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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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Dr Emma L Briant @emma-briant.co.uk · 22h
Mark Carney's amazing speech at Davos m.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EF...
FULL SPEECH: PM Carney’s Most Inspiring Remarks at Davos — Greenland, Trump Tariff Threats | AQ1B
YouTube video by DRM News
m.youtube.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22h
X says it has open sourced its "core recommendation system" on GitHub and that the system "ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Mark Boukes @markboukes.bsky.social · 1d
New pub! The more I investigated news media trust, the more confused I became. Therefore, we conducted this content analysis of 623 studies (1951–2025), showing that the media trust concept indeed differs a lot in terms of conceptualizations and operationalizations. Here:
doi.org/10.1177/0093...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d
Wrote a long piece about why (almost) nobody's addressed deepfake sexual abuse, and how we, the pissed off masses, can dismantle the infrastructure behind it

www.thewayfinder.net/p/i-never-wa...
I Never Want to Write About Deepfake Sexual Abuse Again
Why nobody’s solved this horrifying problem—and how you can help
www.thewayfinder.net

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d
America in 2026: 34 people control 12% of the income.

gzucman.substack.com/p/standing-u...

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 5d
"Truth and falsehood are alike in face, similar in bearing, taste, and movement; we look upon them with the same eye. I find not only that we are lax in defending ourselves against deception, but that we seek and hasten to run ourselves through on it" - 16th Century Philosopher Michel de Montaigne

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emma-briant.co.uk
Dr Emma L Briant @emma-briant.co.uk · 5d
If they wanted to stop it, they could.

timothyjgraham.bsky.social
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 7d
Where it all began

#Osaka
A building in Osaka, Japan, with the name “OG CORPORATION” and no other English signage indicating what on earth it might be

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 8d
Welcome! The weather is great here

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Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social · 8d
📢 PhD Scholarship at QUT to join my DECRA project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" @qutdmrc.bsky.social

📅 Applications close: 13/03/2026

More info here: www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-a...

Please share and reach out if you have questions!
QUT - Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats (PhD scholarship)
www.qut.edu.au

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 9d
Especially when those policy announcements are about keeping people safe… Albanese, I am looking at you here

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 9d
“Government ministers cannot be making policy announcements in a space that hosts AI-generated, near-naked pictures of young girls.” yes

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 9d
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
www.theguardian.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 9d
Good thread about how data has been locked down and researchers locked out of social media platforms, and how the current U.S. government protects Musk, X, and others from transparency regulations passed by other countries and the EU. Our team is definitely feeling the pain of lost data access.
wikisteff.bsky.social Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 9d
The disinformation promulgated by X is so essential for the global polycoup that the US, an already-compromised state, will blackmail any government that threatens to ban or discipline it.
nikitagill.bsky.social Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 9d
Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks David, I’ve long admired Jason’s work. It’s a damning critique of the concept of polarisation, among other things. He comes down very hard on it and those who use it - interesting

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 9d
"Yes, a coup is happening in the United States", says Jsaon Stanley, the former Yale professor of fascism who left for Canada. Worthwhile interview here, even if it's a bit "no shit" after recent events.
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 9d
New paper out with @snurb.info and Simon Copland, where we analyse Sky News Australia through the lens of network propaganda.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social · 14d
New preprint: Meta's political content policy cut Italian MPs' reach by 72%.
But this is just Italy. If you have Meta Content Library access, you can run this for your country. Germany? France? Brazil?
🔗 osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8dqag_v2 📁 github.com/fabiogiglietto/mcl-political-reach-study

timothyjgraham.bsky.social
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 14d
Personally I wouldn't worry about that stuff too much - you're kicking big goals and it's progressing. Sometimes game dev is grindy and sometimes pure fun and joy but keeping on going is the big one!

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 14d
I also work really late nights on game dev as I work during the day. So I’m always tired when I work on stuff and I found on holidays when I’m fresh im 10000% more productive

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 14d
Personally for me I find that going to bed and just taking a beat to say “hey it can be fixed and it takes as long as it needs” can be helpful. Doesn’t work as well if you broke 7 other things but just shutting shop and saying let’s fight another day can be one way to deal with that. Not easy.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 15d
I hope you can make some progress on it. Not easy

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 15d
You’re doing incredible work. God speed with these ancient and arcane code edits

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J.A. Machete @somestinkydude.bsky.social · 16d
#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelike #roguelikedev Released the latest update, 0.8G, of the Variant!
(Reposting bc idk what I did replying to myself but the original post isn't showing.)
Check on bio to get the link to itch :)

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 16d
Deleting posts about X. The less attention the better. Bye!

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snurb.info
Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 16d
🎇 As the new working year starts, I've looked back on the recent conference presentations by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social team and me in 2025, including work from #IAMCR2025, #SEASON2025, #AoIR2025, #ZeMKI2025, #AANZCA2025, and #JERAA2025:
Wrapping Up The Last of My 2025 Conference Presentations | Snurblog — Axel Bruns
2025 is finally over, but other than as part of the liveblogs I haven't yet had a chance to round
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