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Madeleine Hunter, PhD

@huntressleine.bsky.social
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Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University. Have brain - will travel.

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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brief hiatus in Wonka-posting to celebrate Richard E. Grant's turn as the world's oldest Make A Wish Foundation recipient. Absolutely fantastic use of the national broadcaster's budget
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Richard E Grant's Joyful Standing Ovation
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Because I'm a scholar of both children's media and adaptation studies who clearly doesn't love myself myself enough, I have sat down to watch Wonka: the Golden Ticket and I am gobsmacked; or perhaps more accurately, gobstoppered
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
While I have been disappointed in many of the Albanese government's recent actions, I do appreciate the drama of this entire spectacle: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare and took months to disclose breach
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Always worth remembering, the only reason we see Barnaby so much on TV is because Hanson, despite 30 years as a politician, cannot find a coherent thought with a map, flash light and two days worth of rations. ABC etc should stop giving Barnaby the free air time and demand the leader of the party.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The age of the stochastic parrot is over. Welcome to the age of the deliberative llama.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
British universities are both thinner and greedier now. They’re thinner in that they’re doing less and offering less (fewer courses, fewer modules, fewer assessments, fewer staff, far less student and staff support). They’re greedier in that they demand more of both students and staff: more money…
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Given the Coalition is now suddenly very concerned over what will happen if people retire while renting, a reminder they knew this was coming while Frydenberg was treasurer - their own review into retirement income highlighted this was a problem. They did nothing. treasury.gov.au/publication/...
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Retirement Income Review - Final Report | Treasury.gov.au
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
next week i am *definitely* printing off a stack of these suckers to scatter about the journalism & mass comms student lounge and the anthro dept’s ethnography library.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"You'll be reassured to know that I threw everyone else under the bus to protect my performance, even though I have the acting chops of a mackerel."
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dave Hughes's 'common sense' is just another rich person whining, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "Hughes’ wealth is neither common, nor his complaints based in sense." www.deepcutnews.com/p/dave-hughe...
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Dave Hughes’s ‘common sense’ is just another rich person whining – Amy Remeikis
We hear too often about the concerns of the rich, and not enough about the concerns of Australia’s silenced majority
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Charging money for Content is dishonorable. Sophist behavior. A true visionary, in the tradition of the great Socrates, is annoying for free
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The thing is - Coles and Woolworths don't compete on prices - they compete on plastic shite giveaways
Screenshot: Australia news live: Coles blames competitor’s Ooshies for slowing sales; young people the first generation to earn less than their parents at same age
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Data centres to consume nearly as much power as every home in NSW and Victoria by 2036 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Forecasts reveal effect of data centre rush on electricity grid
The rush of AI data centres is expected to put a larger burden on the electricity grid than previously estimated, with projects in development more than doubling in a year.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today in people who really didn't need to do this: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/k...
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Kit Harington Cast in ‘Harry Potter’ Season 2 as Gilderoy Lockhart, Replacing Nicholas Hoult
The 'Game of Thrones' star will play the fan-favorite character in Harry Potter season two.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
To get back to March 1996 level, Jobseeker would need to go from $808.70 a fortnight to around $1,050
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Among the 1,500 developer comments Flock forgot to strip from its code is a reference to a secret “Easter egg” they built for cops: press F + S and a flock of birds flies across the screen Here’s what the bird button looks like
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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University suspends US academic leading Jason Arday plagiarism accusations
Researcher Nathan Cofnas, an outspoken critic of DEI, was himself sacked from Cambridge in 2024 over his views on race.
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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
CFP!!! Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Please circulate
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We’re just innocent men
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today in disappointed but not remotely surprised...
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We’re watching all of this roll out as if we have no choice, as if it’s inevitable, as if AI is just something we’re going to have to adapt to". @rbreich.bsky.social in a 🔥 op-ed about how important it is to push back tech bros' AI inevitability narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich
The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future?
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A Nightmare on Nat Street 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ally Pankiw (I Used to Be Funny) revealed in an Instagram post that she passed on directing the HBO Harry Potter series. Kate Herron (Loki) revealed in the comments that she passed on directing episodes TWICE. It really is that fucking easy. It's really just that easy.
Text messages:

"I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask."

"Harry Potter? Hard no?"

"Absolutely fucking not!" Lol"

"But thank you got asking."

"Of course :)"

"I assumed as much"

"And agree)
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I've never felt so totally and painfully seen
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library
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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Did you know the @uaw.org used to have a Film Division? The office lent our educational films to union locals, and even made some movies for its library. These short films covered everything from legislative issues, to equality, to how the UAW operates. Photos from the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Display on UAW film lending library program.UAW film library at international headquarters.Demonstration on film reel projectors.UAW Film Division catalog.
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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A warm THANK YOU to all the members & the Trustees who turned out for the AGM today. Minutes to follow. For the latest news you can use, check newly renovated website (thanks, @huntressleine.bsky.social!) -- now better than ever! www.adaptation.uk.com
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The Association of Adaptation Studies
The AAS is the Association of Adaptation Studies
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Every SA voter should read this exposé of Premier Malinauskas and Newscorp in bed together, with taxpayers paying for the silk sheets and pillow cases. Oh, and some other very big corps are paying for the mattress and quilt. #SleezyAffair #saparli #auspol
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Back-Scratching. Premier Malinauskus’ love-in with Newscorp exposed - Michael West
Rex Patrick FOIs expose the cosy relationship between SA Premier Peter Malinauskas and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and its large advertisers
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Algae too
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don't know why but the decision to stylize his name as 'Mr BEAST' is absolutely sending me. Also a wild move for someone already annoyed about comparisons to Squid Game: www.harpercollins.com/pages/themos...
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The Most Dangerous Games by MrBeast & James Patterson
THE BOOK EVENT OF THE YEAR: An unprecedented blockbuster collaboration between MrBeast, the world’s #1 creator with more than a billion followers, and James Patterson, the world’s #1 bestselling autho...
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Watching the first episode of Tip Toe and it is certainly an indictment of the current historical moment, but perhaps not quite in the way it intends...
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Well... that didn't take long kidscreen.com/2026/05/29/j...
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Jorge R. Gutierrez drops Amazon gen-AI series after backlash
The seasoned creator won't be making one of three projects that drew widespread condemnation (and industry ire in a Kidscreen poll).
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/05/2026
“If working hard isn’t enough to buy you a stable roof over your head, what next?” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director of The Australia Institute. Read the full article ⬇️ theaus.in/4twfeOb
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au
Chart showing level of unemployment benefits relative to the poverty line. It's now at 42% below. In 2007 it was 43%, in 1996 it was 25%
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I want a prize for photojournalism awarded to whoever was responsible for this picture - don't care of we need to make one up but the accomplishment needs to be recognized bbc.com/news/article...
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Police escort for Paddington statue dumped in Southampton park
Paddington was reported missing days after being reinstalled in Southampton's Guildhall Square.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Recession tornado siren.
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Can someone explain Michael (2026) to me? How is it that every industry newsletter and trend forecast I receive keeps telling me this thing is going up and up and up, but all the reviews and press I see are uniformly bad? What is happening here?
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Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This video is solely responsible for our whole Media Industries and Audiences cohort having to think about Mr Beast next week as part of our module on Children's Media; it just has to be done
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
That not one member of the NPC board has resigned is pretty damning.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Just as with the last federal election, more people voted against conservative candidates in South Australia, than for them. And yet policy and media is still dictated by conservative politics and whether or not there is ‘political space’ to enact them 🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Disney historians take note: there‘s a great new book coming out next month! Roland Betancourt‘s „Disneyland and the Rise of Automation“ with Princeton UP that I had the pleasure of writing a blurb for. Get it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
“Deeply researched, brilliantly written, and wonderfully illustrated, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation is a tour de force. Betancourt outlines the key role automation has played in the history of theme parks at large and Disneyland in particular, filling an important gap in US postwar and Disney history. This is a must-read for scholars and fans alike.”—Sabrina Mittermeier, author of A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 26/03/2026
Our co-founder and art director rommy torrico just received their FUCK THE ALGORITHM bandana. A reminder that we are donating proceeds this month to the CLEAN Carwash Workers Center. Get yours: f.mtr.cool/auwfncidyx
A person holds up a bright pink bandana with the words FUCK THE ALGORITHM on it, there are drawings of venus flytraps and other messages like "trans rights," "defund cops," and "free Palestine."
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I want to be clear that a load bearing pillar of fighting fascism is exactly this
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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The bodycam footage of Stevie Lee's death is horrific. The Qld Coroner refuses to release it. open.substack.com/pub/amymcqui...
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The bodycam footage of Stevie Lee's death is horrific. The Qld Coroner refuses to release it.
In 2021, a neighbour called the cops on a young Aboriginal man sitting in a car. Within an hour, he was pronounced dead. Now, his family continue their fight for justice.
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