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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was an absolute joy & honor to work w Con & such amazing chapter authors on Just Code!! THANKS to T&C's reviewer Ricky Wichum! J.C.'s authors on Bsky: @histoftech.bsky.social @mysdick.bsky.social @shreeharsh.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social @janakis.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/12/2025

This whole convo is fantastic - 1.5 hours of very informative chat on climate justice vs the gross economics of tech Ft @naomiaklein.bsky.social @profwhw.bsky.social @profhvdv.bsky.social, hosted at @ccj-ubc.bsky.social youtu.be/27BHQhkK52I

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.

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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Got a new essay in @dissentmag.bsky.social on secrecy havens. The culture of impunity that secrecy fosters has profoundly damaging effects on social&political fabrics especially in places that were turned into tax havens in the context of empire/decolonization www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nobl...

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Noblesse Without Oblige - Dissent Magazine

The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.

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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Really nice series of #STS #histSTM #evhums essays on Dune + author Frank Herbert's multiple connections with 'gritty' (cf shiney) scences, which I somehow missed first time around. Wondering again if anyone has written about Dune (or science fiction in general) and sociobiology/evolution/gender?

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Sciences of Dune essays for the LARB that were published when Part 1 was released. Including an essay by the great historian of computing and math, @mysdick.bsky.social

Little boxes with illustrations for the subjects of each essay

Medicine
What to make of Dr. Wellington
Yueh?

Ethnography
"Dune" itself is a work of
ethnography — a gateway into a
new world.

Pharmacology
"Dune" marked a moment when
this approach to experimental
drugs entered pop culture.

Computers
In the "Dune" universe, despite
their ostensible absence, the
computers and artificial
intelligences of Herbert’s time
are palpably present.

Language
Omnia El Shakry on the dream
world of "Dune."

Harvesting
The question of “peak oil” or
“peak spice" has always been a
proxy for a paramount existential
concern: whether we control
anything at all.

Prophecy
The power of Dune, of its
Fremen, is rooted in the
prophecy.

Eugenics
How the history of eugenics
informs "Dune."

Sietchposting: A Short
Guide to Recent Work
on “Dune”

The “dunescourse” — or
“sietchposting,” as it is
affectionately called — is vast.

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Steph Dick @mysdick.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

In honor of Dune Part 2, here is a little series on the Sciences of Dune we wrote for the LARB when Part 1 was released. Includes essays on prophecy, eugenics, pharmacology, language, medicine, harvesting, ethnography, and I wrote about computers and Mentats lareviewofbooks.org/feature/scie...

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Sciences of “Dune”: An Introduction | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Wow, this looks good

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Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Thrilled to share work on AI + reproductive rights in Argentina with my 💛 collaborators #DiegoJemio & #FlorenciaAranda. 🔥 Intro Syed Mustafa Ali, @mysdick.bsky.social, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley + more 🔥 @lukestark.bsky.social, @aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social & more!

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

So much great work in here, we'll be revisiting this special issue for a long time. Congrats to Steph et al!

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Steph Dick @mysdick.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Here is the latest issue of BJHS Themes -- Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power -- which developed out of our Mellon Sawyer Seminar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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BJHS Themes: Volume 8 - | Cambridge Core

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