Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Miriam Posner
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Every time I call I have to battle my way through an AI-assisted phone tree that keeps looping me back to the beginning, and every person I speak to has no idea what I’m talking about. There’s no one to appeal to. Just hours and hours of my life devoted to this.
NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
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How do you control unruly academics?
Through their trustees, of course. This right-wing group has a national network to push their agendas on universities across the USA.
@aaup.org
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My students often ask about this! Glad to have somewhere to send them.
Someone borrowed my regalia last year and I can’t remember who it was but if it was you…I should probably get it back?
Grocery stores are FASCINATING labor stories. Spoke to Ann Larson about her new book "Cleanup on Aisle Five," a firsthand account of working at a grocery store through the pandemic.
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I know this is v boring, but I’ve been frustrated almost to tears by GEICO since I got hit by an uninsured motorist two months ago. Every imaginable delay and error, including requiring me to take a day off work to drive to a junkyard in Van Nuys to drop off a title, which they refused to accept.
"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression. But to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion"
