Could not be more thrilled our special issue is now live!

Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Reposting Xiaochang reposting Laine bc WNBA

Hey, hey... @sigcisconf.bsky.social[email protected]'s Special Interest Group for Computing, Information & Society--is on Bluesky! Follow them if you're interested in #ComputerHistory or the social & political impact of digital technologies like #AI. #histsci #histtech #histSTM 🗃️📜📚

📣 CFP ALERT 📣 SIGCIS 2025: ⚡POWER SURGE⚡ // CFP Due 7/14 📆 get in the car losers, the BEST conference in the history of computing IS BACK ONLINE! PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN registration! v v grad student friendly! If your work is anywhere close to the history of computing, you should apply!!!

SIGCIS 2025 deadline extended to Monday! Theme is POWER with keynote Lily Geismer. Going to be an epic year. Submit! And feel free to ask me any questions about it!

É muito maluco que, pra gente poder fazer esse tipo de análise cruzando nossa história com tecnologia, cultura e política, a gente precise de um fundo e um apoio internacional. Mais maluco ainda é que os EUA hoje lidam com o tipo de autoritarismo e perseguição que eu trato no meu artigo.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

This would make ICE roughly the 7th-largest military in the world.

makes me think of how peter thiel initially framed paypal as a way to displace banks and break government control over currency, until it came time to actually make money off it

These are the same people who in 2020 issued a formal endorsement of “Either Warren or Klobuchar, one of the two extremely different ladies, take your pick.” One of the most hilariously asinine US political media actions of the 21st century. Never forget.

10 national unions are jointly demanding the release of immigrant workers detained by ICE, in what could be a prelude to more coordinated and direct action

This is such a disaster. Small publishers still utterly rely on Google for traffic and discovery, and Overview by all counts seems to be decimating both.

Unbelievable censorship against @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and an unbelievably beautiful, devastating, response back from her

This made me cry and it really should not have. It is a document of basic decency. Good for Tufts, may the other institutions grow a spine too. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Lilian Hellman wrote that Hollywood responded to the "wild charges of Joe McCarthy with the force and courage of a bowl of mashed potatoes." Universities were just as weak. This 1986 @bostonreview.bsky.social article explains how it went down step-by-step. www.bostonreview.net/articles/rea...

And this historic assault on labor is nowhere to be found on *any* of the major newspapers' front pages today.

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic

This is a better shot of the size of the crowd at Powder House Square for Rumeysa Ozturk. Less than 24 hours notice.

"who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!" Now they are doing a mass basic security training

Video of masked ICE agents surrounding and detaining Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts PhD student and worker, has now been shared on IG. Please take action against this absurdity!

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

No one should *ever* be targeted for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine, including my brilliant colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social. These are terrifying times, and we must all stand together against repression. lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

Hmm, beginning to think their concern about anti-semitism in higher education might not be completely on the level.

You won’t be able to save universities without acknowledging that pro-Palestine protests are not antisemitism.

People can stay mad about the following but if Democrats hadn’t run around normalizing this kind of language, the American public wouldn’t be as primed as they are to accept it.

This is the biggest danger of Trump's EOs. They are not law, and yet Denver Health is complying in advance, ending all trans surgeries under 19 years of age, including chest masculinization - a rare, but much needed surgery for some trans teens. www.9news.com/article/news...

Proud to stand with my former union siblings to demand NYU stop its anti-union attacks on pro-Palestine protest. If you’re a GSOC alum, please join our pledge to boycott NYU until these sanctions are dropped.

[email protected] is asking for lots of emails, you say?

Whoa. Anyone got receipts on this shit? Really smart play for Meta to do that if they're going full state media. Plenty of older users that don't know how to opt out of shit will be fed plenty of pro Trump goodies from accounts they think they followed.

Historians For Palestine's response to the AHA Council veto: 1. Today's American Historical Association veto supports scholasticide.

RIP Jimmy Carter? How to remember him? Thread - nuclear engineer, who did Solar & Western coal boom -Deregulator & neoliberal turn in US -Carter doctrine that began the bloodbath in Middle East post Iranian revolution? - Rapprochement with communist China - Humane anti imperialist ex-President

AIRED TODAY: Colorado Public Radio reports on the extraordinary work of our student Naim Aburaddi, whose Phoenix of Gaza XR project has documented Gaza, before and after this war. Experiencing this footage has shaped me forever. www.cpr.org/2024/12/03/c...

New Starter Pack on Archives & Oral History. go.bsky.app/D7mVKQX

The Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder is hiring! We’re seeking an open-rank scholar with a critical, interdisciplinary approach to media, culture, and the environment. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Okay so so far we have starter packs for Lebanon bsky.app/starter-pack... Palestine bsky.app/starter-pack... via @danaelkurd.bsky.social Egypt bsky.app/starter-pack... via @maitelsadany.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

My department just made its own Starter Pack. Of interest to those who take humanistic approaches to the study of social justice and media.

I just wanna point out that the existence of the NLRB and labor unions is the “moderate compromise” option and prior to that things like “running gun battles in the street” and “burning the boss’s house down with everyone in it” were on the table as negotiating tactics

While this bill doesn't directly affect me, watching the abuse targeted at organizers radicalized me to become more involved in local politics. Boulder's NIMBYs were unwilling to compromise on a modest housing reform to raise occupancy limits for years. These limits are now illegal statewide.