It's giving phrenology, who paid for this study? 😭

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

But then how would they put these bought/rented buildings as an expense and pay even less taxes based on that while maintaining the image of an ever growing company and inflating their stock value? ;( and what would these empty spaces be used for? Downtown affordable housing? Madness.

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Scenarios in which it is ok to recline your seat on a plane: 1) there is nobody behind you 2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps

Roses are red Violets are blue

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

I'm still processing what is unfolding in the U.S, part of me perfectly understands what's going on while the other is in denial

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives. Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library! Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

Every day I wake up thinking it cannot be worse than yesterday for the US and I'm wrong. I should just read more about nazi Germany to memorize the patterns of "governance", that may help with the daily shock and disbelief

So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.

So glad to have found out that I'm not the only one adding "Elon Musk attempts a coup" to my 2025 bingo card. I am not /that/ insane.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Not ICE checking IDs of Native Americans. Native. Americans. NATIVE. AS IN INDIGENOUS TO THE REGION. I just

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

My favorite thing about Tr*mp & M*sk is that they overtly criticize Russia just to adopt the exact same imperialist narratives and rhetoric as the Kremlin to justify their invasion/wish to colonize other states

Do Americans know that we refer to the US as our crazy downstairs neighbors? Or is this brand new information? Culturally, America is a big (sad) joke to us. Making the US the 11th provinces to help them fight gun violence and establish universal Healthcare would make more sense instead 💕

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

when you're mysoginistic, homophobic, and transphobic and expect your white brethrens who hold the same "values" to somehow not be racist and target you on the basis of your ethnicity

First time I found a zine in a free tiny library. Very timely.

If you can. Choose differently. (Not a possibility for everyone) - Use Linux instead of Windows/MacOS. - Stop using Alphabet/Google, Meta, Microsoft etc. platforms as much as you possibly can. - Build on OpenSource platforms. - Learn how to self-host instead of using cloud. Prepare yourself.

The age-old problem of how to make people want something that sucks.

He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

I'm having massive flashbacks of the first articles that came out in 2020 about covid 🥹

I only take public transportation during winter because I won't bicycle in the snow, so the time I took the metro was in April. The number of cameras that were installed between April and now in metro stations is baffling. What do we need this level of surveillance for?

It strikes me as incredibly interesting how much more attention and care the powers that be (media, police departments, politicians) give to rich people who die compared to everyone else.

While my friends continued their education, I decided to take time off academia & work. Unexpected but I don't regret it. I was envious of them doing phds until now, when my current PhD applications coincide with their last year of PhD and I am witnessing everyone suddenly losing their mind.

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

🎙️[Editor's picks] This week our editors recommend the HSS Centennial Podcast: History of Science in Song. Don't miss this fascinating intersection of melody and scholarship. 🎵🎶 👨🏻‍🎤Find out the details at: tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/ #STS #EditorsPicks @historyscience.bsky.social

NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe. Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...

I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

Delighted to be a guest on @techlissa.bsky.social Melissa MK's excellent podcast Activists of Tech--discussing tech, AI, history, archives, justice. Asked my song/album of the day (2 days post-election) punk band The Dead Kennedy's "Bedtime for Democracy" #histtech www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

S02E10 out! History of tech, power relations, & archiving for social justice with Jeffrey Yost from the CBI. We talked about how the History of Technology related to social justice and how interdisciplinary studies could advance it, oral histories, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6Tlp...

Oh my god, in my head "technocapitalism" meant technocracy x capitalism, and someone defined it as "relying on intangibles that are knowledge and creativity: the most valuable resources of this technological era".

An important example of how critical humanities matter in contemporary debates - this time in relation to the hidden assumptions of 'white' nationalism in the US. Significant, perhaps, that Suman grew up in Australia when critiques of the 'sciences' of settler whiteness were emergeing....