Justin Joque
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visualization librarian | philosophy; media; cyberwar; stats | he/him | Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar (UMN, 2018) | my views are yours
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My new book Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism is now available for pre-order from Verso (and it is currently 30% off)!
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Understanding where files are when you save them on a computer
People born before 2000, what trivial skill do you have that no one uses anymore?
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Just got this email from our chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan…and…they’re doing what now with anti-semitism?
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I hope they are never able to fix all of these. I love them so much
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Over the years I've seen old pictures of the moving desks of the Central Social Institution of Prague, but I had no idea they were still in use.
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Oh weird, just for context I wonder what was going on in Berlin in 1936
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If you’re involved in any of these anti-genocide actions at universities, please make sure to save your emails, flyers and other papers so that in 50 years your university can proudly display them as part of their special collections
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Buckingham Palace just released this photo of King Charles he is certainly not dead; he is alive and well.
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Whenever I teach data visualization I always tell people about this book and share this link to this online version someone made of the color combinations; they are so good for graphs
reading this on the train and gasping periodically so everyone knows i think the color combinations are audacious yet tasteful
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A few thoughts about the Iowa Caucuses: what we are seeing there is part of a larger shift, the same thing that happened with the Boeing 737 max, the MiDAS software that wrongly kicked 20k people off of unemployment in Michigan. We are seeing over and over the replacement of
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Žižek voice: is not canned seltzer the capitalist product par excellence; it offers one the opportunity to buy and consume absolutely nothing? No calories; no caffeine; no alcohol. Ah, but then! They now sell it with alcohol, it is the reemergence of the possibility of politics.
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Welp I guess that’s the end of the road for chatGPT. There won’t be any work for 5, it is going to be considered overqualified for the jobs it does find and have a much harder time getting hired than 4
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people who know how organizations, bureaucracies and systems function with poorly designed and specified "apps" that continually fail. The problem is not really the technology, but the idea that local institutional knowledge and labor can be easily replaced with consultants
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Musk/Twitter is starting to look increasingly like that time Henry Ford bought the Dearborn Independent just so he could publish and push antisemitic conspiracies (even at one point requiring ford dealerships to distribute the paper)
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If any libraries/librarians need a new advertising campaign for this fall; please feel free to use/modify/etc. however you'd like!
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who look at a process as a snap shot in time. This is part of a larger conflict between bosses and labor, in which the bosses have deluded themselves into thinking that they can go it alone without the workers who are constantly fixing, patching and maintaining these complex
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systems. This fantasy of capitalism without labor will only continue to produce these disasters. \end
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I guess this is officially public: we are building a union of librarians, curators and archivists across all three University of Michigan Campuses. It has been a long road and there is still a long way to go, but step by step we have been organizing to build a more just,
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It should be incredibly apparent to everyone now that Trump is not the ultimate threat we face, he is the symptom of a much deeper threat that is gaining ground in nearly every institution, every boardroom, every newspaper, every police station and every community in this country
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Every university administrator who is pouring untold resources into the AI hype machine while shutting down humanities programs should be asked about why they made such horrible decisions at every single event they do for the rest of time.
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We did it! Librarians, archivists and curators at the University of Michigan ratified our first union contract! It was such a huge team effort that required tireless work from so many people but we did it! Thank you so much to all the members and allies who got us here!! 🎉🎉🎉
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I have once again disappointed my family, this time by attempting to carve Kazimir Malevich‘s 1915 Black Square into my pumpkin
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ps this is happening in nearly every industry and institution, rapidly hollowing them out. You see it everywhere.
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Microsoft Word clearly did not have any historians or philosophers on their product testing team, otherwise you'd be able to put comments on footnotes
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There is a movie called "Sleep Dealer" that is about this exact dystopia, where workers in Mexico are paid poverty wages to operate robots in the US but can't cross the border themselves
this is insane
cashier is literally zooming into nyc from the philippines
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Every academic job posting now is like: "1 year limited term appointment to teach 3 classes, run a digital/public humanities project that we started, are bored with and have no idea how to actually do, plus your own research in your free time. Send 10 letters of recommendation"
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GenAI in libraries reminds me about how when I started working in libraries there was so much excitement and time/energy invested in second life. Everything was going to be on second life, we had to have a reference desk in second life, we were going to teach classes in it, etc.
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Yeah, I study STEM:
Structuralism
Technopolitics
Epistemology
Marxism
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Now that it is out I thought, I'd do a short thread summarizing the main arguments of my new book, Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (out from
@VersoBooks
- ). There are three main parts to the arg:
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@JessRauchberg
You might; I know where they go but I still call them things like "test 4", "data", "rough draft"
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at my wife's work OOO means 'out of office' and not 'object oriented ontology' and I think that's beautiful
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Well, well, well [observing the contradictions of a university system, which is outwardly committed to a liberal conception of discourse and knowledge yet inwardly toward maximizing profit and real estate investment, exploding into public view]
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It’s really depressing seeing university presidents resigning over made up right wing controversies and never for union busting and dismantling programs
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University of Michigan just announced a vaccine requirement for all staff and students
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Wonder what percent of people dunking on big bird for getting a shot love factory farming and are this very evening eating birds pumped full of vaccines and antibiotics
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Normalize professors having job security and a living wage
Normalize Professors:
⁃ Having tattoos
⁃ Having body piercings
⁃ Having colored hair
⁃ Wearing casual clothing
- Wearing (excessive) jewelry
⁃ Speaking non-academic English
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I can’t help but feel there is some weird inverted Freudianism at play with Ackman, Musk and so many of these men. Their psychosis derives no longer directly from their relationship with their parents but rather their inability to work through their daughters’ autonomy
I see. Bill Ackman's daughter became a Lukácsian at Harvard. It all makes sense now. Instead of celebrating and reading "History and Class Consciousness" with her, he's trying to destroy higher education. Got it.
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Starting to bomb Rafah at almost exactly the moment the super bowl starts, I can't help but again be reminded of this
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It used to be that when we designed information retrieval systems the most important metrics were precision (no wrong results) and recall (all of the right results) and then response time. LLMs are wildly worse on all of these than what people were making for decades before.
I do not think that the companies rolling out LLM-based replacements for information retrieval systems are aware of how deeply destructive this act is for a global society built around an information ecology.
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Seriously, do you have any f'ing idea what a pogrom actually is? This is so incredibly offensive, especially on tonight of all nights as we celebrate
The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight. If Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs.
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Speaking of organizing: The University of Michigan officially and voluntarily recognized our union of librarians, archivists and curators at umich. We are officially joining
@LEOUnionUmich
I could not be happier nor prouder of everyone who made this happen! 🎉🍾🥳
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Ok, please read and share if you are involved in or care about higher ed in this country. 🧵 Umich has officially refuse to pay striking
@geo3550
grad students for the past month. This is a major escalation. The grad union has been around since the 70s, adjunct union for 20 yrs
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@Laurie_Garrett
A virtual event is still crossing the picket line. You're doing business with an employer whose workers are on strike.
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@KatyaSedgwick
@RyanMarino
@DIguanadon
@SethBarronNYC
“ It led many drinkers to switch to opium, marijuana, patent medicines, cocaine, and other dangerous substances that they would have been unlikely to encounter in the absence of Prohibition.”
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Just watched the trailer for Joker, and it is extra terrifying how they based Arthur Fleck on Gilles Deleuze
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Me telling my students we are going to read Derrida and it will be alright
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Just found out they completely shut down one of our library buildings due to poisonous spiders. 2020/21 you just don’t stop
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Wow; this really went a lot further than I thought it would. So, here is some better context/citation: The old photo is from 1937 and the two contemporary photos were taken by Viktor Mácha, there is more of his work and a blog post about them (in Czech):
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It is worth noting the oldest university in the European tradition, the University of Bologna, arose out of mutual aid societies to protect foreign students from collective punishment. What students are doing across the country is a return to exactly what a university should be
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Well that looks pretty official! My new book Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism will be out with Verso this fall!!
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Look what I finally got! And I must say it’s a pretty good looking book, I’d give it a read
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Our new campus AI assistant is really going to be a great asset for students
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Any other academics ever feel that maybe under it all you’re just a highbrow clown paid to do a little song and dance with some jokes thrown in to make the children laugh and the grownups smile for a few forgettable moments at the county fair we call the university? No, just me?
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Also New College of Florida board “voted to approve a new business plan for the university, which included revamping the curriculum to focus on “logos,” or word, and “techne,” or skill, the Greek etymology for the word “technology.” 🤔🤷🏽♂️😂
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Holy crap, just found out that as a result of our new union contract an entire unit that was all on term appointments was converted to regular ongoing appointments!!! Unionizing works!
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Hahaha someone took library mobile shelving technology and turned it into weed growing tech
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@byashleyhackett
Looks like “it’s not a role meta is hiring for” because they are paying a contractor to hire and employ the role for them. I bet they are trying to do that for a whole lot of roles they let go. Worst of luck to them
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Thanks for the RTs! U-M has lots of money but keeps it for the Ann Arbor campus and severely under funds and supports Flint and Dearborn campuses; the
@OneUniversityUM
campaign is fighting back so follow, share and support them!
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The fact that universities, such as mine, are jumping on the AI bandwagon without even so much as stopping to think about problems like this is such incredibly gross malpractice and mismanagement.
AI literally has made us unable to communicate/search for stuff, e.g. "Greek present perfect continuous":
1) Greek does not have this tense, and yet it's the top result on Google.
2) να is not a verb, "Έχω διαβάζοντας το βιβλίο για μία εβδομάδα." is nonsense.
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In undergrad they never teach you that if you can't come up with a transition in a paper, just throw one of these in:
***
And, see now I can talk about something completely different and no one will complain
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a government can just do that? Make air safer for people?
This is amazing, France is going to require clean air in classrooms, aiming at CO2 levels of 800 ppm. Other countries should quickly follow suit. Aside from limiting Covid, just the benefits of lowering common respiratory viruses makes this worth it alone, as any parent knows.
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The idea that young people should look to the professoriate for dating advice is the funniest thing I’ve read all week
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Uncut Gems but I just owe a bunch of different people drafts of things and still take on even more risky projects
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The real threat of ai is not that it works but that it is given the power to decide who gets jobs, goes to the best schools, gets released from prison or even lives or dies. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cat or a dog when decisions can’t be appealed and determine everything else
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My favorite part is that every age group support strikes even more than they support unions. Sounds like unions need to be even more radical
The Labor movement is going through some big things. 88% of people under 30 now support unions. 70% say society would be better with more people in a union. These numbers are incredible!
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Anyone else suddenly discovering that 2.5 years of work from home has absolutely wrecked their eyes?
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BREAKING: the new Chicago Manual of style will no longer require publisher city in citations. We won you all!
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We're losing a really great colleague (I'm very happy for them; it seems like an exciting move), but it is making me think about how overly dependent our library/institution is on a few key people who take on so much responsibility rather than investing in sustainable structures
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Just watched the glass onion and it was cool how it was a film length essay about how it’s okay to throw soup at paintings over energy politics
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Imagine having a bad trip haunt you for weeks after and thinking “ah yes, I’m sure Jacques Lacan could help with this.”
sartre’s mescaline experience temporarily ruined his life
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School is about to turn into one giant generative adversarial network and just like DeLanda predicted we are going to be the little bees carrying pollen droplets of text and images between the machinic flowers so they can grow, reproduce and exchange genetic information
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Technology is advancing so quickly that very soon we will not have any way to differentiate real images from fakes. We are not prepared for what this will do to politics and society…
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woah someone made an AI to make an endless lowfi seinfeld episode that you can watch in real time. Deconstruction might not make any sitcom, but the end of metaphysics could possibly be responsible for this
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I just learned that electric cars are significantly heavier than gas (Chevy bolt is over a 1000lbs heavier than a ford escort and the new eSUVs are super heavy) meaning they are more dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. Not a reason to keep gas cars but for more transit instead
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@JimDMiller
All ChatGPT teaches students is how to turn in the most middling uninteresting writing. So many of my students don’t trust their own voice anymore when they write. It is such a disservice to them
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Say you get to choose one whole discipline to get cancelled; who's getting cancelled?
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equitable and democratic workplace. We've been talking to people as quickly as we can; the support, enthusiasm and willingness to pitch in has been amazing. It has been one of the most worthwhile things I've been involved in at work all pandemic. More updates to come. Solidarity!
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Inflating grades this semester like i'm blowing up scabby the rat for a picket line
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Union update: these last months we have been working hard to build our union of librarians, archivists and curators at Umich, asking people to sign cards and join the union. We now have a sizeable majority and last week we had our first membership meeting! At the meeting our...
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My father-in-law is a builder. It’s difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he’s lost in wonder. We were in the cybersyn room years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer…
“We can’t, we don’t know how.”
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@bartleby_era
I just got over the initial shock of that reveal and got hit by a whole other wave of it when I realized he’s talking about south bend, Indiana?!?!?!?
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By age 30, you should have 16 stones, 4 in each of your 4 pockets these being the 2 pockets of your trousers and the 2 pockets of your greatcoat. Taking a stone from the right pocket of your greatcoat, and putting it in your mouth, replace it in the right pocket of your greatcoat
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For everyone who has been asking about how we are going to handle AI murdering people, it seems we are here. It isn't going to be trolley problems, it is going to be this kind of thing, and deciding how corporations and engineers are going to be held accountable.
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omfg; i can only imagine how bad Kissinger's thoughts about AI are. I refuse to pay even a dime for this but anyone want to send me a pdf and I'll live tweet reading it?
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wtf it doesn’t even like draw a little line on the ground? It just blocks 20% of your field of vision with a pretend screen? The bar was low but this is not what I expected from “spatial computing”
Using map direction with Vision Pro is actually amazing 🤯
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In these weird times it is nice to get some good news: just found out I was promoted to full librarian! I can’t believe I’ve been doing this as long as I have
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