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Impossible Beast

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I'm a media professor whose work focuses on the impact of digital media on democracy. Not strictly left, right, or centrist, I'm interested in conceiving new democratic futures. My avatar is the platypus, a beast once thought impossible. Opinions own.

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Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · 8d

Yep.

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 8d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · Sep 10

Shooting of Charlie Kirk absolutely reprehensible and potentially momentous. We can only hope that rounds of retribution and copycat attacks don’t follow.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 8

They never change unless we make them: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

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Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yep.

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Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · Sep 7

How can you not give this guy the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 7

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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the Meanjin closing, just be careful in making defamatory accusations.

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Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · Sep 2

I read a couple of news articles on last Sunday’s neo-Nazi demos here in Melbourne earlier today then opened up YouTube and the homepage vids included three far right videos.

They keep saying they are cleaning up their algorithms. Don’t believe them. They are gaslighting us.

Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just in case you needed reminding that Musk boosts white supremacist disinfo.

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Elon Musk shares post on X with incorrect attendance figures for Australia’s anti-immigration protests

The March for Australia demonstrations were promoted by neo-Nazis, anti-lockdown figures and other fringe groups

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Aug 28

I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.

We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices.

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · Aug 28

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 29

CDC staff held a “clap-out” on Thursday to honor three of the agency’s high-ranking officials, who resigned in protest after President Trump fired the director, Susan Monarez. nyti.ms/4oSxakJ

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Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wouldn’t it be amazing if some of our world leaders actually cared about this?

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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Impossible Beast @impossiblebeast.bsky.social · Aug 23

We need to stop fixating on senior university salaries - no CEO of an org with thousands of staff gets paid less than $1m - and address the real problem: chronic underfunding and punitive higher ed policy.

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Australian universities to cut about 2,400 jobs and hundreds of courses as sector blames ‘confused’ government policies

Vice-chancellors say they’ve been forced to restructure but critics point finger at ‘unaccountable’ university management

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 15

“Putin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 16

"[President] Eisenhower’s concern was that the [US] war machine would effectively become sentient."

– Stephen Semler on the military industrial complex and corporate interests behind global wars.

Watch episode 1 of Business of War ➡️ youtu.be/cVYTb85_dZw