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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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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 13h
No time like the present...

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katestarbird.bsky.social Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20h
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 16h
It’s a bubble and they know it

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 17h
I mean I did have other things to do today but fine www.theverge.com/business/828...
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
The Streisand Effect strikes again
www.theverge.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4d
This is a good example of how you introduce essential context right at the very top of a story:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
By Tara Copp and Michelle Boorstein The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 4d
The administration is building a legal pathway for ad hoc grant terminations:

"if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities"

Converting multiyear grants to 'at whim' coin flips will undermine the stability & leadership of American science.
scott-delaney.bsky.social Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 6d
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.

On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.

But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.

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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 5d
Disgraceful
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 5d
This is what we get for an apparent deal* Sen. Cassidy made in February supporting Kennedy's nomination:

"CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism."

www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

*A deal that continues to reverberate.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 5d
As it should be! Good for Harvard and thank you Harvard Crimson for focusing the issue.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 5d
Organized crime now has an incentive to undermine democratic process just like any other horserace.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d
Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 5d
“Swain did not respond to a request for comment on whether Summers would be sanctioned from teaching while the probe is ongoing.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Good for the Crimson for asking the right question. He should be suspended from teaching immediately.
Harvard To Launch New Investigation Into Epstein’s Ties to Summers, Other University Affiliates | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will open a new probe into former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ connections with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein, after newly released documents revealed the two ...
www.thecrimson.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d
Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 5d
There is a clear danger to public safety here and it should be eliminated.
thecity.nyc THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 5d
VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 5d
Harvard is moving to get rid of disgraced mentee-harassing, misogynist Larry Sommers. He should be suspended from teaching immediately as well.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 5d
VIDEO: Federal Agents Bust Into Queens Apartment, Pointing Guns at Mother and Her Four Kids

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/19/q...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5d
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d
"When the agents entered the apartment, they dragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter.

“Put your fucking hands up, stupid,” one agent can be heard yelling, in a brief video Jennifer captured before her phone was knocked from her hand."

[Me: it was ICE.]
greenish glow of CCTV video: On the sidewalk in front of the building, one man wearing a ballistic vest, strapped with a handgun on his rightside. He is white wearing blue jeans, with a gas mask tied to his left leg. He has a thick dark beard and is wearing a watch cap type hat. Another man is with him, possibly Asian, in a black jacket and khaki pants. Screen text is: 2025/11/13 18:54:17 САМ6 caption: Federal immigration agents wore tactical gear before breaking into a Queens home and pointing a gun a woman and her four children. Credit: Screengrab via Security Footage

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 6d
Revolting!
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.

Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.

Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Tim Cook Mr. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, was also one of the tech moguls in attendance at Mr. Trump’s inauguration. Ties to Saudi Arabia:Apple has spent over $2 billion with companies in Saudi Arabia over the past five years, and during a visit to the country in late 2024, Mr. Cook pledged to open Apple stores there by 2026. The company has faced some blowback for hosting a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today. — Adam Sella

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 6d
“I didn’t know that Hitler was a Nazi. “
jasonscampbell.bsky.social Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 6d
Academics and students of today have benefitted from the courage of previous generations and should keep the faith by proactively supporting democratic processes.
insidehighered.com Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 6d
Opinion | 4 Times Colleges Led the Fight for Voting Rights

Colleges can and have stood against authoritarianism before. https://bit.ly/3M8wmsZ

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
A group of diverse young people stand in line at a polling place.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 6d
Opinion | 4 Times Colleges Led the Fight for Voting Rights

Colleges can and have stood against authoritarianism before. https://bit.ly/3M8wmsZ

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
A group of diverse young people stand in line at a polling place.

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 7d
AI peas 🫛! [Comic by Stephen Collins, apologies for no Alt Text.]

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Beth Bourdeau Duke @bourdeauduke.bsky.social · 7d
Pick your industry, fits 'em all
Call and response comic. Who are we? CEOs What do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!