Jeffrey Yost

New jaw-dropping numbers show just how big the income gap has become in the Silicon Valley.

Here's a breakdown of the annual Silicon Valley Pain Index: nbcbay.com/NMQVxzj

A screen photograph of the game Paperboy (1985).

A photograph of a young girl in front of the end screen for Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988).

A photograph of a television and its domestic context, with the TV showing the end screen of Contra (1987).

A screenshot showing a raiding guild after defeating Ragnaros in the Molten Core raid dungeon of World of Warcraft (2004).

The new issue of @romchip.bsky.social is out, and includes new work by me on the history of video game screenshots and the way we photographed our game screens to capture images of ourselves: romchip.org/index.php/ro...

The rest of the issue is fantastic, check it out!

Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices.

www.reclaimcontrol.tech

Phone Bank to Save Medicaid! · MoveOn Congress will soon vote on whether to advance a budget resolution that would take away nearly a trillion dollars of support and assistance from everyday people, including the largest proposed cuts to ...

The U.S. Senate just passed the Big Horrid Bill that hurts Americans and gives huge tax breaks to billionaires. Join a phonebook from Indivisible tonight and Tuesday night to put pressure on GOP reps to vote NO: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

This is terrific Vassilis, thanks so much for sharing it!

Terrific! I have eclectic music tastes--jazz, reggae, blues, hip hop, punk/alternative. Public Enemy records were my first rap albums, then Nas, Tribe...(saw PE multiple times at First Avenue in Mpls... both PE & Tribe, of course, comment importantly on tech). Glad to learn of the new release!

The Toxic Ship Winner of the 2025 Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History from the Business History Conference and the Hagley LibraryWinner of the 2025 Harold an...

Also looks super interesting! Especially if you are interested in incineration, which I currently am

"In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying 1000s of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a 2-yr journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground"

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Everyone Breaks These Laws Copyright’s profound impact on the online world as we know it   This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on...

Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& close friend & collaborator) Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz's (Con's) stellar new book is out (got to read it early & blurb it).

Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World.

Congrats Con! #histtech

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Everyone Breaks These Laws Copyright’s profound impact on the online world as we know it   This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on...

Delighted to announce CBI Research Fellow (& close friend & collaborator) Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz's (Con's) stellar new book is out (got to read it early & blurb it).

Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World.

Congrats Con! #histtech

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Holding a sign in front of the Capitol "Killing our speaker won't silence us."

Proud of Minnesotans

Cover of Thomas Mullaney's book The Chinese Computer, blue book with gray image and lettering, a woman sits at a stenography machine and in the background a QWERTY keyboard with many Chinese Characters on each key.

CBI is delighted to announce Stanford Univ. 's Tom Mullaney is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction @benbendc.bsky.social ‬ History Award for his masterful book The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mul...

Cover of Brad A. Myers' book Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interactive Techniques. black colored book with purple, white and gray design elements and computer keyboard keys in the background.

CBI is delighted to announce that Carnegie Mellon U. Prof. of CS Brad A. Myers is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction ( @benbendc.bsky.social )‬ History Award for his monumental book Pick, Click, Flick!: The Story of Interaction Techniques. #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mye...

Hacking Diversity A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities

My book HACKING DIVERSITY is apparently 50% off right now in @princetonupress.bsky.social 's spring sale! Paperback is $16 with the code BLOOM50. Not sure how long the sale runs

#BookSky

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Cover of Brad A. Myers' book Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interactive Techniques. black colored book with purple, white and gray design elements and computer keyboard keys in the background.

CBI is delighted to announce that Carnegie Mellon U. Prof. of CS Brad A. Myers is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction ( @benbendc.bsky.social )‬ History Award for his monumental book Pick, Click, Flick!: The Story of Interaction Techniques. #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mye...

Cover of Thomas Mullaney's book The Chinese Computer, blue book with gray image and lettering, a woman sits at a stenography machine and in the background a QWERTY keyboard with many Chinese Characters on each key.

CBI is delighted to announce Stanford Univ. 's Tom Mullaney is co-recipient of the 2025 CBI Human Computer Interaction @benbendc.bsky.social ‬ History Award for his masterful book The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mul...

Cover of Beyond the Facts book by James W Cortada. In pastel blue and green and white it shows a stack of books with a ladder up to a light bulb.

Just published in Interfaces (May '25). Delighted to publish James (Jim) Cortada's new essay!

"When Tacit Knowledge Meets Artificial Intelligence" (drawn in part from his forthcoming book Beyond the Facts). #histtech

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Group photo of "Shady Subjects" Workshop Cornell U. April 24-26, 2025

An absolute joy to read & discuss the amazing, indisciplinary research on automation & resistance at @zwtz.bsky.social @maidino.bsky.social "Shady Subjects" workshop & so honored to share my own "Of MYCIN Men" & get such generative, helpful comments! Thx to Malte, Marc & everyone!!! #histsci

Thanks so much!!!

Started reading @justcode.bsky.social & Thomas Misa’s book Fastlane: Managing Science in the Internet World. I’m already hooked. NSF was instrumental in creating the web so it makes sense that the e-gov system it launched for proposals would play a key role in shaping the scientific enterprise.

2025 Tomash Virtual Lecture with Aaron Gluck-Thaler Join CBI's 2024-2025 Tomash Fellow Aaron Gluck-Thaler, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science at Harvard University, presenting his paper Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America.T...

Thrilled to announce that on April 21 at 2pm Central CBI Tomash Fellow, Harvard ABD Aaron Gluck-Thaler will be giving an online Tomash Fellow Lecture entitled "Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America." Link is below for registration. #histtech

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2025 Tomash Virtual Lecture with Aaron Gluck-Thaler Join CBI's 2024-2025 Tomash Fellow Aaron Gluck-Thaler, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science at Harvard University, presenting his paper Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America.T...

Thrilled to announce that on April 21 at 2pm Central CBI Tomash Fellow, Harvard ABD Aaron Gluck-Thaler will be giving an online Tomash Fellow Lecture entitled "Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Reform in Cold War America." Link is below for registration. #histtech

cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/2...

CLA pauses P&A contract applications as the college faces financial challenges The University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts announced it is pausing applications for multi-year contracts for academic professionals and administrators, or P&A, for the current fiscal year in ...

UMN says "substantial financial challenges" bar multi-year contracts with P&A employees who conduct research, teach students, direct programs, offer counseling, manage budgets and outreach programs and oversee departments but signs a 6-year, $20 million contract with a basketball coach.

Brave action after companies have summarily fired so many employees willing to speak out against genocide. Thank you Ibtihal

Radio Electronics with robot squirrel Squee 1951

If still charged up Edmund Berkeley's Squee, "the light-sensitive electronic beast," would be dancing to the industrial beat... Oops, wrong AI & wrong Squirrely.

Absolutely fascinating thought/research idea/wish from @kfitz.info! DOGE claims transparency, hypes AI & use of AI tools, but much seems to be blanket, wide, horrific cuts like to NEH, simple keywords w/ NIH grants, or targeting schools a few at a time. Sadly "Mag 7" benefit much from U research!

URGENT: Save the NEH I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

Please contact your member of congress to ask them to save the NEH. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Business History Conf. 2025 in Atlanta. Session on IBM and Work with left to right Corinna Schlombs, Jim Cortada, and David Stebenne.

Just published, April 2025 Interfaces essay, "Business History Conference 2025, & CBI's Participation." In this historiographical essay, I focus on oral history, & IT, gender, political economy, & labor history (in spotlighting many CBI fellows/grantees @BHC). #histtech

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Sam Franz named as the 2025-2026 CBI Tomash Fellow MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/21/2025) — We are thrilled to announce that University of Pennsylvania ABD in the History and Sociology of Science Sam Franz is the incoming Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow f...

CBI for Computing, Information & Culture is thrilled to announce UPenn History & Soc. of Science ABD Sam Franz is CBI's new Tomash Fellow, for his dissertation project "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945–1990." #histtech

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/sam...

Prof. Anita Say Chan delivering her talk on Predatory Data in MPLS for CBI & CWGPP at UMN.

Prof. Anita Say Chan in Q & A discussion following her lecture, she is seated and is holding a microphone.

So grateful to the incredible Prof. @anitachan.bsky.social for her tremendous lecture (& wonderful conversation) in MPLS "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech," on Thursday!!! Hosted by CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture & HHH Ctr. on Women, Gender, & Public Policy. #Histsci

Join us TODAY at 5pm at Humphrey 105 for this important lecture, "Predatory Data," by @anitachan.bsky.social , hosted UMN @cwgpp.bsky.social, The Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture (Christina Ewig, Youngmin Chu & me). #histsci