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Justin Joque

3 years

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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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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My lunch place, nice

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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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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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Justin Joque

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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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Justin Joque

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4 years

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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4 years

Fuck, this isn’t going to go well

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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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Justin Joque

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1 year

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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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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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

A good reminder from busytown as we begin a new semester

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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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Justin Joque

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6 months

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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Justin Joque

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4 years

ps this is happening in nearly every industry and institution, rapidly hollowing them out. You see it everywhere.

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Justin Joque

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5 years

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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Justin Joque

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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

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this is insane cashier is literally zooming into nyc from the philippines

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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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Justin Joque

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9 months

Yeah, I study STEM: Structuralism Technopolitics Epistemology Marxism

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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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Justin Joque

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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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Justin Joque

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2 years

French scientist owns up after star photo revealed to be spicy sausage

A director at France's Atomic Energy Commission apologises after his "distant star" tweet turns out to be a slice of chorizo.

www.abc.net.au

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Justin Joque

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4 months

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

University of Michigan just announced a vaccine requirement for all staff and students

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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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Justin Joque

@jjoque

2 years

Normalize professors having job security and a living wage

Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. 🍉

@grodriguezlemus

2 years

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

Gabe Gottlieb

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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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Justin Joque

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3 months

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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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

Tom Cotton

@SenTomCotton

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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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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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1 year

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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Justin Joque

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1 year

@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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Justin Joque

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Just a reminder to any Umich faculty that it is administrator evaluation season; so it is an excellent opportunity to tell them how you think they're handling bargaining with GEO

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Justin Joque

@jjoque

3 months

@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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Justin Joque

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5 years

Just watched the trailer for Joker, and it is extra terrifying how they based Arthur Fleck on Gilles Deleuze

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Justin Joque

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4 years

Me telling my students we are going to read Derrida and it will be alright

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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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4 years

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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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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Justin Joque

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5 years

@USCPSC @NWSKansasCity Whoever you are who is doing social media, keep up the good work.

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Justin Joque

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10 months

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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Matthew Boedy

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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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Justin Joque

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2 years

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

Hahaha someone took library mobile shelving technology and turned it into weed growing tech

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Justin Joque

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3 years

I nonstop think about the time that someone pointed out that this guy is not actually from Appalachia but bell hooks is

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"Universal day care" is class war against normal people.

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1 year

@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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Justin Joque

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4 years

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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Justin Joque

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2 months

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.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

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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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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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1 year

a government can just do that? Make air safer for people?

Kashif Pirzada, MD

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1 year

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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1 month

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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2 years

Anyone else suddenly discovering that 2.5 years of work from home has absolutely wrecked their eyes?

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8 months

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

Fuck You I Quit

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8 months

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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4 years

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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2 years

Jacques Derrida on an episode of Seinfeld

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2 years

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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26 days

BREAKING: the new Chicago Manual of style will no longer require publisher city in citations. We won you all!

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1 year

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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5 years

Imagine having a bad trip haunt you for weeks after and thinking “ah yes, I’m sure Jacques Lacan could help with this.”

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5 years

sartre’s mescaline experience temporarily ruined his life

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Justin Joque

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2 years

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

Peter Yang

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2 years

Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As

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1 year

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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Justin Joque

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1 year

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

WatchMeForever - Twitch

NOTHING, FOREVER - S2 v1.4 | AI generated, always on, always weird | what's the weather like today?

www.twitch.tv

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Justin Joque

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3 years

Is this praxis?

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2 years

Say you get to choose one whole discipline to get cancelled; who's getting cancelled?

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1 year

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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Justin Joque

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3 years

Inflating grades this semester like i'm blowing up scabby the rat for a picket line

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Justin Joque

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3 years

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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2 years

University of Austin Total Landscaping

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5 years

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.

Aaron Boothby

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is it understood how extreme a 40 degree dive is, caused by an automated system? boeing execs should be on trial for murder. no way no one knew it could do that.

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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”

GregsGadgets

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Using map direction with Vision Pro is actually amazing 🤯

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The imaginary, the symbolic and the real

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Do yall even know the 3 branches of the government?

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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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1) Contrary to many of the supporters and detractors of AI, machine learning is turning out to be more effective at dissimulation and creating imaginary worlds (e.g. financial derivatives, platforms for shopping and dating, etc) than describing "the real world". In doing so these

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It really is amazing what invading Afghanistan does to empires

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Happy (virtual) pub day to me! (The paperback is coming next week—paper shortage maybe, not sure?). Either way it felt like this book was a long time in the making, very glad to have it out in the world. 🎉🎉🎉

Justin Joque

@jjoque

3 years

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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In light of the thing we all read, here is my position: at the end of the day tenure is a labor protection. Don’t get hung up on what it means or if universities can afford it. Push to expand it. Not “more tenure lines” instead give everyone tenure. Adjuncts? Yep! Janitors? Yep!

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Just a random reminder (as I don’t think this is common knowledge and not for me as I’ve maxed out promotion) but in a lot of places the main currency of librarian promotions is thank you notes (I know doesn’t make any sense). So, if you’re in academia and work with librarians

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Yoooooo I don’t think you get to complain about the president’s dinner being a little bit noisy the day after you took away thousands of grad students’ dinner money. Next time try just ordering a calzone to the office

UM Public Affairs

@UMPublicAffairs

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. @UMich 's #UMichRegents call GEO's unruly protest Thursday evening wholly unacceptable. Read the full statement here:

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In this whole Neri Oxman / Bill Ackman debacle we should make sure to not lose sight of how much it’s a good reminder that the MIT media lab was such a toxic mix of all the worst elements of tech hype, elite institutions, false profundity and money

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So Google is now alphabet, Facebook is meta, Apple should just go all in and change their name to grammatology

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The new book is up on Verso's website; increasingly excited to see it out in the world!

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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3 years

Is it just me or is it a bit tacky when your employer asks you to donate money back to them?

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2 years

Honestly think we have to fight fire with fire. Anyone want to join me in creating a “university” just to teach CRT, gender/queer studies and Marxist ideology?

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1 year

@Laurie_Garrett A lot of people are (understandably) giving you a hard time for crossing the picket line. You didn’t know but now you do. Solidarity is all about learning together and building power. It would be a good opportunity to use your platform to let others know about this and the strike

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Just realized that with University of Michigan's internet outage unless students and faculty wrote down where and when their classes are tomorrow they currently have no way to find out

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3 years

Imagine being a cicada and waiting 17 years for this moment only to learn that one’s desire is always alienated in the other’s

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3 years

Attempts to flip classrooms, undo hierarchy, make things fun, etc. are so often a way for instructors to disavow their power (for their own comfort) while making students fear it all the more as they turn into amateur kremlinologists trying to discern what those in power want

rhubarb snackowski

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if i were a student in a world where your whole life hinges on final grades (& i was a student in such a world) i would be far less stressed by a conventional exam or essay than a "creative"/"fun" assignment whose criteria are even more of a mystery than the standard assignments'

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It’s amazing to think that physical books, especially ones that enter the publishing->library pipeline, are still one of the best technologies we have for long term preservation and access. Lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than anything digital even for somewhat obscure texts

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

@RVAwonk

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It’s incredibly troubling that, just as we’re grappling with a technology (AI) that has the potential to rewrite history on a truly mind-bending scale, we’re also seeing more and more archives disappear from the internet. That’s our tether to reality that is being erased.

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