Dr. Jenny Alexander

It's hard to understand how the joint CEOs of the Office for Students, alumni of University of Cambridge and Universities of Bristol & Sussex, came up with this unfair doom-loop... Not alleging malicious social engineering, just good old unconscious bias

A good explainer on the complexities of the 2026 Brazilian election in totality (not just the Presidential result): www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-elect...

More good news in democracy vs wannabe authoritarianism: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

So happy for Brazil and for the planet ❤️

What the ever-loving * is this insanity? "Moral panic creates child cooch inspectorate" should be an Onion headline ONLY

I just saw NAZA, devastatingly clear storytelling; it seems AI targeting by the Israeli state has created video-games style dehumanisation, allowing deliberate "collateral" slaughter of children in Gaza. Kudos to the bravery of the film-makers and those who chose to whistle-blow by participating

"Technical glitches" is the new (im)plausible deniability for anti-democratic tech-overlord decision making

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

I didn't know about Collien Fernandez's case in Germany, suffering intimate partner digital violence (via her husband's secret sexualised impersonation of her online for years, all while she tried to investigate who was tormenting her). Another brave woman: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meta claims it was all a big whoopsie that No Kings organizers were locked out of their accounts as the protests began today

Moving interview with the film-makers about why they made NAZA; to start a conversation about dehumanisation, as something universal, which any society can commit, and (by means of exposure to the reality of its mechanisms in Gaza) a hope to prevent more killing

More than ever looking forward to seeing Alex Gibney's documentary Musk as soon as it's available in the UK - Streisland effect let's go

🚨16 NHS trusts and health boards don't use Palantir's £330m data platform, per Medact FOIs in the Guardian. Greater Manchester called it "retrograde". Birmingham, serving 2m+ people, won't use it. The government can break this contract. It should. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Educational institutions take note...

Shocking disenfranchisment of Indian citizens to tip the electoral scales in the BJP's favour - democratic erosion and ethnic/ religious nationalism are the scourge of our times

Just overwhelmed with sadness by the current awfulness which is happening in UK higher education...

Muskism, Trumpism and Putinism united by oligarchic degeneracy; a desperate hour for Ukraine with profound implications for wider Europe

Wow - apparent unilateral notice fr @brightonuni.bsky.social to withdraw from ALL prior agreements w union brightonucu.bsky.social - wonder how Brighton will do in the National Student Survey next year (staff working conditions are students' learning conditions!)? V. sorry to hear this - solidarity!

"An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness. " In David McKee's kids' book The Magician Who Lost His Magic, Melric the magician began using magic to lazily avoid everyday effort (e.g. making his bed) and lost his magic as a result. Unfortunately relevant...

Ruin a book by adding a word: Far from the Madding Crowd Funding

Next will come US pressure on Ukraine to stop drone strikes on Russian oil refineries, and a GOP mid-terms election strategy which blames higher fuel prices in the US on Ukraine (not the US Strait of Hormuz fiasco) - democracy in Europe is in a vice between twin malevolencies

Perfidious Columbia

A huge political mistake by the UK Greens and not a good look that the leader (Polanski) was absent from the vote

Labour pls hire decent comms people if you're doing this - there's so much material. Make those who lied to the public own it - Rees Mogg's defunct "Minister of Brexit Opportunities" (no one could find any) Boris' example ("champagne in pints" ffs). But be Mamdani-positive - Breturn freedoms

As the RNLI says, "Anyone can drown; no one should."

Get ready for some truly execrable content attempting Starship Troopers without the irony...

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...

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.

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

So glad I came across this gem. 💎 🎵 by Margot Darling

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:

They are a Trumpian party and I for one don't want a "Farage Albert Hall" and goons with shock gloves in our future

Important as the research on the impact of cognitive offloading starts to arrive: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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

The age of slopaganda continues to go well I see

Oh great, this guy gets private views at the British Museum now? www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I regret to inform fellow Brits...

Some good news, now the era of climate disaster is upon us...

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...

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...

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.

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! 🔴🟡⚫️

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