California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind the numbers, including families navigating Medi-Cal amid immigration raids and looming benefit cuts.

California nearly achieved universal healthcare. Now, millions are losing coverage

California’s uninsured rate could nearly double by 2030, with the sharpest losses hitting Black, Asian, and Latino residents in Southern California. A new documentary reveals the human toll behind…

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Never in my life have my explanatory powers been as taxed as trying to explain to the 6yo that if she no longer wants bangs, she needs to grow them OUT, not cut them OFF. I tried drawing a diagram. I’ve had an easier time explaining Foucault to 19yo’s.

New headshot! If you’re in LA and need yours done, may I recommend Aaron Hanz Santos? Reasonable prices, a very talented photographer, and a total sweetheart. aaronhanz.myportfolio.com

All kinds of stuff for sale on LA’s FB Marketplace

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone www.404media.co/the-governme...?

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...

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@miriamposner.com's SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN, out in October from @yalepress.bsky.social, which offers a timely lesson on how capitalism shapes software design--and thus what we can and cannot know about the information (and people) our software rests upon. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 5/

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Britt Rusert's AFRIC-AMERICAN PICTURE GALLERY, out in September with @dukepress.bsky.social, which reanimates and theorizes William J. Wilson's speculative museum of Black art, decades if not centuries before an actual museum of Black art came to be: www.dukeupress.edu/the-afric-am... 4/

The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art

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@mollyfarrell.bsky.social's NEW WORLD CALCULATION, in many ways a prehistory of DATA BY DESIGN, which shows how settler colonialism and racial capitalism set our current data practices in motion. It's out next month with @stanfordpress.bsky.social: www.sup.org/books/litera... 3/

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/

Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

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Honored to be book birthday-twins with @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s DATA BY DESIGN, out in October! Sure to be a landmark.

Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · last wk.

One of the nicest and most unexpected pleasures of having worked on a book for so long is that all of the friends you make along the way, who have also been working on their books for so long, eventually finish those books--all at the same time! I am feeling so much vicarious pride in 1/

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Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’re all going to get diarrhea I guess.

A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.

How to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom

A handy rule

hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

Why we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak

“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.

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I thought of a less troublesome way to do this: here's a quick form to fill out if you'd like a postcard featuring the cover of Seeing Like a Supply Chain! (And don't worry if you've already responded via email or DM; I've got you covered!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 4w ago

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

At MACRO Lab, we have an extensive new report: "The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger." We argue that the combined company will struggle to serve consumers or act in the public interest: macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-warner-merger

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

I like learning about all the metadata forensics of the Francesca Gino case. datacolada.org/136

[136] Metadata Falsificada: The Cover-Up File in Gino v. Harvard - Data Colada

Francesca Gino's lawsuit against Harvard is still ongoing. (The trial, if it gets to that, is scheduled for December 2026) While the case drags on, both sides

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next Jubilee School studies a tricky subject: who rules universities? (hint: not faculty! not career educators! not phd-holders!) mapping power on your campus starts with knowing your governing board, what companies they own, what companies their husbands own debtcollective.org/event/colleg...

College for All Jubilee School: University Governing Boards - Autocrats or Puppets?

Join us as we discuss university governing boards with Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Professor Emeritus at Whitman College and author of the book The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America’s…

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Question for archivists: in your experience, is there an OK way to store (family, not valuable) photos in albums, or would you only ever store them in boxes and folders? If there are decent ways to store in an album, what kind of adhesive would you use?

I guess my grandma saved all my thank-you notes

My grandfather, the renowned speed typist.

I know there are a lot of weird Starbucks orders but I just saw a guy order a grande drip with four shots and four pumps of white chocolate.

Also here is the 2019 New Yorker article which for some pleasing reason is open access: www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives

By dragging icons on a screen, supply-chain managers schedule factory work down to the second.

newyorker.com

I'm really excited about this forthcoming book from a terrific scholar, based (I believe) on her really New Yorker article from 2019 "The Software That Shapers Workers' Lives" which I enjoyed immensely, on a topic now more than ever relevant and compelling. Good title, too.

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 5mo ago

*breathing into a paper bag*

Going through all of our old family papers is rough. I showed my sister a Father’s Day card she made at 16 and she got upset and said, “Why am I so extra?” and “I hate myself” and now she’s gone to lie down and my other sister says I need to apologize.

Hi all, @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social is teaching a class on the history of general strikes in the United States. It's online, there's a free option, and it's obviously extremely topical to our current moment. Sign up here.

Big fan of the @queerliblib.bsky.social, which is running a fundraiser right now! givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-...

Pride 2026 with Queer Liberation Library!

smut with a side of theory

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I wrote about the astounding indictment of 15 people in Minnesota now charged with an alleged criminal conspiracy against ICE, and what federal prosecutors’ wild “who posted what on Signal when,” “who said what on the ‘Anarchist Speaking Tour’” claims are meant to do:

Trump’s DOJ Is Trying So Hard to Scare People Away From Protesting ICE

Federal prosecutors just leveled sweeping charges against 15 Minnesotans for allegedly conspiring to stop ICE. The charges may not succeed, but a conviction isn’t what the feds are really after.

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They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes