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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Climate change & digitalization - what are the connections? Most often, digitalization is seen as the solution for problems caused by industrial age. But both are more entangled than you might think. History of computing in the Anthropocene www.uni-paderborn.de/en/lehre/leh... #digitalgeschichte

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Digitalisierung und Umwelt – eine verflochtene Digitalgeschichte der Gegenwart im Angesicht des Klimawandels | Paderborn University

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Peter Plener @peterplener.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

»Die Partitur wurde in die Computersprache übersetzt, das heißt: ein Lochstreifen dirigiert die komplizierte Maschinerie.« www.srf.ch/kultur/der-a...

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Der Archivar - Schweizer Techno anno 1964: «Les Echanges» von Rolf Liebermann

Rolf Liebermanns «Komposition für 156 Maschinen» sorgte im Mai 1964 für Furore. Noch heute: zurecht.

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

„Digitalisierung ist Gegenstand gesellschaftlicher, politischer und akademischer Reflexionen. Oft erfolgen diese aus der Perspektive der technologisch hochentwickelten Zentren. Wir wollen die globalen Entwicklungen der Digitalisierung aus der Perspektive des Globalen Südens in den Blick nehmen“

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

CFP: Umwelten der KI www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1418… Munich, 06.06.2024-07.06.2024, Liliia Zemnukhova, Helen Piel and Rudolf Seising, Bewerbungsschluss: 29.02.2024

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

New essay I just published (Jan. 2024). On cypherpunk/Bitcoin religion/cult, fraud/scams, recent developments & hype (ETFs & halving) & placing in longer historical contexts--channeling my best Carl Becker. #BTC #ETH #BlackRockETF #halving #ai #history z.umn.edu/BTCbaptism

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Bitcoin’s Baptism in the Heavenly City of 21st-Century Financiers

Intro—Two events are reigniting Bitcoin hype in early 2024. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), just now, is set to approve BlackRock’s and more than a dozen other asset managers’ US-bas...

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Debates in the Digital Humanities is looking for guest editors for its next general volume. Inquiries due 1/31. More info: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/ddh-cal...

A flyer with the text: "Debates in the Digital Humanities" and "Call for Guest Editors," with the deadline and link to apply.

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Books on one specific year were a thing lately: 1979, by Frank Bösch, 1977 by Philipp Sarasin, Karl Schlögel’s Moscow 1937. Eventually, we have one for the history of computing: William Aspray’s 1920 focusing on the history of information in one particular year in the US #digitalgeschichte

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 30/12/2023

Tune in to C-SPAN today at 4:35 PM ET for the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on historical perspectives on AI. Moderator Matthew L. Jones & Janet Abbate, Matthew Connelly, & @justcodeculture.bsky.social placed the current conversations on AI into historical context. www.c-span.org/video/?53128...

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

The Web and the historian: in my seminar introduction to digital history at Paderborn University, I’m discussing the possibilities of the web both as source & as medium for science comm. We’re reading texts by Mareike König on blogging and by Nils Brügger on Web Source critique #teachingDH

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Today we celebrate the completion of our IGGI project on the history of #AI in West Germany. Great keynote by Stephanie Dick! Now Helen Piel and Rudi Seising present approaches, methods and results in the hallowed halls of the Deutsches Museum! #histtech #AIhistory

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

And now the team entered the stage: impressive results of 4 years of research on history of AI! Some early findings & an insight into how to do research on that. All the best for the books! @dinp.bsky.social, Helen Piel, Rudi Seising, Jakob Tschandl & Florian Müller #Digitalgeschichte

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

„Castles in the Sky”: Reflections on the Mechanical Inexhaustibility of Mathematics, Keynote by @mysdick.bsky.social So impressive! MACSYMA as an early expert system in automated mathematics. She made a convincing argument basing on Mahoney's how the world got into computer: Math was transformed!

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Now starting: The final conference of the wonderful project on the "History of AI in Germany" (IGGI: Ingenieure des Geistes – Geistesingenieure) at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Looking back to four years of research on #historyofcomputing #Digitalgeschichte @dinp.bsky.social #historyoftechnology

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SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten @sfb1567.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Morgen beginnt der Workshop „Eigensinnige Objekte“ im SFB1567. Die Teilnehmenden loten aus, wie sich durch den Umgang mit zunehmend eigensinnigen Objekten die Mensch-Technik-Beziehung verändert. Organisiert wird der Workshop von Teilprojekt C02 „Virtuelle Körper“.

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

50 years since Brian Randell’s “the origins of digital computers”. A seminal work of the #historyofcomputing and technology. Not only the history of digitalization is already going on since a while but also its historiography. #digitalgeschichte blog.hnf.de/die-urspruen...

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Die Ursprünge der Computer | HNF Blog SucheSuche

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

BEHIND THE FACADE OF POTSDAM Our international group was invited today by Rechenzentrum Potsdam and ZZF Potsdam on a historic tour organised by me. The highlight was a view from the roof of the old data center - today a vibrant place of art and culture. www.instagram.com/p/Cz6gd58M6W... #digineq

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Martin on Instagram: "BEHIND THE FACADE OF POTSDAM Our international group was invited today by @rzp...

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Tim Schinschick asking for the regional history of computing in education in Baden-Württemberg: was it a front runner, or just as the others? How did computer education change? Schinschick citing @maltethiessen.bsky.social and his programmatic article on a regional history of computing. #digineq

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

DIGITAL INEQUALITIES - historicising the changes in the digital age. Do we need #DH for writing about #historyofcomputing? I would say definitively yes! Today starts the workshop of the ZZF project #digineq Looking forward to interesting talks about schools, women and migration/borders in Germany

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 17/11/2023

Retrocomputing fans hate him

Selfie below the face wearing a blue tshirt with a classic Mac that has molten cheese all over with a pizza slice coming out of the floppy drive. The Mac’s screen says “Mac & Cheese.” in a script font.

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Karsten Uhl @karstenuhl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Call for Papers für die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (2.-4.5.2024 in Berlin) zum Thema „Explorationstechnik und extreme Umwelten“ Frist für die Einreichung von Vorschlägen für Einzelbeiträge oder Sektionen : 14.1.2024 #histtech #envhist #history

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Christoph Niemann @christophniemann.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Joseph Weizenbaum and left wing criticism of capitalism, war, bureaucracy in Berlin in 1979/80 - one other legacy of the prominent AI scientist @ultrabeige.bsky.social hold an amazing talk about a this certain scene #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing #histscitech @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Honghong Tinn shares her thoughts on the “Global Histories of Electronics” panel and asks the audience if they have any questions for the speakers… #SHOT2023 ⚙️

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Schirvar: Although there were solid economic reasons for tribes to invest in electronics manufacturing, firms like Cherokee Nation Industries (CNI) were not typical business ventures. Most notably, indigenous leaders tended to prioritize employment over profit. #SHOT2023 ⚙️

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Aurelia Brandenburg @hekabeohnename.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Published today: I created a dataset on the sales and distribution of 19 (German) gaming magazines 1980-2000 and published it together with an accompanying blogpost (including some rough findings) on the Confoederatio Ludens research blog! 🥳 #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/1228

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Print runs of German Gaming Magazines 1980-2000

by Aurelia Brandenburg Gaming magazines are certainly an important part of the emergence of gaming culture(s) since the 1980s. There is, however, a difference between the importance ascribed by expert...

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Torsten Hiltmann @torstenhiltmann.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

📢 Join our team! We have an opening for a *Research Software Engineer* at our #MethodsInnovationLab (NFDI4memory), at HU Berlin. The position is for a full-time scientific researcher (E13, 100% - flexible) and will initially be until 02/2028. Details: dhistory.hypotheses.org/6211 (DE & EN).

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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Please spread the word! 🐢MPIWG Dept🐢"Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow with experience in long-term or deep-time studies of Animal-Plant-Human interactions, spanning ancient history to the age of encounter and the recent past🐢 #HistSci www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/job-position...

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Michael König @08mikowitsch15.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

the struggle is real

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Peripheral? About the structural changes in regional settings: start to a conference on contemporary regional history at the HNF in #paderborn What an amazing location at the former headquarter of the Nixdorf Computer company. #digitalgeschichte #historyofcomputing

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Jana Keck @janakeck.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Looking forward to @Jessica Marie Johnson's talk “Race, Imagination, and Black Digital Practice on Social Media” and learning more about #blackdigitalpractice and #communityengagement: ou.edu/disc/news-ev... #socialmediastudies #digitalblackstudies #blackcodestudies

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

What better way to start than with an interruption? #LivingHistory #HistoryofComputing #HisTech

The picture shows an old microfilm reader that shows a torn image. Only half of the archived text can be seen.

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

ERROR! About non-functioning and mistakes in digital societies. Check out the program of this semesters lecture series by Martina Heßler at TU Darmstadt! #digitalgeschichte #historiesofcomputing

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

CFP: Spielgeschichte(n) – Games und Game Studies in medienkulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1394… Innsbruck, 11.04.2024-13.04.2024, Forschungsgruppe Game Studies, Bewerbungsschluss: 11.12.2023

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 17/10/2023

good news yall the microsoft data storage tech is going to store data for 10,000 years, just like CDs used to before we figured out they don't www.tomshardware.com/news/microso...

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Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solution

7 TB glass storage media is now faster to write and "could last 10,000 years."

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Jana Keck @janakeck.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Out now! The CFP for the GHI Washington's next digital history/digital humanities conference, “Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices,” with C2DH, (RRCHNM), and DIJ Tokyo taking place in March 2024 in Luxembourg. Abstracts due December 1: ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (ZEVEDI) @zevedi.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

„Wert/Value/Valeur“ – Widerstreit zwischen Moral und Preis So lautet der Titel der Ringvorlesung / Citizen Lecture, die ab dem 18.10. mittwochs um 18:05 Uhr statfindet. Heute mit Petra Gehring zu dem Thema "Werte zur Einführung". #CitizenLecture #TUDarmstadt #Werte #efin&demokratie

Prolliger Yuppie sitzt auf einem Sessel. Vor ihm ein Tisch mit Champagnerglas und Flaschenkühler, dahinter ein Sportwagen.
Im Hintergrund sieht man die Skyline einer Großstadt.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 12/10/2023

Huge honor to be a part of this new case study looking at climate impact of videogame development. Thanks Ben Abraham and the @gutefabrik.bsky.social team for all this work 👇🏻 gutefabrik.com/climate-repo...

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Expert Report on the Climate Impact of Saltsea Chronicles

Game Director Hannah Nicklin introduces an independent report into the climate impact of the development of Saltsea Chronicles.

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Floppy disk covers as cultural symbols: what a nice find! #digitalgeschichte

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Martin Schmitt @aberehrlich.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Interesting source and an example for private engagement to get access to historical documents deemed as secret by the state. The case itself is a bit more to differentiate. Sparkassen are missing in this document; The customer data gathered was not used further in digital format, but renewed; …

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Planetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

“It’s mobile, emerges with every context” - In this Smart Forests Radio episode, Pujita Guha speaks for the Forest Curriculum, an ever-evolving platform for conversations about forests, Indigeneity, and politics in South and Southeast Asia atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/puj...

Screening program at Post-Scripts Pavilion, Bangkok Biennial, 2018. Image source: The Forest Curriculum, https://www.facebook.com/forestcurriculum/

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Just joined. Here is a book just out in July 2023. It is a 4th edition, a major rev. over 3rd w/ 3 new chapters & many updates on the digital world. Thrilled to co-author it w/ my colleagues Honghong Tinn, Gerardo Con Diaz, M. Campbell-Kelly, & Bill Aspray. z.umn.edu/Computer4E

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Computer: A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth e...

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Or poisoning it further/faster. One of the many obvious risks & realities of LLMs/bots. What I like is it discusses an accidental experiment by web scholar Dr. Daniel Griffin--his blog, Claude Shannon's information theory, & misinformation/false history on search! www.wired.com/story/fast-f...

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Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search

Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft's Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

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Laura Niewöhner @lneverliving.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Wir fordern in unserer Petition den Kreis Gütersloh auf, die Gedenkstätte #stalag326 (VI K) Senne dauerhaft finanziell grundabzusichern. Es ermöglicht die Vermittlung freiheitlich-demokratischer Werte in #Ostwestfalen. Unterschreiben und Teilen erwünscht! www.change.org/p/sichert-di...