Justin Joque

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lol I got blocked for saying it’s hard to store video with paper and ink 🥹

It’s really hard to store video with paper and ink

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 overqualified and have a much harder time getting hired than 4

Lmao they are just going to reinvent choose your own adventure, which premiered almost 50 years ago in 1976

Do any of the people coming up with these ideas understand why people watch films?

Movies may soon use AI to change the story each time you rewatchbgr.com Filmmakers are experimenting with a new type of filmmaking called generative film, which uses AI to change the film each time it's watched.

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been ranting about diaspora for years on twitter, and now, like every second albanian with a microphone, i am starting a podcast series . follow us on instagram @ diasporas_speaking

I wrote this short essay about how Musk and Ackman's daughters' turn toward Marxism has driven these billionaires to the brink of psychosis publicseminar.org/2024/03/psyc...

Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter - Public Seminarpublicseminar.org What defines Musk and Ackman’s psychosis is no longer their relation to their symbolic fathers, but their relation to that of their daughters’.

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Wow — major wins for the student workers’ union at The New School! 🎉 www.instagram.com/reel/C4RUcFq...

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Aaron Bushnell, the man who self-immolated at the Israeli embassy in DC today, has reportedly died

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heyyyyyy friends I'm back, and with a new book! CYBORG is out February 6th with @laura4lano.bsky.social, preorders available via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

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I think a stranger on the intertubes just changed my mind about a thing!

If ‘data’ was plural in English and not a mass noun you’d have to use the singular as an adjective and in compound words (eg datumbase, datum storage, datum science etc); just like doghouse not dogshouse or pencil sharpener not pencils sharpener

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Capitalist messaging just keeps getting more and more bleak.

The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a burger king, but also a burger king who thinks he is a king. - Jacques Lacan

Air your grievances!

We got kittens and they sleep snuggled up holding hands sometimes

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One of the wealthiest private universities took on so much debt, for the sake of flashy “innovation” projects, that it has hampered its regular operations and responded by cuts to the humanities and social sciences that are the foundation of the university’s reputation/educational mission

Damning report by Clifford Ando on financial mismanagement at the University of Chicago and its negative impact on the humanities uchicago.app.box.com/s/siblbp8s6z...

Ando Fight for modern university 20231014 copy.docx | Powered by Boxuchicago.app.box.com

I have once again disappointed my family, this time by attempting to carve Kazimir Malevich‘s 1915 Black Square into my pumpkin

Not me telling the group chat I finished digging out and leveling the foundation for the sauna and calling it “the grundrisse”

Cc: @james3neal.bsky.social

I’m going to post the sauna 2.0 build thread over here too for anyone who wants to follow along. Building it from the ground up this time. So here we go!

The kiss [tweet] of death

The only good post 9/11 airport change was not having to spend an hour sitting at the gate with someone who was leaving or getting there an hour ahead of time to wait at the gate for someone and now that’s the only thing they’re getting rid of

I think a lot about a study I read about how every new VP position creates enough demand for at least one full time person to respond to their demands for documentation, strategic plans, etc. The more administrators the more they suck even more people into admin until their is no one left to teach

Hard not to conclude (again) that over-administration / management bloat (people who don't teach or do any research!) has been a catastrophe for higher education

This description from simple English wikipedia circa 2012 is my new favorite thing: Deconstruction works because words are slippery. Reading is like trying to hold a wet fish, because the meanings are all different. Jacques Derrida calls this "slippage along the chain of signifiers."

Just speaking from personal experience, I’m honestly so glad I never ended up on the tenure track. I have a lot less support than perhaps I otherwise would have but I’ve been able to stay in this city for 20 years, have a good union job and can research and write about whatever I want

Having tenure is a holy grail in academia, and the working conditions of tenured people are on the whole vastly better than for non-tt people. Still, I can't but wonder, a general observation, so many tenured people are really burned out, disappointed and overworked, and I'm wondering ... 1/

I’m calling in: sick of this shit

Good.

I wish so called fascism researchers would tell us less about warning signs of the victory of fascism and more about times when the march of fascism has been successfully turned back. Perhaps the defeat of fascism in the US in the 30s is more telling than its successes elsewhere

I mean Elon can f right off to mars but to my mind the bigger issue is there is a fundamental split on the meaning of events and how to interpret them which is a much greater cause for mass confusion than the “fog of war” that makes individual events unclear

There has been a lot of talk about how poor the information environment around the war in Gaza has been and yes X is a dumpster fire. But info confusion always happens in these situations. And while details are murky the overall arc of things seems pretty clear and easy to read up on IMO

It’s like the A24 of sculpture

Cultural institutions in the Midwest sure love some Dale Chihuly glass pieces