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Justin Joque

@jjoque.bsky.social

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visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · Feb 14

Posting this so I can pin it. This is my most recent book about artificial intelligence, statistics and capitalism. It was written largely before the most recent AI boom, but feel that everything I wrote is even more true today than when I wrote it. (also available in Spanish, Japanese and Korean)

Revolutionary Mathematics

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods ...

www.versobooks.com

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 8m

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5h

Postmodernism has truly gone too far: there is now Holocaust Denial Denial as an actual conspiracy theory wtf

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Carroll, whom Democratic representative Ro Khanna is featuring in this video, claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

Really bad that Democrats are platforming overt antisemites like this!

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah we realized and stopped basically immediately. It didn't take much to see it wasnt fun for him

Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 1d

We used to play with our dog with a cat laser and had to quit because the dog got so obsessive and kept running around the house looking for the dot

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"About a third of dogs exhibited addiction-like behaviors, such as becoming especially agitated when the toy was kept from them..."

It's Not Just Us: Some Dogs Can Become Unhealthily Addicted to Their Favorite Things, Too

Dogs can exhibit obsessive behaviors around their favorite toys, new research suggests.

gizmodo.com

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 2d

lol AI still sucks. Exhibit #475947

Text message that reads:
Dude László Krasznahorkai won
the Nobel prize
With the response:
Siri read this me as "justin joque sent you a message in Hungarian"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow that's a whole lot worse

Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 2d

lol AI still sucks. Exhibit #475947

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 3d

Not having to waste my time 98% of the year at a gas station is such an amazing and understated improvement to quality of life. Would never have guessed how nice it is

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

plus if you have a short commute, work from home, or take public transport most days maybe don't even bother with any fancy charging stuff - plugging the car into a regular outlet over a night or two will give more range than you need

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 3d

You guys please don't worry about the AI bubble because as soon as we get the things to actually work they can tell us how to handle the problem. Simply give me another hundred billion to get it to work.

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 3d

Is AI a bubble about to burst, bringing down the economy? Although the spending is massive, at this point there’s nothing especially alarming.

The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented

The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable. Coming up with definitive answers to them is something of a fool’s errand. Quantifying the size of the capex surge seems like a more productive endeavor — and one that may offer some hints as to its sustainability.

bloom.bg

Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 3d

El na refa na la

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 5d

this 1000%; obviously not the only context but you can't really make any sense of this current moment outside the longer history of post 9-11 politics. Everything has earlier corollaries (eg drone strikes on boats : massive Bush-Obama expansion of drone warfare outside of declare war zones)

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 5d

"I'm rubber you are glue"

CNBC @cnbc.com · 5d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 7d

They're going to seriously damage the Overton window if they keep slamming it this hard.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7d

Now that Bari Weiss has ascended to a powerful position at an influential network with a PR machine, I am seeing outlets that cover media like Puck and Mediaite present her as a "centrist" who might even challenge Trump.

That is such a deep and willful misreading of her oeuvre.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know man maybe we need to just not have CEOs. Like companies can just be worker collectives. It’s a thing

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 7d

But also nice to always have something new too!

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 7d

Oh that's too bad. I still rewatch stuff a bunch. I think with kids and everything being so busy on the few nights a month I can watch something there are a lot of times I don't want to risk it so I'll watch something I know I'll enjoy

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 7d

The development of the culture industry has led to the predominance of the effect, the obvious touch, and the technical detail over the work itself—which once expressed an idea, but was liquidated together with the idea.

—Horkheimer & Adorno

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 7d

They're going to seriously damage the Overton window if they keep slamming it this hard.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7d

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