Axel Bruns

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Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.

He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺

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🕰️ Bit late in posting this, which is ironic because today's #Brainticket is all about the very early days of #Prog, with deep cuts from Pink Floyd, Vanilla Fudge, Frank Zappa, Bodast, Amon Düül I, Älgarnas Trädgård, Nice, Tomorrow, King Crimson, Stones, and Beatles. 🕵️

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🕰️ Bit late in posting this, which is ironic because today's #Brainticket is all about the very early days of #Prog, with deep cuts from Pink Floyd, Vanilla Fudge, Frank Zappa, Bodast, Amon Düül I, Älgarnas Trädgård, Nice, Tomorrow, King Crimson, Stones, and Beatles. 🕵️

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I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.

post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!
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Microsoft gave $1 million to the inauguration fund and Satya Nadella sat two seats away from Vance at the WH AI luncheon nine days ago. This is what bending the knee gets you.

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As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

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Made it to <checks notes> Alt-Stralau to see Mondo Drag (with Early Moods opening) at the Neue Zukunft. 🤘 Sadly I’m leaving Berlin a few days too early to also catch Elephant9 at the same venue… ☹️

A very empty stage and room ahead of the Mondo Drag gig.
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Uh-huh, surprisingly honest answer from the AI assistant. Would have been even more useful if #Slideshare had bothered to inform its users proactively about this, rather than throwing out upload error after upload error.

Why are Slideshare uploads no longer working ? Right now, Slideshare uploads aren’t working because there’s an active, known issue on our side. What’s happening: Slideshare presentation uploads are currently unavailable, and viewing private slide decks is also unavailable. What’s not affected: Presentations you already uploaded are unaffected. Status: We’re still investigating and working to restore these features (last update: October 2, 2026). There isn’t anything you need to fix in your account or browser—this is a service-side problem. Please try uploading again later once we’ve restored uploads.
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🇮🇹 This week's episode of #Brainticket returns to Italy at long last, with a selection of old and new #Prog tracks from Acqua Fragile, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, L'Ombra della Sera, La Maschera di Cera, D.F.A., Vieux Carré, and Premiata Forneria Marconi. 🧑‍🍳👌

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