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Johann Koehler

@jkoehler.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @LSESocialPolicy. He/him.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

Tao Neuendorffer@taonf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How did artists working for newspapers in the 1970s view computer crime? How did they depict it? This blog goes year by year with a selection of images from newspaper archives

This illustration was attached to an article that detailed more concerns about potential for fraud when computers are used in voting. I don’t fully understand what it is portraying though, maybe a computer in a voting booth that has been prised open? Newsday (Nassau Edition), Monday, Nov 6th, 1972And this illustration which I think relates to stories about phone phreaks prank calling people around the world. "Do you really want to listen to Chairman Mao's heavy breathing on the line?” Western Daily Press, Sat, September 9th, 1972This is an excellent cartoon of an FBI agent made out of phones, with the handsets as pistols. There were two types of phone phreak stories in the 1970s, one tended to be whimsical stories about the adventures phreaks got up to and the other was about technical or legal moves against phone phreaking. 'Phone phreak' pays a heavy toll for bugging Ma Bell, FBI Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, May 10th, 1977My favorite illustration of this entire blog, it accompanied an article that came about because of more statements by Donn B. Parker, in this case that universities and colleges were becoming hotbeds of computer crime. The cartoon has real Mad Magazine energy combined with something you might see in a college textbook on computer security. I think it is meant to show a university computer department as a fraternity house complete with hijinx and mayhem. I’m assuming the old man tied up at the bottom of the image is the crusty Dean or the ageing professor who was meant to have been preventing the chaos taking place. Computer U. The Columbus Ledger, Sunday, November 19th, 1978
—>realhackhistory.org@bsky.realhackhistory.org · 3mo ago

I put hours & hours into this #blog, combing through newspaper archives for cool fun images of what newspaper illustrators thought of computer crime in the 1970s. If you’ve ever wondered about the origin of #hacker illustration tropes here it is. #hacking #history realhackhistory.org/2026/06/28/7...

Johann Koehler@jkoehler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

One week left to apply — If you're a PhD student and would like to discuss your work, meet like-minded people, and enjoy London, then please apply before December 8th!

@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium on 18-19 May 2026. ➡️ Find out more about the call for applications here: