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Aron Ambrosiani

@aron.ambrosiani.se

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Doktorand i teknikhistoria på Chalmers, redaktör för @utstallningskritik.se. PhD student in History of Technology, editor of Swedish museum magazine Utställningskritik. Researching gender and professions in early Swedish computing. aron.ambrosiani.se

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · Feb 12

Känner du någon stansoperatris? Kanske nån äldre släkting jobbat med stansning av hålkort eller hålremsa? Nu samlar Arbetets museum in minnesberättelser om hur det var att jobba som stanserska. Jag kommer använda berättelserna i min forskning. Sprid gärna: www.arbetetsmuseum.se/arbetets-mus...

Arbetets museum söker berättelser från stansoperatriser | Arbetets museum

Stansoperatriserna är en numera ofta bortglömd yrkesgrupp som var central i en massiv digitisering. Nu samlar vi in berättelser från stanserskorna till den svenska datahistoriska forskningen!

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 5h

Nej vad deppigt. Uppväxt i Kransen (rakt ovanför bion!) och vi barn fick önska film ibland. Hoppas de reder ut det med föreningen (som hade en del brf-galningar redan då, men fler nu låter det som)

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 8h

The Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper has been saved. RDC will take over when SJ pulls out. May not run on some winter nights in future though: www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: SJ to discontinue successful Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper train after 31 August 2026, a month after Swedish government subsidy ends.

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Brita Planck @planckskonstant.bsky.social · 11h

Je suis Lars Calmfors.

Lars Calmfors: Jag klarar inte längre av att följa när politiker debatterar ekonomi

Hur ska man förstå hur ekonomi fungerar? Ja, inte genom att titta på partiledardebatterna i alla fall. Nivån på samtalet har sjunkit drastiskt.

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Helena 🏝️ HELULV Ullmark @helenaullmark.bsky.social · 11h

Dagens jobb. Putsa de blyinfattade fönstren i långhuset i Väte kyrka

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

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poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Lara Marziali discusses the conflict between state bureaucracy & astronomers in what computer to use (& pay for!)

I see strong parallells to a contemporary fight in Sweden between effiency and scientific independence!

#shot2025

Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

👆 @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Nice, I’ll pass it on!

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Kevin actually hadn’t seen examples of that in the magazines he’s examined, so that’s a new strand of research opening up :)

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Just kring gen AI finns det ju massor av intressanta användningsområden (ffa i programmering skulle jag hävda) men inte på en nivå som motsvarar mängden pengar som öses in i bubblan.

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Så många parallella läskigheter i världen just nu.

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Lots of great stuff! More history of computing than I expected (it’s my first time at SHOT) www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...

2025 SHOT Annual Meeting Luxembourg

Visit the post for more.

www.historyoftechnology.org

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

bsky.app/profile/hist... han är inte ensam!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Brilliant!

Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

Up next: Kevin Driscoll on the circulation of printed source code in magazines and books in the 1980s (at a time when ”using the computer” often meant writing code, starting out from printed examples or tutorials) #shot2025

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 2d

Second, a lunchtime session from 12:55-14:10, on «Sensory walking as history of technology method». See our posters by the registration desk, walk around campus on your own using our prompts (on handouts), and come to the session to discuss walking methodologies! #shot2025

Two posters on a wall. One has a map of campus, the other a description of the session «Sensory walking as history of technology method».

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

The LisaDesk code serves as an example. Ca 40 % of the code is developers’ comments (including ASCII art!) offering useful insights for the historian exploring the development process #shot2025

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 2d

How can source code be used as a historical source? That’s the theme of the ”Code Histories” series of panels here at #shot2025. Titaÿna Kauffmann at @c2dh.uni.lu presenting on the Apple LISA computer and its programming languages.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3d

My colleague Dennis Magnusson showing off some not-so-humble marketing material handed out by the Swedish IT commission on its visit to Japan in 2000. #shot2025

Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3d

Just i år tänker jag vänta till .1 eller .2 innan jag uppdaterar… ska vara buggigt som tusan fortfarande

Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3d

And as a bonus, here’s an in-depth guide to the depicted knitting pattern 🙂 digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But…

I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…

digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 3d

Regeringen vill alltså ta bort SJs nattåg till Hamburg och Berlin, samtidigt som man strösslar pengar över flyget... mitt i en brinnande klimatkris. Jag är så less. Jag vet inte om det hjälper med en namninsamling, men det skadar iaf inte. Skriv gärna på.

Rädda SJ:s nattåg till Berlin

Det pågår en nattågsrenässans över hela Europa. I land efter land startas nya nattågslinjer, helt enkelt därför att människor älskar att resa hållbart och civiliserat. Samtidigt går Sverige åt helt an...

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3d

the CD-ROM is preserved by @archive.org: archive.org/details/expl...

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 3d

Alina Volynskaya starts off the session on multimedia, digital preservation and format migration with this beautiful guide to the internet produced by NASA in 1997. #shot2025