looking up a guy who ran a word processing company and wrote a thing about killing the "social office" that got cited in Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital, and, well, this is an exciting obit detail

sex purge, either this crashes terribly or they make a zillion of them

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 3h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

I'm looking for fellow scholars who are working on the history financial infrastructures from a history of technology and/or STS perspective. (Exploring potential conference panels etc etc.) If that sounds like you -- or someone you know -- let me know!

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

are we really back at “dopamine is the reason why everything happens” again? come on

last time I saw dan deacon, we were both in our 20s? anyway, everyone at this concert was exactly 44 years old and it was great

found the best odyssey adaptation

this is my new favorite diagram

what's wrong babe you barely touched your Calvin Harris canned rave haggis

I'm looking to interview anyone who has worked at an electronics assembly (components or systems) factory, anywhere in the world, before 1990. I can offer $100CAD / hour, though I don't think my questions will run the full hour. If you know anyone who is still able and willing to answer, plz lmk

back home after two consecutive red-eye flights and I think my soul is currently smeared about 16 time zones west of here

cleaning up my zotero and finding some choice forgotten materials

laurie anderson, easy

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

new political axis just dropped

thought I saw a guy with a shirt that said NEON DADDY EVANGELION

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

this is fucked, Ivan should be a shoo-in for tenure, obviously

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

to the tune of “smokin in the boys room”: lincoln in the bardo

would be a killer 1980s sci-fi flick, you have to admit

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

OMFG

oh let’s log on the computer and see how the reputation of my discipline is doing

the smurfs

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org in Fall 2027. I've updated this post with additional information about this year's focus area. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2027

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

data-and-design.org

"he may have been a monster with an unslakeable thirst for the blood of those he viewed as so-called 'mud people,' but at least he oozed a sort of easy and unctuous charm --" has anyone saying this sort of thing ever consumed a single work of fiction in any medium