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Justin Joque

@jjoque.bsky.social

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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 · 07/10/2026

Me, at my primary care physician's office right before I start to describe the symptoms of what I, as a hypochondriac, can only assume is a very niche disease they've never encountered

Elizabeth Holmes V @ElizabethHolmes
I really don't think you are ready for this doc
4:52 AM • Oct 6, 2026 • 1.2M Views

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gonna get this bumper sticker printed for all my friends

I've read all of six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard's semi-autobiographical works

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Welp now it appears that you can no longer do anything on the diag at my university (aside from permitted events)

Plastic sandwich sign that reads: welcome to the diag a permit is required for all events. Other uses prohibited. The university will enforce its policies

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shut the fuck up, Word. No one cares

Conciseness
More concise language would be clearer for your reader
The

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

repost with an image of your favorite Bond

Eddie Constantine as Lemmy caution wearing a hat and trench coat

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dude called it

Cover of THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS INTHE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL
MIND by Julian Jaynes

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ai overview: "No, a person can only stay in the air for about one second after a single leap.
However, some say that if you run off a cliff, you can stay in the air as long as you keep running and don't look down."

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This doesn't go past '21 but there definitely was a spike as well as general increase in summer of '21 in these low wage jobs

Graph showing wages for the lowest paid service workers over the early months of the pandemic. Showing a sharp increase followed by a general climb up

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't disagree with any of this but I do think part of the problem is the hangover from the downside of this big spike in 2020-22. It's always harder going down than up.

real median income over the last 10 years showing a big spike up during covid and then a steep slop down that never fully recovered

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

went by a gas station today that has simply given up

Sign at a bp station on the rain that is blank. There are trees in front of it

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Forget the foldable iPhone this is the phone I want

Early 2000s Nokia phone with just number buttons in dark grey

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How, you may ask does this agreement benefit the university? Well for starters students can now be brand ambassadors

How does the pouring rights agreement benefit U-M?
The agreement will offer value across U-M in several ways, including direct sponsorship funding, student scholarships, internships, and ambassadorships, support for sustainability initiatives and nutrition programs, enhanced customer service, streamlined beverage operations, and updated equipment.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So I guess since I'm kinda back here. I haven't told you all that this summer I did a 204 mile gravel bike race across Michigan (including some brutal sandy forest fire access "roads"). Took my buddy and I almost 20 hrs & we were the last to finish but still finished! Wildest thing I've ever done.

Two guys on bikes in the dead of night crossing a lonely finish line

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

R and I biked 300 miles from traverse city to Kalamazoo over a few days and stumbled upon this historic gas station/cheese shop in the absolute middle of nowhere with the best backstory I've ever heard

Sign on a wall that says "THE BOON COUNTRY STORE
The oldest continuous running cheese store in Michigan has its roots go back to 1902 when a Detroit Ironton train derailed near Millersville. This inconspicuous event lost to the ages of time still resonates with one of the few remaining original general stores. Today it is said even the ghosts have left Millersville as there is no sign of any community at all. The proprietor of the store made an arrangement for the offloaded cheese at the disaster site. As the Colby cheese aged it became more coveted for its sharp flavor. Now, well over a hundred years later the Boon Country Store is still Known for its fantastic selection of cheese. The store is also noted for its perseverance. It twice burnt to the ground in 1941 and again in January of 1961 in an effort to thaw frozen pipes. The store was rebuilt on this site and continues to offer cheese to generation after generation of cheese lovers."

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