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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Belatedly sharing @justcode.bsky.social’s reflection on this year’s @sigcisconf.bsky.social (my favorite SIGCIS to date, for so many of the reasons Jeff mentions). Worth reading it for the fomo fodder, or the nostalgia if you were there!

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So glad to be at the '26 SIGCIS Meeting! @sigcisconf.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social I-School. Grateful to the incredible Organizing Committee, a terrific program! @honghongtinn.bsky.social @babintsevak.bsky.social @cperold.bsky.social Jason Ludwig, Gili Vidan, Morgan Ames. #histtech

I School at Berkeley/South Hall building facade.

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today at 5! Come for the anti-imperialism, stay for the Bad Bunny bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/22/hi...

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚨 Best conference alert!!🚨 Submit to SIGCIS 2026! Hybrid at UC Berkeley this June, with CFP deadline in just under 3 weeks. Keynote by the remarkable Dwai Banerjee!!

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Could not be more thrilled our special issue is now live!

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 22/12/2025

Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/11/2025

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Reposting Xiaochang reposting Laine bc WNBA

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Hey, hey... @sigcisconf.bsky.social--@shothisttech.bsky.social's Special Interest Group for Computing, Information & Society--is on Bluesky! Follow them if you're interested in #ComputerHistory or the social & political impact of digital technologies like #AI. #histsci #histtech #histSTM 🗃️📜📚

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a man wearing glasses is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor .

ALT: a man wearing glasses is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor .

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

📣 CFP ALERT 📣 SIGCIS 2025: ⚡POWER SURGE⚡ // CFP Due 7/14 📆 get in the car losers, the BEST conference in the history of computing IS BACK ONLINE! PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN registration! v v grad student friendly! If your work is anywhere close to the history of computing, you should apply!!!

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

SIGCIS 2025 deadline extended to Monday! Theme is POWER with keynote Lily Geismer. Going to be an epic year. Submit! And feel free to ask me any questions about it!

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Rique Sampaio | Meu livro Primeiro Contato já à venda! 📕 @riquesampaio.com.br · 03/07/2025

É muito maluco que, pra gente poder fazer esse tipo de análise cruzando nossa história com tecnologia, cultura e política, a gente precise de um fundo e um apoio internacional. Mais maluco ainda é que os EUA hoje lidam com o tipo de autoritarismo e perseguição que eu trato no meu artigo.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This would make ICE roughly the 7th-largest military in the world.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/06/2025

makes me think of how peter thiel initially framed paypal as a way to displace banks and break government control over currency, until it came time to actually make money off it

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

These are the same people who in 2020 issued a formal endorsement of “Either Warren or Klobuchar, one of the two extremely different ladies, take your pick.” One of the most hilariously asinine US political media actions of the 21st century. Never forget.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is such a disaster. Small publishers still utterly rely on Google for traffic and discovery, and Overview by all counts seems to be decimating both.

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Unbelievable censorship against @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and an unbelievably beautiful, devastating, response back from her

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lilian Hellman wrote that Hollywood responded to the "wild charges of Joe McCarthy with the force and courage of a bowl of mashed potatoes." Universities were just as weak. This 1986 @bostonreview.bsky.social article explains how it went down step-by-step. www.bostonreview.net/articles/rea...

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Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting - Boston Review

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And this historic assault on labor is nowhere to be found on *any* of the major newspapers' front pages today.

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is a better shot of the size of the crowd at Powder House Square for Rumeysa Ozturk. Less than 24 hours notice.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 26/03/2025

"who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!" Now they are doing a mass basic security training

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 26/03/2025

Video of masked ICE agents surrounding and detaining Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts PhD student and worker, has now been shared on IG. Please take action against this absurdity!

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Please use the link in the post for a link to the full text shown in this image

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hmm, beginning to think their concern about anti-semitism in higher education might not be completely on the level.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

You won’t be able to save universities without acknowledging that pro-Palestine protests are not antisemitism.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

People can stay mad about the following but if Democrats hadn’t run around normalizing this kind of language, the American public wouldn’t be as primed as they are to accept it.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/01/2025

This is the biggest danger of Trump's EOs. They are not law, and yet Denver Health is complying in advance, ending all trans surgeries under 19 years of age, including chest masculinization - a rare, but much needed surgery for some trans teens. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Proud to stand with my former union siblings to demand NYU stop its anti-union attacks on pro-Palestine protest. If you’re a GSOC alum, please join our pledge to boycott NYU until these sanctions are dropped.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 22/01/2025

DEIAtruth@opm.gov is asking for lots of emails, you say?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Whoa. Anyone got receipts on this shit? Really smart play for Meta to do that if they're going full state media. Plenty of older users that don't know how to opt out of shit will be fed plenty of pro Trump goodies from accounts they think they followed.

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historians4palestine @history4palestine.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Historians For Palestine's response to the AHA Council veto: 1. Today's American Historical Association veto supports scholasticide.

Today's American Historical Association veto supports scholasticide. May 22, 2021, Samir Mansour stood on the rubble of his destroyed bookshop.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

RIP Jimmy Carter? How to remember him? Thread - nuclear engineer, who did Solar & Western coal boom -Deregulator & neoliberal turn in US -Carter doctrine that began the bloodbath in Middle East post Iranian revolution? - Rapprochement with communist China - Humane anti imperialist ex-President

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 03/12/2024

AIRED TODAY: Colorado Public Radio reports on the extraordinary work of our student Naim Aburaddi, whose Phoenix of Gaza XR project has documented Gaza, before and after this war. Experiencing this footage has shaped me forever. www.cpr.org/2024/12/03/c...

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Palestinian student creates VR project that allows people to explore Gaza before and after 2023 Hamas attack

“We wanted to capture the happy moments, the joyful moments that Palestinians live … despite the tough conditions that they live in, they still create life out of nothing."

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Babbage Inst. for Computing, Info. & Culture @babbageinstitute.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New Starter Pack on Archives & Oral History. go.bsky.app/D7mVKQX

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Media Studies at CU Boulder @cumediastudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder is hiring! We’re seeking an open-rank scholar with a critical, interdisciplinary approach to media, culture, and the environment. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Professor in Environmental Media Studies

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Okay so so far we have starter packs for Lebanon bsky.app/starter-pack... Palestine bsky.app/starter-pack... via @danaelkurd.bsky.social Egypt bsky.app/starter-pack... via @maitelsadany.bsky.social

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My department just made its own Starter Pack. Of interest to those who take humanistic approaches to the study of social justice and media.

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AN/PRC-148 MBITRsweet Symphony @classywarfare.gobirds.online · 18/11/2024

I just wanna point out that the existence of the NLRB and labor unions is the “moderate compromise” option and prior to that things like “running gun battles in the street” and “burning the boss’s house down with everyone in it” were on the table as negotiating tactics

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 01/04/2024

While this bill doesn't directly affect me, watching the abuse targeted at organizers radicalized me to become more involved in local politics. Boulder's NIMBYs were unwilling to compromise on a modest housing reform to raise occupancy limits for years. These limits are now illegal statewide.

DJ Khaled: "Congratulations, you played yourself."

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