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Timothy Graham
@timothyjgraham.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge

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Reposted by Timothy Graham, Peter Matanle, François Guesnet

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19h
This is Kristina Solovyova. Russian terrorists killed her in Zhytomyr striking residential buildings with drones on December 23. She was only 4🕯

Reposted by Timothy Graham, Maksym Polyakov

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 1d
Tonight, I spent a wonderful Christmas Eve with my family. But I couldn’t stop thinking about the Ukrainian soldiers who are paying the ultimate price so that we can have a peaceful Christmas Eve.

#StandWithUkraine

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Timothy Graham

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
yoyoel.com Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 2d
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 2d
Merry Christmas to everyone!

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 20 more

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 2d
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 3d
This is just weird.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks Reviewer A! I mean J

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 3d
A friendly community reminder not to repost or share unverified information, no matter how tempting it might be. Join the revolution today!

Reposted by Timothy Graham

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d
The FBI sent it to handwriting analysis. Outcome of that is unclear, as in, I haven’t found it in the files yet if it is indeed there.

Reposted by Timothy Graham, Ann Bartow, Seth Frey

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Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
Did we learn nothing from the plot of Blade Runner?

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
This is not a formal theory - it is a waiting at the vet theory

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
Trump: 0 minutes

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
Whereupon it is not only shit, but we're forced to use it

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
┌────────────────┐

The Four Stages of Dante's Platform

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(1) Datafication
(2) Monetisation pivot
(3) Enshittification
(4) Infrastructural capture

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
JK Rowling theory confirmed

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
This is somehow even worse than enshittification. What's the level under that

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mat marques, ph.d. @mdmarques.com · 4d
Belief in science-related conspiracy theories is not just a matter of knowledge: The democratic quality of countries as a protective factor
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Abstract Concerns regarding the increasing prevalence of conspiracy theory beliefs are growing in public discourse. This study investigates science-related conspiracy theories due to their significant potential impact on individual and global health. Using data from a Special Eurobarometer survey (n = 37,079), our research demonstrates the importance of considering public perceptions of science when trying to understand the acceptance of such conspiracy theory beliefs. They are strongly associated with mistrust in scientists and lower level of knowledge. But there is a key factor at the country level, the quality of democracy, which plays a protective role against the acceptance of unwarranted beliefs. Even individuals with lower levels of knowledge or greater mistrust of scientists are less likely to believe in science-related conspiracy theories if they live in democratic countries than in authoritarian states.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 4d
Often the real question is not about the technology, but what does it mean to be human?

Reposted by Timothy Graham

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5d
Pulled out of class, held back after school and forced to prove they're not AI cheats, students say NSW high schools are pitting them against faulty AI detectors.
High schools demand students prove they are not AI cheats
Pulled out of class, held back after school and forced to prove they're not AI cheats, students say NSW high schools are pitting them against faulty AI detectors.
www.abc.net.au

Reposted by Timothy Graham

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6d
The death toll after a russian missile strike on Odesa has risen to 8, with 27 others injured.

Some of the victims were on a bus that ended up at the epicenter of the attack.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6d
Will read with interest - thanks, Edouard.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6d
I'm not disagreeing with you here. I was curious about the debate and what was at stake / what the details of the issue were. The insights into why they are limited are quite interesting and I wanted to understand it better.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks. I feel that this is a very prescient example of the limits - the inability perhaps - of LLMs to reason. They don't understand logic - they just see a pattern and can't see or think about the limits of determinacy here - and they just parrot what's likely to come next, rather than what should

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6d
I'm just a computer science hack when it comes to mathematics but is the issue here that LLMs are vacuuming up first year calc I mistakes in their training data and reproducing them through their "reasoning" (which is just next token pattern matching)?

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6d
Ah, the old infinity times zero issue right?