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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.
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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February 9, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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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.
“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
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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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This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
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
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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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.
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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
February 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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
look at the pro-billionaire protest yall
February 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*
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
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...
February 8, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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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?
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
One of my neighbors (who writes like nobody I’ve ever met) is on a crusade against kids drawing on the sidewalk with chalk
February 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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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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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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
Shoulda fought harder to not be disappointing.
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
Raman watched Mamdani and was like, “You know what…”
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
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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“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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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):
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February 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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"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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"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
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Letting Epstein play journalist like he’s climbing up into the fire engine and wearing that hat.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 AM