Matthew L. Jones

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

It’s such a great book—this is just outrageous.

bingo!

Doonesbury was low key the vector through which I initially learned American politics from Nixon through Reagan and beyond.

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection!
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Exciting!

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I really adore Kelty’s Two Bits on recursive publics on just this moment/aspiration. The world we have lots indeed.

caillou en forme de manette xbox

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

Luke and Obi-Wan from Star Wars

'Tough break with your Aunt and Uncle, but they should have complied with the Stormtroopers'

Robert Boyle would like to have a word …

I know there are a lot of
speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.

So I'll close by saying that we're still here, and we're still doing interesting and relevant things. When you hear Renaissance, think of Surekha Davies, and Paula Findlen, and Sarah Ross, and Nic Baker, and Brian Maxson, and Lydia Barnett, and Kate Lowe, and Hannah Marcus, and Ada Palmer, and more.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

We used to have nice things

Hooray!!

Might be a bumpy path

It is really to Mokyr’s credit that much of his written work remains legible to historians and that he is anchored in the more historical literature.

Nothing short of disgraceful. I’m horrified to hear this.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I am not there yet two years into move

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered
For more info:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065
#HPS 🗃️

you don't cast someone from the board game group because they favor low taxes and more carefully targeted regulations on industry

you cast someone from the board game group because they don't accept the humanity of other members of the board game group

For students interested in Émilie du Châtelet and/or early modern philosophy and science: please consider participating in the 2025 Libori Summer School (a hybrid event)! historyofwomenphilosophers.org/libori-summe... #philsky #earlymodern #academicsky

The university leadership talking point condescendingly repeated last spring to explain why we weren’t fighting back was “we just aren’t popular with voters.” People may not report feeling affection elite institutions but they don’t support these specific attacks!

In the Corporation Rim, everything has to be owned by someone.

RIP the great Tom Lehrer. From transubstantiation to non-proliferation, from Gropius and von Braun & Lobachevsky, from the AEC to the MLF, from the Elements to Fight Fiercely, his works opened worlds of sardonic humor, yes, but equally of learning, of culture, and history.

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!

True just in case they say IFF