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Andrew Birmingham

@andrewbirmingham.bsky.social
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Infinitely curious. In my day job I'm a reporter for Mi3 Australia covering the intersection of media, marketing and technology. At night, I'm building an army of undead journos at www.unprompted.news/news

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Rupert Murdoch enters the chat.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
One for my Gen Z connections. All those cheap shoes, bags, and clothes from Temu and Shein come with a very big cost, as my colleague Kalila Welch reports www.mi-3.com.au/25-03-2025/g... #sustainability
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Cost vs climate: Why are Australia's younger, most eco-conscious generations powering $3bn sales at China's fast fashion, homewares and landfill ecom duo? | Mi3
Australians lead the world per capita in buying fashion - 56 items per year, ahead of the US. And as a trimmed down Australian Fashion Week kicks off in a few weeks, China's fast commerce and fast fas...
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just me, being a thought leader 😱😱😱 (Quite a sweary thought leader) www.linkedin.com/posts/philsi...
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I'm going to very immodestly say the piece I published today, based on my… | Phil Sim
I'm going to very immodestly say the piece I published today, based on my interview with Andrew Birmingham 🕵️‍♂️ on his AI journalism experiment is a cracker.…
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Me, doing my day job. It turns out that treating your staff with the same courtesy as your customers drives revenue. Sounds dangerously woke. www.mi-3.com.au/25-03-2025/K...
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Just me doing my day job. Whatever happened to 'Life wasn't meant to be easy' ? www.mi-3.com.au/24-03-2025/z...
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From Zaphod Beeblebrox to 'Chat Checkouts': Customers aren't on your journeys, they're the fulcrum around which your brand's universe revolves | Mi3
In the age of the 'blue dot' consumer — that blue dot in Google Maps or on Uber — your brand doesn’t guide the journey. Instead, it orbits the customer. That’s the core message from customer experienc...
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Absolutely wild. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Maybe a bloke with so many conflicts of interest shouldn't be in that role to begin with.
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Oz Wiltshire. @ozwiltshire.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
So it wasn't my imagination.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How it started How it's going
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Back in Australia. Really weird to to warm again.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I can’t compete with this
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This would annoy Trump so Bigly.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
LAX was basically empty at 1 pm on a Monday when I arrived. Salt Lake City was quiet when I left despite the ending of a big tech conference the night before. The US economy is about to tank massively.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Huh
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Time to start the long haul home. 14 hours. Ugh. Back again for a month in seven weeks time.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Somehow I have found myself with a belly full of beer at a Gwen Stefani concert
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Cluster, meet fuck.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Obligatory morning selfie on the way out the door to experience 2 degrees on a brisk early walk
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ok so this is cool. My first NBA game.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It's weird, all these people being erased seem to have something in common but I can't put my white finger on it ....
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Big Breaking News from the Qualtrics X4 conference I'm attending in Salt Lake City! KFC to launch new fry in Australia. 🤤🤤🤤 You may return to your mundane humdrum existence
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Minus 6??! Since when do the numbers go backward?
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Ok, that's quite a bit of snow now.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Snow!
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Snowman, Salk Lake City.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Yay! Snow!
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The first item on today's Qualtrics X4 conference agenda is breakfast. Second agenda item - a scarf.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Salt Lake City at last. What a trek.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Awesome. Been waiting 5 hours for a flight and just learned it's been delayed by 90 mins. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is officially Airport-Beer o'clock.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Hey @peterduttonmpposts.bsky.social I'm a dual citizen. Been here since I was 3. My kids are dual citizens. They were born here. One of them has never left the country. Why don't you go and politely root your own boot.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Holy fucking racist Nazis Batman! America is chalked. "On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”. " www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Just deleted X. It was utterly toxic by the end.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
50 bucks says Elon Musk is the first American billionaire to mysteriously go out of a window in the dead of night.
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Barba Papa 🏳️‍🌈 The Bear Did Lady @thebeardidlady.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ferrari: fast Lamborghini: faster Tesla: fascist
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Me, on Threads (which is proving surprisingly good tbh). If you are over there, say hi.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“American techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with. It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE … rampages through the federal government.”
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Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
To repeat: Musk is an enemy of America; enemy of Europe; enemy of the West; enemy of democracy.
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Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies
Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I was right
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I had to bring this here because it’s so good
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Fucking around and finding out doo da doo da ...
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Shout out to my tech mates: I'm spending a month in the US in May studying agentic AI, and its impact on marketing, media and commerce. And I'm looking to load the calendar up with interviews. If you have any suggestions drop me a line.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Saturday mornings are for cafes and dog watching.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/03/2025
Gas company tax is paying for the wages of nurses? Yeah. Nah. Over the past decade, nurses paid more tax than oil & gas companies Gas companies are taking the piss. #OffTheCharts @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @markogge.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/nurses-...
Graph showing that from 2014-15 to 2023-24 nurses paid and average of $5.2bn in income tax each year while oil and gas companies paid $4.5bn in company tax and PRRT
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Nah, they should appoint the current head of the Communications Security Establishment who will almost certainly have viewed TRUMP's pee-pee tape and will know all of the other reliable blackmail material.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Friday after dinner and drink with Mini-Me 2.0 at the Toxteth in Glebe. Hello weekend. Where have you been all my week. The dog board at the Toxteth is just one more reason i love this pub.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I wish there was a Labor Party I could vote for. Alas those days are gone.
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Andrew Birmingham @andrewbirmingham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
America.
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