Colette Perold

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,

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

Reposting Xiaochang reposting Laine bc WNBA

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 .

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.

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📣 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

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PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN registration!
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If your work is anywhere close to the history of computing, you should apply!!!

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs ...

10 national unions are jointly demanding the release of immigrant workers detained by ICE, in what could be a prelude to more coordinated and direct action

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.

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

This made me cry and it really should not have. It is a document of basic decency. Good for Tufts, may the other institutions grow a spine too.

www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting - Boston Review When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

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...

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

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

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic

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

"who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!"

Now they are doing a mass basic security training

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

Statement on Recent Events The online targeting and harassment of the LPE Project’s Deputy Director, Helyeh Doutaghi, is part of a broader environment of speech repression, particularly of anti-war and pro-Palestinian views.

No one should *ever* be targeted for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine, including my brilliant colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social. These are terrifying times, and we must all stand together against repression.

lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

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

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

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.

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...