Jeffrey Yost
@JustCodeCulture
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@BabbageInst Dir. I Prof Hist Sci/Tech UMN I CoEdit J Hopk Bk Srs Computing & Cltr I Rsch-AI, HCI, Priv, Gender, Race. Same hndl on Bsky @JustCode
MPLS, Land of Dakota, Ojibwe..
Joined March 2021
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
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Sharing a book review of @tsmullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. #historyofcomputing #ChinaHistory
https://t.co/GM1L5PB38r
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Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below): @histoftech Ya-Wen Lei; Hector Beltran; Meg Leta Jones, Stephanie Dick.. See ToC below #STS
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Mullaney Awarded 2025 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize https://t.co/LNAiRypYmY I'm floored and honored in equal measure. My thanks to the committee + heartfelt congratulations to CMU colleague Brad Myers cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia @StanfordHistory @StanfordLibs
cse.umn.edu
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (05/22/2025) — Stanford University Professor of History Thomas S. Mullaney is the co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction (HCI) History Prize for his book The...
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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! https://t.co/h4vY5MHWXf
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CBI & CWGPP @ U of MN are THRILLED to announce @wrongrrl 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). https://t.co/uN942kozqM
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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
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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 @SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb #historyofcomputing #sts
https://t.co/nqU7Zkp6kw
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Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy
https://t.co/YflH9lFjac
blockchainandsociety.com
Introduction—As we enter 2025, Russian President Putin, and the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, are seeking to tug on U.S. President-elect Trump’s strings. Trump won the U.S. Presidential...
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Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy
https://t.co/YflH9lFjac
blockchainandsociety.com
Introduction—As we enter 2025, Russian President Putin, and the world’s wealthiest person, Elon Musk, are seeking to tug on U.S. President-elect Trump’s strings. Trump won the U.S. Presidential...
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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.
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AHA Research Grants Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; hiring a researcher; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses-a...
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"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
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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."
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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. 📚
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Busy week last week wrapping up classes here, but if you should definitely tune into my interview with @bshestakofsky about his book, _Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality_, if you haven't checked it out yet. https://t.co/4zFcnKuTxg
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Annals of anti-monopoly: The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a businessw
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The post office is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.
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CBI is thrilled to be co-sponsoring a free talk by highly distinguished U. of Toronto CS Prof. @ronbaecker "Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares..." October 12 7pm E/6pm C. Streamed from Toronto. TorCHI @sigchi #sts #hci #ai #techhistory #techpolicy
https://t.co/Tgkkh8fknk
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This event is being put on and sponsored by TorCHI, the Toronto chapter of ACM's SIGCHI, and is co-sponsored by the Charles Babbage InstituteRegisterFor eighty years, digital technology visionaries...
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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
https://t.co/DaIJhn1hJS
blockchainandsociety.com
Introduction: This is a reflective essay and review of the September 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) PI Meeting, in Pittsburgh at the Convention Center...
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