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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter got a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.

(Published July 2025)
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deporta
theintercept.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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IndivisibleTX24 @indivisibletx-24.bsky.social · 2d
We are not here to debate.
We are here to dismantle.
ICE’s violence is not “unfortunate.”
It’s intentional.
It’s deadly.
This weekend — we gather to demand accountability — and to build power.
#ICEOutForGood social.demcast.com/s/G9n7pPTc
Find An Event Near You
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 2d
Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com

Reposted by Jane Suiter, Janet Murray

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2d
Grok has not "turned off" its CSAM generator for anyone - it has simply put it behind a paywall.
Stop uncritically repeating the narratives of tech companies.

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David Reeves aka Photoline @photoline.bsky.social · 3d
Regardless of what the DOJ says, a state-wide warrant should be issued for the arrest of ICE "agent" Jonathon Ross.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 3d
I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
www.wired.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d
Vance says ICE is protected by absolute immunity. Immunity for murdering a U.S. citizen? WTF. Do all Americans now have absolute immunity to do whatever they want? That’s an absurd argument.

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Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 4d
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 5d
Hi folks. I'll be speaking at #MLA2026! It is session 438, The Humanities Funding Landscape, Saturday at 10:15AM in MTCC - 606. Come learn about our humanities programs @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. I'll also be talking a bit about my last (sad) days at the NEH. Grab me if you wanna chat!

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 7d
Criminally reckless health policies
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7d
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates.

Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.
CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels
www.cidrap.umn.edu

Reposted by Neil Pederson, Rosemary A. Joyce, Janet Murray

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d
This story details that the teen they detained for six months was just about to graduate high school early at the age of 16.

Definitely the kind of irredeemable criminal monster we don’t want in America.
Meriden teen is back home for Christmas, after six months in detention at an ICE facility
The Meriden community welcomes home a teen who was detained for six months at a federal ICE facility.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7d
A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.
shayan86.bsky.social Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 7d
This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro.

But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7d
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates.

Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.
CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels
www.cidrap.umn.edu

Reposted by Janet Murray, Gerald Friedman, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d
For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.

This is why we must fix the system.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d
happy new year socialists, we are so back
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d
Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
Under an archway that reads “CITY HALL,” Zohran Mamdani stands on subway stairs with his right hand raised. He is being sworn in by Letitia James, the state attorney general, as he rests his left hand upon a Quran held by his wife, Rama Duwaji. A headline reads: "Zohran Mamdani Is Sworn In As Mayor of New York City." Photo by Amir Hamja for The New York Times.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10d
Read. Share. And most importantly... get involved.

This post will make folks think.... and addresses hard questions that we must confront with an action-oriented, impact-driven, and community-centered approach.
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 10d
2025 sucked.
In 2026, we are taking back our science!

We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.

open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
In all red: "Science fight club, established 2025". With a fist holding a beaker.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 14d
Don't forget that Ilya cited this as THE
usecase he was most excited about.
A tweet from Ilya Sustkever. It reads, "In the future, once the robustness of our models will exceed some threshold, we will have *wildly effective* and dirt cheap AI therapy. Will lead to a radical improvement in people's experience of life. One of the applications I'm most early awaiting."

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 14d
Enabled by NIH support, mRNA Covid-19 vaccines were 'Decades in the Making' & helped saved millions of lives.

Why wouldn't NIH share the history of its long-term investment in mRNA vaccine research with the world?

For now, access from abroad yields: 403 Forbidden

www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-con...
Internationally, the NIH-NIAID mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines webpage is: 403 Forbidden as of 12/28/25 Access via https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/decades-making-mrna-covid-19-vaccines when accessing from abroad (multiple verifications in Europe, UK, Middle East, and S. America)

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 14d
Source: Trump Kennedy Center

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18d
“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 · 19d
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.

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Chris DeLeonⓥDevPods.gg gamedev collabs @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 20d
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 · 20d
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 · 20d
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 · 21d
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21d
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.