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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 27m

people ask me how I wrote two books at the same time? now you know. two monitors. sometimes three. easy.

Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 27m

it's 20 if you have enough monitors. if there's one thing I learned from bad hacker movies it's that more monitors = more power

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 37m

I have an extension-enforced hard limit of five tabs.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4h

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

It's happening! Coming this May!

Control Science
How Management Made the
Modern World
Henry Snow

A thrilling intellectual history of workplace control – from the
birth of capitalism to the modern tech giants

(Also a cover image, with the title and subtitle and author name superimposed over a stylized yellow office floor plan)

Control Science reveals the centuries-long, contested history of the
struggle between workers and capitalists for control of their work
and of their lives. Moving from colonial America and the enclosure
of common land in early modern England, via Josiah Wedgwood’s
Etruria and Jeremy and Samuel Bentham’s attempts to transform
labour and governance in Russia and Britain, to the vast Amazon
warehouses of today, Henry Snow demonstrates how bosses have
thought about control in the workplace and how those ideas have been
both implemented and contested. And Snow reveals how bosses have
shaped not just economies, but lives, identities and entire societies.
Blending intellectual and economic history, Control Science is a
thrilling and lucid work of history that will show the true story behind
the pursuit of efficiency and productivity – power.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 14h

if you were away any longer I can't imagine how bad it might have gotten

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 18h

I have always spent at least one class period in early US surveys on the English Civil War era and am increasingly considering making it two next semester

Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 21h

We should really spend more time on teaching the English Civil Wars as they relate to the American Revolution.

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 23h

have decided for to promote others' work more. at the end of the day "the field" is people talking about stuff they have read and stuff they want to, and so is public history. much as I feel increasingly powerless to do anything about the state of the discipline, we all still have the power to read!

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 23h

don't think Jack is on here so someone has to make sure you (yes, you) read this

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 23h

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

These are Charlie Kirk’s politics; this is his legacy

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

i expect the subtitle will trick at least one reader into expecting a business-y airport book and boy will that one reader be in for a ride

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

(I did not write the copy for this catalog)

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

It's happening! Coming this May!

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

I had much the same reaction for mine

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

feel like this is very related to stuff you've been saying for a while now about category brain more generally

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

read theory buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

It's Our America Too

The radical legacy of the revolution

buttondown.com

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

some of the earliest prerevolutionary agitation was against Royal Navy crews stepping off their ships! sometimes they didn't even make it to the street before they got nabbed by We the People. "the Founders" were political allies with the folks stealing navy boats and setting them on fire

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2d

Decent overview of eight years of CT under Lamont, as he gears up to run for a 3rd term. But very little discussion of the costs of his austerity, which has done considerable damage to higher ed and social services and threatens far worse in the coming years. ctmirror.org/2025/10/05/n...

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

Happened to notice this exciting project by @tomcutterham.bsky.social in Verso's Spring 2026 catalog-- can't wait to see the dockyard I'm so familiar with through new (arson-interested) eyes!

Empire Ablaze
The American Revolution and the
Atlantic Working Class
Tom Cutterham
The story of how one British rebel set out to bring the Empire
down from within
Empire Ablaze follows the extraordinary journey of James Aitken–
a house painter turned escaped servant and highwayman – as he
roamed the American colonies in the 1770s; then returning to Britain
with a dangerous mission: to destroy the Empire’s naval power by
burning Portsmouth Dockyard and Bristol Harbour to the ground.
Through Aitken’s dramatic story, we see how ordinary working
people across the Atlantic world lived through the collapse of Britain’s
eighteenth-century empire. We watch as Enlightenment ideas about
rights spread from philosophers to the citizenry, fueling their anger
against imperial authorities.
Tom Cutterham is an Associate Professor of United States History
at the University of Birmingham and the author of Gentlemen
Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic. He
has written for Jacobin, the Nation, and the New Republic.

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

i appreciate the hustle of this public relations person who reached out to ask if i want help promoting my book but i assure you "adjunct professor at the university of connecticut" does not come with the kind of money necessary to afford that

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

cacoethes scribendi, or as we call it know, "poster's madness"

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

i advise cheering and/or headbanging at 0:34

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

couldn't help myself, i added the appropriate music

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

frog from Chrono Trigger arriving at exactly the historical moment we need him I see

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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