstract
#abalone
#278 taken 7:12 pm
#photography
#art
#abstract
#abalone
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I really like the color and textures of this photo!
#278 taken 7:12 pm
#photography
#art
#abstract
#abalone
#278 taken 7:12 pm
#photography
#art
#abstract
#abalone
@ayjay.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
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oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
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oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
@ayjay.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
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oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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Enjoyed your "biography" of Book of Common Prayer
Looking forward to your "biography" of Paradise Lost
———————
oopsie alert to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Reposted by Joseph Jones
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"whether caving is not endemic to every facet of the academic ecosystem" ... PS : this is not caving as in spelunking
#dorkakademia
#dorkakademia
It’s gothic nostalgia, isn’t it? All these shows about humanities profs with wood-paneled offices, fame, and enough autonomy to act like a diva. We’re doing it for the same reason cozy 1930s mysteries involved vicarages and viscounts with decaying mansions.
The Age of Unhinged-Professor Art
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"whether caving is not endemic to every facet of the academic ecosystem" ... PS : this is not caving as in spelunking
#dorkakademia
#dorkakademia
Happenstance know-nothing reading of
Fake Accounts / Lauren Oyler – 2021
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Expecting jaded first-person narrator
to go subversive and to one-up
gauzy Felix after his preclusionary pop-off
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Surprised to watch narrator spiral off
into trad & agentless oyly ponder
of self-subjection
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#booksky
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
October 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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
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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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...
Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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...
Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
Reposted by Joseph Jones
Once upon a time it was somebody's home.
#ArtYear #Artshow #Photography #iphonephotography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #home
#BlueSkyArtShow #NewMexico #GhostTown
#ArtYear #Artshow #Photography #iphonephotography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #home
#BlueSkyArtShow #NewMexico #GhostTown
September 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Once upon a time it was somebody's home.
#ArtYear #Artshow #Photography #iphonephotography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #home
#BlueSkyArtShow #NewMexico #GhostTown
#ArtYear #Artshow #Photography #iphonephotography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #home
#BlueSkyArtShow #NewMexico #GhostTown
Fun to see my experiential recollection
of the November 2024
turn to Bluesky
quantified
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
of the November 2024
turn to Bluesky
quantified
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
Redirecting
doi.org
August 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fun to see my experiential recollection
of the November 2024
turn to Bluesky
quantified
—————
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
of the November 2024
turn to Bluesky
quantified
—————
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
Reposted by Joseph Jones
New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky
rdcu.be/etk07
The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +
rdcu.be/etk07
The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +
The impact of language models on the humanities and vice versa
Nature Computational Science - Many humanists are skeptical of language models and concerned about their effects on universities. However, researchers with a background in the humanities are also...
rdcu.be
June 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky
rdcu.be/etk07
The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +
rdcu.be/etk07
The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"And since the only things that might be helpful are the things that cannot be said, I am without a strategy for the present circumstance."
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
May 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"And since the only things that might be helpful are the things that cannot be said, I am without a strategy for the present circumstance."
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
William Henry Devereaux Jr
(as his creative writing seminar goes off the rails)
Chapter 9 of Straight Man / Richard Russo - 1997
#collegenovel #booksky
In the dialectic of the academy
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
May 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
In the dialectic of the academy
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
the supplicant purchaser
is seen to entwine with
the supplicant purveyor
at the vanishing point
of symbiotic stasis
Ever more strongly suspecting
how spring 2025 will go down
in my personal history as the moment
where I regularly consider
what various AIs have to say
about new questions
arising for this librarian
towards the end of a lifetime
spent inside the question business
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
how spring 2025 will go down
in my personal history as the moment
where I regularly consider
what various AIs have to say
about new questions
arising for this librarian
towards the end of a lifetime
spent inside the question business
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ever more strongly suspecting
how spring 2025 will go down
in my personal history as the moment
where I regularly consider
what various AIs have to say
about new questions
arising for this librarian
towards the end of a lifetime
spent inside the question business
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
how spring 2025 will go down
in my personal history as the moment
where I regularly consider
what various AIs have to say
about new questions
arising for this librarian
towards the end of a lifetime
spent inside the question business
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
… many artists say they are particularly concerned about AI’s ability to mimic certain styles, which artists have honed for years …
I howned mymesis
to the paint
of seaming so scharp
that I came to byleave
I was sum original
scissors-pasty romantiac
#whartz
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
I howned mymesis
to the paint
of seaming so scharp
that I came to byleave
I was sum original
scissors-pasty romantiac
#whartz
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Viral AI-made art trends are making artists even more worried about their futures
ChatGPT-generated action figures and Studio Ghibli-inspired illustrations have dominated the internet in recent weeks, reigniting artists' concerns about their livelihoods.
www.nbcnews.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
… many artists say they are particularly concerned about AI’s ability to mimic certain styles, which artists have honed for years …
I howned mymesis
to the paint
of seaming so scharp
that I came to byleave
I was sum original
scissors-pasty romantiac
#whartz
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
I howned mymesis
to the paint
of seaming so scharp
that I came to byleave
I was sum original
scissors-pasty romantiac
#whartz
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
… I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit …
On Writing / Stephen King (born in 1947)
#booksky
On Writing / Stephen King (born in 1947)
#booksky
April 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
… I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit …
On Writing / Stephen King (born in 1947)
#booksky
On Writing / Stephen King (born in 1947)
#booksky
… The ‘easy’ way to go in academia today is to focus on simple(r) things – do what everyone can do, follow the steps of the ones who came before you, do some little, simplistic research that can be considered ‘just good enough’ to be ‘scientific’. …
aeon.co/essays/what-...
aeon.co/essays/what-...
What it takes to be a glyph-breaker deciphering ancient languages | Aeon Essays
The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?
aeon.co
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
… The ‘easy’ way to go in academia today is to focus on simple(r) things – do what everyone can do, follow the steps of the ones who came before you, do some little, simplistic research that can be considered ‘just good enough’ to be ‘scientific’. …
aeon.co/essays/what-...
aeon.co/essays/what-...
If you have a taste
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
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#booksky
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
April 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you have a taste
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
for the ridiculous sublime
of anti-statist satire
hang out with Wang
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/gold...
#booksky
Funny how « oneiric » is
so not a « dreamy » word
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Έλληνες ≠ βάρβαροι
so not a « dreamy » word
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Έλληνες ≠ βάρβαροι
March 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Funny how « oneiric » is
so not a « dreamy » word
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Έλληνες ≠ βάρβαροι
so not a « dreamy » word
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Έλληνες ≠ βάρβαροι