Computation, infrastructures, economics, 18thc-present. Observatory of Quantum Technologies (La Salle-URL): https://quantumtechobservatory.com From Wales.https://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3mmckwipvfk2lCome on Villa!20 May 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmckwipvfk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3m6usycl4cs2630 minutes into the first episode of Stranger Things season 5 and it feels like a roll call of fizzy drinks: gatorade, coke, dr pepper, coke with caffeine...Hope they go for dandelion and burdock next.30 Nov 2025 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6usycl4cs26https://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lxew4j4lkk2pReally 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 https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces27 Aug 2025 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxew4j4lkk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lwys3fuzak2hReally 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 https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces22 Aug 2025 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwys3fuzak2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lpetag5jjc2sPerfect video for a perfect song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFaxOv3nnU17 May 2025 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpetag5jjc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3llphdzvlqc23Really 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. https://jacobin.com/2025/03/gary-stevenson-trading-game-review/31 Mar 2025 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3llphdzvlqc23https://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lh2lra4czs2iThe Wizard of Pretoria My brief attempt to place Musk, Bezos etc in the context of the decimation of local news and local governments. https://www.quantumtechobservatory.com/tec-review-2-the-wizard-of-pretoria #Musk #technology #politics #democracy31 Jan 2025 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh2lra4czs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lgs7yfdrak2jThe destruction of Welsh public institutions continues: https://nation.cymru/news/huge-job-cuts-announcement-imminent-at-cardiff-university/28 Jan 2025 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgs7yfdrak2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lgiyr2vmxk2rGenuinely hope everyone is ok, but can we agree that Éowyn is a great name for a storm...?24 Jan 2025 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgiyr2vmxk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lgcvedp6222cJust 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/ https://gazagreatminds.org/donate/22 Jan 2025 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgcvedp6222chttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lfdlcdcgdk2iAppalled 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). https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/01/09/inmates-makes-up-nearly-a-third-of-those-fighting-la-fires/ #california #climate #labor09 Jan 2025 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdlcdcgdk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3lec6fqwf3c2uBrilliant 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 https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-old-warfare/27 Dec 2024 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lec6fqwf3c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3ldjwq5lkys23Follow the money: our first publication mapping the public funding underpinning quantum technological development that 'revolutionary' hype and neoliberal discourse obfuscates. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0305140 #histstm #science #quantum #europe17 Dec 2024 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldjwq5lkys23https://bsky.app/profile/ephillipshist.bsky.social/post/3ld6c2sbjnk2jExciting two-year ERC post-doc position advertised in Barcelona on Gemma Cirac-Claveras' fascinating satellite, data and climate project. https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=538057&idens=11 Great project, team and institute! projectclimasat.eu #STS #histSTM #histsci #histtech #historyofscience13 Dec 2024 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:3g63risqb6phpva62lyvl4c2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld6c2sbjnk2j