Adam Quinn

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union member & history PhD candidate in Oregon. dissertating on labor, health, and environmental inequalities in computer history. I've also written on the histories of anarchism and prison abolitionism. #histodons #anarchism #sts
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Adam QuinnApr 3, 2024

For those at #aseh2024, check out the special roundtable on new histories of mining, which I'll be on with several other scholars of different understudied materials.

My bit will be about high purity silicon, for those curious about how sand becomes the computer tech you're viewing this on.

#aseh #aseh24

Adam QuinnMar 8, 2024
Biden boasts in the #SOTU of the good, high-paying jobs the #ChipsAct will create. However, so far the rollout has continued historical patterns of pollution and union-busting. My latest article in TIME argues we should learn from the little-known history of semiconductor manufacturing to avoid workplace hazards and environmental inequalities:
https://time.com/6333723/semiconductor-history-chips-act/
#2024sotu #SOTU2024 #Environment #laborhistory
To ‘Win the Future,’ the U.S. Needs a Semiconductor Industry That Learns From the Past

Rebuilding the American semiconductor industry right will require fixing the industry's health and environmental record

Time
Adam QuinnJan 3, 2024
New article I wrote for TIME Magazine: as the US spends $280 billion to revitalize the semiconductor industry, some are sounding the alarm about union-busting and environmental harms. The history of semiconductor production shows why we should take these concerns seriously and how to avoid the problems of the past (hint: the solutions have more to do with unions than AI).
https://time.com/6333723/semiconductor-history-chips-act/
To ‘Win the Future,’ the U.S. Needs a Semiconductor Industry That Learns From the Past

Rebuilding the American semiconductor industry right will require fixing the industry's health and environmental record

Time
Adam QuinnSep 24, 2023
Hard to believe Millie Bobby Brown really opened her new book like this
Adam QuinnSep 20, 2023
Carl T. BergstromSep 20, 2023

The US News and World Report just released their annual College Rankings — and you should ignore them.

A reminder that last year their "Chief Data Strategist" somehow admitted in public that every year they screw around with the ranking algorithm until it gives results they like.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-news-college-rankings-yale-law-fe24f0b2

The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings

The revolt against the survey, started by Yale Law School, was decades in the making

WSJ
Adam QuinnSep 20, 2023
when airbnb charges a $89 cleaning fee but also makes you clean the entire place
Adam QuinnSep 16, 2023
UAW already got a big win from the strike
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-x-revokes-paid-blue-check-from-united-auto-workers-after-strike-called/
Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called

After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

Ars Technica
Adam QuinnSep 13, 2023
who had "Drew Barrymore getting deplatformed in a notes app apology by the National Book Awards for scabbing" on their 2023 bingo card?
Adam QuinnAug 25, 2023
Adam QuinnAug 4, 2023
New ProPublica investigation reveals the EPA approved of a new "climate friendly" fuel ingredient that, according to data from the agency's risk assessment, poses a 1.3-in-1 lifetime cancer risk, egregiously riskier than what the agency typically approves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel-ingredient-cancer-risk-plastics-biofuel #ClimateChange #health #environment
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime

An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.

ProPublica