John
@jvm.bsky.social
Comparative spirituality, history, AI, meaning. How do we make the internet a nourishing place to be?
Happy feast of St Francis!
October 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Happy feast of St Francis!
Happy Michaelmas everyone!
September 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Happy Michaelmas everyone!
ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor
April 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor
Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto.
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
April 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto.
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.
March 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.
Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
March 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
…and here's what I get for O1-pro, honestly I don't think this is $200 worth of pelican
February 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
…and here's what I get for O1-pro, honestly I don't think this is $200 worth of pelican
Have you tried O3-mini or O1-Pro yet? Here is what I get for O3-mini:
February 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Have you tried O3-mini or O1-Pro yet? Here is what I get for O3-mini:
"yeah you're welcome you load of ingrates!"
January 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"yeah you're welcome you load of ingrates!"
TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour
January 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour
Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism.
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
January 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism.
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
🎄🌟🎄
🎄🌟🎄
December 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
🎄🌟🎄
🎄🌟🎄
One of my biggest discoveries this year was the piano sonatas. Beethoven was considered the greatest pianist of his time, so this is his native instrument. If his symphones are big lavish oil paintings, his sonatas are sketches. He could work out his craziest ideas freely
December 19, 2024 at 8:53 PM
One of my biggest discoveries this year was the piano sonatas. Beethoven was considered the greatest pianist of his time, so this is his native instrument. If his symphones are big lavish oil paintings, his sonatas are sketches. He could work out his craziest ideas freely
Haydn left for London after he figured out going there was an infinite money cheat code, and sadly Mozart died shortly thereafter.
When he got back Haydn started tutoring a disagreeable young man from Bonn named Ludwig Beethoven who was a huge jerk to him.
But the kid could cook…
When he got back Haydn started tutoring a disagreeable young man from Bonn named Ludwig Beethoven who was a huge jerk to him.
But the kid could cook…
December 19, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Haydn left for London after he figured out going there was an infinite money cheat code, and sadly Mozart died shortly thereafter.
When he got back Haydn started tutoring a disagreeable young man from Bonn named Ludwig Beethoven who was a huge jerk to him.
But the kid could cook…
When he got back Haydn started tutoring a disagreeable young man from Bonn named Ludwig Beethoven who was a huge jerk to him.
But the kid could cook…
He has a lot of chamber music and I listed to the whole Greenberg course, but my favorites were the quintets and the trio divertimento k 563. Mozart and Haydn would play these when they hung out.
k 614 was inspired by Papageno, the bird catcher from Zauberflöte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbj...
k 614 was inspired by Papageno, the bird catcher from Zauberflöte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbj...
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
He has a lot of chamber music and I listed to the whole Greenberg course, but my favorites were the quintets and the trio divertimento k 563. Mozart and Haydn would play these when they hung out.
k 614 was inspired by Papageno, the bird catcher from Zauberflöte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbj...
k 614 was inspired by Papageno, the bird catcher from Zauberflöte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbj...
It's worth thinking about Haydn as reflecting the spirit of the Enlgihtenment age. On the one hand, orderliness and aristocratic "good taste" is prized, yet revolution is in the air and modernity is dawning. Like so much art of the period, Haydn straddles revolution and reaction.
December 19, 2024 at 7:50 PM
It's worth thinking about Haydn as reflecting the spirit of the Enlgihtenment age. On the one hand, orderliness and aristocratic "good taste" is prized, yet revolution is in the air and modernity is dawning. Like so much art of the period, Haydn straddles revolution and reaction.
Some of them are even sort of goofy like the coffee cantata about a teen girl who (intentionally) drives her dad crazy with her coffee obsession.
Bach and Beethoven were both coffee obsessives, urban creatives drinking excessive coffee is not a new phenomenon!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lo...
Bach and Beethoven were both coffee obsessives, urban creatives drinking excessive coffee is not a new phenomenon!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lo...
December 17, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Some of them are even sort of goofy like the coffee cantata about a teen girl who (intentionally) drives her dad crazy with her coffee obsession.
Bach and Beethoven were both coffee obsessives, urban creatives drinking excessive coffee is not a new phenomenon!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lo...
Bach and Beethoven were both coffee obsessives, urban creatives drinking excessive coffee is not a new phenomenon!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lo...
Case in point, Bach and the High Baroque. Greenberg spends _four lectures_ on the Goldbergs alone. These are a kaleidoscopic series of variations (really a big chaconne) laid out in 10 trinities, encompassing vast thematic and virtuosic territory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqj...
December 17, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Case in point, Bach and the High Baroque. Greenberg spends _four lectures_ on the Goldbergs alone. These are a kaleidoscopic series of variations (really a big chaconne) laid out in 10 trinities, encompassing vast thematic and virtuosic territory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqj...
I started by listening to Robert Greenberg's course on Audible, which was cool but I wanted more depth. Then I realized he has a ton more courses.
These are awesome. They are basically audiobooks with music, awesome for long car rides and dog walks
These are awesome. They are basically audiobooks with music, awesome for long car rides and dog walks
December 17, 2024 at 5:27 AM
I started by listening to Robert Greenberg's course on Audible, which was cool but I wanted more depth. Then I realized he has a ton more courses.
These are awesome. They are basically audiobooks with music, awesome for long car rides and dog walks
These are awesome. They are basically audiobooks with music, awesome for long car rides and dog walks
It's Beethoven's birthday and I spent 2024 learning obsessively about classical music so wanted to do a thread that might be inspirational for the curious.
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
December 17, 2024 at 5:24 AM
It's Beethoven's birthday and I spent 2024 learning obsessively about classical music so wanted to do a thread that might be inspirational for the curious.
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
With so many prisoners released in Syria, today is a good day to pray to St Leonard of Noblac, patron of captives, breaker of chains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
December 8, 2024 at 10:06 PM
With so many prisoners released in Syria, today is a good day to pray to St Leonard of Noblac, patron of captives, breaker of chains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
Disappointingly I only seem to be blocked by 252 people despite following all those accounts, I feel like for my experience to improve I'd need to be blocked by at least a few thousand.
I do enjoy reading the names of the lists though
I do enjoy reading the names of the lists though
December 8, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Disappointingly I only seem to be blocked by 252 people despite following all those accounts, I feel like for my experience to improve I'd need to be blocked by at least a few thousand.
I do enjoy reading the names of the lists though
I do enjoy reading the names of the lists though
See they've got all the same stuff we have here but it's a little different. Wanna know what they call Bluesky in France? A Royale with Skeets!
December 7, 2024 at 5:45 PM
See they've got all the same stuff we have here but it's a little different. Wanna know what they call Bluesky in France? A Royale with Skeets!
