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Janet H Murray
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Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" . .. more

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Janet Horowitz Murray is an American professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1999, she was a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT, where she taught humanities and led advanced interactive design projects since 1971. She is well known as an early developer of humanities computing applications, a seminal theorist of digital media, and an advocate of new educational programs in digital media. .. more

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Dr K @dockim.bsky.social · 1d
I have to be careful and not blame all Dem Senators for the cloture vote on Sunday. It wasn’t a majority of the Dems. It was quite a few who aren’t up for reelection. So I don’t even know what they were thinking.
I will continue to support Dems - except for my Senator Fetterman who can rot in hell.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
gordondarroch.bsky.social Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 3d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’

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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

Reposted by Janet Murray, Elisa Freschi

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 4d
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.

Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 4d
This looks so cool!
mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 4d
From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
Cover for a book called "The Unconscious: A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond" by Antonio Melechi. The cover features a floating black bowler hat above a cloudy sky backdrop.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 4d
From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...
Cover for a book called "The Unconscious: A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond" by Antonio Melechi. The cover features a floating black bowler hat above a cloudy sky backdrop.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over six years through a state-funded program.

At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s.

(Published Nov. 2024)
Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s
ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.
www.propublica.org

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 4d
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com

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Jenna Amatulli @ohheyjenna.bsky.social · 4d
🚨LA-based journalists/journos willing to relocate to the west coast:

We're looking for a senior news editor to help run our news operation in downtown LA!

If you're well-versed in breaking news and want to work with really wonderful humans, APPLY!
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Senior News Editor, West Coast
The Guardian is a global news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations, to in-depth coverage of technology, sports, film, cultur...
workwithus.theguardian.com

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4d
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4d
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4d
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 4d
finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6d
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8d
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 8d
I have not tried rereading it in decades but I hated it as a young lit major because of the lack of believable interiority of the women characters.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 9d
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Adding latest AI techniques has made autocorrect worse and harder to fix

“it is likely to be far harder to understand what is going wrong in new autocorrect than in previous models, because of the challenges of interpreting AI”
Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?
The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works
www.theguardian.com

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 10d
The Vergecast guys on the corporate framing of AGI as the second coming of Jesus are very sharp and funny this week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3v... In fact the whole podcast is particularly insightful about what is real and what is BS in the latest industry speak about AI.
God will be declared by a panel of experts | The Vergecast
YouTube video by The Verge
www.youtube.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13d
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14d
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Reposted by Janet Murray

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 16d
Free from conflicts, they said.

And gold standard.
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16d
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are benefitting – financially and otherwise – from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
bit.ly

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17d
the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 17d
Amidst a government shutdown in which the White House has proposed slashing federal support of science by billions of dollars, our #SCIMaP team continues to assess the impact of research cuts on communities nationwide.

Learn more about our efforts: scienceimpacts.org

With more to come...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19d
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 19d
Having run an 800+ person AI/CS research lab at MIT I can say that diversity of thought and passionate arguments are at the core of advancing. Laying off 600 researchers at Meta today Alexandr Wang explained: By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision.

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 19d
Very disappointing!

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 19d
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