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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15d

Simply repeating every industry line is not a theory of historical change, even if that line has the word “future” in it

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · 16d

Obfuscating means of accountability, extracting work, all in the name of 'democratising' knowledge. At every level this infrastructure has been built with clear political outcomes if not aims.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

www.heise.de

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Carolyn Sissoko @csissoko.bsky.social · 16d

“When robots.txt was born, the internet was a place of hope and collaboration. It died in a world where billion-dollar companies systematically steal the work of content creators while claiming to democratize knowledge.”

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18d

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

www.heise.de

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks very much for participating ladies and gentlemen, the Event of Noticing has now come to an end. Please do not continue to notice things about the British establishment, they will not be Noticed and your mobile provider may still charge you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Peter Mandelson sacked as US ambassador by Keir Starmer over emails to Jeffrey Epstein

The Foreign Office says he was fired

www.bbc.co.uk

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Sep 9

"The current approach to AI cannot sustain itself indefinitely. The question becomes not whether current AI slop economies will destroy themselves, but when."

By @katecrawford.bsky.social

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop

AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

www.e-flux.com

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Aug 27

Really grateful to @justcode.bsky.social and the editorial team at Interfaces. My latest linking Bill Phillips with canals and computation:

"Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci #EconSky #computation #labour

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Interfaces

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Aug 22

Really grateful to @justcode.bsky.social and the editorial team at Interfaces. My latest linking Bill Phillips with canals and computation:

"Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci #econhist #computation #labour

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Interfaces

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 21

New Interfaces Essay, Aug. 2025. A super creative & insightful essay by Eóin Phillips, a Prof. of History and Sociology of Sci/Tech/Econ at La Salle-Ramon Llull Univ.

"Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Rochdale Canal Lock 91, industrial setting with lock and water flowing. David Dixon Wikimedia Commons

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Jan 17

Expression of Interest:

Next editorial team for our diamond open access journal—
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS)

More on the call here: www.4sonline.org/engaging_sci...
And for enquiries contact our Editor-in-Chief: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Engaging Science, Technology, and SocietySearchMobile Menu

www.4sonline.org

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · May 17

Perfect video for a perfect song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFa...

Treorchy Male Choir - Myfanwy

YouTube video by Llantrisant

www.youtube.com

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Lighthouses Of Wales @lighthousewales.bsky.social · May 14

A mesmerizing map of lighthouses around Europe, showing their colours and character (pattern of flashing), developed by Geodienst, University of Groningen, Netherlands - geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Apr 9

Well, good god. I never would have guessed. Turns out there is a bit of politics in economics!

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Mar 31

Really think this article in @jacobinmag.bsky.social is so off the mark. People trust Stevenson (and Rashford etc) because they don't pretend to do 'pure work'. Putting pressure on trustifarians, not salaries, is surely where we need to be. jacobin.com/2025/03/gary...

Portrait of the Trader as a Young Rebel

Gary Stevenson’s story of trading floor excess and moral turnaround is one of personality-driven critique, tailor-made for the British media’s idea of dissent. Just don’t ask too many questions about ...

jacobin.com

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Frontiers before borders conference 2025 @frontiers2025.bsky.social · Dec 18

#CallforPapers for upcoming conference @tlrhub.bsky.social in Dublin in July 2025. Of interest to anyone studying #frontiers #boundaries and #Borders in disciplines such as geography, history, political science, anthropology, sociology and law. #CfP deadline 31 March 2025.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Mar 14

This week, we are launching a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis".

We are inviting articles on:
🎓 the history & origins of this crisis
🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching
✊ building solidarities & collective action

www.historyworkshop....

Contribute

Interested in publishing an article or podcast with History Workshop? Find out how to contribute to our digital magazine of radical history.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Jan 31

The Wizard of Pretoria

My brief attempt to place Musk, Bezos etc in the context of the decimation of local news and local governments.

www.quantumtechobservatory.com/tec-review-2...

#Musk #technology #politics #democracy

TEC Review 2: The Wizard of Pretoria | Observatory of Quantum Technologies

Elon Musk - Europe - Technofeudalism - Democracy - Accountability

www.quantumtechobservatory.com

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Jan 29

Attacking to their left is the only thing they know how to do.

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Jan 28

The destruction of Welsh public institutions continues: nation.cymru/news/huge-jo...

Huge job cuts announcement 'imminent' at Cardiff University

Martin Shipton Staff at Cardiff University fear huge job cuts are about to be announced by a senior management team that has already spoken of an “immediate existential crisis”. Briefings are due to b...

nation.cymru

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Jan 24

Genuinely hope everyone is ok, but can we agree that Éowyn is a great name for a storm...?

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Jan 22

Just watched an interview with the founder of Gaza Great Minds: an NGO created to teach and provide psychological support for children in war zones.
“To ensure every child in Gaza has access to education and the chance to rebuild their lives, amidst the genocide & beyond”
gazagreatminds.org/donate/

Helpless?! Change a Life with Gaza Great Minds:

Official Gaza Great Minds Donations Page, Donate via Crypto, Paypal and/or buymeacoffee.com, Change a Life in Gaza, We Will Read Again

gazagreatminds.org

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jan 11

New

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/917c...

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Jan 9

Appalled at reports that nearly ONE THIRD of LA firefighters being deployed are inmates, being paid a maximum of $10 a day, under US' 'slavery clause' (13th amendment).

www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...

#california #climate #labor

Inmates Make Up Nearly A Third Of Those Fighting L.A. Fires

30% of those battling the Los Angeles wildfires are Inmates firefighters.

www.forbes.com

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Dec 27

Brilliant review of Petra Molnar's important survey of the AI-military-market nexus. How hype produced by private sector masks inefficiency and older forces required to make them appear as though they are innovative

#histstm #hist #technology #AI #histsci

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The New Old Warfare - Boston Review

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

www.bostonreview.net

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Dec 17

Follow the money: our first publication mapping the public funding underpinning quantum technological development that 'revolutionary' hype and neoliberal discourse obfuscates.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#histstm #science #quantum #europe

Visualising quantum innovation: A regional case study

At the beginning of this century, the advent of a second generation of ‘quantum technologies’ was announced together with its revolutionary potential to change existing information technologies. Despi...

journals.plos.org

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Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social · Dec 13

Exciting two-year ERC post-doc position advertised in Barcelona on Gemma Cirac-Claveras' fascinating satellite, data and climate project.

tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do...

Great project, team and institute!
projectclimasat.eu

#STS #histSTM #histsci #histtech #historyofscience

2024DILIFRUA236 - Resolució de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona per la qual es convoca un concurs per a la contractació de Personal Investigador de finançament específic – Investigador ordinari –,...

tauler.seu.cat

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