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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One wonders. I miss bulletin board systems and IRC

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Every few weeks I think about this and remember how amazing the internet was in the 1990s, and all we have lost in the era of commodified social media Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds (published one year ago) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

But have you heard about how AI is actually going to [insert custom verb here to sound more human] more jobs?

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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Absolutely chuffed that my PhD thesis Envisaging simulation and its limits: Large Language Models From Architecture, to Interface, to Ideology has passed examination with no revisions and was nominated by both examiners to receive an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award :D

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Very interesting new social media data collection tool. Top of the reading list 👀 arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01460

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Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Reports suggest US agencies are using over-classification to hide embarrassing information which violates US law restricting classification to national security requirements. steadystate1.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

steadystate1.substack.com

An Open Letter to Current Federal National Security Employees Regarding Classification

The Steady State

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is Andriy, he was only 15, a 9th-grade student. Yesterday, a Russian missile strike Pryluky killed him🕯💔 Witnesses say he was simply walking down the street when a missile fragment pierced his chest and abdomen. He later passed away in the hospital from his injuries.

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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is making a massive fantasy proc-gen world to explore, with puzzles, secrets, and lost artifacts to discover. What special things will players find in your turn-based game? Follow @Byte-Arcane.itch.io and show us in tomorrow's thread!

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thanks so much, Mathieu. Full credit to Matt Garrow who commissioned the piece and to my coauthors. Hopefully it helps offer some hard data to regulators

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thank you so much! A lot of amazing viz work by Matt Garrow from The Conversation, who was the editor for the piece

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A truly fascinating visualization (which we only can dream of for our reports) Also an impressive hypothesis —which will hopefully survive peer review.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Something strange is happening in the markets just before President Trump posts on Truth Social. Our latest article (with @phzerosounds.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy) tells a visual story via a large-scale empirical analysis. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...

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The market moves before Trump posts

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?

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Stephen Harrington @phzerosounds.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Very happy to have this piece out in @aunz.theconversation.com today, alongside my good colleagues @timothyjgraham.bsky.social and Ella Chorazy, looking at weird stuff happening in the oil markets before Trump posts to Truth Social. stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...

stories.theconversation.com

The market moves before Trump posts

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

2026: every world event is now also a conspiracy theory about Polymarket insider trading Time to update all social theory for the new ontological a priori: gambling

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I knew I detected Orbital! One of my fav outfits from the 90s and early 2k - Halcyon On and On was the soundtrack to my first year of undergrad. Wow I feel privileged getting this insight. It’s a remarkable piece of work. It’s truly inseparable from the gameplay and the game universe for me.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Hey! Can I ask where you got your inspiration from for the FTL soundtrack? Like, where did the influences, if any, come from? How did you find that vibe?

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Truly an honour to contribute to this special issue alongside this all-star lineup of scholars. RIP Twitter 🪦 and thank you @snurb.info and @hermida.bsky.social for bringing this special issue together 🙏

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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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...

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I actually set up a bot to spam replies to one of them - harmless stuff and labeled as a bot - and he blocked it 🤷

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Back in the halcyon Twitter days there used to be a small group of researchers and internet pundits who tried to “debunk” the field of social boy research, under the proviso that such bots didn’t exist and, if they did, couldn’t do anything meaningfully harmful or impactful

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Laure, at this point I’m afraid to ask. Good to see the reality of this - even if it’s professionalised now, unfortunately. There’s still people out there who are “bot denialists”.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hey, it’s from a TikTok account www.tiktok.com/discover/sho...

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/04/2026

We've built a searchable & visual database of every X's Community Notes ever proposed. 2 million & counting. The dashboard displays both visible notes (those shown publicly on X) & not-yet-visible notes (proposed notes that have not yet met the visibility thresholds). notetracker.socialmedialab.ca

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Daily reminder: do not give Tucker Carlson any attention. He is a grifter and a sophist, and he is part of the reason we are here right now facing domestic threats to global peace and wellbeing.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is the one where the only surviving people on earth are four stranded astronauts who were on a moon mission when the deranged lunatic in charge of the -

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

FIFA World Peace Prize material right here. This is a sickening sentence for anyone to utter - let alone the sitting US President.

Trump saying a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

That’s true, though to be fair this looks less politically motivated/driven and more economic - at least from the evidence available. It’s clickbaity slop that causes political consequences, certainly, but that seems less of a concern than simply finding stuff people click on and like

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Latest commentary from me and @snurb.info in this excellent investigative piece by Michael Workman and the ABC NEWS Verify team Generative AI and its intersection with engagement-driven social media logics continues to be a thorn in the side of democracy... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

abc.net.au

Foreign Facebook pages have been promoting One Nation. It wants them to stop

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation uncovers a raft of foreign Facebook accounts targeting Australian users. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

How have I only just discovered this game? Spoilers: it does have some graphic content at the end, but it speaks so much to our media system and the attention economy ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

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We Become What We Behold by Nicky Case!

a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation. tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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AI-generated Iran war videos surge as creators use new tech to cash in

The US-Israel war with Iran is being monetised by online creators with AI-generated misinformation.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Congratulations Dan!!! Very proud supervisor moment

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Dan @dannno0o.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Super thrilled to have completed my final seminar today and to be told that I’m almost ready to lodge my thesis for examination :”) huge thanks to my supervisors @timothyjgraham.bsky.social @petamitchell.bsky.social and Benjamin Nicoll for their help over the past three years

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thanks. My point is: focus on the substantive findings of the Nature paper, which is the focus of the article. Whether Moses was racist or not is beyond the point. Infrastructure embeds politics - this we know. If social media is infrastructure, then we ought to understand how it is political.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thanks Tilman - fair point. But it is contested and not “largely debunked” - I kindly suggest to read beyond the first google result. It’s an illustrative example, at any rate. The Nature paper and my empirical research provide the core evidence. Along with a growing body of research.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Do it! That old traditional roguelike I’ve been working on since before Covid finally has a build almost ready. It’s super CoQ inspired! If you’re interested I’ll send a link - I’ll pop it on itch soon

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