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"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.
August 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Illuminating convo b/w @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @gilduran.com on the bonkers & utterly dystopian ideology behind the technofascist policies that Trump & his billionaire cronies are determined to impose on the US.
www.theframelab.org/my-talk-with...
My talk with Heather Cox Richardson about Tech Fascism
Gil Duran and Heather Cox Richardson discuss Curtis Yarvin, whose Dark Enlightenment ideas inspired tech's NeoReactionary movement and JD Vance
www.theframelab.org
June 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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“Engineers and computer scientists, please defend humanities research just as loudly as you might defend research in STEM fields.” With thousands of funding cuts across the humanities, it’s vitally important that engineers stand up to support the humanities.
Engineering and the Humanities: It's Complicated
As an electrical engineer turned historian who now studies engineers of the past, I have a good sense of how the engineering profession evolved. And what I've learned is this: Engineers have long…
spectrum.ieee.org
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Mafia state! Gessen is insightful and clear-eyed as always.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Opinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’
“Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.”
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
These robots are not cute; they are a social disaster in the making. There is a lot to learn from the Japanese journey to creating a humanoid replacement for human labor.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/t...

#histSTM, #sts, #technoethics
Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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When my friend and #HIstSTM colleague Ann Johnson passed away in 2016, she had this book in progress. I'm glad to see that with some co-authoring help, it's out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social

mitpress.mit.edu/978026254823...
February 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Today is the day I need my cats. Sharing the remedy.
February 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Can somebody help me identify a historical robot? In a Japanese article from 1979, the author mentions a yarn-twining robot, and I am trying to figure out what he was talking about.

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February 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Hot off the presses, with a contribution of yours truly. Check out "Service with a Smile" to learn how profit made Japanese robots personal and personable.

#HistSTM
January 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM