The Organization of American Historians

oah.org

06 October 2026 17:42

New post alert! In “Dialing into the Revolution,” Jacob Bruggeman explores how activists in the early 1970s used “phone phreaking” to challenge corporate infrastructure and the control of new technologies. Read it now on Process! https://tinyurl.com/mrtnbxdz

Henry Farrell

himself.bsky.social

12 September 2026 16:50

"We would be better off if we could rely on actual social science, rather than the kind of bong-hit P(d00m)ing in much of this week’s media commentary, to understand the upheavals that are happening around us."

Clean Observer

hammbear2024.bsky.social

08 September 2026 16:51

My regret is that I trusted him when he said it’s a bad review. I don’t even think it’s that, having taken the time to read it. People should have critical thoughts about things that they read. You can think a book is worth reading and that it totally misses the point.

Eileen Clancy 🧿

clancyny.bsky.social

08 September 2026 16:27

... ": "To anyone paying close attention, the electronic keys to the telephone systems of both countries were ready for the taking." 🔗 Jacob A. Bruggeman, "Phreaking the U.K.", Interfaces, vol 6, 2025. cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Clean Observer

hammbear2024.bsky.social

08 September 2026 16:26

But, yeah, the correct way to have handled would have been to smile and say, “the reviewer doesn’t dispute those guys are bad, they just think they’re not succeeding. We can’t afford for him to be wrong on that.”