Joey Jones

Doctor, dabbler, reader and riddler.

Made twitter bots inc:
@UnlikelyPowers, @RandomNietzsche, @RandomCleyre, @RandomNovatore, @AllWittgenstein

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

Lies Under Ice is an interactive sci-fi novel about living under the ice of Europa, telling lies, and finding out what else lies down there with you. It's out now!

https://t.co/AdEVjLB6LP

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@sabatonfan69 Got to be a little more forceful with your recommendations

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@Britonomist It's not deducing an ought from an is, because the first premise is a statement of value (that one should do X). It's deducing an ought from an ought.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@ClaveSoleada Azul and Azure both have the same etymological root in the Arabic for lapus lazuli— they're cognates. The english word didn't come from the Spanish— they were saying azur in old French.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

You might think "ultramarine" is called that because it's very blue like the ocean, but it actually just means "from overseas" as it was an imported dye (made from grinding lapis lazuli stones in ancient Afghanistan mines, and then brought to Italy).

[no earthquake (ear flu victim) @no_earthquake]

how did i only just realize that ‘turquoise’ comes from ‘turkish’

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@asianbeefgoblin If you want to know what Aristotle wrote, you can read what he said in the original, or in an accessible English translation, or you can read a scholar's summary of his ideas, or a machine generated summary (i.e. ChatGPT). The latter is going to be furthest removed from the text.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@metaauthor @TAHK0 To be fair, you're going to jail either way so the banana in the gorilla envelope (great gag) is a freebie. But yes as a child I think I had to brute force that solution. Still give me moon logic puzzles over Dark Souls frame-counting masochism any day.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@DainFitzgerald I keep getting advertisements on the other side: the AI novel generating companies who are selling the dream of be able to sell crappy pdfs on social media

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

Whenever someone tells me they used ChatGPT

[DraftingThruTheSnow @t3dy]

Descartes declared, "I think, I do!
And space is just what matter's through!
No empty spots! No gaps! No voids!
Just endless stuff the world employs!"

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@AlexisWrox Merry Christmas! I don't think you've made a single tweet in 2024 that I agreed with (I mean that as a compliment). I look forward to more bizarro-world takes in 2025.

[Millenarianism Identifier @facebookvillain]

stafford beer doodled this in 1972. does it feel familiar??

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@breadthaumazein @Arbeit_Fish I need 11 lessons from André Gorz

[Omar Szkarlatiuk @OmarSzkarr]

@goodlookingeek @MisterABK I tried the demo for Tupperware Lesbians 3 at VinegarCom, it didn't show much about the story, mostly gameplay (the thrift shop mechanics are vastly improved)

One cool thing is the autosave: every 15 min, the game recites a string of 128 numbers, you copy and then dial them.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@DainFitzgerald The worst part (for me) of the new direction of twitter has been the death of all my bots (Musk starting charging for the API), including the de Cleyre one. She made the cut on the few that I ported over to my website, https://t.co/hvlNe8TOMe

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@logodaedalus I've been playing this game since it was an executable you had to download from a forum thread, and I'm still playing it now. Really outstanding to see it develop from such incomplete but promising beginnings.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

Today I passed my PhD viva! Pending corrections, I'm a doctor of interactive narrative now.

[it's zach @averyfinecat]

in a couple weeks I'm gonna do a long stream where I play through Moondrop Isle, a game I helped make about exploring an abandoned 90's resort. It's gonna be fun!

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@Liu_eroteme @lil_writer @freganmitts You have to know what you want to get anything useful back, sure. Even then: Megan's students are using it to "say what you're hoping to get out of this class". The LLM doesn't know what you want to get out of the class. If you can tell it that, you can just write it yourself.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@Liu_eroteme @lil_writer @freganmitts I think maybe we have a different idea of thinking — generating text isn't developing what you think about something, it's conjuring up the average view on the matter. Generating all your writing doesn't increase your command of language or help you develop your own style.

[Joey Jones @Friedegger]

@Liu_eroteme @lil_writer @freganmitts Using it for your personal life is one thing, but students are there at university (among other things) to learn thinking and writing— and so outsourcing both to a machine is doing themselves a disservice.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

i found millions of YouTube videos that have default camera names as titles (like IMG_0276) and made it into a website where you can watch random ones.

unedited, pure moments from random lives https://t.co/zdYQmkz0qk