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Went to see The Odyssey tonight. Absolutely breathtaking experience. A visual masterpiece, but the soundscape elevates it so much higher. Do yourself a favor and see this one at a cinema.

Alert, but not alarmed #australia

So @nytimes.com are we going to talk about today's #wordle? Seriously, TF was that? Wordle 1,852 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not sure if the Paraguay players want an Oscar or a FIFA trophy. Some of these early flops are incredible in their exaggeration, thankfully the refs are onto it. #AUSvPRY #worldcup

Can confirm. Today’s CPG is the worst. #auspol #journalism

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Tough but fair.

While @snurb.info will be presenting this work on behalf of the team, I couldn't resist coordinating today's conference outfit to the theme of conspiracy

Axel Bruns@snurb.info · 2mo ago

Slides for our @qutdmrc.bsky.social #ICA26 paper on AI chatbots’ responses to conspiracist questioning are already up on slideshare, of course, and you can read the full article in a special issue of Media and Communication: www.slideshare.net/s... www.cogitatiopress.c...

Far out, WA reminds me of Dune. Anyway, our latest Honest Government Ad is out: Visit the Kimberley!

This morning's #ica26 Digital Trace Research session is only made better by the elevator/piano rendition of pink pony club that is filtering in from next door. But honestly, great papers on the latest in data donation and user tracking research methods.

Outgoing @icahdq.bsky.social president @thanitzsch.bsky.social is giving one of the most profound and important presidential addresses on academic freedom, a deeply personal account and a courageous call to action. #ica26

"I was born for the second time when the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989" @thanitzsch.bsky.social says in personal and profoundly important Presidential Address on academic freedom at #ICA26, noting attacks in his native Germany as well as the US, Hong Kong, destruction in Gaza, and many other cases

Skip the lunch forfinding out how to establish more causal research with digital trace data. Great #ica26 panel with @theoaraujo.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social @hyunjinsong.bsky.social Isabel Villanueva and Yangliu Fan! Happening at 12.00 in Nerina CTICC2 See you there.

New from @theconversation.com: ADM+S researchers discuss how proposed AI-driven ads will blur the lines between products, ideas and political messaging amongst everyday content. They argue for essential minimum disclosures for #DigitalAdvertising on social media. 👉 bit.ly/4udvNyv

Online ads are becoming harder to spot – but we’re not powerless to stop it

Increasingly, digital advertising is designed to dissolve into the flow of the content you consume online.

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Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social

What if the internet were built differently? ADM+S researchers argue how platform co-ops, public digital infrastructure and decentralised technologies could help create a fairer and more democratic online future. 👉 Read now: bit.ly/4tMJDru #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy

There's a very specific late-capitalist archetype here: trust fund kids building personal brands around 'startup culture', hustle aesthetic, vapourware SaaS ideas, dropshipping, and performative antics aimed squarely at younger audiences who imagine themselves one lucky app away from escape velocity

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3mo ago

Excited to share that my article, co-authored with @ashwinnag.bsky.social & @antmandan.bsky.social, is out in Discourse & Communication! If you work in digital media, AI, journalism, SEO, or just spend a lot of time Googling things, you'll want to give it a read.

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The Australian mainstream media's apoplectic reaction to Labor's milquetoast tweaks to negative gearing and CGT is the only proof required about how detached the media class is from ordinary Australians. And they wonder why trust in the news industry is collapsing.

So having kowtowed Labor and the Coalition, Gina and the billionaire class are now replacing them with their own hand picked candidates. The canary died long ago, and the coal mine should have been shut down as well. Wake up Australia. #farrer #auspol

These Machines Fight Traffic. Developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

I know it's coming from a positive place when someone says, shocked, "oh you rode a bicycle here?" but it just reveals how deep car brain runs in Australia. Yes, I travelled 4km, in fair weather, using one of the most common transport technologies in human history. I did not arrive by trebuchet.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Cancelling a work by a queer Indigenous author raises serious questions about whose voices are considered too difficult, too risky, or too inconvenient to publish. Intellectual freedom isn't tested when it's easy. It's tested in moments like this. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Authors exit publisher after Indigenous picture book pulped for anti-Semitism

Writers including Evelyn Araluen and Randa Abdel-Fattah have left University of Queensland Press after the publisher axed publication of an Indigenous kids book over its illustrator's past 'anti-Semit...

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If you watch anything today, make it be this clip of @bencollins.bsky.social talking about what real strength is:

She seems to have an invisible touch She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart She seems to have an invisible touch It takes control and slowly tears you apart Genesis 19:86

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Register now for this Australian Internet Observatory webinar, exploring how methods such as data donation, interviews, surveys and other approaches can be combined for digital platform research. 💻 👉Register now at admscentre.org/4dOWLrW

Your daily reminder that the Brisbane City Council wants you to be 100% car dependent, with all the negative health, economic, and social consequences that brings. And their car centric worldview would rather victim blame pedestrians for being killed here than drop the speed limit to 40kph.

Read more about a free webinar from AIO on 21st April 2026: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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The 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 is hosting a webinar on digital platform research, examining how researchers can work with limited platform data access and combine methods such as data donation, A...

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