Jessi Murray
@jessimurray.bsky.social
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I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account MA > WA > MA again
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Yes, she will get a special big Happy Birthday peanut butter and banana dog biscuit (that she’ll eat over a few days so she’s not sick). Giving it to her tonight!
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map of american bluesky users
A Bostonian’s Idea of the United States - 1935 Illustrated map of US with Boston, Massachusetts, and New England huge, NYC tiny, and everything else compressed and small.
Happy birthday from Sammy!
A corgi in front of a low brick bench thing
She says “Joshua!!” but in Dog, of course
Also realizing I’ve been on BlueSky for at least two years! Flashback to her 4th birthday
Today is Sammy’s fourth birthday! #corgi
A tricolored corgi wears a colorful collar and sits on her bed next to a stuffed animal corgi with a party hat. In the foreground, a hand holds a paper plate with tiny dog treats and a small round cake that says “Happy Birthday” with a paw print on it A tricolored corgi wears a colorful collar and sits on her bed next to a stuffed animal corgi with a party hat. In front of her on the floor is a paper plate with tiny dog treats and a small round cake that says “Happy Birthday” with a paw print on it. The same corgi sitting in front of the dog birthday cake has her mouth open The same corgi sniffs the birthday cake
Sammy is just the cutest. Tomorrow is her birthday!
A happy looking tricolored corgi with heterochromia and asymmetric facial markings.
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NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
www.motherjones.com
Another day, another email saying we found out people we worked with at the federal level got RIFed…
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
If there was any AI in determining which template to apply at all (unclear!), I’m fairly certain based on the further elaborated use case it could’ve just been covered some pretty simple data functions…
Right after ChatGPT came out and the LLM buzz started happening with a company that shall not be named about their AI tools and they said their tool could interpret and label graphs. I asked them what kind of AI they were using and it turned out you had to define all the label templates yourself.
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everything else aside, it still surprises me how almost every highly publicized “AI” implementation could in fact be replaced by a very small shell script
“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”
Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being
The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.
www.insidehighered.com
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the restaurant now, but I had the best meal of my life at a restaurant in Venice you recommended. Sea bass cooked with lemon and potatoes for two, filleted table-side. Thank you for that dinner!
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The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.
Also weren’t they previously at like 250k subscribers when Bezos put this thumb on the scale against the Harris endorsement? Losing 60% of your subscribers should be a wake up call, but when the owner’s finances insulates him from any real repercussions it’s the newsroom and readers who lose.
It now makes sense that WaPo was just added to Apple News+…
Bruins didn’t win today but Pasta saving that empty netter + crushing Kucherov right after was kind of insane. He’s a forward, goalie, and defense all in one! youtu.be/eXRhJ4RIXk4?...
David Pastrnak hits Nikita Kucherov 10/13/25
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spotted at the local pinball place in Somerville
Gilligans Island pinball game, with the banner that says protect trans youth
Thank you! I’m pretty pleased!