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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 16d

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

1960 Lucky Strike ad with woman smiling as she holds a lit cigarette--Wikimedia Commons

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Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social · 18d

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).

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 18d

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

UMN HSTM group photo from the Pavek Museum today!

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 19d

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

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 23d

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879289...

This is a good job for a critical scholar of ai! please apply and send around your networks

Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and AI - New York, United States job with Stony Brook University | 37879289

Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and AI Location: Stony Brook, NY Open Date: Aug 28, 2025 Deadline: Oct 06, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Listeners Like Who?

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves

press.princeton.edu

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

Front cover of Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT. Black lettering in bold with trailing pastel colors.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · Aug 30

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.

Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Cover of Island Tinkerers, which is an illustration of Taiwan on a map with cartoonish images of digital tech and people using digital tech.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · Aug 29

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.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 29

Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”

A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall

An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.

www.thestar.com

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julianne warren (jwren) @coyotetrail.bsky.social · Aug 28

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!)

Book cover of treed, hilly geography washed in pink-orange-purple tones. Title: “Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey by Julianne Warren part of Cambridge Elements series in Indigenous Environmental Research.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

Pynchon, In His Absence

In a footnote to “Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin,” Luc Herman and John Krafft note that the letters Corlies (Cork) Smith graciously provided them for...

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Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social · Aug 29

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!

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!

Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...

A book cover from De Gruyter. A faded American flag's red and white stripes sets the background. In the foreground are three Christmas baubles: a darker red ball is in front coming in from the left, a white ball is behind it, and a light navy blue ball hangs behind that. White text reads the title: Selling out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy. On the blue ball white text reads Vaughn Joy and the series name pop culture in context

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Aug 29

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.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks so much Eileen!!!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Just Code
Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

Edited by
Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz

Table of Contents

9. Pushing Fintech: Testing Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and
“Rural Women” in Peru 212
Mariel García Llorens

10. Corporate Culture Made Material: Ephemera and In/equity at
Control Data Corporation, 1957–1975 236
Elizabeth Semler

11. Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: IBM System
Engineering, Gender, and Antitrust 255
Jeffrey R. Yost

12. Y2K and the Politics of Labor 274
Dylan Mulvin

PART III. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GRAPPLE WITH CODE?

13. From Programming to Platform Expertise: Technical Reformers
and the Reinvention of Institutions 295
Shreeharsh Kelkar

14. Computers as Colonizers: British Computing Companies and
Indian Technological Resistance, 1955–1975 325
Mar Hicks

15. The Mask of Humanity: Manipulation and Psychopathy at the
Human-Computer Interface 344
Jennifer Alexander

16. Cryptography Goes Public: Contesting the Meaning of a New
Field in the 1970s United States 372
Gili Vidan

17. Nodes and Codes: Iterating with the State in México 388
Héctor Beltrán

Epilogue: Artificial Intelligence—Braiding Irony, Paradox, and
Possibility 411
Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz

Contributors 433

Index 435

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Just Code
Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

Edited by
Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Encoding an Analytic. 1
Gerardo Con Díaz and Jeffrey R. Yost

PART I. HOW DOES CODE BECOME BOTH A SUBJECT AND A MEANS OF GOVERNANCE?

1. Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy 23
Ya-Wen Lei

2. Consent Code and Default Dramas 64
Meg Leta Jones

3. A Mirror, Not a Glass Door: Legal Code and Software Code in Practice 87

Justin Petelka, Megan Finn, Janaki Srinivasan, Elisa Oreglia, and A. P. Janani

4. Algorithmic Collusion, Modern Monopolies, and Their Market Power 109
Hamid R. Ekbia

5. Reopening the Politics of Openness in the Age of Cloud Computing: Reflections on Recent FOSS Relicensing 127
Shun-Ling Chen

6. The Great E-book Conspiracy 148
Gerardo Con Díaz

PART II. HOW DOES CODE BECOME INFUSED WITH SOCIAL VALUES, ASSUMPTIONS, AND BIASES?

7. The Standard Head 171
Stephanie Dick

8. Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and Citizenship 193
Elizabeth Petrick

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · Aug 26

studying up for the coming ‘reindustrialization’ discourse

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · Aug 25

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

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