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Andrew Birmingham

@andrewbirmingham.bsky.social

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 https://www.unprompted.news/news

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Rupert Murdoch enters the chat.

26.03.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6038    πŸ” 1659    πŸ’¬ 241    πŸ“Œ 75
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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...

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

26.03.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ on his AI journalism experiment is a cracker.…

Just me, being a thought leader 😱😱😱 (Quite a sweary thought leader) www.linkedin.com/posts/philsi...

26.03.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

25.03.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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' consumerΒ β€” that blue dot in Google Maps or on UberΒ β€” your brand doesn’t guide the journey. Instead, it orbits the customer. That’s the core message from customer experienc...

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...

25.03.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Absolutely wild. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

24.03.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe a bloke with so many conflicts of interest shouldn't be in that role to begin with.

24.03.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So it wasn't my imagination.

23.03.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2
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How it started

How it's going

24.03.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Back in Australia.
Really weird to to warm again.

22.03.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can’t compete with this

22.03.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11542    πŸ” 1464    πŸ’¬ 455    πŸ“Œ 129
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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

22.03.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 49029    πŸ” 15045    πŸ’¬ 2578    πŸ“Œ 1795

This would annoy Trump so Bigly.

22.03.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

22.03.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Huh

22.03.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 31006    πŸ” 6058    πŸ’¬ 1090    πŸ“Œ 607

Time to start the long haul home. 14 hours. Ugh.

Back again for a month in seven weeks time.

22.03.2025 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not an ex Prime Minister.

22.03.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow I have found myself with a belly full of beer at a Gwen Stefani concert

21.03.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cluster, meet fuck.

20.03.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Obligatory morning selfie on the way out the door to experience 2 degrees on a brisk early walk

20.03.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They've probably burned a couple tho.

20.03.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm basically a hobbit

20.03.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok so this is cool. My first NBA game.

20.03.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's weird, all these people being erased seem to have something in common but I can't put my white finger on it ....

19.03.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Dutton and the Politics of Bullshit: Conservatives are Copying the Worst of America Peter Dutton lies. He lies the way a butcher swings a cleaver: forcefully, deliberately, and without much concern for what’s left on the cutting room floor.

I'll let my politics robo-journo speak for us all: www.unprompted.news/peter-dutton...

19.03.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

19.03.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minus 6??!

Since when do the numbers go backward?

19.03.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok, that's quite a bit of snow now.

19.03.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snow!

18.03.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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