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Historian of technology, professor, former sysadmin, current rabbit owner. I write books about labor and technology. I also tell dad jokes. They/them. Chicago.

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“At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a portion of the company’s overall workforce declined more than 5 percentage points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found. At Apple, the decline was 4 percentage points, while at SpaceX — the only company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person — the share of senior employees dropped 15 percentage points.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

histoftech, to random
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In the spirit of making lemonade from🍋🍋🍋this week, I’d like to find a venue that might publish a scholarly piece informed by personal experience on tech, governance, disability (lack of) accommodations, institutional wealth & DEI hypocrisy. It’d be partly historical but not something that would fit in a history journal. Maybe a journal interested in tech and politics or tech and power that covers multiple disciplines…(1/2)

histoftech,
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(2/2) bonus if it’s a feminist venue. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance all, & I hope you don’t need to make lemonade too🫡🍋

histoftech,
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@StephanieMoore it does have a higher ed context but I’m not sure that’s the primary framing I’ll use. It will include research and analysis in addition to the personal experience bit. Thanks!

histoftech,
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@tltroup 🩵🥲

airadam, to random
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I think I'll spend this day of my week off popping into a used record shop and hopefully get a few cheap items! If there's any energy left after that I might go to the park with a few oats and feed the ducks 🙂

histoftech,
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@airadam tysm for reading! And I’m jealous of all the birds you hung out with🦆🪿🕊️

histoftech, to random
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Moopsy pose

histoftech, to random
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Online Conference➡️
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context

April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due

July 18, 2024: Date of online conference

https://uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai/

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"The Computer Girls" from Cosmopolitan Magazine (April 1967). "Now have come the big, dazzling computers--and a whole new kind of work for women: programming. Telling the miracle machines what to do and how to do it...And if it doesn't sound like women's work--well, it just is."

histoftech,
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@luis_in_brief 🩵🩵

histoftech, to random
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biblically accurate slime

histoftech, to random
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“The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years.” Prize of $1,000, due date April 15! Please apply! https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

histoftech, to random
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I just found out that Programmed Inequality is being translated into simplified Chinese!

istuetzle, to random German
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Kennt wer ein gutes Buch zu computers, den vielen (Schwarzen) Frauen, die als Rechnerinnen arbeiten?

histoftech,
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@rheinze @istuetzle thank you for the shout out! I assume everybody has said Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly already!🩵 (I am actually working on a project at the University of Virginia with her right now as she extends her work from the book to find more women. It’s called The Human Computer Project and hopefully will have some output to share within the next year or so!)

histoftech,
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@haraldkliems @rheinze @istuetzle Thanks, Harald! How’s madison?

histoftech,
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@haraldkliems wait is that from today???

histoftech,
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@haraldkliems wow!

histoftech, to random
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Labor Tech Research Network (LaborTech) invites submissions for our third annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Award.
Deadline: June 1, 2024

http://labortechresearchnetwork.org/index.php/call-for-submissions-labor-tech-research-network-book-graduate-student-paper-and-social-justice-awards/

histoftech, to random
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“Attempts to maintain and revitalize the area, including a multimillion-dollar expansion of the Port of Baltimore, have only contributed to more pollution — & more tragedies.”

Port of Baltimore Endangered Black Communities Long Before Key Bridge Collapse

https://truthout.org/articles/port-of-baltimore-endangered-black-communities-long-before-key-bridge-collapse/

histoftech, to random
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Conference CFP: Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context

April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due

July 18, 2024: Date of online conference

Submit your fabulous work!

https://uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai/

mem_somerville, to random
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WaPo says will have a 93% with a peak at 3:29pm.

This is mostly a note to me, because I keep forgetting to put it on my calendar.

You can enter a city for an estimate.

https://wapo.st/3TKcFZY

histoftech,
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@lkanies @mem_somerville I can’t tell if you’re joking but the date (which is in the article) is April 8, 2024

histoftech,
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@lkanies @mem_somerville weird, it’s in the link card (visible in the toot) for me

linus, to random
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posted this on twitter as a response to their product being banned in Canada

video/mp4

histoftech,
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@linus @moonling this is a great advertisement for flipper zero—because it shows how much easier the device makes it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

histoftech, to random
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Ready for his quest✨✨

histoftech, to random
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They're bulldozing established neighborhoods right outside Chicago to put up data centers. Hope all the AI hype is worth this infrastructural shift because once there’s extra capacity, they’re going to use it even if the technology doesn’t work as intended🙃

https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2023/09/14/stream-data-center-finalizes-elk-cove-land-assemblage/

histoftech,
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Even though the title is "Elk Grove homeowners cash in" this masks the fact that land developers have been hounding these homeowners for years to try to redevelop their homes into something industrial. Not a fun position to be in for homeowners--worrying for years about displacement.

histoftech,
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@tdietterich I hear that, but a lot of the residents did not want to move, they had been resisting this attempt to get them to sell their homes for years, from multiple different waves of businesses, & there isn’t really any reason that these data centers needed to be right there as far as I can tell. Did your cousins move due to a buyout?

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