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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/

What if we rewrote the rules of our economy to better serve people, communities, and the public interest? This week's Game Changers proposals explore bold ideas for Righting the Rules, from financial regulation and housing to public investment and tax policy. 🌐 GameChangersPolicy.org

“Our results show a fundamental mismatch between the justifications for intensified immigration enforcement and the empirical patterns of that enforcement’s implementation. The majority of those arrested by ICE in the second Trump administration had no criminal conviction at arrest.”

NEW: The Trump administration’s slashing of the federal workforce has hurt the ability of the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to keep producing reliable data about the U.S. population and economy, an @amstatnews.bsky.social report finds www.amstat.org/docs/default...

"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."

This is amazing. A single 77 guy staging a protest against Flock cameras. It reveals the depth of people’s frustration with growing networks of self surveillance. And yet reveals three deep misunderstandings of the challenges ahead. 1/5 www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-ye...

I postpone nothing. I no longer procrastinate... I pay closer and closer attention to incredible, surrounding reasons for celebration and faith I watch for good news. I work with folks to create good news. I become hourly more aware of the privileges conveyed by my human life. –– June Jordan

New research shows that marriage is more common among people with than without college degrees. But rather than use those findings to argue for investment in higher education, Fortune is blaming college-educated women for rejecting low-earning men w/o college degrees. fortune.com/2026/07/26/c...

A must read!

Excellent piece by @alondra.bsky.social on algorithmic agnotology: "the strategic production of ignorance through technical inscrutability, selective transparency & the deliberate framing of the AI stack as too complex to interrogate or govern." limn.press/article/plat...

It was surreal to see riders going around the arena with their advertising banners, displayed against ones from the Boot Barn and local feed stores.

Quite an image and a contrast.

Students from all 50 states just drafted an #AIBillofRights. They named cheating, bias, privacy mental health, environmental costs and more. The civic grammar of AI rights is traveling and we're fortunate that young people are leading the way and writing it. www.the74million.org/article/stud...

Thank you. Rodeo as platform!

As the editors note, platforms extract, sort, govern, obscure, enable, suppress, leak, slop, and rot. Read the full issue open access: limn.press/issue/this-i...

Clouds have weight. The geological, temporal, imaginary, and epistemic substrates of AI are where power concentrates and where it can be contested. This issue emerges in part from, PLATFORM, a special theme year at the Institute of Advanced Study: www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

I return to the concept of "algorithmic agnotology"--the strategic production of ignorance through technical inscrutability and selective transparency. Platforms don't just hide labor and data flows. AI platforms add geological and epistemic layers of concealment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...

What's consequential about generative AI isn't the interface, it's what lies beneath: cobalt mines in the DRC, lithium fields in the Andes, gas turbines burning methane in Black communities in Mississippi, workers in the Global South rating outputs for dollars a day. limn.press/article/plat...

I have a new short essay out in LIMN's special issue This Is Not a Platform titled "Platform Obscurantism: The Hidden Substrates of Machine Learning." ChatGPT is a platform. That may be the least interesting thing about it. limn.press/article/plat... 🧵

Keith David on his incredible career: ‘I want you to understand Black men as full-scope human beings’