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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · Jul 15

Reposting Xiaochang reposting Laine bc WNBA

xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social · Jul 14

I should probably be making my own "go follow the new SIGCIS account" post, but instead I'm just going to repost Laine's:

Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · Jul 10

also, SIGCIS (the special interest group in computing, information, and society AKA the computer history people) finally got over here on Bluesky

can we give @sigcisconf.bsky.social a big welcome and an even bigger follow????

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · Jul 10

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 🗃️📜📚

a man wearing glasses is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor .

ALT: a man wearing glasses is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor .

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · Jul 10

📣 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 Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social · Jul 10

Deadline EXTENDED to Mon, 7/14! SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge with keynote speaker Lily Geismer. Find more details and full CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

SIGCIS 2025 CFP: Power Surge

The Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) welcomes submissions to their 16th Annual Conference SIGCIS 2025: power surge ⚡🔌🔋💥 September 25-27 2025 | Online via Zoom K...

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · Jul 10

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!

💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social · Jul 10

Deadline EXTENDED to Mon, 7/14! SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge with keynote speaker Lily Geismer. Find more details and full CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

SIGCIS 2025 CFP: Power Surge

The Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) welcomes submissions to their 16th Annual Conference SIGCIS 2025: power surge ⚡🔌🔋💥 September 25-27 2025 | Online via Zoom K...

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Rique Sampaio | Meu livro Primeiro Contato já à venda! 📕 @riquesampaio.com.br · Jul 3

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.

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · Jul 3

In Materials section is our 2024 fundraising commission winner @riquesampaio.com.br w/ a wild piece on the historical context of 🚫 Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal in Post-Dictatorship Brazil 😬 Its a game with sex, racism, homophobia and more so why was it sold to kids?!

romchip.org/index.php/ro...

PC Multimídia magazine, containing two CD-ROMs: one with the game Casseta & Planeta: Noite Animal (ATR Multimídia, 1995), prominently featured on the magazine cover, and another with the game Betrayal at Krondor (Dynamix, 1993) along with demo versions of other games, including children’s games (Courtesy of Leandro Matioli)

Screenshot of where players start in Casseta & Planeta, in the teen-aged protagonist's bedroom. It has orange walls and is full of electronics, a computer, a surfboard, and a poster of a topless model.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jun 18

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

Molly White @molly.wiki · Jun 17

just checking in on the financial revolution that was meant to sidestep banks, tech giants, and the state

Headline: Walmart, Amazon Mull Dollar-Pegged Stablecoins in the US: WSJ

Headline: Coinbase torched by crypto community for US army parade sponsorship<br>Justin Sun-linked firm to go public in US with TRX acquisition strategy; Eric Trump expected to take role: FT

Headline: Trump made over $57 million from World Liberty Financial's WLFI sales, new disclosure shows

Headline: Coinbase unveils an American Express-powered credit card offering up to 4% in BTC rewards<br>Shopify teams up with Coinbase and Stripe in USDC stablecoin payments push

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance

Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs ...

labornotes.org

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Apr 7

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.

Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · Apr 7

NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses.

Things don't look good—not for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on.

Gift link: bloom.bg/43Jmzk3

In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.

But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said. Charleston Crafted, which features guides on do-it-yourself home improvement projects, had weathered algorithm changes and updates in the past; this time, it didn’t recover. McBride suspected people were getting more of their renovation advice from the artificial intelligence answers at the top of Google search.

The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them. That’s disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship that’s existed for years: if businesses create good content, Google sends them traffic.

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · Apr 7

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,

The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning. We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher

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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Apr 3

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...

University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk

University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...

www.tufts.edu

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting - Boston Review

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

www.bostonreview.net

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · Mar 27

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Mar 26

"At the same time, his administration has elevated candidates with scant qualifications to positions of power across the federal bureaucracy...That this is all being done in the name of “merit-based opportunity,” as Trump’s executive order put it, is patently absurd."

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump’s DEI Crackdown Is a Smokescreen for Something Much More Sinister

It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.

slate.com

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Mar 26

"who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!"

Now they are doing a mass basic security training

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Mar 26

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!

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

Please use the link in the post for a link to the full text shown in this image

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · Mar 13

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...

Statement on Recent Events

The online targeting and harassment of the LPE Project’s Deputy Director, Helyeh Doutaghi, is part of a broader environment of speech repression, particularly of anti-war and pro-Palestinian views.

lpeproject.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Mar 12

In the "First they came for..." department, right-wing commentators are coming after Jesse Furman, the observant Jewish judge in the Mahmoud Khalil case holding a hearing today. And they're attacking Ariela Dubler, his wife and head of a Jewish school in Manhattan. forward.com/fast-forward...

Trump allies target Jewish judge — and his wife — after ruling on Palestinian activist

Laura Loomer, Charlie Kirk and others attacked Judge Jesse Furman and his wife, Ariela Dubler, head of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School.

forward.com

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