Jeffrey Yost

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

Everything old in cybernetics is new again

“i’m so clueless about my own kid i need to get an machine to output generic words to describe her”

All of us at CBI offer our deepest congratulations to my/our AMAZING HSTM and CBI colleague Honghong Tinn for her wondrous, elegant, and vital book Island Tinkerers winning the SIGCIS/CHM Best Book in History of Computing Prize. Congratulations Honghong!!! So well-deserved!!!

Phew!! Thank you, those who voted for #Lula. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Thank you so much for snapping this pic!

Identifying endogeneity primarily with volatile private markets and treating revenue and debt service constraints as external, fatalistic limits, heterodoxy often naturalizes the very capitalist narratives of scarcity it seeks to overcome. moneyontheleft.org/2026/10/01/e...

“My primary motivation is to visualize the idea of AI colonialism in an impactful and immediately accessible manner,” (Cunyan) Ma said...." "I’m hoping this might start to fill in a larger picture of what AI colonialism actually looks like.” #criticalAI #aicolonialism www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...

TY to @craigrobertson.bsky.social for snapping this pic at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. Craig, incidentally, is the author of The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information (among other works), which is *so* good. I assigned it to my History of the Database class and students *loved* it.

Police in Delhi are skillfully using automated surveillance to suppress the constitutional right to assemble peacefully at scale, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha.

The elite hate us being educated, us educating you, you educating each other, and you having time to do this. Stop granting that it's the university that is elitist inherently: it's been made that way for a reason. Some more points below also on the marriages between patriarchy, AI, capitalism...

"The merging of tech and MAGA networks created a frenzy of open political corruption unlike anything in American history." @thewalrus.ca published The Nerd Reich's introduction, which charts tech fascism's rise to power under Trump/Thiel. paywall-free thewalrus.ca/billionaire-...

Really enjoyed this ep of @techpolicypress.bsky.social 's The Sunday Show with @alondra.bsky.social , Emily Tucker and @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-edge-dia... >>

Abdiaziz Ahmed reports that every AI tool tested produced convincingly false election content—including a fake image of ballot stuffing and a fake federal memo—and that most chatbots couldn’t identify AI-generated media, even when they had created it themselves.

EU member states have proposed a 30% cut to the bloc’s sole public funding program for civil society, even as Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda depends on those same groups to enforce its digital rulebook, writes Mark Scott.

Most important professional goal--a cake with a picture of my book on it--now achieved, deliciously! Thanks to colleagues, friends, family, and more who came out on Tuesday to celebrate the release of DATA BY DESIGN! Next up, NYC!

Retraining alone won’t protect workers from AI-driven job losses, argues Alessandro Crimi. He calls for policies like basic income and taxes on automation to curb inequality https://restofworld.org/2026/robot-tax-ai-wealth-redistribution/?utm_campaign=row-social

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

“The outcome of the November midterms will determine more than just what the next two years will hold for Trump; they could also decide the fate of the data-center boom across the US” HYPERSCALE is out! I’m in @theatlantic.com discussing how the data center rebellion has grown in the US and beyond.

In a rare move, Magistrate Judge David Schultz apologized to public defender Matthew Deates on behalf of the U.S. government and said he would order prosecutors to retract a memo that contains the false accusation.

If you’re in or near Minneapolis, please join us for this week’s colloquium featuring new postdoc @matildecarrera.bsky.social discussing “Turning Data into Evidence in Human Paleogenomics.” 1530 Fri 23 Oct. 216 Pillsbury Drive. buff.ly/DyQiIO3 buff.ly/L4YcPlg #philsci

Nick Shirley, the conservative YouTuber whose politically charged video on fraud in Minnesota pushed the issue into the national spotlight ahead of Operation Metro Surge, was the first to receive a payout from the program. JD Vance awarded him a $10,000 check.

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Guardian is usually better about avoiding hyperbolic AI headlines. More like a single study that has not been reproduced might suggest modest association at the margins. New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends.

NEW: We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens have been detained by immigration agents. Now House members are moving to make it easier for those detained to seek justice through the courts.

Top portion of my book tree is books by incredible scholars in our Johns Hopkins U. P. Computing & Culture Bk Series. THRILLED to add @bpfaffenberger.bsky.social new book, Machining the Vote, to those of @andrewlea.bsky.social, Janet Abbate & @mysdick.bsky.social, our Just Code & Michael Black.

Refreshing article on my district's (MN 5th, Minneapolis) Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the racist attacks she has faced from the Executive Branch.

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

"Trump and his authoritarian allies have proven that the post-election certification period is fertile ground for subversion. But Trump won't necessarily need to summon a mob this time." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-ele...

“Google wouldn't have taken my call in the first term. Now they kiss my ass.” Another good reason to ditch as many Google products as you can.

“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.” https://restofworld.org/2026/south-africa-ai-data-center-protests/

When companies automate, they keep the savings while workers and governments bear the cost, writes Alessandro Crimi. He points to South Korea’s automation tax as one possible solution https://restofworld.org/2026/robot-tax-ai-wealth-redistribution/?utm_campaign=row-social

"This report, painstakingly compiled over months by a consortium of European journalists, is essential reading for us here in Britain. Palantir, the controversial data surveillance firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, is finally facing pushback in the UK."

It's a wrap! CBI MOSAIC Symposium Org. Cmt. (Sareeta Amrute; @anitachan.bsky.social @babintsevak.bsky.social, Con, me) deeply appreciate the 30 plus standout scholars who gave papers!! & 4 amazing Keynotes: @cyberlyra.bsky.social Janet Vertesi; Tiara Roxanne; Roderic Crooks; & Paula Chakravartty!!!

When Trying to Prevent New Technologies from Becoming Old (established)!!

Join us for CBI's MOSAIC's Symposium's concluding Keynote Session, TODAY at 4pm C. Lectures by NYU's Paula Chakravartty, "Palestine as Paradigm: AI and the Colonial Present" & UC, Irvine's Roderic Crooks "Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...

2 Days Away! Register today (free) CBI's Online MOSAICS Symposium Oct. 15 & 16! 30+ tremendous, interdisciplinary scholars on critical AI. Incredible KEYNOTE Speakers (Janet Vertesi) @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Tiara Roxanne, Roderic Crooks & Paula Chakravartty #criticalai cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...

"Retro tech is not about nostalgia. It’s about resistance. Evading the technologies of capture, attention hacking, and dispossession. Resisting the forced hardware upgrades, the shuttered platform logins, and myriad forms of “progress” sold to us as the next new thing to appease the shareholders."

Omar is our Rep., MN 5th District, Minneapolis. Disappointed with MPR for this headline and in the short article not addressing the politics, and timing and nature of this Executive Branch action, head on.