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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It's giving phrenology, who paid for this study? 😭

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

But then how would they put these bought/rented buildings as an expense and pay even less taxes based on that while maintaining the image of an ever growing company and inflating their stock value? ;( and what would these empty spaces be used for? Downtown affordable housing? Madness.

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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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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Scenarios in which it is ok to recline your seat on a plane: 1) there is nobody behind you 2) that's it, that's the only time, hope it helps

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Roses are red Violets are blue

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

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West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs

Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 26/02/2025

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm still processing what is unfolding in the U.S, part of me perfectly understands what's going on while the other is in denial

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives. Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library! Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Every day I wake up thinking it cannot be worse than yesterday for the US and I'm wrong. I should just read more about nazi Germany to memorize the patterns of "governance", that may help with the daily shock and disbelief

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So glad to have found out that I'm not the only one adding "Elon Musk attempts a coup" to my 2025 bingo card. I am not /that/ insane.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Not ICE checking IDs of Native Americans. Native. Americans. NATIVE. AS IN INDIGENOUS TO THE REGION. I just

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My favorite thing about Tr*mp & M*sk is that they overtly criticize Russia just to adopt the exact same imperialist narratives and rhetoric as the Kremlin to justify their invasion/wish to colonize other states

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Do Americans know that we refer to the US as our crazy downstairs neighbors? Or is this brand new information? Culturally, America is a big (sad) joke to us. Making the US the 11th provinces to help them fight gun violence and establish universal Healthcare would make more sense instead 💕

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

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Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

when you're mysoginistic, homophobic, and transphobic and expect your white brethrens who hold the same "values" to somehow not be racist and target you on the basis of your ethnicity

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

First time I found a zine in a free tiny library. Very timely.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

If you can. Choose differently. (Not a possibility for everyone) - Use Linux instead of Windows/MacOS. - Stop using Alphabet/Google, Meta, Microsoft etc. platforms as much as you possibly can. - Build on OpenSource platforms. - Learn how to self-host instead of using cloud. Prepare yourself.

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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I'm having massive flashbacks of the first articles that came out in 2020 about covid 🥹

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I only take public transportation during winter because I won't bicycle in the snow, so the time I took the metro was in April. The number of cameras that were installed between April and now in metro stations is baffling. What do we need this level of surveillance for?

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

While my friends continued their education, I decided to take time off academia & work. Unexpected but I don't regret it. I was envious of them doing phds until now, when my current PhD applications coincide with their last year of PhD and I am witnessing everyone suddenly losing their mind.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/12/2024

Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 02/12/2024

🎙️[Editor's picks] This week our editors recommend the HSS Centennial Podcast: History of Science in Song. Don't miss this fascinating intersection of melody and scholarship. 🎵🎶 👨🏻‍🎤Find out the details at: tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/ #STS #EditorsPicks @historyscience.bsky.social

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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 02/12/2024

NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe. Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...

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No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab

Building upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and harms caused by digital transnational repres...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/12/2024

I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Delighted to be a guest on @techlissa.bsky.social Melissa MK's excellent podcast Activists of Tech--discussing tech, AI, history, archives, justice. Asked my song/album of the day (2 days post-election) punk band The Dead Kennedy's "Bedtime for Democracy" #histtech www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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Activists Of Tech — The responsible tech podcast on LinkedIn: #techhistory #technology #socialjustice #archives #ai

💡 “So much of technology is controlled by so few companies and Information Technology has tended to concentrate capital and power. We’ve never had a time when…

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

S02E10 out! History of tech, power relations, & archiving for social justice with Jeffrey Yost from the CBI. We talked about how the History of Technology related to social justice and how interdisciplinary studies could advance it, oral histories, & more! open.spotify.com/episode/6Tlp...

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History of tech, power relations, & archiving for social justice with Dr Jeffrey Yost from the Charles Babbage Institute

Activists Of Tech — The responsible tech podcast · Episode

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Mélissa MK (they/them) @techlissa.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Oh my god, in my head "technocapitalism" meant technocracy x capitalism, and someone defined it as "relying on intangibles that are knowledge and creativity: the most valuable resources of this technological era".

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

An important example of how critical humanities matter in contemporary debates - this time in relation to the hidden assumptions of 'white' nationalism in the US. Significant, perhaps, that Suman grew up in Australia when critiques of the 'sciences' of settler whiteness were emergeing....

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