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Jillian Foley
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historian of cryptography, computers, and information; doing mom stuff and writing in chicago

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a big chunk of the book I'm currently writing is unpacking the crypto-anarchy piece of this.

🎯 "extreme vision of individual freedom and decentralized money" accompanied by "authoritarianism and criminality"
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hmm, is it a good sign to see Gilded Age political cartoons go up in the neighborhood?
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
well
August 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Came home from a two-week trip to my Kernel magazine article in print! Buy your copy here to read about what sororities and economists and the doctor cartel have in common shop.kernelmag.io/products/ker...
August 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
and the trash is always full of the weirdest shit that you have zero memories of either creating or deleting. a delightful sample.
July 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
love to pay for high speed Internet
June 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I shudder to think what my notes would look like if they were also full of hallucinated nonsense and anodyne summaries of books I've never looked at. yes I often forget entire months of research that I then have to stumble upon later but that is part of the fun?
June 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
everything is terrible but the mulberries keep growing so there’s that
June 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
this flight-themed cafe is so extra. it even has a little pan am style plane seat table with a fake plane window.
May 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
now I just need to find some rhubarb
April 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
time to bring this back I guess
April 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I’m thrilled to announce my book will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social! Less thrilled for democracy that it gets alarmingly more relevant by the day!
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
great excuse to bring back one of my favorite @xkcd.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
well this was an unexpected text from my mom to my brother and me
February 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mariano’s making me rich
February 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I …. I just …. what
January 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
happy hanukkah! I hope you all ate as many donuts as I did today!
January 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
here’s my dog taking a sunbeam nap ☀️
December 19, 2024 at 2:40 AM
this year’s thanksgiving meal will be much better than 2021
November 28, 2024 at 6:47 PM
This was supposed to be a slapdash loaf intended for stuffing. It’s too beautiful, now what do i do?!?
November 27, 2024 at 3:20 AM
ok Bluesky, our microwave kicks my husband off video calls any time I use it. do we need a new microwave? new wifi? are we just insane?

pictured: me reheating my coffee on the stove like this 1919 house is new again
November 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Lifehack culture has completely gone off any kind of rails it ever was on to begin with.
November 14, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Literally what is the point? what epistemological function could this possibly serve
November 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Here We Believe Halloween edition, as spotted in my neighborhood
October 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM
I certainly will not claim that they are an *effective* mode of project management 😂
September 13, 2024 at 9:32 PM