Justin Joque
@jjoque.bsky.social
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
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
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)
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"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Breakthrough New Material Brings Affordable, Sustainable Future Within Grasp
Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This break...
www.uh.edu
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”
Let's also just be clear this is the real "gender ideology" not trans rights
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Let's also just be clear this is the real "gender ideology" not trans rights
Fun fact: every single dog breed has male dogs
December 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Fun fact: every single dog breed has male dogs
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campuses have learning opportunities, social space, entertainment, and universities ARE healthcare.
multigenerational access is net social good.
multigenerational access is net social good.
'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
campuses have learning opportunities, social space, entertainment, and universities ARE healthcare.
multigenerational access is net social good.
multigenerational access is net social good.
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i'm delirious because i was up all night with a tummy ache so because of the guy in the front i scrolled past this too fast and thought it was a screenshot from yakuza like a dragon
I've seen a bunch of people claiming this is the original/best adaptation of the Odyessey but everyone knows the real one is The Warriors (1979)
December 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
i'm delirious because i was up all night with a tummy ache so because of the guy in the front i scrolled past this too fast and thought it was a screenshot from yakuza like a dragon
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What's even more impressive is that the film testifies to a MTA that actually runs efficiently.
December 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What's even more impressive is that the film testifies to a MTA that actually runs efficiently.
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i watched this movie in an underground theatre where you threw beer bottles at the concrete walls when you finished them
I've seen a bunch of people claiming this is the original/best adaptation of the Odyessey but everyone knows the real one is The Warriors (1979)
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
i watched this movie in an underground theatre where you threw beer bottles at the concrete walls when you finished them
[pressing earpiece into my ear] "hold up a second, I'm being told by my team, The Warriors was not in fact based on the Odyssey but on Xenophon's Anabasis...thats even more impressive. Amazing"
I've seen a bunch of people claiming this is the original/best adaptation of the Odyessey but everyone knows the real one is The Warriors (1979)
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
[pressing earpiece into my ear] "hold up a second, I'm being told by my team, The Warriors was not in fact based on the Odyssey but on Xenophon's Anabasis...thats even more impressive. Amazing"
I've seen a bunch of people claiming this is the original/best adaptation of the Odyessey but everyone knows the real one is The Warriors (1979)
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I've seen a bunch of people claiming this is the original/best adaptation of the Odyessey but everyone knows the real one is The Warriors (1979)
I've been reading this history of the space race recently and it makes all the AI stuff seem so uninspiring and silly. People made rockets go to the moon and you made a chatbot you can sext with...
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've been reading this history of the space race recently and it makes all the AI stuff seem so uninspiring and silly. People made rockets go to the moon and you made a chatbot you can sext with...
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#HappyChristmas from Werner Herzog! 🎄 🍷 ⛄️
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#HappyChristmas from Werner Herzog! 🎄 🍷 ⛄️
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As we approach the Christmas season, let me remind you that the reason for the season, the event that sets the entire Christmas story in motion, is a governmental census.
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As we approach the Christmas season, let me remind you that the reason for the season, the event that sets the entire Christmas story in motion, is a governmental census.
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"AI says something new to each person but a book just repeats the same thing over and over"
*sitting down in my chair backwards like a youth pastor* well, let me tell you about a man they called Jacques Derrida
*sitting down in my chair backwards like a youth pastor* well, let me tell you about a man they called Jacques Derrida
December 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"AI says something new to each person but a book just repeats the same thing over and over"
*sitting down in my chair backwards like a youth pastor* well, let me tell you about a man they called Jacques Derrida
*sitting down in my chair backwards like a youth pastor* well, let me tell you about a man they called Jacques Derrida
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Le genre de tête que je faisais chaque fois que je voyais des middle manager passer toutes leurs infos commerciales dans Chat GPT pour excréter des mails et présentations
You know what maximizes safety and privacy? Not using AI. I'd even go so far as to say vis-a-vis AI that is the maximum safety and privacy possible.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Le genre de tête que je faisais chaque fois que je voyais des middle manager passer toutes leurs infos commerciales dans Chat GPT pour excréter des mails et présentations
You know what maximizes safety and privacy? Not using AI. I'd even go so far as to say vis-a-vis AI that is the maximum safety and privacy possible.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You know what maximizes safety and privacy? Not using AI. I'd even go so far as to say vis-a-vis AI that is the maximum safety and privacy possible.
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Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.
The other possibility is that for cybersecurity reasons the DOJ is still using MS paint exclusively
Pretty sure every modern pdf editing software now screams at you that you're doing it wrong if you try to redact stuff the wrong way. I've got my money on someone wanting this to happen
if hypothetically there were a very common and well known way to screw up redaction and if I hypothetically were a disgruntled FBI employee hauled in to do redaction I didn’t want to do, I might familiarize myself with that common screw-up
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The other possibility is that for cybersecurity reasons the DOJ is still using MS paint exclusively
Pretty sure every modern pdf editing software now screams at you that you're doing it wrong if you try to redact stuff the wrong way. I've got my money on someone wanting this to happen
if hypothetically there were a very common and well known way to screw up redaction and if I hypothetically were a disgruntled FBI employee hauled in to do redaction I didn’t want to do, I might familiarize myself with that common screw-up
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Pretty sure every modern pdf editing software now screams at you that you're doing it wrong if you try to redact stuff the wrong way. I've got my money on someone wanting this to happen
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This is a high level magic item. The name confirms it*
*In the thread.
*In the thread.
We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
December 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is a high level magic item. The name confirms it*
*In the thread.
*In the thread.
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“We’ve recreated the torment wallpaper from the classic novel, ‘Don’t Create the Torment Wallpaper.’”
We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“We’ve recreated the torment wallpaper from the classic novel, ‘Don’t Create the Torment Wallpaper.’”
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This title is pretty excellent. Although I do not want to read the forbidden book.
This is the book
Shadows from the Walls of Death - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This title is pretty excellent. Although I do not want to read the forbidden book.
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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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The back stacks of Houghton Library were filled with boxes of un/barely cataloged c19th pamphlets. Many of boxes have something written on them thematically like "spirit mediums."
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The back stacks of Houghton Library were filled with boxes of un/barely cataloged c19th pamphlets. Many of boxes have something written on them thematically like "spirit mediums."
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!
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I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.
We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We've got a book of toxic wallpaper that can kill (arsenic I think). It was made as a reference to avoid toxic wallpaper but I guess when they made it they didn't think about the fact that the samples were also toxic