In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal... (An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum) spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack... #HistSci #computing #History 🗃️

Connecticut History Review 64.2, a special issue on Connecticut Women's Political and Economic Experience, is online! Contributors: Heather Munro Prescott ( @knittingclio.bsky.social ), @kmarino1.bsky.social ( @shuhistorydept.bsky.social ), + more scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/chr/issu...

There's a dark hilarity to them citing the fact that the Brown shooter was Portuguese, because Rhode Island has the largest Portuguese population in the country per-capita. Dude was Portuguese? Throw a fuckin' rock. You'll hit at least two Soares, a Ferreira, and a Medeiros.

Tomorrow on my live webcast, “History Matters” The “Pettysburg Address” The president’s address to the nation this week was…strange. And revealing. In so many ways. Let’s talk about it. (I didn’t invent “Pettysburg Address”—& can’t find the source.) Friday 10AM ET m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

The lure of ChatGPT ys conversaciouns wythout any actual dialogue or accountabilitye. A mirrour that doth flatter by offeringe no reflectioun whatsoevir. A google searche that doth kysse up to you.

Help spread the word - watch a Rob Reiner movie instead of President Trump’s address tonight. I plan to watch Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

File under: no shit

I guess this is why the enablers (Republicans) didn't want this testimony in Public.

TRUTH

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

be aware there is a an absolutely massive disinfo campaign going around trying to say that the dude who disarmed this sicko was not named Ahmed al Ahmed but "Edward Crabtree" the site, article, & all articles it links to appear to be all created/registered today & AI generated archive.is/K5eSI

In the face of horror at Bondi Beach, one act of courage lit up the darkness. Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim father with no training, risked everything to stop a knife attack and save lives. He is now recovering from serious injuries.

Cool

The US is becoming the new Barbary States (= "barbarians" who attack and steal other's stuff... and force people into dehumanizing labor if not killing them first!).

🥇Best Bluesky post of 2025? It surely has to be this one, from @carlbergstrom.com, talking about Jay Bhattacharya canceling federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D This post is quite simply a masterpiece bsky.app/profile/carl...

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

The ban on #socialmedia for children under 16 in #Australia stems from a mother who read The Anxious Generation. Here’s a review that questions the author’s methods and conclusions benchugg.com/writing/anxi...

Oh yeah as a fan of #strangerthings I need to include the moral panic in the 1980s over #dungeonsanddragons #shcy #australia #socialmedia

www.bbc.com/news/article... As a historian of #childhood this reminds me of earlier efforts to ban things like novel reading in 19th century, comic books and in the 1950s, heavy metal music in 1980s in the name of protecting young people

Poppy in her Christmas box #cats #adorable #christmas

Nice write-up on the new article on a volcanic eruption in 1345 and Black Death. But as @monicamedhist.bsky.social states in this piece: the study helps explain why the BD happened when it did, but that it could happen is because of an existing "plague infrastructure" ... 1/2 #histmed

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

The Museum of the American Revolution has several voice acting opportunities for which it is specifically looking for #Connecticut talent. These are for its Patriots of Color Archive online interactive. Info about the opportunity is here: www.amrevmuseum.org/patriots-of-...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen REM The Replacements The Ramones The Pixies B52s

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Amazing! As the post says, we may lose something when we don't take the time and space, with the associated cogitation it allows, to work our way through manuscript sources, but it's a rare luxury to have that time and space these days, and this RA is above and beyond helpful.

Me too.

The CDC is lying about vaccines. 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...

Who would have thunk it?

"An overweening faith that our genes make us who we are is a terrifying thing." Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: @nccomfort.bsky.social discusses James Watson's gradual embrace of genetic determinism in an essay for @nytopinion.nytimes.com. #histbio #histsci #eugenics #DNA 🗃️📜🧬

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995. And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.

New from 404 Media: IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Shows where and when someone flew, the credit card used. Hundreds of millions records; the airlines sell this data to the government through a broker they own www.404media.co/irs-accessed...

11/16/1869 — b. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, American physician, #publichealth pioneer, suffrage leader. Key figure in early intl medical care + relief organizing efforts. First president, Medical Women’s Intl Assn(1919-24); wrote “Wmn Doctors of the World” ('57) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #MedSky

President James Garfield was correct.

This is my husband's review of Alice Wong's amazing "Disability Visability." If you haven't picked up a copy, I highly recommend it. May she rest in peace as her work continues on after her. nursingclio.org/2021/03/02/r...

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Woodchipper solidarity

“There are Epsteins everywhere for those with eyes to see”

Even MAGA has limits.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

I have to tell you what really happened to the plums... Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC. One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files. (via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

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Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill. Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans. "New Golden Age."

Breaking: Mike Johnson just announced that he'll swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday at 4pm ET.

If I were @schumer.senate.gov, I would not agree to help Republicans fund this regime on the "promise" of an ACA vote at a later date. It didn't work the last time when they promised to fund DC. It won't work this time either. The House won't touch it.