Good news! The digital version of my book Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative is now open access! Thank you to The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social for generously making this possible!

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Looks cool.

That's cool. I am very interested in Matt's book and looking forward to talking to him about it on the podcast.

Just got done proofreading my essay 'WHY THE MYTH OF PROMETHEUS HAUNTS TALK OF TECHNOLOGY?' which will be coming out with The Montréal Review in May in a special issue on the Prometheus myth. Really looking forward to sharing it.

A wise thing a student said to me the other day: “Yes, people will use tools like ChatGPT, but, unlike how elitist commentators portray them, people will also use their minds.”

I would like to know, too.

Wonderful write up on my esteemed colleague ⁦Will Deringer⁩ ! I’ve never looked at spreadsheets or coal mines the same after talking with him—a sign of his immense scholarly breadth—and his conventional conviviality! news.mit.edu/2024/william-d…

Great! I've made the transition from academic historian to 'reporter.' Better than getting tenure.

Very much looking forward to this book.

True story: I had a small shrine to Trent Reznor and Damon Albarn in my bedroom in high school.

History and sociology of media *consumption* rarely taken into account either. People *actively use* media; they aren't just passive boobs accepting whatever they see and hear.

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Always nice to be reminded that gravity is, in fact, real. With all the good critiques of EVs out there, including Bob Charette's, it will be interesting to see if Tesla and Co. can pull out of this.