jfc that Atlantic cover with an angelic RFK Jr holding some effing prayer beads

For anyone feeling a picogram of sympathy for MTG after today's fawning NYT piece: www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...

If you're in the Palo Alto area on January 20, I'll be having a conversation about my new book et al. with @dcbrock.bsky.social computerhistory.org/events/read-...

ffs... #Dupes

So - when will the trend for long-form profiles of ethically bankrupt people end? (not including link)

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays! Here’s hoping next year treats us all a little better.

It me.

Stop. This. Crap. Writing.

www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n... I said some things…

Situation report, headed for Kiso Valley.

Situation report, headed for Kiso Valley.

Let's buy a holiday gift for EVERY child in Denver's public housing. Even $5 helps. You've raised $40,000 so far. No child should go without a gift this holiday season. Thank you for your generosity!

"A wonderfully readable look at the interface between book history & computer history." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social In "README," historian @patrickmccray.bsky.socials uses the oldest literary technology—books—to explain how computers became popular. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal... (An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum) spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack... #HistSci #computing #History 🗃️

Via Dag Spicer at @computerhistory.bsky.social, this very cool photo. "Textverarbeitung" was the original German coinage for "word processing," a marketing category IBM would introduce and develop starting in the mid-1960s. (Much more about this in my book TRACK CHANGES.) cc @tillheilmann.info

Tis the season…

Kyoto sunset. On to Naoshima Island…

Himeji Castle at sunset.

In this issue: -Articles on infrastructure & astronomy (Eun-Joo Ahn) & ocean drilling (Beatriz Martinez-Rius) [email protected]'s review of books by @patrickmccray.bsky.social, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Mark Solovey -James Hofmann's essay on the current state of Ampère historiography #histSTM

“If you want to teach someone how to do something, you had to let them sit at the keyboard.” Today's #histSTM & #histtech lunchtime read: @spectrum.ieee.org shares an excerpt from @patrickmccray.bsky.social's new book (README) featuring the RESISTORS, a NJ-based group of 1960s computer hobbyists.

pouring one out for everyone in my academic literary and cultural studies networks who'd said during my critical university studies PhD "well at least universities provide us with jobs, i'm grateful for that" -- sincerely

Since the news is so awful, here is a picture of some snow monkeys I saw the other day. I hope it cheers you up.

Sprightly new piece from @patrickmccray.bsky.social on some wholesome hackers from Princeton, NJ. My only regret is that they missed out on one hell of a band name.

In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal... (An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum) spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack... #HistSci #computing #History 🗃️

Tokyo, mild earthquake

Nice to be flagged here... www.insidehook.com/books/books-...

I think I can predict this one....

Sobering assessment, of import to historians of tech (gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Asia bound...three weeks, two bags.

Inventor of player piano says she likes pianists... www.wsj.com/arts-culture... Gift link

If Albert Einstein had done social media...

TGIF, everyone...enjoy the weekend.

Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!

Pretty sure that environmental historians settled this debate about 30 years ago...

Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/clim... Trigger warning for those affected by politically-motivated cognitive dissonance

"...the system encourages students to see themselves as less capable than they actually are." The number of students requesting DSP help has 🆙 ⬆️ along with the attendant campus admin duties www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Peak 2025

I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM

@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!

This Tuesday, December 2, you can buy my book about books about computing... Treat yourself...😀 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... 🗃️ #HistSci

TECH COMPANIES and UNIV ADMIN = "WE REFUSE TO LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE PAST." Gift link = www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

This Tuesday, December 2, you can buy my book about books about computing... Treat yourself...😀 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... 🗃️ #HistSci

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Asked a scientist friend how work was and he just groaned and said that "every single day, A.I. was crawling up his butt." It's not a pleasant image. But it tracks.

All of these products asking me if I want to use their "A.I."...like asking if I want fries with that. No and no.

Bonkers salary for a modestly funded state school that has consistently fielded a mediocre team. www.coloradoan.com/story/sports...

Broke up with TIDAL...so long, janky music app.

If you're having a rough day after Turkey Day, take comfort in knowing that Tim Berners-Lee original paper describing the World Wide Web was rejected so he had to present it as a poster instead.