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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 months

The dad joke thread for 2024 begins:

Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 months

My gf keeps asking me if I’m cheating on her. She’s starting to sound like my wife. #dadjokes

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

holy fucking shit its a crab bubble sort

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5 years

Stumbled into reading about hermit crabs and wut:

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“It is very encouraging news,” said the government, “that only people like you will die.” “Excuse me?” I said. “Very encouraging news,” they repeated🤗

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What’s the least expensive thing you own that’s made the most positive impact in your quality of life?

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A friend of mine broke it off with her fiancé at their rehearsal dinner because he’d become increasingly toxic & abusive over the course of their engagement. I still marvel at & admire the bravery that took—it was humiliating for both of them but also very much the right decision

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3 months

If you get married in your 20s and find yourself feeling a creeping dread that you made a mistake, but you’re scared of the embarrassment of being divorced young/a short marriage/not working hard enough at it, or even worried that it’s too late now, ITS NOT TOO LATE.

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6 years

ok so quick question: how many of you on here are old enough to have actually *dialed* a phone in your lifetime? (and not as a novelty in some sort of hipstery hotel or something)

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@histoftech

3 years

Timeline cleanser

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The article is horrifying but I saw this pic of zuck and wondered why he looked so good, so alive. Figured it was an old photo. Turns out that is the wax effigy of him in Madame Tussaud's. He is the only person whose wax figure looks less creepy & uncanny than the original person

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@histoftech

6 years

The University of Wisconsin-Madison used to have an internationally-known History of Science Dept. It was dissolved under Scott Walker. He may be out, but it's never coming back. Nor is all the talent that left the UW system. His administration had permanent negative effects.

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“Each time you search for something like ‘how many rocks should I eat’ and Google’s AI ‘snapshot’ tells you ‘at least one small rock per day,’ you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity… ten times the power consumption of a traditional Google search”

Kevin Donovan

@kevindonovan

7 days

The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI by @LoisParshley

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@histoftech

7 months

A cool thing @netflix is doing now is locking you out of your account if you have more than one wifi network at home. They give you an endless loop for “reverifying” your devices, denying you access until you finally give up and, I’m assuming… cancel? Awesome plan, my dudes.

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8 years

I have made a grave miscalculation

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1 year

I don’t usually buy into hype cycles, but I am shaken after having a brief chat with this AI. The unsettling part was that it felt like it knew everything & it was asking *me* the questions. If this technology advances as expected, every professor—little or big—will suffer (1/42)

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

2 years

ha, ow.

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@histoftech

3 years

Counterpoint: this is exactly why so many organizations want computers making management decisions

bumblebike

@bumblebike

7 years

@SwiftOnSecurity This is from a 1979 presentation. We are v slow learners, it seems.

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2 years

Anyhow… I grew up queer in the eighties so this isn’t my first rodeo. Still makes me angry, sad, & scared though🥰

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

1 month

This is contact cement that cobblers use to attach soles to dress shoes, fyi. That’s also what I use it for. It keeps for 5-10 years if you store it in the fridge.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

2 years

this feels canon

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@histoftech

3 years

Since we’re talking about this: I really valued the access afforded by online events/conferences this year and will be very sorry to see it go away. I’ve had better experiences at online conferences than at most in-person ones—which I often find excruciating on several levels.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

2 years

Sorry sir, you have a cat now.

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3 months

And everything was already paid for (mostly by her/her family). She was eating frozen meals made from what would’ve been the wedding food for months because she was pretty broke, but she always had a good sense of humor about it all and went on to be much happier🥲

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

Amazon workers plan “Prime Day” Strike at Minnesota warehouse. Engineers plan to show solidarity w/colleagues. To stand in solidarity w/them, please don’t cross the digital picket line by ordering from or going to Amazon’s site or app July 15-16

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

Camera-on meetings should truly be illegal at this point in the pandemic.

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@histoftech

1 year

@ME_McCullough Bro I’m Literally Just Vibing: Academic Culture and Consensus-Building Online Through Memetic Response

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

Want to see yet another example of how women’s contributions to tech get diminished and erased in real time? Well, buckle up:

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

4 years

a rorschach test for our times

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

1 month

Really wish more people would internalize this. They’re not building a dystopian surveillance state to serve *our* interests. That’s just the marketing.

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@stevie_mat

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"These tech companies keep introducing stuff nobody wants!" Babes, they're not worried about consumers, all that shit is for military and defense. You're not a customer, you're a test run.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

Sitting here recalling how American Airlines once refused to allow me into business class because the agent claimed the Pride pin on my bag violated their “offensive slogans” rule. So sick of companies that treat queer folks poorly plastering themselves in the Pride flag in June.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 years

Today's google doodle is for Dr. Virginia Apgar: she is the reason a significant number of those of us born in the US did not die within the first 24 hours of birth.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

7 months

They’re so paranoid someone might share their password that they’ve now made it impossible to use one’s account at home, on one’s own TVs. Truly A+ work.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 years

One thing I wish academics talked about more openly: Prestigious institutions are conservative institutions. They may employ some radicals, but these institutions are not going to support anything that causes them to lose their power. They're firmly on the side of the status quo.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

1 month

@Partylemmons Rolex pointless as hell bro

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@histoftech

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@audreygriswold Ok but tbf I think maybe Sue owns you?😻

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

if you only look at one picture of a duck today, let it be this one

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

don’t look now some assholes invented cliffs notes again

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

4 years

today the US govt used the coronavirus as an excuse to stop issuing new passports—indefinitely. @sarahkendzior warned us this move would be coming—2 years ago. Read her thread:

Sarah Kendzior

@sarahkendzior

6 years

@ThisEastonLife If you want a passport, get it now. Usually I don't give out advice on personal things like this for people I don't know (like when people ask me "should I flee?", etc). But yes this is a growing problem, it will get worse, and I recommend getting passports now.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

Don't. Ask. People. To. Work. For. Exposure. Unless it's a community group or a small nonprofit, can we all just agree not to ask folks to work for free? Not paying for work drags down everyone's wages & their bargaining power as workers. Trust me: I'm a labor historian💁🏻

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For me:

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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Technologies are regressive not "revolutionary" if the same people remain in control |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ #HistorianSignBunny

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

This. And, as more women enter a field the pay GOES DOWN. So if women “chose” the “right subjects” in high numbers those would quickly become the “wrong subjects” You can’t solve pay inequality though “better choices”🙃

Adam Smith

@adamndsmith

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Capitalism does not and has never assigned value correctly, which is why nurses and teachers remain underpaid

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Mar Hicks

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3 years

Saw someone tweeting about history and philosophy of sci/tech with the handle mchammer and was like huh, I wonder how he managed to snag that handle. It’s because it’s MC Hammer. MC Hammer continues to be a legend apparently, for different reasons

MC HAMMER e/acc

@MCHammer

3 years

You bore us. If science is a “commitment to truth” shall we site all the historical non-truths perpetuated by scientists ? Of course not. It’s not science vs Philosophy ... It’s Science + Philosophy. Elevate your Thinking and Consciousness. When you measure include the measurer.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

TIL that t*ktok has banned the hashtag “intersex.” This is an escalation of all the banning and shadowbanning that platform has been doing to curate the type of people they want—and drive away the types of people they don’t. And it’s extremely fucked up.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 years

Once again for the people in the back: FACEBOOK PROFITS FROM TOXIC CONTENT👋🏼

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

The humanities & social sciences are not optional for STEM; they are integral. The longer institutions of higher education say that, but do the exact opposite in terms of funding & status for non-STEM fields, the more we’re going to screw up and the more we’re all going to suffer

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Mar Hicks

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7 months

The level of programming fail here is truly staggering. Seriously must have done zero user testing and had like one single user story.

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3 years

I don’t quite know how to say this, but I am really struggling. I don’t work at a place that respects me or my work. I don’t have access to the sort of funding that flows freely at/to R1 faculty, which really heightens the struggle. Things have only gotten worse in the past year.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 years

Look at all these computer programmers

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Mar Hicks

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4 years

@davidjmadden I see you’re in UK, so this may differ, but US universities cd take this opportunity to try to stop paying us if classes are canceled, despite our doing research, writing & service still. The more their bottom line gets affected the more they’re going to try to extract it from us

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Mar Hicks

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16 days

Normalize wearing a… …frog purse

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It’s funny until you realize we’ve been living this same dynamic with most consumer technologies for at least the past 20 years…

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Mar Hicks

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5 years

“This feature is practically a cry for help for Amazon to hire humanists &workers who understand the ripple effects of social engineering like this.” Our lady-voiced wiretaps are being trained to be more submissive when yelled at. Cool cool. Cool cool cool

Here’s How Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You’re Frustrated

OneZero spoke to Rohit Prasad, chief scientist for Alexa, about the new tone-detecting feature

onezero.medium.com

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Mar Hicks

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3 years

it’s a good beat.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

2 years

Super excited for 2022!

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2 years

“One woman was told she was being ‘dramatic’ when she pleaded for a brain scan after suffering months of headaches and pounding in her ears. It turned out she had a brain tumor.“ Women's pain often is dismissed by doctors - Washington Post

From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain

Many women say doctors have dismissed their pain, and several studies confirm that gender bias routinely leads to denials of pain relief for female patients.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

For May Day, I'd like to take a minute to say something about tech-workers-as-workers. and the STEM pipeline. In the late 20th and early 21st century a lot of highly paid white-collar workers got to largely forget where their labor protections came from.

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Mar Hicks

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4 years

there are unpaid volunteers, mostly women, spontaneously getting together in small groups across the country to construct masks for medical providers, bc neither our for-profit healthcare system nor our taxpayer funded govt response is keeping hospitals safe & functional for us.

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Mar Hicks

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3 years

My Women in Computing History class students are improving some history of computing pages this week. And so many of their well-thought-out and useful edits are getting reverted. One student added a quote and reference from Janet Abbate’s award-winning book Recoding Gender...

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

4 months

Please remember every time you idly play with AI “just to see what it does” or try to “integrate it into the curriculum in a positive way” this is the future you are contributing to. I’m not even kidding. They’re trying to get us accustomed to these techs so we can’t go back.

Andrew Curran

@AndrewCurran_

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It will be impossible for AI companies to fulfill their carbon commitments and satisfy their AI power needs without reactors. So, by 2026, we will be in the middle of a huge argument about nuclear power. U.S. SMR regulations currently look like this:

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Mar Hicks

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6 years

I was just running searches in historically black newspapers for mentions of computers & computer workers & there were *a lot* of black programmers in the 1960s. What history looks like all depends on where you look. (The three below are now well known but there were lots more.)

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Mar Hicks

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4 years

Have you heard about the patron saint of e-mails? It’s Saint Francis of a CC:

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Mar Hicks

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11 months

Chuffed to let y’all know that this fall I’m joining the amazing faculty of the University of Virginia, as an associate professor in their new School of Data Science✨😱👾

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Mar Hicks

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4 years

This is from last year but fuck it 🎃🐰🎃

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Mar Hicks

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3 years

This tiktok notes the same thing is happening to another woman, Bev Standing, who voice was recorded and licensed for a translation tool but is now viral globally because it was then used as the voiceover voice for TikTok without her consent:

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Mar Hicks

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2 years

when a pet rabbit sees a wild rabbit do they think they’re seeing slenderman🤔

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4 years

Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots – MIT Technology Review

Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

There has been a huge upswell of Twitter bot activity since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, amplifying medical disinformation and the push to reopen America.

www.technologyreview.com

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 years

Merry Godzilla, or, to my British friends, Happy Godzilla

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Mar Hicks

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7 years

I made a quick 4 step guide on how to read better/faster for my history students. Thought I'd share:

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

6 years

Facebook started as Facemash--a hot-or-not ripoff site that stole women undergrads' pics off internal Harvard "facebook" servers in order to humiliate and demean them. FOR CLICKS. FOR FUN. JUST TO SEE IF HE COULD.

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Mar Hicks

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5 years

Wikipedia not only deleted her page several times but now has locked it to ensure it stays deleted. This isn't about a few bad actors. The information infrastructure of Wikipedia is not neutral.

Dr Kit Chapman

@ChemistryKit

5 years

Further coverage of the debacle on Wikipedia re: Clarice Phelps, first African American woman to discover an element, whose page was then deleted. Admins have now locked the page to prevent it being recreated. via @dailydot

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Mar Hicks

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6 years

Think about it: at a moment in history when social critique of tech is becoming ever more important, they got rid of the highly successful department that DID JUST THAt. And that wasn't an accident. That's a solid, permanent win for Walker--& it's far from the only one.

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Mar Hicks

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6 months

I’m old enough to remember when smoking (& smoke) was everywhere, & the idea this might ever be stopped was seen as absurd. Many kids (including me) got horrible bronchitis every year & had other sorts of breathing problems all the time. Many parents (& other adults) died early.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

Many folks who had earlier iPhones/versions of iOS might know the name Susan Bennett. She’s the voice of the original Siri. She didn’t know her voice had been sold for use in this way until well after the product came out. And Apple tried to deny it:

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Mar Hicks

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2 years

I’m collecting examples of colleges & universities that have used the pandemic to get rid of faculty & staff—whether through formal dept closures or piecemeal strategies like tenure denial, adjunct firings, refusal of ADA accommodations, coercion to work in unsafe conditions, etc

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Mar Hicks

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4 years

universities’ plans to conduct face to face classes in a pandemic, and not cause an outbreak by having students in dorms, are like:

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

3 years

This is an ad I just got. You can now get a little shock collar for your wrist to TONE POLICE you. This is so dystopian it’s almost funny, but it’s actually real, so it’s not. Of all the ableist, sexist, racist ways to use technology—they just keep finding new ones to monetize😐

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Mar Hicks

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6 years

Yesterday I spoke with Lorna Cockayne, one of the last surviving people who ran the first computers in the world--the Colossus computers at Bletchley Park.

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Facebooks had SHIT beginnings. Zuck was not an enfant terrible--he was just a dickhead, a thief, and a cheat. And look at all the power he has now. History matters. Harvard *threw him out* for this BS. But venture fucking capitalists goddamn loved it. Guess why?

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5 years

all. of. this.

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3 years

So if you ever wonder why women got erased from the history of computing—how that could happen when in fact they were present, and formative, in much of computing history—just look around at what’s happening now.

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Mar Hicks

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There's a huge "traditional yule goat" that's erected each xmas in the Swedish town of Gävle. Nearly every year since its first appearance in 1966 it has been destroyed. As a result, it has one of the best wikipedia pages I've ever seen in my life:

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Mar Hicks

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2 years

This is eugenics. She did not even feel the need to be subtle. And this was a calculated statement in an interview. This is the intended government messaging as those who are supposed to protect public health instead let a mass death and mass disabling event get ever worse.

Steve Walden♿

@stevewalden

2 years

Dr Rochelle Walensky @CDCDirector said on @GMA "the overwhelming number of death [sic] over 75% occurred in people who had at least 4 comorbidities, so really these are people who were unwell to begin with, and yes really encouraging news..."

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3 years

what’s the difference between a radius and a diameter? a radius.

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10 months

I am seeing conferences on disability history where people aren’t masked, in the middle of a massive public health failure that’s killing & hurting so many disabled people & making it so we can’t access most public spaces safely. And I have got to ask: why. Make it make sense.

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Mar Hicks

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5 years

It got me thinking: what would a history of Jobs, drawing only on sources written by women, look like? We so often as historians have to reconstruct women's lives from archival gaps, from narratives that disdained them or intentionally cut them out. What if we flipped the script?

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5 years

lolololomg

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Scenario: dad yells at Alexa in frustration. Alexa apologizes. Daughter (or child of any gender) watches. We train our AIs but they also train us. Is this really the training we want?

Mar Hicks

@histoftech

5 years

“This feature is practically a cry for help for Amazon to hire humanists &workers who understand the ripple effects of social engineering like this.” Our lady-voiced wiretaps are being trained to be more submissive when yelled at. Cool cool. Cool cool cool

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It's a real bummer. I'm glad Walker lost but let's not be blasé about all the lasting damage he did to higher education in WI--and, because higher ed is enmeshed in national & international networks of knowledge production--even beyond. Much of it is not reversible🤷🏻‍♀️

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Mar Hicks

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5 years

"Back then domain names were assigned by hand which led to inconsistencies & arguments among users. In an attempt to make the arguments stop, Feinler developed what might be her greatest legacy: the top-level domain name scheme (.com, .net, .org, .edu, etc.) we still use today."

Faces of Open Source

@facesopensource

5 years

Here’s another story of the under reported role of women in tech history... In the earliest days of the Internet, if you wanted to get online you called Elizabeth Feinler. @ComputerHistory #womenintech @IEEEhistory @computermuseum @histoftech

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@histoftech

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hi, i’m a historian of technology. You might know me from my hits: “technological progress isn’t the same as social progress,” & “gadgetry tends to shift power into the hands of the already-privileged.” Or my #1 single, “turns out labor has a pretty big impact on computing.”

Safiya Umoja Noble

@safiyanoble

4 years

Hi, I’m an Info Studies prof. You may know me from my chart-topper, “AI can be racist & sexist,” or my smash hit, “tech is material not ephemeral,” or my platinum-selling album, “saying code is ‘just math’ is like saying ‘humans are just mitochondria—and that’s not it, so stop.”

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TIL there’s a creepy submerged shark prop at the bottom of a Swiss lake because over a decade ago a youth arts organization made a satirical film with it (about a lakeside town that monetizes its shark attacks) & then, to the sculptor’s dismay, apparently ditched it in the lake.

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Mar Hicks

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3 years

I’ve been noticing some weird stuff lately with my account... interactions and lack of interactions that seem odd. If this shows up in your feed, can you plz fave? I am curious about something... Thanks!⚗️💛

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech

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When companies and institutions (almost always headed by men) erase women’s names and contributions from tech, they construct a lie of women’s work as deskilled and unimportant when the history of computing shows it was anything but.

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3 years

So my students are unfortunately getting a real-time lesson in how structural discrimination works in knowledge production🙃

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6 years

From the reactions to this tweet I've determined that everyone I talk to on here is between the age of 40 and 100ish. Greetings, fellow olds.

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3 years

hey… how do you like your eggs? bunny side up???🐰🍳

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4 years

Josh Hargraves, an ER doctor in Georgia, said: “On Friday we were told, ‘If the patient doesn’t have a travel history and doesn’t need to be admitted to the hospital, don’t bother calling; we’re not going to test.’” This is the beginning of every horror film about a pandemic.

Robinson Meyer

@robinsonmeyer

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An ER doctor in Georgia tells us that he saw four possible coronavirus patients Saturday, but could only get one tested. We’re “asking thoughtful, knowledgeable medical professionals to jump through hoops to get a test they know a patient needs,” he says.

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Mar Hicks

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@luobingpup She definitely got her share of grief for it, but she also had a lot of support for it. And she knew that she did the right thing and never second guessed it🫡

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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of… Flight attendant: The passenger in 9C is saying that the technical aspects of computing are necessarily separate from social and political concerns… Me: On my way.

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Mar Hicks

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This new variant has the cdc worried enough to (quietly) recommend masking again. Most of the US is “high transmission” rn, for context.

CDC

@CDCgov

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Do your part to help protect yourself, your community, & our hospitals:  -Stay up to date on #COVID19 vaccines  -Test before going to large gatherings  -Wear a mask if you're in an area w/ high community transmission or if you choose  #XBB .1.5

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Mar Hicks

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Many adjunct professors earn less than minimum wage while the presidents of their universities rake in 6 or even 7 figure salaries. Meanwhile, adjunct labor runs the university--for example, Columbia is 60% adjuncts and the New School is a whopping 91%

How Are Adjunct Professors Surviving on Such Little Pay?

While almost all heads of universities clear more than six figures, the average part-time professor earns about $20,000 a year.

www.theatlantic.com

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