Does anyone else think there's something ominous about this Lobster Pizza Countdown clock? 🦞🍕 www.via313.com #Austin #ATX #ATXFood
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Ben Gross
Профиль VivelyHead of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Boosting the signal for any medievalists, digital humanists, historians of the book, or manuscript enthusiasts in the audience... #skystorians #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #metadata 🗃️📜
Dot PorterDo you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...
"The new regime of censorship is entering its second academic year." Iván Chaar López reflects on the current state of affairs at UT Austin in his contribution to @penamerica.bsky.social's "Snapshots of Censorship" Project. #histSTM #histtech #tenure 🗃️📜 #skystorians #AcademicFreedom
Snapshots of Censorship: Dare to Obey? Censorship and the Attack on Tenure in TexasThese truths, the product of extensive and rigorous research, are now not allowed to circulate freely in classrooms and across the UT campus.pen.orgSixty years ago today (Jul. 30, 1966), the first full-length #Batman theatrical movie was released here in Austin, Texas! Adam West, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether & Burgess Meredith attended the premiere, and Congress Avenue was briefly renamed Batman Boulevard. #OnThisDay #comics #Austin #ATX 🗃️
The World Premiere of the 1966 BATMAN MOVIE Was a Colorful, Far Out AffairA 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Holy cheering throngs! The film opened with a parade and screening in Austin, Texas, on July 30, 1966…13thdimension.com"I was a young man. I was still growing out of the East Side. The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -Jack Kirby (Read the full interview @comicsjournal.bsky.social: www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-i...) #comics
Rabbi Danya RuttenbergReminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history.
Also, it's not like this is the first time a tech company sought to "disruptively scan all the world's books." (Read Deanna Marcum & @rschon.bsky.social's Along Came #Google to see how that turned out: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...) #BookHistory #libraries #digitization 🗃️📜
Ben GrossFor those seeking another reason to oppose #Anthropic (or #AI more broadly): "Anthropic described the project as 'our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books' in an internal memo, which noted 'we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project'." #booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜📚
For those seeking another reason to oppose #Anthropic (or #AI more broadly): "Anthropic described the project as 'our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books' in an internal memo, which noted 'we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project'." #booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜📚
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.www.news.com.auSo there I am, scrolling through YouTube shorts during lunch, when I hear a familiar name in a @dropout.tv promo... youtube.com/shorts/zTrE9... (Congratulations, @friede.bsky.social!) #Dropout #AdventuringAcademy
Noise Boys On Game Changer, Brennan Interviews Dr. Emily Friedman, and more!YouTube video by Dropoutyoutube.comI know several museums devoted to #radio and/or the history of communications that would be thrilled to add this to their collections. 📻🐍 #histtech #hisstech
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷From elsewhere in the same catalog: “A radio receiving set is probably the last place one would expect to find a serpent.” FUCK MAN SURE IS
Has anyone considered that Jimothy might be a totally normal raccoon who happens to be moving at near-light speeds? (Image on the right is from George Gamow's Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, 1939: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Tomp...) #Jimothy #relativity #physics #histsci #histSTM
Calling all #BookHistory, #GLAM & #speccolls friends---help this post get to 100 likes! (Unless you don't want to see some of the coolest books in @edunilibraries.bsky.social's Heritage Collections...) library.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col... #booksky 📚📜🗃️
Edinburgh Bibliographical SocietyGetting ready for our upcoming workshop! 📜🤫 If this gets 100 likes, we'll drop a thread of our absolute favourite books from the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection.
“In an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed, a UT spokesperson said, 'Tenure is privilege, not a right.'"
Inside Higher EdBorder Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin https://bit.ly/4wLH6Q4
Iván has been a crucial contributor to UT's #STS community, and the news that he was denied tenure is simultaneously disappointing and deeply troublesome...
🪬Lina-Maria MurilloMy brilliant colleague Iván Chaar López 's tenure denial is not only a threat to UT faculty, but to all scholars who research topics considered "controversial." His case is a model for how to deny tenure with zero justifications to him or his colleagues. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
#ICYMI: New CHSTM working groups for 2026-27! -Doing #HistSci -Early Career Scholars Workshop Series -Global Forests -History of Computing -History of Hospitals -History of Math -Psychedelic Cultures, Lab Cultures -Sci. in Frozen Environments -Sci. Studies and the Long 18th c #histtech #histmed 🗃️📜
New Working Groups for 2026-2027 | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicinewww.chstm.orgThe joke I told about Ixion left the crowd rolling in the aisles...
Harry TurtledoveThe joke I told about Pentheus just tore me up.
The #histsci excitement in Edinburgh has drawn to a close, but the #SHOT2026 call for papers is open until Mon., Jul. 20! The theme of this year's meeting is "Technology, Politics & Policy." Read more & submit an abstract: www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti... #HSS2026 #ESHS-HSS #histtech 🗃️⚙️
Ali G: Technology, what is that all about?Alt: Ali G: Technology, what is that all about?static.klipy.com