In this just published article "Blockchain 2026..." in Blockchain & Society, I draw on history to inform on technology, hype, & inequalities, as well as underlying politics, power, & corruption. #histsci blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessa...

Our special issue is out! "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"! Eds. Colette Perold, me, Gerardo Con Diaz. Authors: David Dunning, Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Jason Ludwig, Megan Wiessner, & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

New Interfaces essay! Toni Weller et al.'s rich & insightful historiographical essay on information history... cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces "Reflections on The Routledge Handbook on Information History." Framing the Field: Reflections on The Routledge Handbook of Information History" #HistSci

So grateful to be a guest at UC Davis' STS today & to share my "Of MYCIN Men: Medicine, Mottos, & Meanings in Symbolic & Generative AI". Such a wonderful, helpful,& generative conversation!!! #histsci

At UMN we were treated to a fantastic talk from this and I greatly look forward to reading it!!

Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due 28th February 2026 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History Committee plans to support up to 5 research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Call is at link below. #histsci history.acm.org/wp-content/u...

Sad to hear Jimmy Cliff has died. Feel fortunate I was able to see his concerts at Minneapolis' First Avenue & other venues over the years.

Very grateful to Yale's (& CBI Research Fellow) @lmesseri.bsky.social for her brilliant talk today (a CBI & UMN Anthro event) on the history & ethnography of VR in LA & more broadly, social imagineries for good in tech! Also, I am grateful for the terrific audience, Qs & coversation. #histsci

CBI & UMN Anthro are delighted to host Nov. 14th lecture (noon to 1pm, Andersen Lib. 120) by Yale U. Prof. of Anthropology & CBI Research Fellow @lmesseri.bsky.social Lisa Messeri!! "IN THE LAND OF THE UNREAL" Free talk & lunch, reg. req. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HISTSCI

For the Minnesotans out there, see post below for upcoming book talk! My host, @justcode.bsky.social, wrote a lovely review of my book right when it came out. Also it's the final days of the @dukepress.bsky.social Fall book sale (thru Nov 9). Use FALL25 code on the press website to get 50% off!

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

CBI & UMN Anthro are delighted to host Nov. 14th lecture (noon to 1pm, Andersen Lib. 120) by Yale U. Prof. of Anthropology & CBI Research Fellow @lmesseri.bsky.social Lisa Messeri!! "IN THE LAND OF THE UNREAL" Free talk & lunch, reg. req. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HISTSCI

Latest Interfaces... Dr. Lea Beiermann's "From the Backroom to the Ballroom: (Re)framing Open Source for the Public Sector" offers a fascinating & insightful essay looking back & looking forward with Open Source Software (OSS) in Europe. #histsci Essay article: cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

So enjoyed Rice U.'s. Liz Petrick's engaging, insightful lecture at UMN HSTM yesterday!! "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets." #histsci

Delighted that Rice University's Elizabeth Petrick will be joining us at University of Minnesota for the HSTM Colloquium Talk: "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets" October 24th 216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci

Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE! Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠 Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...

Delighted that Rice University's Elizabeth Petrick will be joining us at University of Minnesota for the HSTM Colloquium Talk: "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets" October 24th 216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci

CBI is absolutely delighted to announce that thought-leading scholars University of Illinois' @anitachan.bsky.social & Indiana University's @rachelplotnick.bsky.social have just joined us as new CBI Research Fellows. Below is the link to the article. #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/cbi...

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's @hopelatta.bsky.social "People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

I’m pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, _Deadly Divide_, will be out in spring 2026 with @uncpress.bsky.social with the help of my fabulous editor Cate Hodorowicz (@catehodorowicz.bsky.social).

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's @hopelatta.bsky.social "People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Grateful to Pavek Museum Curator @pelithehistorian.bsky.social for inviting me to speak on AI history today at The Pavek Museum & UMN HSTM colleagues & family making the trip to the burbs for it-- @honghongtinn.bsky.social, @waynesoon.bsky.social, & Jennifer Alexander !! #histsci

Talk tomorrow on history, power, & ironies & paradoxes of rhetorical & infrastructural appropriations of AI. #histsci

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879289... This is a good job for a critical scholar of ai! please apply and send around your networks

I am giving a public lecture at the Pavek Museum on the 20th. Connecting Conversations – "Artificial Intelligence: Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility." Pavek Museum 3517 Raleigh Ave, St. Louis Park, Minnesota. September 20 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. #Histsci

Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link below, made possible by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-cod...

Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.

Esteemed colleague in HSTM & CBI Asst. Prof. of HST & ECE, UMN @honghongtinn.bsky.social is giving ECE's Colloquium talk from her tremendous book Island Tinkerers on Sept. 4th 4 to 5:15 pm C. in 3-230 Keller Hall, U of MN MPLS. #Histsci

This is... just... very bad on so many levels. And the worst thing is that I bet this guy thinks he's been super progressive and enlightened in making his servile avatar appear as a young, Black woman.

Grateful to so many in announcing today’s launch of *”Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey* (@universitypress.cambridge). Free downloads now til 9/11/25+for print order here: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... (I recommend checking out the whole series, starting with Gahman, et al!)

Nice brief textual and archival work here from @albertrolls.bsky.social on Pynchon's V., which at the end explains why my editions persists with errors fixed elsewhere orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!

One thing that really burns me: ‘learning’ tech/algorithms were showing how they could be a tool for good… aiding translators, supporting disabled folk, hell, matching paint colors. But #AI techbros wanted to replace humans and worship an (unobtainable!) artificial brain.

Out now! Summary Report: Workshop on the Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the AI Supply Chain www.ias.edu/sites/defaul... The report highlights how AI’s expansion is tied to critical minerals, energy, water, land, and labor—and why interdisciplinary approaches are essential for AI governance.🧵

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2/2 Just Code Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz Table of Contents

1/2 Just Code Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz Table of Contents

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link below, made possible by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-cod...

studying up for the coming ‘reindustrialization’ discourse

More cities need lines & more lines are needed per city, as networks expand, so will ridership. Mpls-St. Paul has two successful lines connecting the downtowns of Twin Cities, the University of MN, & Mall of America. One new line, SW, & one ext. N in works IF fed committed dollars remain. #lightrail

Just posted, at last: A review of one of my favorite recent books, Benjamin Shestakovsky's "Behind the Startup"—the most rigorous and precise account I've seen of how the dominant startup model produces inequality: muse.jhu.edu/article/968586

Sharing a book review of Thomas S. Mullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Huge thank you to AIP (@aip.bsky.social) History and Rebecca Charbonneau (@rebeccacharbon.bsky.social) for spotlighting my latest article! 🤩 #ligo #physics #history #histstem

"One of the throughlines in the history of technology is that big, new infrastructural technologies often make more uncompensated labor. People may have to do more things to essentially shepherd those technologies along and make sure that they don’t break down..." www.fastcompany.com/91384078/not...

Now, a new open-access publication, “Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City”, explores the iconic project. From urban planning, to architecture, musicology, and geography. Take a trip down the Sunset Strip: www.getty.edu/publications...

New Interfaces Essay, Aug. 2025. A super creative & insightful essay by Eóin Phillips, a Prof. of History and Sociology of Sci/Tech/Econ at La Salle-Ramon Llull Univ. "Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

How did television help to shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? See standout media studies scholar Dr. @myrnamoretti.bsky.social 's insightful (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” "! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces