In case you hadn’t seen it yet, this is just brilliant, brilliant news – very excited for our wonderful early-career researchers at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social. #AANZCA25 folks, you might be interested in hearing about these projects too…

Note to self; less caffeine before radio interviews

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

If this was the premise of a Philip K. Dick novel, I’d think it was a step too far. futurism.com/artificial-i...

🇮🇹 Oh look what just arrived in the office – I guess I’ve been published in Italian again ! Congratulations on a fine collection, @gboccia.bsky.social (and what a cover !)… Guess now we know how many Zs it takes to translate “destructive polarisation” into Italian, too (‘polarizzazione’ 😲).

ARC DECRA funding news is out - congrats especially to my fantastic @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kathaesa.bsky.social & @zahrastardust.bsky.social, and the brilliant @amymcquire.bsky.social @emvdn.bsky.social @hansasenbaum.bsky.social, all successful this round. 🎉 rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

X now reveals the locations of user accounts, pulling back the curtain on the scale and scope of manipulation and “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on the platform. At the least, I hope it helps us reevaluate platforms as “neutral” infrastructure. www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...

A new article by me in @theconversation.com about forthcoming research with fab colleagues @snurb.info, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phzerosounds.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social, and @antmandan.bsky.social. Looking forward to presenting this at the #AANZCA2025 conference this week! 🎉

Release day! Here is Diabaig, a traditional #ascii #roguelike. conornally.itch.io/diabaig Descend through #procedural floors facing increasing adversity and creatures to defeat the dragon at the bottom. Make your way back out with only the resources you find along the way. #indiedev #opensource

(Not my usual content on this account, so please excuse the cross-post.) I’ve just released a game about representation, mimesis, and escape. You load an image from your computer and it converts it to an ascii dungeon for you to try and escape. EIKASIA #indiegames #indiedev #philosophy

New thing just dropped on @itch.io. Can you find that one perfect glitch setting in the infinite sea of e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶s̶ possibilities? For the 0.00000014% of people on the planet who see beauty in destructive generativity. timothyjgraham.itch.io/glitchify #art #glitch #indiegames #graphics #beauty

Vale John Laws. Back in 1993 there was no fucking around. Prime Minister Paul Keating went into the studio and told the listeners directly what was happening on the Mabo decision. PMs can't do that these days. #auspol youtu.be/pn1SnTVYe_4

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Can AI agents coordinate influence campaigns without human guidance? And how does coordination arise among AI agents? In our latest research, we simulate LLM-powered AI agents acting like users on an online platform, some benign, some running an influence operation

My contemplation for this evening

Who the fuck is this dude who rolled in saying what women researchers have been saying for years? He came on my thread here once to tell me I was wrong about something — I wasn’t. I responded, he said nothing, and disappeared. @alexhanna.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social

They want to hammer the truth away from mind-independent correspondence to reality, towards an ideological version of truth that lacks any internally consistent norms or rules beyond the unblinking drive for more power and capital

[New Research] Pro-Russian channels on Telegram employ long-standing narrative strategies that blame the West for escalating the conflict, emphasize Western domestic crises, & amplify divisive social & political issues such as LGBTQ rights, immigration, & inflation. socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/27/n...

One of the stallholders at the Brisbane Disability Expo is not like the others.

For sale: America

"My son - is he alive?" A Russian KAB struck a residential building in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, leaving the family trapped under debris. Ukrainian Warriors from the Khyzhak and Azov Brigades pulled a woman from the rubble. Unfortunately, her son did not survive.

It’s so important that we maintain a clear compass during these times: this is an immoral, inhuman way to address complex security issues. It’s not normal and it should not be the new norm. Human life is precious and people deserve a fair trial and transparent, accountable processes. Not #JudgeDredd

A new level of What Is Going On, USA?

Probably one of the most literal and problematic examples of shitposting in the history of the Internet

incredible interactive story of the Australian timeline. a real eye opener with so many important stories. www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

What distinguishes legitimate military action from extrajudicial killing (read: cold-blooded murder) is usually: clear legal authority, genuine combatant status of targets, proportionality, and accountability mechanisms. None of that appears to be the case here. #StateSanctionedMurder

Imagine going out in a boat for your livelihood and fearing that you see US military coming for you, who will kill you in cold blood with no jury or chance to escape. This is not the America I know and love.

The Pavlov's bell for academics

Right on

Just released: the Privacy Guidance on Part 4A (Social Media Minimum Age) of the Online Safety Act 2021 www.oaic.gov.au/__data/asset...

“No children are dying on my watch.” - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio "Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar." apnews.com/article/myan...

When the people non-violently opposed to fascism are being designated a terrorist group by the state: 🚩

Banning all children from social media isn't the answer but policymakers must force better regulation from the tech companies - the first step towards that is more transparency and research.

Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

‼️According to calculations made by OSINT researchers, the amount of Russian tanks in decent condition remaining in storage is ZERO. ◾️1656 are in "poor" condition (about 60% of them probably cannot be restored). ◾️1231 Russian tanks are in "worse" condition, according to the researchers.

In the West, journalists receive the Pulitzer award for truth-telling. In Russia, there is also a 9mm award - a 9mm bullet in the forehead for telling the truth. Anna Politkovskaya was one of the many journalists that the Kremlin regime assasinated for telling the truth.

Today in CCN111 we played Social Media Operations Manager! Students discussed the ethics of the influence industry and social media analytics Play for free on @itch.io: timothyjgraham.itch.io/social-media... #indiegames #disinformation

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Storm 1516 -- an influence operation attributed to Russia -- is expanding its target audiences www.recordedfuture.com/research/cop...

Big update to Social Media Operations Manager! Play or download for free: timothyjgraham.itch.io/social-media... I'd love to hear any feedback or ideas #roguelike #indiegames #indiedev

This better not be the soft launch of presidential murders

Calling all social media researchers, if you have access to the TikTok research API or are doing research on TikTok via a browser plugin, you will soon be able to collect and analyze TikTok data via our research tool, @communalytic.org. No coding required. #DSA40 #CSS #ComSky #AcademicSky

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

The statistic that history will remember will be the USAID death toll, after this man’s actions in 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Latest 2c from me in this article from @joshtaylor.bsky.social on the enduring woes of combatting misinformation when the term has been become so deeply politicised www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

If gravity were politicised, Grok would be telling people they can fly

A Russian drone strike killed a whole family in Sumy region of Ukraine last night: mom, dad and kids aged 4 and 6. Deepest condolences. This is beyond horrible.

Emma Briant, a Notre Dame professor who studies propaganda, says President Trump’s deep involvement in TikTok raises the risk he's “cherry-picking the board, making deals with his buddies … and creating a media monopoly to keep himself in power.” https://wapo.st/3KhxPww

Experimenting with genetic algorithms to optimise games This bot plays Social Media Manager 1000x faster than a human to try and find the best strategy. Hopefully this will help to balance the game and make it more fun. #gamedev #indiedev timothyjgraham.itch.io/social-media...

For educational purposes, I built an influence campaign simulator game. Check it out via the link below! It’s free and you can play in the browser.

Crackers