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Janet H Murray

@janethmurray.bsky.social
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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" .

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1m
TONIGHT: The No Kings coalition is hosting a nationwide election protection training. Join us to level up your election defense skills and discuss the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement.
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No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 201 · No Kings
Join the No Kings coalition for this training to prepare for engaging in sustained mobilization and results protection work depending on opposition response to election results. *A core principle beh...
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time there’s a mass shooting, people circulate those posts reminding everyone how to avoid spreading false information in the first chaotic hours. We need one of those for AI stories.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone asked Muse to dump its entire virtual machine file system, and it did
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“It is clear Wilber needs to be in a hospital.” They gave him a pain injection for the first time 1 hour before Rep Casar was scheduled to visit. No matter if you’re native born or immigrant, you deserve appropriate medical care. www.kxan.com/news/texas/c...
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Congressmen Casar says bullet still inside Garcés Pérez, man shot by ICE
Texas Democratic U.S. Representatives Greg Casar and Joaquin Castro on Wednesday met with a man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Sept. 20.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/09/2026
Immigrants deserve dignity and due process. We join LULAC in demanding: (1) Wilber receive immediate medical care and freedom to be with his loved ones. (2) A full independent investigation into DHS’s actions, and the release of body cam footage. (3) ICE out of Austin, and ICE out of everywhere!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/09/2026
6 families have lost someone they loved at the hands of federal immigration agents, and for months many of them fought just to learn the truth about what happened. Congress is finally holding a hearing to listen to their stories and hold DHS accountable.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. apnews.com/article/warn...
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States settle lawsuit over Paramount-Warner merger, clearing key hurdle for $81 billion deal
Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the mega merger.
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Excellent technical and ideological demystification of the sloppy development processes that encourage cheating and hacking by AI agents .
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Dreaming Against the Machine
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam B...
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When less is do much more!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/09/2026
The goals for the next No Kings on October 17 are simple: 1) Boost early voting to historic levels. 2) Recruit and prepare our communities to stop election sabotage. We’ve always been headed for this moment where democracy reasserts itself. We’re the ones doing the reasserting — and we will win.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very disappointing
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE-Gestapo killers shot and injured a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas whilst he was doing his job. I’ll say it again, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great interview with Gil Duran. His new book is AMAZING: "The Nerd Reich." Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wywy...
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Inside TESCREAL: Silicon Valley’s Bizarre AI Religion
YouTube video by Lincoln Square
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: The Clear Labels Act was designed to help patients and doctors see exactly where a medication was made. But experts say the law’s most critical provisions have been cut: “It's just a clear watering down of the original bill.”
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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote
The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/09/2026
Join the @nkcoalition.bsky.social’s first nationwide Election Protection 101 training to learn how you can take action to defend the vote from anywhere. We will focus on local polling place election protection, how to spot potential voter suppression issues, and what to do when you see them.
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No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 101 · No Kings
Join the No Kings coalition for this call to learn how you can take action wherever you are to protect our elections this fall. We’ll cover how to get out the vote, the importance of voting early, pol...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... A welcome critique of Anyhropic’s mad fantasy of a conscious AI with its own values and emotions.
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Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity
Mustafa Suleyman says he believes the AI giant is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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AuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren is a fighter. I volunteered for her during her presidential run. She is smart as a whip, and always fighting for the consumer. It will be interesting to see what happens now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shame on any Democrat who votes for the abominable pro-crypto CLARITY Act. Call your senators and tell them to vote NO when it comes up for a crucial procedural vote tomorrow: (202) 224-3121.
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NO to Crypto
ALL Senate Democrats should reject the so-called “Clarity Act” when it comes up for a vote tomorrow
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last month, Linda McMahon sent a coercive "invitation" to university leaders asking for commitment to a right-wing 7 point plan to fundamentally subordinate higher ed to partisan political control. Yesterday AFT and AAUP replied with 7 points of our own. 👇🔥🔗 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026
I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
WATCH: "Musk" Doc director @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social says Elon Musk's story isn't a new tech story it's a con man/stock pumper story - adding many felt "existential fear" about talking about him. @ashleystclair.bsky.social says she turned down $40 MILLION not to participate.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/09/2026
None of us will ever forget how we felt on election night 22 months ago. For two years, we’ve organized against the chaos, cruelty and corruption of Trump 2.0 while waiting for our opportunity to win back power from the fascists. Now the midterms are almost here and we need to make each day count.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/09/2026
We hope we have demonstrated during one of the darkest times in American history that we are real. You can trust us because you’ve seen what we have done. We lead with integrity. We take big swings. We put grassroots investments to work. And we make history. It’s time to make history once again.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will explain this whole story in plain English for you: OpenAI did not fully isolate their experimental environment from the internet, accidentally leaving in place a software program that could access the open internet for updates. Agents exploited it, which is what they are structured to do.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thousands marched on Washington to defend voting rights…Ninety organizations signed on … Bernie Sanders…AOC… Martin Luther King III attended… The march they buried.
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THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AIN’T GONNA LET YOU SEE THIS. Thousands are marching on Washington to defend voting rights; ninety organizations signed on, and Reuters sent photographers, yet apparently that wa...
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I just downloaded their app as a gesture toward sanity
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/08/2026
Due to a 20-cent tax on delivery orders (that helps support food stability programs), DoorDash is now backing a bill that would give Trump more authority over DC and its residents. Delete your account until DoorDash stops fighting to give the regime more power.
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Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports
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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Are human customer service folks trained to waste as much of your time as possible so that you lose interest in getting your money back? It seems to be a standard business tactic of AT&T (unsurprisingly) and Apple (which did surprise me but that's on me I guess - It really shouldn't have).
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The Verge @theverge.com · 18/08/2026
Musk’s DOGE was supposed to rebuild the nation’s air traffic control system, but it ended up paving the way for Peter Thiel’s company to take over. www.theverge.com/transportati...
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Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
Palantir’s reach in the FAA keeps growing.
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Source: TPR An impressive candidate who deserves more serious national coverage and support from DNC
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs. But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
No way out: ICE detainees in Georgia increasingly have no access to bond
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