Hello world, I'm moving down to Melbourne in a couple of weeks right around the time I lodge my thesis for examination. If you're an Australian-based academic looking for an RA with expertise in AI, literary/critical theory and digital media, please get in touch!
Re-sharing this since BlueSky was down yesterday ~
So happy to have my first journal article published today! I argue that LLMs animate a paradox in which similarity only emerges through difference. I show how this paradox is operationalised by LLMs as they generate a natural language response (1/2)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is a flyer inviting participants to join a study to share their ideas on making new social media platforms safe and welcoming. Signup form here forms.office.com/r/mMbjjvXgXB Project details here tinyurl.com/44adp9cx
Whether you use, develop, or moderate decentralised social media, your ideas for making these spaces safer and more welcoming matter. Join our ongoing asynchronous brainstorm and share your thoughts.
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"A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon" www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
“In times of crisis Australians are great at doing the right thing morally and socially, which is also the smart thing economically. What would it take to do so all the time?” - Lukas Ringland
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3OeQxqx
A must watch.
Many of my friends who have adopted Ring style doorbell cameras aren’t aware that these technologies serve markets far beyond the front door.
I get the anxiety and the ‘what if’ logic of security, but these cameras give me the ick! Keeping an anxious poodle is a better security option imo
As always - remember this is what they do when they know they are being filmed.
Brisbane showed up for Palestine tonight 🍉
Bannon (and his buddies) are using an informational strategy called reflexive control that intentionally exploits the reaction of his adversaries (on the left) to inflict damage on their own side. Don't become an unwitting agent in their information operation.
Any time Sky News Australia comes up in discourse, please feel most welcome and free to cite this research, which shows empirically that is is a propaganda machine.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hey BlueSky, most of you have access to internet connectivity that the people of Iran currently do not. Do me a favour and share this podcast episode from the DMRC Digital Publics group.
We can no longer accept catastrophic silence.
Solidarity means paying attention and creating visibility
theconversation.com/iran-protest...
Great article contextualising the crisis in Iran and how it connects with rising authoritarianism and erosion in institutional trust and trustworthiness
Hundreds of faces among thousands, truly gutted by the atrocities we are seeing the Iranian regime perpetrate on its own people
We've analysed new videos published by @vahid.online that show rows of body bags at the Kahrizak mortuary in Tehran on 10 January.
We've counted at least 186 bodies in one clip and at least 178 bodies in another, although the true figure is likely much higher.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Extremely important & timely piece by @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social of WITNESS on the informational complexities around the protests in Iran, describing the “epistemic fog”, the blackout of communications, and powerful efforts to frame and reframe the protests and the brutal response from the regime.
📢 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!
The first reports of the harms of the social media ban is having on vulnerable kids are out. This is what happens when policy is designed without listening to experts, not tackling the problem of harmful algorithms and business practices and just banning people from accessing parts of the internet.
Australia's social media ban for children under 16 begins today.
Our explainer paper provides an overview of the complex issue of social media bans for young teens, explaining the technical challenges, potential risks, and specific concerns voiced by parents and carers.
Read it here: qut.to/1ww5%
PhD researcher Kate FitzGerald has a new article out in The Conversation today looking at generative AI chatbots and conspiracy theories.
👋 So hello world, we did a thing.
🎁 Might be useful for some people ?
#misinformation #disinformation #fakenews
Here's a new resource from @qutdmrc.bsky.social to explain #problematicinformation (and its various forms), harms, tips to help navigate online info environments, and what can be done. Access and download here: research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/explain... #informationintegrity #misinformation #disinformation
"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
What happens when Google stops sending you to websites & starts answering questions itself? In this podcast episode ADM+S researchers Ashwin Nagappa, Oleg Zendel & Sara Al Lawati discuss what the future of search means for all of us bit.ly/48zWDK9 #GoogleSearch #AIMode
