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"Bridges Over Troubled Waters" My just published essay on a major cybersecurity & privacy PI conf. of NSF, & broader social, policy, and ethical contexts. #ai #surveillance #privacy #gender #race #inequality #sts #nsf z.umn.edu/NSFSaTC

Thrilled to see The Chinese Computer reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books by the incomparable Maura Cunningham cc The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social WEAI

Delighted to be on Melissa MK's podcast series Activists of Tech--discussed tech, AI, history, archives, social justice. Asked my song/album of the day (a few days post election) The Dead Kennedy's "Bedtime for Democracy." #sts #aibias #archives #history linkedin.com/posts/activist…

CBI is thrilled to be co-sponsoring a free talk by highly distinguished U. of Toronto CS Prof. Ron Baecker "Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares..." October 12 7pm E/6pm C. Streamed from Toronto. TorCHI ACM SIGCHI #sts #hci #ai #techhistory #techpolicy cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/dig…

Busy week last week wrapping up classes here, but if you should definitely tune into my interview with Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, _Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality_, if you haven't checked it out yet. newbooksnetwork.com/behind-the-sta…

Annals of anti-monopoly: The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a businessw washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., András Koltay and Charlotte Garden - @charlottegarden A comparative, solutions-oriented legal and policy analysis of methods used to combat the impact of dis- and misinformation on democracy. 📚

Likely cover of a new book, coming from Oxford University Press, likely in May. Widely said to be "the one book you need to read, if you want to have a happy, fun-filled life, with friends, and without stomach pain."

"Plutocracy is its own kind of dictatorship. When companies larger, wealthier and more powerful than most world governments threaten individual liberty with coercive private taxation and regulation, it threatens our way of life." Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, 2024

Incredible, important victory. So much gratitude to those who waged this long winning battle 🙏💐

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. historians.org/community-care…

Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessays…

Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in leading an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #aibias #aiinequality #surveillance #privacy

Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program. For projects in whole or part advancing ACM history. Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. Info @ link Special Int. Group for History of Computing The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) The Society for Social Studies of Science #historyofcomputing #sts history.acm.org/wp-content/upl…

CBI & CWGPP @ U of MN are THRILLED to announce Anita Say Chan will be giving a Humphrey Forum talk "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech" co-hosted by CBI for Computing, Information & Culture, & CWGPP (March 6 @ 5pm CST). z.edu/predatorydataC…

How did TV shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? Standout media studies scholar Dr. Myrna Moretti's (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” " insightfully analyzes this! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

So grateful to the incredible Anita Say Chan her tremendous lecture (& wonderful conversation) in MPLS "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech," on Thursday!!! Hosted by CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture & Ctr. on Women, Gender, & Public Policy. #eugenics #gender

Mullaney Awarded 2025 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mulla… I'm floored and honored in equal measure. My thanks to the committee + heartfelt congratulations to CMU colleague Brad Myers cc The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social WEAI Stanford History Stanford University Libraries