we got new bookshelves and were fairly haphazard tonight in the process of moving everything over. will need some reorganizing eventually. but i did just notice that the miss america books section and the eugenics books section ended up very near each other, which tbh isn't historically inaccurate

I missed the Casey Means hearing. Tell me someone asked her if she vaccinated her new baby.

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

i can't remember if i've talked about this publicly but i had to scramble a few years ago when my former provider very suddenly refused to refill my birth control rx, for reasons that were straight out of a misinfo playbook

reminder that the ACM published an extremely catty back-and-forth by McCarthy and Weizenbaum in 1976 showing us all what great posters they could have been dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

i am just a lowly graduate student, what do i know, but my hunch is that the vast majority of undergrads do not want this, see right through this, understand this as a threat to their intellectual development

The AAUP committee on AI In Academic Professions, is 63% women, 69% STEM fields. The occasional, often dismissive, insinuation that Critical AI is a purely Humanities movement could not be further from the truth.

Historians, I have a question for you. I'm reading some older books that all suggest a shared assumption by historians that in the past (often defined very broadly, but generally from the emergence of humans up through the middle ages-ish) humans had no real conception of "the future." (1/3)

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

"By failing to create a National Data Center, the government opened space for corporations to aggregate data for their own use and profit. Preventing a nationalized data center enabled a new market for privatized data banks and data integration solutions to take hold and thrive."

Today's pigeon is a damsel but she's not in distress

This story was fun to write bc it’s mostly older trans guys being like “we used to bind uphill both ways in the snow” But in all seriousness, binding used to be the wild west. Duct tape, electrical tape, ACE bandages. Now we have good products. But the FDA is cracking down on those. Read more:

If I was an oligarch I think I’d spend a lot of energy convincing young people to be terrified of the future and obsessed with a pragmatic education that could (theoretically) secure a job, hollowing out actual education and letting fear and ignorance secure my own place of domination

In @newint.bsky.social, D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social write about their work tracing the impacts of, and resistance to, the AI industry's development push in Pennsylvania — and introduce us to some of the people living in the thick of it. newint.org/science-and-...

you could hear Alysa Liu say “that performance was way better than any score could ever be” as she was waiting for her marks 🥲

another great episode! one that reminds me how happy i am to be in the journalists turned historians club

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment

Yes, please, lord. Labor, Capital, and Machine: Toward a Labor Process Theory for HCI arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10548

i gave a conference talk on this a few years back—on the rise of medical scribes, with EHRs proving insufficient, all with the hope that someday, better tech would solve everything. (enter "AI" and... welp.) project stalled as i moved to other things but there's SO much history here

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

is there a word for how lovely but stressful it is to watch figure skating

Applications are now open for the Reynolds Travel Grant for the Transportation Library! Learn more and apply here: www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co... Image: TWA Menu, 1979. Robert M. Behr Menu Collection.

good thread here from a reporter who has been covering this race closely

if you live in Chicago and you haven't been outside today this is an ORDER go out into the sunlight RIGHT NOW

This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.

it's the final day to submit those midwest junto abstracts! get 'em in!

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

“It’s an auspicious coincidence that Sunday’s Super Bowl offered a counterargument to Ring’s dystopian vision in the form of Bad Bunny’s halftime spectacle, which featured the ‘La Casita’ concept that made his recent Las Vegas residency so critically acclaimed”

For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.

The Boston Public Library unwisely made a wager with the Seattle Public Library over the results of Super Bowl LX. Now, thanks to the Seahawks’ win over the New England Patriots, Boston readers are getting a dose of Seattle culture.

last night, buried under a mountain of midterms, i noticed that blue book's apparently trademarked slogan is "use your imagination" and honestly it is perfect

among the other godforsaken things i can’t believe about this timeline: Scabby has appeared outside ProPublica — management won’t commit to fair and standard disciplinary practices or implementing guardrails on newsroom AI use, after two years of negotiations.

What is the best published argument we have yet - including reasonable theoretical and strong empirical bases - for the idea that Generative AI is an especially "authoritarian" technology?

You know how it’s a @propublicaguild.org picket because Scabby has a tip line

Hayes has this same ingenuous epiphany every couple of months. The gee-golly-this-might-be-powerful exclamation is part of his schtick, and the irritation is that he is a television personality who doesn't keep up w scholars, activists, & organizers; all he hears is hype & hype-adjacent chatter.

I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious. We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.

i made the mistake last night of reading the comments on ballerina farm's new raw milk video right before falling asleep and predictably had cursed dreams

Our new paper: toxic experts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

i am hosting a "craft your research" event tonight for STS-y grad students (faculty were invited, too; will they be brave enough to show??) and am SO jazzed to see what comes out of it. you can take a girl out of art school, etc etc

Between the incorrect assumption that spread all over the internet that Liam Conejo Ramos was in Bad Bunny's halftime performance and a whole discourse I'm seeing on how "gift link" or "gift article" = paid ad (???), not feeling too hot about the state of media literacy.

wellesley has offered this class for years! catalog.wellesley.edu/course.php?p...

find me a more cursed way to start a sentence

many of you know anna as an excellent bluesky neighbor. here to report she's also an excellent IRL neighbor. this pudding is next-level delicious

happy Super Bowl Sunday! for all you commercials sickos, I make the case that this game's ad blitz will be to A.I. what 2022's was to crypto and 2000's was to the dot-com boom—with all attendant implications for our broader economy and the celebrity-promotion complex: slate.com/technology/2...