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Dr Emma L Briant

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International Expert on #Propaganda; Associate Prof, Monash Uni, Melbourne; Fellow, Bard College, US; Associate @ U of Cambridge CFRA; Maven of Persuasion LLC; Senior Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. Brit now in Oz.

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.

More:

cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

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Does not look happy at the kittens tail being in her dish!

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Ryan J. Reilly's avatar Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly.bsky.social
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The only man known to have participated in both the newsman fight in Anchorman (2004) and the U.S. Capitol attack (2021) has formally pleaded guilty in connection with the latter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️‍🌈's avatar 🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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Bingo.

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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Air strike on Gaza school kills at least 15 people

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Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate who advocated moderate policies at home and improved relations with the West, won the presidential runoff in Iran against a hard-line rival, according to results released by the interior ministry on Saturday. nyti.ms/3xMgPZc

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The world’s oldest-lived person (1875-1997), Jeanne Calment actually met Vincent van Gogh at her family’s shop in Arles, where he bought his canvases ~ she described him as ugly, smelly & blighted by alcohol. Well, maybe, but np-one’s perfect!
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4160...

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

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A must read from Monbiot on the implications of a Trump win for the rest of the world: "In short, the UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves against a Trump regime and its allies." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Dr Emma L Briant's avatar Dr Emma L Briant @emmalbriant.bsky.social
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Yeh exactly - if they were going to change him they should have done it ages ago, not at this crucial juncture.

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I'm feeling the same... did you see this shit? Anybody'd think they were based in London and not close enough to understand the immediate horror of the likely consequences of this.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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Elle's avatar Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Dave Weigel's avatar Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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For the first time in decades, the RNC won't allow cameras/media into its platform meeting. Further evolution of the Trump-era RNC's aversion to the press - they see only downsides for transparency, though this hasn't prevented damaging stories when reporters dig in

www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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Brendan Nyhan's avatar Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Beware the temptation to downplay the SCOTUS ruling and to deny its potential implications. We've been down this road before.

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This decision truly is a golden ticket to corruption and abuse.

'Donald Trump claims 'big win' after Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have some immunity from prosecution'
amp.abc.net.au/article/1040...

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Mar Hicks's avatar Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social
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Heard about another university going under suddenly this week. Folks, if you are planning or know someone planning to go to college in the next few years, try to find faculty or staff at that institution that can give you the inside scoop, particularly if it’s a smaller or less wealthy school.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Martin Mull, comic actor of ‘Clue,’ ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Arrested Development,’ has died

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Margot Finn's avatar Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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"Those attending The Times’s British Museum Debate, Who Owns the Past?, on July 1 will be among the first to see inside. The plan is for it to house a small permanent exhibition highlighting the history of the room, the illustrious people who used it and mementos such as their readers’ cards."

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Mike Masnick's avatar Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social
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I mean, wouldn't it be great if we could somehow stop cognitive decline? Feels like that would be a pretty big breakthrough.

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Kate Starbird's avatar Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social
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The abuse of public records to attack researchers, a thread: On Tuesday morning of this week (May 21), Matt Taibbi began to send me a series of messages requesting my response to a series of leading questions about public records that he planned to publish as part of an upcoming series of articles.

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David Miller sharing some very hardcore Nazis on the old place

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