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Michelle Mazurek
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security, privacy, people
pointy-headed academic, phillies enjoyer
still tomorrow's gonna be another working day / just trying to get some rest

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 4d
Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
www.nytimes.com

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SPUR Lab @spur.science · 7d
This year, I'm again recruiting students who want to pursue a PhD in computer science with a focus on human-centered privacy & security. Located at NJIT, near New York City, this fully-funded position will help make systems more secure, private, usable, and respectful.
PhD positions in human-centered privacy and security in New York City area
PhD student positions in security, privacy, and human-computer interaction at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
spur.science

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 13d
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 18d
UMD CS is hiring in systems and data science, broadly construed (security definitely counts). Come work with us! www.cs.umd.edu/job/2025/jr1...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA is recruiting to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions, with starting dates on or after July 1, 2026. The...
www.cs.umd.edu

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 19d
This is the story of a CS major who first accessed the thing for homework help. 18 months later it cheered him on as he died by suicide. All anyone at the university seems to want to talk about is how to better integrate these things into our curriculum. What the actual fuck are we doing here?

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com

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Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social · 19d
With the #chi2026 reviews coming out, I am posting my regular reminder to folks who do qualitative research. I have been curating a document with common critiques of qual research and how to respond. Check it out and add your own examples!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Author: Jessica Vitak (+ anyone who adds to the document) About This Document (and a disclaimer) Reviewing is a highly subjective pr...
docs.google.com

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one dozen rats in a pear tree @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 24d
How can you not be romantic about baseball? [DEROGATORY] [COMPLIMENTARY]

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · 25d
Even the Phillies think that was terrible execution with runners in scoring position

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 27d
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · 28d
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 27
Kiddo has been getting it for several years now and same. Honestly better coverage on some topics than certain prestige newspapers I could mention ...
jduffyrice.bsky.social Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · Oct 27
if you have kids between like 6 - 12 you should get them a subscription to The Week Junior. yes pricey but it's actually so impressive and informative, my son's obsessed with it. (this is not sponsored [obviously] i've never interacted w/ them i just think its a great magazine!) theweekjunior.com
The Week Junior
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · Oct 27
if you have kids between like 6 - 12 you should get them a subscription to The Week Junior. yes pricey but it's actually so impressive and informative, my son's obsessed with it. (this is not sponsored [obviously] i've never interacted w/ them i just think its a great magazine!) theweekjunior.com
The Week Junior
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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 26
Donated in memory of my immigrant grandmothers and their foundational belief that food == love
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 26
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 26
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 24
Generate data using an LLM. Feed that data back into (the same) LLM for "analysis." Science!

(This post brought to you by attempting not to rage-quit the paper review I am working on.)

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 24
If you are asking me to do stuff and you immediately qualify it with "Claude can probably do most of this for you" I guess I know how seriously to take your requests.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Oct 22
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

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Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · Oct 21
existing in all other parts of life: we need to be thoughtful about how we integrate technology into human affairs

watching an umpire in the postseason: BRING FORTH THE ROBOT GODS

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · Oct 21
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · Oct 19
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
drugmonkey.bsky.social Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Oct 19
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · Oct 14
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Oct 18
Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 18
mood.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Oct 18
Philly

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Oct 18
New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...
International student arrivals to the US fall by 19%
The US recorded a 20% drop in student visa arrivals this August, though the full picture remains unclear amid contradictory datasets.
thepienews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Oct 17
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
fritschner.bsky.social Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Oct 17
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · Oct 16
John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...
Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Oct 16
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper