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Alexandrine Kantor

@alexakantor.bsky.social
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Oxford UK / supports the #LibDems, UK + former Cllr / CEng / University of Oxford + She/Her + #Bi + Autistic+ADHD + French/British -> my views my own <- linktr.ee/alexa.kantor

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What is genuinely fascinating about this is in general the answers are not true. The “Gails = Lib Dems” thing is not true! A thing called “matcha” is available wherever there’s a Greggs!
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh well
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Elmo I Don't Know Idk
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the largest donor to republicans created a child pornography generator and he is most likely responsible for more child pornography and non-consensual sexual imagery being publicly distributed than any one person in the history of the planet
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Alexandrine Kantor @alexakantor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pretty sure my line management wrote a process that put all the middle management out of work. Suspecting the AI prompt was like : write a process where X does everything but make sure they know I'm in charge. I'm confused 🤣 the tick box at the end makes it the replaceable part easy?
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Confused Math Lady Meme
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Re today's viral study, the overlapping blue and green data show that *before AI existed*, students studied for identical amount of time as students who now refuse AI. But now 80% of students use AI and study far less. Look at the tail end of distribution. This is criminal.
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Alexandrine Kantor @alexakantor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the British press hounds people to their death on a semi regular basis and i think perhaps we should stop them doing that
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I will never get over how disrespectful most genAI use it. People are doing everything in their power to trick you into reading slop because they don't respect you enough to actually take the time to write the thing they nevertheless expect you to take the time to read. Scamtech for scammers.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11/08/2026
This is fucking insane. More flights means more climate crisis. There is no plan, not Sustainable Airline Fuels, not Hydrogen planes, not electric planes, that is grounded in reality at all. It’s all bullshit designed to confuse morons like this government into approving expansions like this.
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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Feminism is when you refer to women as "Females".
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There's no way that this new AI image generation feature in Google Earth, one of the most reliable sources of visual evidence for journalists and researchers, could possibly be abused to spread misinformation online and damage trust in satellite images. Absolutely no cause for concern here at all.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Besides the ethical and environmental implications, besides the concerns about quality and cognitive surrender, I just cannot get over the simple illogic of companies not pausing to wonder where the mid-level and senior employees of the 2030's will come from if they're not hiring juniors now?
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Doctors hoped to repair that… It would be a clinical trial of one, funded in part by $860,000 the parents had scraped together from their own savings and from relatives.” The girl died a week after receiving the experimental treatment. Then her story was hidden. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Actual professor of genetics Adam Rutherford says 'no he hasn't'. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs
‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 22/07/2026
An absolutely gorgeous piece of in-depth coverage by @britishcomedy.bsky.social for It’s a Superpower?? This says everything we want to about the show and we’re so excited for you all to read all about our amazing team and our characters.
comedy.co.uk
Audio sitcom for autistic people launched - British Comedy Guide
It's A Superpower??, an audio sitcom about members of an autism support group who acquire magic powers, is being released online. Guest stars include…
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20/07/2026
How smart home devices have given abusive partners a new tool to remotely manipulate, intimidate, and disturb their victims, in a form of tech-assisted abuse (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this shot is so bleak lmao
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Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · 19/07/2026
Infantino trying to drag Trump out of Spain's celebration makes it all the more perfect
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.
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Alexandrine Kantor @alexakantor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That final #worldcup ⚽ is so damn tacky and cringe. I want to hide and even had nothing to do with it
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Spirit of the Spooptober Revolution @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ever feel like you've been cheated? Why Andy Burnham's reported appointment of Shabana Mahmood as his Chancellor is leaving many of his left-wing backers feeling duped bylinetimes.com/2026/07/17/a...
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Andy Burnham Making Shabana Mahmood Chancellor Would Resurrect the Failed Politics of Morgan McSweeney
If the incoming Prime Minister does buckle to media and city pressure not to appoint Ed Miliband as Chancellor it will be an ominous sign of things to come, argues Adam Bienkov
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/07/2026
Andy Burnham is going directly against the 2024 Labour manifesto by doing this (as the BBC correctly and prominently notes). That opens a door that his team have tried hard to keep shut. If he can go against the manifesto for *this*, he will hear, why not for other issues?
bbc.co.uk
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No pressure lads but the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom is at stake.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
No one is obligated to be kind about someone who would never have been kind about them.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
speaking as a metalhead: the guy who hasn't removed his nazi tattoo is not a guy you want to be around. I don't care what he says about how he got it. if he didn't get it covered or lasered, you cannot trust him.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Congratulations to everyone involved in this travesty when actual artists were available. But actual congratulations to Tim Butters for ripping into the AI slop like a shark at an all you can eat chum bucket. #NoToAI #FairPayForArtists
abergavennychronicle.com
Town Council use AI to promote Abergavenny’s town of culture bid
What were they thinking?
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Paul S Kemp @paulskemp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
There isn't any reasonable debate to be had about this. If a worker wants to work remote, and has a job that they can do remotely, they should be allowed to work remotely.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/06/2026
whether you're bombarded by slop, or losing your job, or acquiring new forms of psychosis, or killing yourself trying to keep up with an endless treadmill of perceived hyperproductivity, the AI future has a flavor of misery for everyone!
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...
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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It's also the least needed thing imaginable. There are so many trail cams, zoo cams, incredible nature photographers both amateur and professional, and millions of pet owners taking and sharing pictures. There have never been more real, freely available high quality pictures and videos of animals.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
when AI companies go bankrupt
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy with “AI” on his chest is falling backwards off a cliff. A Purple Guy is running to “save him”

Panels 2-4: Close up of Purple Guy’s hands gradually going from outstretched fingers to a closed fist

Panel 5: Red Guy falls backwards off the cliff while Purple Guy does nothing but show him his middle finger.
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Frank Swain @frank-swain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2026
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is what’s called ‘soft’ climate change denial, which is arguably more damaging that the more classical (‘hard’ denial) kind. People are being actively discouraged to think about reality.
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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.
Screenshot from Politico.
Headline: Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Standfirst: Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Remember, no matter how hot it gets, don’t forget to save your water for the data centres. Drinking water is a waste…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Canicule: France records the hottest day of its recorded history
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Your wages will rise... weekly food shops will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy... Politicians both local and national will become more accountable..." A quick reminder of how Brexit was sold to us ten years ago today
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.
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Alexandrine Kantor @alexakantor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Looking at the UK news, you'd never think we have a deadly heatwave ongoing. Is there even any public health messaging?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Why Does a Suspected Anti-Muslim Attack Barely Make the News?" Zeteo UK's Shehab Khan on the double standards from politicians & the media when it comes to attacks on Muslims. No front page headlines on Edinburgh; no Cobra meeting; no sustained outrage. Read/share/subscribe:
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Why Does a Suspected Anti-Muslim Attack Barely Make the News?
The political and media reaction to a knife-wielding man allegedly attacking Muslims in Edinburgh raises uncomfortable questions about whose safety Britain takes seriously.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My views on this are entirely unchanged from when I was 8. Nothing special is happening out there. I do not wish to run anywhere or kick a ball. Fuck off and leave me alone.
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