Jeffrey Yost

Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in leading an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #aibias #aiinequality #surveillance #privacy

In this just published article "Blockchain 2026..." in Blockchain & Society, I draw on history to inform on technology, hype, & inequalities, as well as underlying politics, power, & corruption. #bitcoin #ethereum #cryptoregulation blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessays…

Sharing a book review of @tsmullaney The Chinese Computer that I just published in the British Journal of the History of Science. #historyofcomputing #ChinaHistory doi.org/10.1017/S00070…

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below): @histoftech Ya-Wen Lei; Hector Beltran; Meg Leta Jones, Stephanie Dick.. See ToC below #STS

Mullaney Awarded 2025 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/mulla… I'm floored and honored in equal measure. My thanks to the committee + heartfelt congratulations to CMU colleague Brad Myers cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia @StanfordHistory @StanfordLibs

So grateful to the incredible @wrongrrl her tremendous lecture (& wonderful conversation) in MPLS "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech," on Thursday!!! Hosted by CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture & Ctr. on Women, Gender, & Public Policy. #eugenics #gender

How did TV shape early conceptions of personal computing & computer dating? Standout media studies scholar Dr. Myrna Moretti's (just published) Interfaces essay "Part of Our Lives Now: The Personal Computer on "Family Ties” " insightfully analyzes this! cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

CBI & CWGPP @ U of MN are THRILLED to announce @wrongrrl will be giving a Humphrey Forum talk "Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech" co-hosted by CBI for Computing, Information & Culture, & CWGPP (March 6 @ 5pm CST). z.edu/predatorydataC…

Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in leading an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!! #aibias #aiinequality #surveillance #privacy

Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program. For projects in whole or part advancing ACM history. Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. Info @ link @SIGCIS @SocHistTech @4sWeb #historyofcomputing #sts history.acm.org/wp-content/upl…

Just published essay for the new year, in my critical blockchain studies essays blog, Blockchain & Society. #bitcoin #politicaleconomy blockchainandsociety.com/home-%2Fessays…

AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2025-26 research grants until February 15, 2025. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. historians.org/community-care…

Incredible, important victory. So much gratitude to those who waged this long winning battle 🙏💐

"Plutocracy is its own kind of dictatorship. When companies larger, wealthier and more powerful than most world governments threaten individual liberty with coercive private taxation and regulation, it threatens our way of life." Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, 2024

Likely cover of a new book, coming from Oxford University Press, likely in May. Widely said to be "the one book you need to read, if you want to have a happy, fun-filled life, with friends, and without stomach pain."

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., András Koltay and Charlotte Garden - @charlottegarden A comparative, solutions-oriented legal and policy analysis of methods used to combat the impact of dis- and misinformation on democracy. 📚 cup.org/3YIvPlp #comparativelaw

Busy week last week wrapping up classes here, but if you should definitely tune into my interview with @bshestakofsky about his book, _Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality_, if you haven't checked it out yet. newbooksnetwork.com/behind-the-sta…

Annals of anti-monopoly: The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a businessw washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

CBI is thrilled to be co-sponsoring a free talk by highly distinguished U. of Toronto CS Prof. @ronbaecker "Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares..." October 12 7pm E/6pm C. Streamed from Toronto. TorCHI @sigchi #sts #hci #ai #techhistory #techpolicy cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/dig…