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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

Computer science 28%
Political science 22%
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d
“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin.

Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
Shot desktop screen showing the backend of website programming. The headline placed at the lower half of image reads “The first national website dedicated to documenting ICE license plates is here”

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 4d
AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
The problem is that the new assistants aren’t as consistent at controlling smart home devices as the old ones. While they were often frustrating to use, the old Alexa and Google Assistant (and the current Siri) would generally always turn on the lights when you asked them to, provided you used precise nomenclature. Today, their “upgraded” counterparts struggle with consistency in basic functions like turning on the lights, setting timers, reporting on the weather, playing music, and running the routines and automations on which many of us have built our smart homes. I’ve noticed this in my testing, and online forums are full of users who have encountered it. Amazon and Google have acknowledged the struggles they’ve had in making their revamped generative AI-powered assistants reliably perform basic tasks. And it’s not limited to smart home assistants; ChatGPT can’t consistently tell time or count.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, David S. Cohen, Janet Murray , and 6 more

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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social

I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Reposted by Leo Lucassen, Janet Murray, Christina Ho

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d
For an excellent study of medicalizing euphemisms please see Golfo Alexopolous’s history of the Gulag, entitled "Illness and Inhumanity."
Text reading: ICE Detainee Dies After Being Held at a Troubled Jailhouse in Newark. Jean Wilson Brutus, 41, was one of four migrants to die in the past week after medical emergencies in detention centers in New Jersey, Michigan, Mississippi and Pennsylvania.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d
Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 5d
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Reposted by Janet Murray, Alan Richardson, Timothy D. McBride

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.

It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 8d
aka the Good Trouble in Public Health list.

It's a partial list and growing by the day.

Plenty of room for more.

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Janet Murray, Lisa Diedrich

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 8d
Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 8d
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning four major retailers about compliance with a recall of infant formula that has been linked to botulism ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/17/r...
Major retailers slow to remove recalled infant formula from shelves, FDA says • Ohio Capital Journal
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning four major retailers about compliance with a recall of infant formula that has been linked to botulism.  Ann Oxenham, the FDA’s top compliance officer…
ohiocapitaljournal.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Janet Murray

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9d
This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9d
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 10d
Much smarter piece than the headline would suggest - gift link worth following

The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by James P. Collins, Janet Murray, Julia Lynch , and 3 more

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10d
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org

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Vox @vox.com · 11d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12d
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 12d
This NYT article is a gift but the bigger gift for everyone trying to differentiate possibility from fantasy in contemporary AI discourse is the reliable sanity of @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b...
He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.
www.nytimes.com

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 12d
Definitely not for New Yorkers ( it actually rhymes with New YORK)

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 15d
Why are there no state drivers tests for autonomous vehicles? Stopping for school buses should be a minimal competency.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15d
When we interact with automated (or "automated") systems, whether by choice or not, we are engaging with a global system of labor exploitation

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Report Reveals the Devastating Cost of AI Intimacy
Plus, what an uncanny customer service experience taught us about global systems of labor exploitation
buttondown.com

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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15d
folks it is not your grandmother
Terminator 2 movie Sarah Connor twice on screen one is the t-1000 liquid robot disguised as her, background sarah holding a two handed gun, smoky factory setting.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d
“Liberate you from your phone by putting a screen on your face” is a patently farcical sales pitch.

Again, the reason they are so bad at selling a lot of current technologies is that the tech’s main point is to enrich tech companies and create more data, not to fill a user need or solve a problem.
Sorry, Smart Glasses Will Not Save You From Your Phone
Say
gizmodo.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15d
Work not yet done...

The pushback, litigation, and information campaigns making a difference (note the Senate & House discrepancy).
neurograce.bsky.social Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 15d
The bill also includes an attempt to put bounds on chaotic indirect cost changes
The NDAA blocks the secretary of defense from changing or modifying the indirect cost rates for DOD grants to research institutions until the secretary certifies that DOD has developed an alternative model in consultation with the extramural research community that reduces the rate for all institutions and allows “adequate transition time” for affected institutions to adjust. The Senate included this provision in its version of the bill, while the House did not. (Sec. 230)

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 16d
The New School faculty and students deserve better leadership
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16d
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”
davidcarroll.org David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 16d
Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16d
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”
davidcarroll.org David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 16d
Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com