Interesting and unusual job posting, for a historian of computing/technology with aspirations to work in the museum field: computerhistory.org/jobs/oral-hi...

ProPublica is currently reporting on school voucher programs that allow private schools to receive public money, which lawmakers said would give families more options. Message us on WhatsApp by texting “schools” to 917-207-6447. wa.me/19172076447?...

Spinning in circles and crying for help. An AI robot became such a burden for nurses in a Seattle hospital that they eventually cancelled the contract and held a funeral for it. The latest from Varshal Bansal at @proofnews.bsky.social www.proofnews.org/moxi/

Grad students, early career folks, non-historians, and practitioners in the field are very much encouraged to be a part of this issue! (As well as folks at any stage of their careers—we just want to especially encourage newer folks!)

I’m rarely at a loss for words but today I don’t have many for the enormity and the complexity of Gordon Wood’s legacy - I was inspired by his work even as I agreed with about 1/2 and was often irritated by the rest. RIP. A real one. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...

Huh. 35% of CS10 students flunked? www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

seems bad

does bluesky hate broadway? where is all the tony's commentary

it's a very happy night for all of us who grew up in beaverton, oregon, taking dance lessons from shoshana bean's mom

cutting off THE lynn ahrens’ mic as she was about to speak while accepting a tony, couldn’t be me

Before I go dark again for another week…this starts soon! Tell your proposal-curious friends!

Really lovely piece by my colleague @bryanagraham.bsky.social, who watched Game 1 of the NBA finals with some of the men incarcerated on Riker’s island

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

The new global forever stamps are cool as hell.

i am at @shgape.bsky.social today and tomorrow, please say hi!

It's here! Sill has a new backend, empowering a slew of new features: activity from across the Atmosphere, new publication/author pages, and overall better link scraping. More to come, this is just the beginning!

JOB ALERT: Early Career Fellow in Covid Commemoration Oral Histories (21 months, The British Library) ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Wrapping up Data from the Margins this week (quarter system, baby!), my undergrad class on critical data studies. If I had to guess, they were most interested in data brokers, edtech, data labor, and anything about the workplace. miriamposner.com/classes/dh15...

In @jamellebouie.net’s latest he urges Democrats to think beyond a set of loose policy ideas and instead form “a broad new conception of the nation’s political order.“ To do so they need to answer a broader question, to grapple with the “comprehensive idea of what the nation might be.”

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠

I love this @blockclubchi.bsky.social story: What 3 Chicago Sisters Asked Pope Leo In A Letter Delivered By Their Englewood Church. newsletter.blockclubchi.org/lt.php?x=4lZ...

wild @kait.bsky.social dispatch about how some of the anti-data center stuff online is, itself, weird AI slop www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

do you ever have glimpses of life paths not taken? i just walked by a bonobos, the men's clothing store, and remembered the time i applied to a software engineering job there

Really thought "AI" would replace "fake news" and "polarization" but unfortunately it appears "chatbots to reduce misinformation and polarization" is a good way to get grant money

The conferences didn't start until 1978, vols weren't all published until two decades later. When we look back at the semiquincentennial it won't be just about what happened up to and on July 4, 2026. It will also be about what was inspired in its wake. Let's go, is what I'm saying.

if it's safe for you to work in the USA then the Uni of Oklahoma is looking for a potential senior hire in #histSTM with a specialisation in women & science 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70051/u...

we are nearing the end of the jumbo costco bag of mixed nuts, and i fear my husband will soon discover i've been avoiding all the brazil nuts. please do not tag him in this post

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

excuse me

Last week it was strawberry season but this week it is STRAWBERRY SEASON.

“The reading crisis is real. But we don’t need new inventions to build a reading city. Exempt books from sales taxes the way we exempt prescription medicine. Invest in library collections and reduce wait lists for books …” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

the children's books these days go hard

"When we rid ourselves of this language of who am I and where do I belong, when we begin from the premise that none of us belong here, what other indexes of power emerge?" electricliterature.com/a-debut-nove...

great piece by zeb, which unlocked a memory: two careers ago, in 2016, i gave a conference talk on the need to write thorough git commit messages. commits tell the story of your software!

incredible

I would note that one of the authors of this, Glenn Thrush, was himself suspended and punished by NYT in 2017 over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, which he blamed on a drinking problem. Interesting that I guess it’s not considered a conflict of interest for him to cover that topic.

i am twelve weeks postpartum and wow, this hits home

A year ago I tried to get someone to write a very short book like this. He responded to my email saying he was interested and what would be a good time to talk. I wrote back with some times. He wrote back and said “oops— I asked AI to reply to say I was *not* interested“

"you only did one pull request per week" is totally, completely bananas, especially at a place that presumably understands the importance of investigative work that takes time

The perfect sweater doesn't exi—

many years ago, on the old site, i begged someone to write about american idol's demise on fox in 2016, then surprise return on abc in 2018. fold in the recent surge of christian singers & someone's got a whole diss project here. katy perry out, carrie underwood in, 'songs of faith' nights, etc.

need to spoil the kicker on this Kavitha Surana story, because it's that good. "Each run-in brings it all pouring back. The ultrasounds. The “risk management.” The blood, so much blood. But also, the state line. The relief she felt crossing it." www.propublica.org/article/arka...

people who watched tv in the 1980s and 90s! what commercials live in your memory? (especially interested in those that stick with you because they felt unusually creative at the time; print campaigns also welcome)

You know what I appreciate about Leo's new encyclical? Numbered paragraphs for easy citation of a web-based, non-paginated document. All those digital-only academic journals without numbered pages need to get on that!

Tired: Pivoting from humanities academia to UX Wired: Sending your STS inflected CV to the Vatican

the other thing i thought about the whole time is how the vatican obviously / secretly has a deep STS advisory bench??? and are they hiring

Skimmed the encylical and was repeatedly struck by how shocking (good) it feels to read a coherent institutional vision / strategy for how to maneuver through These Times rooted in common sense and firm principles. We have been intellectually failed and starved by so many other institutions.

"It is not enough to… celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity."

i need a better system for remembering which books i've already pre-ordered. for example, did i already pre-order @roopikarisam.bsky.social's book? probably? but maybe not? better pre-order another, just in case. thank you to the pope for inspiring this purchase this morning