Mathieu O'Neil
@mathieuon.bsky.social
Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
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University Rents Enabling Corporate Innovation: Mapping Academic Researcher Coding and Discursive Labour in the R Language Ecosystem
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Worth checking out if only to marvel at the full clown make-ups they superimposed on those fine X folk
"Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter." In an age of cowards, it's great to see the FT simply bodying these clowns.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Worth checking out if only to marvel at the full clown make-ups they superimposed on those fine X folk
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NYT/Guardian commentators lamenting the end of 'rules-based order' and the return of 1900s 'gunboat diplomacy' seem to have never heard of Mossadegh, Arbenz, Allende, etc: all democratically elected, toppled with US support and replaced by dictators. Or maybe its the non-secrecy that bothers them?
January 6, 2026 at 8:51 PM
NYT/Guardian commentators lamenting the end of 'rules-based order' and the return of 1900s 'gunboat diplomacy' seem to have never heard of Mossadegh, Arbenz, Allende, etc: all democratically elected, toppled with US support and replaced by dictators. Or maybe its the non-secrecy that bothers them?
"Right" does not matter under gangster capitalism
Danish PM Frederiksen on Greenland:
“I have to say this very directly to the United States. It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland. The United States has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Kingdom"(🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱)
stm.dk/presse/press...
“I have to say this very directly to the United States. It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland. The United States has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Kingdom"(🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱)
stm.dk/presse/press...
January 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"Right" does not matter under gangster capitalism
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Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
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"It is not enough just to say that Trump is illegitimate. We need to be thinking about the implications. We need to be thinking about how Democrats can use their powers, now and in the future, to deny that Trump has a legitimate right to rule." www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...
Mamdani Teaches Us How to Speak the Language of Illegitimacy
How should the next Democratic government act on the belief that Trump's second term was lawless and illegitimate?
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 AM
"It is not enough just to say that Trump is illegitimate. We need to be thinking about the implications. We need to be thinking about how Democrats can use their powers, now and in the future, to deny that Trump has a legitimate right to rule." www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...
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When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
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(h/t zachariah.dracoulis/IG)
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 AM
(h/t zachariah.dracoulis/IG)
A job for NATO Supreme Command surely
January 4, 2026 at 5:37 AM
A job for NATO Supreme Command surely
#lootocracy "it ought to be pretty plain to people that when a new administration comes to Washington, it is not the ordinary and appropriate thing to start filling your own pockets, your friends’ pockets, your political allies’ pockets with public goods."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center
Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:09 PM
#lootocracy "it ought to be pretty plain to people that when a new administration comes to Washington, it is not the ordinary and appropriate thing to start filling your own pockets, your friends’ pockets, your political allies’ pockets with public goods."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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University Rents Enabling Corporate Innovation: Mapping Academic Researcher Coding and Discursive Labour in the R Language Ecosystem
| Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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December 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
Comedy Writer Bought ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ Domain Names, Anticipating President Would Rename Institution After Himself: ‘Satire Became Unavoidable’
In August, former 'South Park' writer Toby Morton registered 'TrumpKennedyCenter' domain names, anticipating that Trump would add his name to the D.C. landmark.
variety.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
Historically crisis events offered opportunities for unscrupulous influencers to opportunistically spread bullshit; these very bullshit-spreading abilities earned them top spots in the current US administration. #floodthezone #auspol
Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.
Government Officials Once Stopped False Accusations After Violence. Now, Some Join In.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Historically crisis events offered opportunities for unscrupulous influencers to opportunistically spread bullshit; these very bullshit-spreading abilities earned them top spots in the current US administration. #floodthezone #auspol
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Good Morning 💙☕️
Merry Christmas Eve
Merry Christmas Eve
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Good Morning 💙☕️
Merry Christmas Eve
Merry Christmas Eve
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December 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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The state of India's urban infrastructure.
There is a huge, open sewage canal right behind this touristy 'I love Lokhandwala' sign in Mumbai. Even if it's an open gutter, you're supposed to love it instead of questioning it and everything that caused it.
There is a huge, open sewage canal right behind this touristy 'I love Lokhandwala' sign in Mumbai. Even if it's an open gutter, you're supposed to love it instead of questioning it and everything that caused it.
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The state of India's urban infrastructure.
There is a huge, open sewage canal right behind this touristy 'I love Lokhandwala' sign in Mumbai. Even if it's an open gutter, you're supposed to love it instead of questioning it and everything that caused it.
There is a huge, open sewage canal right behind this touristy 'I love Lokhandwala' sign in Mumbai. Even if it's an open gutter, you're supposed to love it instead of questioning it and everything that caused it.
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We need to start publicly naming and shaming the academics that do this and the journals that allow them through. I don't see any other way around this existential problem.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We need to start publicly naming and shaming the academics that do this and the journals that allow them through. I don't see any other way around this existential problem.
Create fake videos and write grand student reports OR preserve the planet? Seems the [UK, but applies to Oz most probably] government chooses plan B. #auspol
US data centre being built in the UK will consume 124 *million* litres of water per year - 50 times the volume claimed in the original proposal. share.google/aTjYqhhaIurV...
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
share.google
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Create fake videos and write grand student reports OR preserve the planet? Seems the [UK, but applies to Oz most probably] government chooses plan B. #auspol
"Beginning in the late 1980s, the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other’s closest friend, The Times found." Free article #epstein
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Beginning in the late 1980s, the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other’s closest friend, The Times found." Free article #epstein
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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I must have a very bad memory b/c I cannot for the life me remember any of these self-serving playactors calling for Scott Morrison's resignation after an Australian man groomed by years of blatant Islamophobia from political and media arenas flew to NZ to murder 51 Muslims. 🤷🏻♀️ #auspol #BondiBeach
December 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I must have a very bad memory b/c I cannot for the life me remember any of these self-serving playactors calling for Scott Morrison's resignation after an Australian man groomed by years of blatant Islamophobia from political and media arenas flew to NZ to murder 51 Muslims. 🤷🏻♀️ #auspol #BondiBeach
Bigliest boom
"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Bigliest boom
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A bunch of published studies that use surveys and offer incentives probably (knowingly or not) have datasets tainted by bots or fake participants. But this is a whole new level. How are we meant to trust the data is even real and not some robot's predictions about how a human might respond?
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A bunch of published studies that use surveys and offer incentives probably (knowingly or not) have datasets tainted by bots or fake participants. But this is a whole new level. How are we meant to trust the data is even real and not some robot's predictions about how a human might respond?
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Very good news, and a signal to many UK universities that it is crucial to rebuild closer relationships with European partners.
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Very good news, and a signal to many UK universities that it is crucial to rebuild closer relationships with European partners.
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Um ihn mache ich mir keine Sorgen, um seine Wähler schon.
December 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Um ihn mache ich mir keine Sorgen, um seine Wähler schon.