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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Looking for exercise advice: I've been trying to get up before the kids to bike on the trainer and I feel pretty good while riding but for hours after my stomach feels off. Not horrible, I can still eat, but just like I have this weird knot/bubble in it. Any suggestions? I'd like to keep doing it
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Looking for exercise advice: I've been trying to get up before the kids to bike on the trainer and I feel pretty good while riding but for hours after my stomach feels off. Not horrible, I can still eat, but just like I have this weird knot/bubble in it. Any suggestions? I'd like to keep doing it
If only this was a secret ballot like his vote for Cuomo was
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If only this was a secret ballot like his vote for Cuomo was
Looking for exercise advice: I've been trying to get up before the kids to bike on the trainer and I feel pretty good while riding but for hours after my stomach feels off. Not horrible, I can still eat, but just like I have this weird knot/bubble in it. Any suggestions? I'd like to keep doing it
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Looking for exercise advice: I've been trying to get up before the kids to bike on the trainer and I feel pretty good while riding but for hours after my stomach feels off. Not horrible, I can still eat, but just like I have this weird knot/bubble in it. Any suggestions? I'd like to keep doing it
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
The ACA wasn't even the compromise. The public option was the Republican alternative/compromise to single payer. The ACA was already a far right plan
How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The ACA wasn't even the compromise. The public option was the Republican alternative/compromise to single payer. The ACA was already a far right plan
Watch Dems are going to cave and Trump is still going to claim he doesn't have to fund SNAP anymore
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Watch Dems are going to cave and Trump is still going to claim he doesn't have to fund SNAP anymore
Plato's cave, except it's a metaphor for how centrist senate Dems always cave
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Plato's cave, except it's a metaphor for how centrist senate Dems always cave
Kinda mad that I never thought to report things from the internet as "word on the tweets" until now, long after I abandoned the bad site
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Kinda mad that I never thought to report things from the internet as "word on the tweets" until now, long after I abandoned the bad site
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not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
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if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing
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Don't forget to post hashtag ah humanity on your socials, let's get this shit TRENDING, scrivefam!
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Don't forget to post hashtag ah humanity on your socials, let's get this shit TRENDING, scrivefam!
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WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.
Bartleby the Scrivener logging on for another day of bullshit
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.
I'm going to have to tap the George Bataille sign again
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm going to have to tap the George Bataille sign again
I've managed to talk the 7 year old into coaching my weight lifting (so that I don't have to lift at 6am or 9pm). And he's real into now. He makes sure I drink between sets and even "tracks" my reps and sets now
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've managed to talk the 7 year old into coaching my weight lifting (so that I don't have to lift at 6am or 9pm). And he's real into now. He makes sure I drink between sets and even "tracks" my reps and sets now
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So many little Heideggers who even lacking his depth of philosophical thought have spent their entire careers preparing their own rectorship address on "The self assertion of the German university"
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So many little Heideggers who even lacking his depth of philosophical thought have spent their entire careers preparing their own rectorship address on "The self assertion of the German university"
So many little Heideggers who even lacking his depth of philosophical thought have spent their entire careers preparing their own rectorship address on "The self assertion of the German university"
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So many little Heideggers who even lacking his depth of philosophical thought have spent their entire careers preparing their own rectorship address on "The self assertion of the German university"
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I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in
I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I try to say some form of this in every single meeting on AI at my university that I'm involved in
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Lmao we had someone's Tupperware and sent it with our 4th grader to school to give to their kid. the kid just said "no way I'm not carrying that home. If my dad wants it he can get it himself". Kids rock
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Lmao we had someone's Tupperware and sent it with our 4th grader to school to give to their kid. the kid just said "no way I'm not carrying that home. If my dad wants it he can get it himself". Kids rock
Lmao we had someone's Tupperware and sent it with our 4th grader to school to give to their kid. the kid just said "no way I'm not carrying that home. If my dad wants it he can get it himself". Kids rock
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Lmao we had someone's Tupperware and sent it with our 4th grader to school to give to their kid. the kid just said "no way I'm not carrying that home. If my dad wants it he can get it himself". Kids rock
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This whole thing reminds me of the time I was at a bar in the middle of the day and a kid squirted ketchup all over their dad's shirt. Our whole table started laughing and the dad got mad at the kid and us and said "it's not funny." We all assured him it was actually hilarious.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This whole thing reminds me of the time I was at a bar in the middle of the day and a kid squirted ketchup all over their dad's shirt. Our whole table started laughing and the dad got mad at the kid and us and said "it's not funny." We all assured him it was actually hilarious.
This whole thing reminds me of the time I was at a bar in the middle of the day and a kid squirted ketchup all over their dad's shirt. Our whole table started laughing and the dad got mad at the kid and us and said "it's not funny." We all assured him it was actually hilarious.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This whole thing reminds me of the time I was at a bar in the middle of the day and a kid squirted ketchup all over their dad's shirt. Our whole table started laughing and the dad got mad at the kid and us and said "it's not funny." We all assured him it was actually hilarious.
watch out that bubble's about to blow!
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
watch out that bubble's about to blow!