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Dr. Jenny Alexander

@drjennya.bsky.social
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Lectures in Media & Politics UK (views own not employer's). Teaches Enviro Comms. Born 325ppm CO2, Loves human-created art > AI, LGB w the T 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As the RNLI says, "Anyone can drown; no one should."
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Get ready for some truly execrable content attempting Starship Troopers without the irony...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This Asmodei essay worries about "problems in execution" but not about problems in extinction; AI is here dematerialised; the climate catastrophe of energy/water hungry data centres absent. The other big lacuna is the assumption the US will still be a democracy: darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The horror of AI generated slop, and the indifference towards its social harms from social media platforms where it is posted, continues... I do not want the world it is manufacturing, all while accelerating climate breakdown. Futurism are doing great journalism in this space @futurism.com
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 04/09/2026
So glad I came across this gem. 💎 🎵 by Margot Darling
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They are a Trumpian party and I for one don't want a "Farage Albert Hall" and goons with shock gloves in our future
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Important as the research on the impact of cognitive offloading starts to arrive: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
THIS IS THE WAY - Education is faced with an issue of inter-generational justice; youth should not be deprived of the ability to think critically, hard-won over generations (e.g increasing literacy rates), by the seduction of GenAI cognitive offloading, leading to dependency on tech oligarchy
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The age of slopaganda continues to go well I see
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Oh great, this guy gets private views at the British Museum now? www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Peter Thiel Palantir
Alt: A gif of Peter Thiel's character in Southpark giving his deranged sing-a-long exposition about the Anti-Christ to a bunch of the non-plussed Southpark kids
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I regret to inform fellow Brits...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some good news, now the era of climate disaster is upon us...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think back to Greta Thunberg's prophetic "How dare you!" speech at the UN in 2019: "entire ecosystems are collapsing.. and all you can talk about is money" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn
Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI datacentres are part of the climate crisis: "Early in the AI boom, in 2023, US data centers consumed 176 terawatt-hours of electricity, roughly as much as the entire nation of Ireland... that’s expected to double or even triple as soon as 2028." www.lincolninst.edu/publications...
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Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 27/08/2026
Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This trend, we've seen on the ground for a while - hence why the current slash-and-burn of courses across the country, esp Humanities & Social Sciences, reduces choice for students without wealthier parents - the opposite of Labour values, but 🦗🦗🦗https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70gy180e8lo
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More students planning to live at home for uni over 'insane' living costs
Students like Jessica say they worry about missing out on student life, but feel they have no choice but to stay at home.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Excellent journalism highlighting the toxic ideology of "race realism" and its funders
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AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think this fantastic essay is probably the last word on the Odyssey discourse newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Odyssey Wars
Christopher Nolan’s latest film is a commentary on a world where rules have collapsed and might makes right; it is also a repudiation of the right’s culture wars
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I feel this deeply - the march of the slop machine vs freedom of thought "..an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking, for experiment and conquering frustration, for stamina and for invention – and thereby, between the young people and their freedom"
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Bin off the fash with this cheery Count Binface ad 🌞
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
'So, yes, you are historians and we will all continue to be historians after we leave Exeter. You will continue to be historians because we need you. Society, the world, needs you.' #HistoryForever Sign the petition against redundancies at Exeter: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
A group of world leading historians in their finery, some in gowns, stand together under a tree. Some carry signs saying 'Historian at risk', other raise a glass to the camera.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Ancient Greeks knew how to recognise a colossal case of hubris when they saw one: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choices
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Generative AI adding some guano to yet another area of human endeavour...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Nolan's #TheOdyssey is a v. serious version 4 serious times; Odysseus less a trickster and more a war-survivor wracked by guilt. It bears the truism war is shit for women & an omen that downfall comes to rulers and nations who make enemies of their trading partners...
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Peter Thiel, hosted by James Orr, delivered his "Antichrist" lectures "in the Ramsden Room of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge" (Jan 2026) & at the dinner afterwards reportedly said that Tolkien's Saruman and Sauron were "deeply misunderstood" #billionairebrainworms bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When AI slop replaces local artists, local life is impoverished www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Artists criticise council for using AI in Scarborough history trail
Designs were commissioned from agency - but local artists say they used to be paid for similar work.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
So impressed by the climate scientist communicators fired by the Trump admin from NOAA who built this alternative resource to preserve the vital work of informing the public about climate impacts www.climate.us
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 11/07/2026
After the Trump administration deleted government sites that helped visitors understand global heating, scientists, nonprofits, academic institutions, and former federal workers joined forces to re-publish the information and protect it from future political attacks. By Kate Yoder for @grist.org:
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The plan to make climate science harder to erase
As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"Language is one of the things making us human and all of a sudden a mediator is stepping into that process." GenAI appears deeply susceptible to, potentially, operating as a propaganda machine for the tech overlords (whether that be a government or a private company)...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What a beautiful letter across generations...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"What is certain, though, is that the land cannot withstand these centres’ immense demand for water. According to analysis by the Guardian, two-thirds of planned datacentres in the US are in drought-stricken areas" - a stark depiction of the conflict between transhumanism vs ecologism
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Love is love in Hungary - the beautiful end of Orban's "illiberal democracy" 🏳️‍🌈
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Yet Farage claims Harborne's £5mil donation to him is "not public's business" (DeSmog's research below reveals Harborne's co AML Global supplies aviation and maritime fuel to oil companies) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business'
Rival parties have raised concerns over the gift received by the Reform UK leader before he became an MP.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"...disproportionate targeting of the very disciplines to which Exeter largely owes its membership of the Russell Group..." In an era of disinfo, climate breakdown, oligarchic surge & profound social impacts of AI, Humanities & Social Sciences are keys freeing our minds by giving us tools to think
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Solidarity to the victim-survivors who sought justice for what this powerful man did to them as children. We all know how harrowing it is for sexual abuse victims to come forward. Their courage is immense.
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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White Dominoes Falling
ALT: White Dominoes Falling
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Solidarity w Parastoo Ahmadi and colleagues. Women are prohibited from singing publicly in Iran; the barbarism of this violence, against music of such beauty and courage, should remind us that however funny the anti-Trump lego propaganda is, there are no "good guys" in the US/ Iran regime conflict
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Rogue Trooper sounds great (no AI a massive plus). I, and many others watch films for ALL the craft, as well as the narrative. I love to hear about the skillsets people behind the scenes bring, whether that's animation or sword-forging, puppetry or location scouting.
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Interesting from the Observer. Don't agree with all of it, but I hope Labour learn from the disastrous, McSweeney "punch a hippy" strategy. Lib Dem + Greens voters need respect if they are to lend their votes tactically to stop the far-right observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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The anti-Reform vote helped Burnham win Makerfield, not f...
Last week’s byelection shows just how important tactical voting has become in our fractured political system
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Summer Solstice! A day us humans have been celebrating for many millenia. This image is from the Tanum Scandanavian Rock Art Research Centre in Sweden (Bronze age) www.rockartscandinavia.com/rock-art-mot...
Scandanavia rock art showing a big red sun being touched by various human figures, with some reindeer-like animals included (the red colouring is a later addition)
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It seems we need a #freethink movement...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Oligarchic overlords with fascist tendencies huffing money from a product that degrades people's abilities to think for themselves - a sci-fi novel I want to read, but not a world I want to live in...
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Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I really, really hate this timeline...
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