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Miriam Posner
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Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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I have a new piece called "The Beer Game" in a special issue of American Book Review on supply chains. It's short! No footnotes allowed! muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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muse.jhu.edu
February 9, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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2/ TL;DR: I built a bunch of highly-modular online simulations you can use with your students. They cover automation bias,¹ the false positive paradox,² competing definitions of fairness,³ disparate impact resulting from machine bias,⁴ and the value of due process.⁵
A clean web interface: a central card shows a quoted sentence, the legal proposition beneath it, and a cited case. A bold red “Not Supported” bar with a confidence meter stretches across the middle. At the bottom, three large action buttons—Allow, Reject, Skip—signal rapid decisions. Side panels show a countdown timer, progress (0/200), and a rival clerk pulling ahead, emphasizing speed and competition. A clean, explorable dashboard showing how a “95% accurate” bail tool can still mislead: sliders on the left set real-world rates and policy cutoffs, while bold metric cards highlight low sensitivity and weak predictive value. Overlapping bell curves visualize who returns vs. who doesn’t, a dotted line marks the detention threshold, and rows of colored dots make unjust detention immediately visible despite impressive headline accuracy. A policy simulator dashboard with sliders on the left to tweak behavior and norms, score cards across the top summarizing cost, equity, and friction, and a stacked bar chart showing how burdens fall unevenly across groups. A prominent “Run Simulation”button invites experimentation, while a dark footer—The Socratic Chamber—signals reflective, analysis beneath the numbers. A clean, interactive dashboard showing due process as a two-stage filter. Sliders on the left adjust crime rate, arrest threshold (probable cause), and trial threshold (beyond reasonable doubt). On the right, rows of colored dots track people through population → arrest → trial, splitting into innocent vs. guilty, released vs. arrested, acquitted vs. convicted. Bell-curve charts visualize shifting proof standards, while a societal cost meter** tallies the tradeoffs between wrongful arrest, wrongful conviction, and unpunished crime.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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The reason the plants were people is that they could only use 25 carts to get props onto the field!
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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katbamkapow.bsky.social
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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This is hard to explain but the 13yo has been impersonating me on FB except pretending to be extremely senile and now she’s got people INTERACTING with her POSTS and someone is grounded
FB post by “Miriam Posner”: Pajamas where for bed not bed bath and beyond (accompanied by a “100% AGREED” graphic). Below the post someone has commented to say “You got it so right!!!”
February 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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I’ve given this some thought and concluded, yes, this is a bit, HOWEVER I am of the opinion they’ve picked up some true believers, possibly inadvertently
rfksbrainworm.bsky.social worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 1d
look at the pro-billionaire protest yall
a woman holding a sign that reads "property rights are human rights"
February 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ
Within three years, the college would find itself unable to refinance its staggering debt load, scrambling to meet its obligations and ultimately appealing to Gov. Gavin Newsom for a $20 million taxpayer-funded bailout. Months after receiving the state funds, CCA, the last remaining nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, announced it would close in 2027 and sell its campus to Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. CCA students who aren't graduating by then will likely have to find new schools in other cities. All of CCA's 530 faculty and staff will lose their jobs, though Vanderbilt could rehire some. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the university is likely to have assumed some or all of CCA's outstanding loans. It was not just a story of bad timing. Since the late 1990s, the college's growth in San Francisco had increasingly overlapped with the personal financial interests of several trustees, some of whom owned property in Potrero Hill and entered into real estate deals with the school, blurring the line between fiduciary stewardship and private gain. And when the school's growth strategy ultimately failed, its leadership - backed by a politically connected board - got help from Newsom.
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*
brunojnavarro.bsky.social Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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Another funny/telling quote about the necessity of ERPs. With the proliferation of personal computers, each worker could have "their own version of the truth." Unacceptable, obviously. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FWRABZ...
Suddenly, all workers could have their own version of the truth by creating a spreadsheet or a database, built on their own process and logic, which could prove conclusively that their version was accurate, creating chaos in the management process
February 8, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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rmac.bsky.social
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d
Jeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."
February 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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One of my neighbors (who writes like nobody I’ve ever met) is on a crusade against kids drawing on the sidewalk with chalk
FB post includes several photos of sidewalks marked with chalk, along with the comment: Yes I am going to be that person I think it's adorable to do talk art to show to show people where to go is a fine idea but just like tying little flags and little balloons and never cleaning up after yourselves is rude the whole complex has to walk on shock on every pathway because you're having an event I'm sorry I don't get it and when my granddaughter did chocolate at the park we were told to rinse it down because other residents didn't need to walk through the chalk and I don't disagree
February 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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I understand that the article is condemning this whole sordid world, but the headline made me laugh because it read to me like HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 WOMEN 👏 PEDOPHILES 👏
February 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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pbump.com
The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
February 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Tech deployed at the border “includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats — massive blimp-like detection platforms hovering thousands of feet over the desert — to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones.”
How AI Surveillance Tech is Creeping From the Southern Border Into the Rest of the Country
Surveillance technology has long been part of policing the border. ICE’s growing raids are bringing it to many other areas.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Shoulda fought harder to not be disappointing.
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d
In a Democratic club meeting, LA Mayor Karen Bass pronounced herself "flabbergasted" by Nithya Raman's entry into the mayor's race. "I’ve worked closely with Nithya, helped her gain the Democratic endorsement, helped her clear an encampment in her district," she said. "I am going to fight."
February 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Raman watched Mamdani and was like, “You know what…”
mikebonin.bsky.social Mike Bonin @mikebonin.bsky.social · 2d
Political earthquake. Nithya Raman is running for mayor.

Not only does this pose a serious threat to Mayor Bass, but it reframes the June primary in a way that benefits down ballot progressives in other city races.
February 7, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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davidgilbert.bsky.social
“We’ve fought so hard to protect our community, but they want to experiment on us. We are guinea pigs. When you are autistic, like me, and a mother to autistic children, I see this as a way to end us. That's what it is.” autism activist Fiona O'Leary

www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories
Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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marc-fischer.bsky.social
Well, here we go: a fresh new printing of Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? and a new follow up booklet from Public Collectors: What You Agents Are Doing In Your Hotels. Both are now available ($6.00 each):
halfletterpress.com/what-you-age...
halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...
Two booklet format publications by Public Collectors: Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? (left) and What You Agents are Doing in your Hotels. (right) Both are available from www.halfletterpress.com, which has more information on each booklet as well as more scans of the interiors.
February 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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seanokane.bsky.social
"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo."

www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
"Casey Wasserman must resign, and Los Angeles deserves a mayor who isn't afraid to call for it."

Mayoral candidate Rae Huang joining the call for the LA28 chair to step down on Bluesky, Twitter, and those little status messages you can put on your avatar on Instagram
Rev. Rae Huang @raeforla.bsky.social True to form, power protects power. Casey Wasserman must resign, and Los Angeles deserves a mayor who isn't afraid to call for it. Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.osky.social • 7h "Ultimately, any decision on the LA28 leadership must be made by the LA28 Board. As you know, they are a separate and independent nonprofit organization." Statement from LA Mayor Karen Bass (which just landed in my inbox) who is *not* calling for LA28's Casey Wasserman to step down From the Mayor: "As Los Angeles prepares to take the world stage and welcome the world for the Olympic Games for the third time and the Paralympics for the first, it is critical to be 100% focused on making our city shine and ensuring the 2028 Games are the best in Los Angeles' history. Ultimately, any decision on the LA28 leadership must be made by the LA28 Board. As you know, they are a separate and independent nonprofit organization." Rae Huang v @raeforla 0... True to form, power protects power. Casey Wasserman must resign, and Los Angeles deserves a mayor who isn't afraid to call for it. 2 Noah Goldberg @Noah_Goldberg • 7h Bass takes no stance on Casey Wasserman in statement just sent to press: "Ultimately, any decision on the LA28 leadership must be made by the LA28 Board. As you know, they are a separate and independent nonprofit organization." 3:06 PM • Feb 4, 2026 • 7,351 Views Casey Wasserman must resign is a speech bubble coming out of the Rae for LA logo, a red sun in a red circle of an Instagram avatar
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Letting Epstein play journalist like he’s climbing up into the fire engine and wearing that hat.
"If he really likes a story idea and we agree, maybe we could assign it and let him see it through the stages of the process, if he'd find that fun," she wrote. "He's done so much for science, I think that deserves some fun!"
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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LOL
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM