Lee Vinsel
leev.bsky.social
Lee Vinsel
@leev.bsky.social
I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Good question! I will ping Tom and ask him.
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Very cool, man. Let's stay in touch as you do this. I'm quite interested in the topic.
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nice. I was thinking about you and horses a day or two ago. Is this part of your current project?

A lot of historians of the automobile, including myself most days, argue that the effects of automotive mass production only really come online in the 20s. Part of the story?
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's an interesting question. My sense is that this whole effort started because of a real perceived organizational problem having to do with college application essays, and then grew out from there. My sense is that part of it was bottom up. Relations to outside vendors is a great question.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I actually know the guy, a faculty member, who built that AI tool. He's an interesting and thoughtful person, and he's given guest lectures in some of my courses.
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Basically since they emerged in a professional sense in Germany in the late-18th and early-19th centuries!
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hey, buddy! Would be fun to revisit.

Recently I have also become interested in the flipside of this thought: Which is how the humanities have always defined themselves in opposition to the sciences, business, technology, and so on. I have found this book helpful. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Permanent Crisis
Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and cohere...
press.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
No haven't. Thanks for the idea!
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
My theory about how my dogs think about barking at delivery drivers - Works every time, the enemy always drives away.
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM