So many harms to our Minneapolis St. Paul community by the unwanted occupation that continues, albeit at a substantially reduced level from the peak of over 3,000. #Minneapolis #iceout

CBI's MOSAICS logo, basic information on the MOSAICS Symposium, and list of the members of the Program Committee.

Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-pap...

Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @anitachan.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz!!

MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

#AIstudies #histtech

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

This looks tremendous (education modules) from @historians.org--contributions from a couple dozen top historians with expertise on authoritarianism & its many political, social, & cultural contexts!! #authoritarianism #fascism #postcolonialism #history

www.historians.org/news-publica...

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

"The latest effort by France to reduce its dependence on U.S. tech giants & use technology and cloud services originated within its borders, known as digital sovereignty." #Linux #Opensource

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech TechCrunch share.google/NBrjFg3JIBCi...

Tomorrow!

Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #histmed #envhist #envhum 🧪

Hey gang! Exeter’s looking for a 4-year postdoc in philsci & AI. Sweet gig at a great place - share around :D #philsci #philjobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD641/p...

bumping this for the #GreenSky #EnvHist #Booksky #infrastructure crowds: free e-book about wildlife conservation, coastlines, and infrastructure!! I'll put a review in the next post

Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

I will not be kept in line by merchandise
I will not.....

Will it be a prereq. for the Bad Brains course?

"Analysis by Bzdok and his colleagues found that the drugs actually boosted the crosstalk between brain regions. For participants who took the drugs, brain networks that are typically involved in advanced cognitive processing were 'much more connected among each other than in a sober individual.'"

So incredibly destructive to the nation, to the environment, to human health, to ecology...

What happens inside newsrooms after media capture? @ekoshy.bsky.social & I have Matt Powers (who co-authored a great paper w/ @ozanmask.bsky.social) to talk about the messy middle between heroic resistance and outright propaganda from TR to the US
itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/p/episode-4-...

Jailbreaking Kindle with Adbreak 2025 I just bought the refurbished 10th-gen Kindle Paperwhite to read books. And from the very first moment, I disliked many things about it…

Transition it to KoReader and be free of Amazon as overload of your devices' data.
Jailbreaking Kindle with Adbreak 2025 | by Naimul Kabir | Medium share.google/flsy0aaGzYTE...

Day Two: Better Browsing According to statcounter.com, Google's Chrome browser currently enjoys over 68% marketshare, with Apple's Safari not even a close second at…

Follow along as we do the 21-day #cybercleanse week-by-week! This weekend, ditch #Chrome, #Safari, or #Edge and move to a privacy-centric alternative. Already on #Firefox? There is a long list of easy, free, and freeing new ones to try!
#optout #bigtech
www.optoutproject.net/better-brows...

Congress prevented massive cuts to NSF once, please consider writing to your Rep. & Senators and hopefully they will work to step in again--and save NSF SBE Directorate from being eliminated! Congress.gov #nsf #histsci #science #socialscience

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Vibe Accessorizing at its finest!

This year more than ever - if you can get to Minneapolis on May 3 do it!

Molly Steenson presenting at the front of an auditorium classroom with slide on AI history above.

Past CMU Vice Provost, American Swedish Inst. CEO, & CBI Research Fellow Molly Steenson just delivered a fascinating & insightful lecture on AI History to @honghongtinn.bsky.social "Digital World" UMN class. So glad to attend!!

Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

"What this war exposes, then, is a failure not only of strategy but of literacy." [Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

"NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate ...according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously..." #histtech #histsci share.google/whr23kvoLGp5...

Cover of the book The Making and Meanings of a Computing Reference Work, teal with white lettering

New Interfaces article by CBI Senior Research Fellow William Aspray & Union College Prof. Emeritus David Hemmendinger "Using Reference Works to Study the Intellectual and Cultural History of Computing." It reflects on their new book pictured below #histsci

Interfaces:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

The PARAM Pravega supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (image by Andra Sonia Petrutiu). Glass enclosed raised floor computer room with double glass door entrance.

New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India." #histsci #supercomputing #india #history

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Smart as a City: The Politics of Test-Bed Urbanism -- Book Launch & Panel Date: Monday, April 27, 4-5:30 pm Location: UMass Amherst, ILC HUB (3rd Floor) RSVP: https://forms.gle/LTnTi6Y7ZJrY8U1aA Speakers: Burcu Baykurt (UMass Amherst) Sareeta Amrute (Parsons, The New School) Jonathan Ong (UMass Amherst) Timothy Pachirat (UMass Amherst) Supported by the Department of Communication, the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech), and the Ethnography Collective at UMass.

Smart as a City drops May 5th and on April 27th I’m hosting a launch event at UMass with some of my favorite thinkers in critical tech studies & ethnography. If you're anywhere in Western Mass or on the East Coast, I'd love to see you there!

RSVP here: forms.gle/vthGWYE5Pp1A...

Inventor Nathan Ramasarma demonstrates his formsense smart leggings, which create a real-time virtual avatar of the athlete with data overlaps to help improve performance. Credit: Nathan Ramasarma.

Wonderful New Interfaces article by ASU's Arthur Daemmrich & Smithsonian NMAH's Eric Hintz "Sports in an Algorithmic Era." On #ai #data #sports #histtech (A bases clearing, slam dunk, hole-in-one, hat trick of insights!)

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces (Article Link)

Minnesota to host 'No Kings' flagship rally, headlining Springsteen amid tensions over ICE and war Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’...

Twin Cities folks... Over 100,000 expected for flagship "No Kings" at St. Paul, MN. Let's make it far more than 100K!!! #nokings

Bruce Springsteen to lead 'No Kings' flagship protest in Minnesota | AP News share.google/6fZfPJn4ObGw...

Inventor Nathan Ramasarma demonstrates his formsense smart leggings, which create a real-time virtual avatar of the athlete with data overlaps to help improve performance. Credit: Nathan Ramasarma.

Wonderful New Interfaces article by ASU's Arthur Daemmrich & Smithsonian NMAH's Eric Hintz "Sports in an Algorithmic Era." On #ai #data #sports #histtech (A bases clearing, slam dunk, hole-in-one, hat trick of insights!)

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces (Article Link)

Jiaqi Wen is Named as the 2026-2027 CBI Tomash Fellow MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/02/2026) — We are thrilled to announce that Simon Fraser University (SFU) ABD in Communication Jiaqi Wen is the incoming Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) Erwin and Adelle Tom...

We at CBI are delighted to announce Simon Fraser University School of Comm. ABD Jiaqi Wen is the incoming CBI Tomash Fellow!!! Read about her & her creative & insightful (interdisciplinary) historical research in the article linked below! #histtech #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/jia...