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Miriam Posner
@miriamposner.com
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Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. www.miriamposner.com. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 19h
It takes no special technical expertise to know that
1) AI's main value proposition today is automating labor,
2) AI is going to supercharge economic inequality, and
3) If we do not get out in front of that policy-wise, we are fools.

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Thinking of AI as a Social Problem
No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 19h
Next up is Dr. Roderic Crooks on "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." This one is for you #EduSky #literacies @civicsoftech.bsky.social and more! Hope you can make it!
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Education Now Lab @edunowlab.bsky.social · 19h
Don't miss our next outstanding speaker, Dr. Roderic Crooks, on October 15, 2025, @ 7:00 pm CT. He will speak on his book "Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality." Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Announcement flyer of a talk with profile picture of Dr. Roderic Crooks Text reads The Education Now Lab Presents Creatively Critical Tech Research + Design + Practice Access is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality Dr. Roderic Crooks University of califoria Irvine October 15, 2025, @ 7:00 pm CT Register today at https://tinyurl.com/CreativelyCritical
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 19h
“Boring Barbie” is pretty funny though
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d
One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d
One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
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Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social · 12d
'Huddled under blankets in my freezing office, because the anti-suicide lock on the window has seized slightly ajar, I am – like everyone –frantically trying to make it work for the students, [since] any hit in our student satisfaction scores will be an excuse for management to cut more jobs.'
Huge Cardiff University Cuts Have Been A Disaster For Staff & Students -
Reading Time: 3 minutesMonths since bosses at Wales’ biggest university imposed dramatic cuts, an anonymous academic reveals what…
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21h
It’s over for them, as of now. Get out of here, you’re compromised.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21h
Obviously signing Trump’s compact is the death knell for a university, but the fact that any of them are even *considering* it exposes something deeply rotten at the heart of their leadership. It should disqualify them forever.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21h
without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d
That’s what I choose to believe!
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d
All I know is, the 19yos went nuts for it, and if that’s because it’s actually offensive…at least they were briefly awake!
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d
12yo talked me into including Tung Tung Tung Sahur on my lecture slide and the class’s reaction was so over the top that I’m vaguely worried the meme is more obscene than I’d thought.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 1d
“The notion of AI personhood is a marketing exercise and a legal maneuver that I don’t think we should buy into,” says D&S researcher @cariatida.bsky.social. “Tilly is not an actress any more than, like, Sid the sloth from the ‘Ice Age’ movies is an actor.” www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-act...
Experts Warn This Real-World Effect Is The Most Unsettling Thing About 'AI Actor' Tilly
This Hollywood newcomer has a long list of haters already.
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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d
"She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain, which makes her the ideal partner for someone like David Ellison."
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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
Well, exactly.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
Nobody ever lets me have any fun
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
Google results disappointing
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
Wonder if I could make risotto in the Whirley-Pop.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
Followed various links from this to get to “A Short (and Bloody) History of the High [IQ] Societies,” which documents the infighting and dysfunction that plagues any attempt to gather the Very Very Special People who claim “high IQs” miyaguchi.4sigma.org/BloodyHistor...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d
One of the things that sucks about this era is having to think about the racists all the time, because they’re so boring. They have like, three tools in their toolkit, so we get to say things like “oh look, they’re using the hammer again”
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 3d
The treatment of children in the 21st century… I am at a loss for words from Gaza and Greta to Chicago to Khartoum, to everywhere under attack, where aid has been relinquished and denied, where children can not access healthcare, gender affirming or otherwise. I am at a loss.
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CNN @cnn.com · 4d
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d
Although full disclosure, the learning goes both ways and I now have way more knowledge than I want on the extended Italian Brainrot multiverse.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d
I’ve noticed this, too. In my experience, students have also noticed this about themselves and will share their feelings about it if you ask. It’s an interesting conversation, a good opportunity to learn about what they’re thinking, and even suggest ways to work on this skill.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

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Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 3d
Another choice is who the reporter quoted and highlighted in the piece, foregrounding people like billionaires lamenting their absent friends and political consultants claiming that everyone in Portland is "blue" without any clear analysis of what that means.
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