Dr. Jenny Alexander
@drjennya.bsky.social
490 followers 1.5K following 390 posts
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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drjennya.bsky.social
Important piece about Republican disinformation passed off as "bad memes" #polcomm
matthew.flux.community
There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.

It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.

They have no actual violent footage to put forward.
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
drjennya.bsky.social
Thanks for trying - digital dark ages indeed!
drjennya.bsky.social
Wow I hope someone downloaded it!
drjennya.bsky.social
To have people you love simply being disappeared to ICE sites... feels, in protean form, so chillingly akin to the systematic disappearances under the Videla dictatorship in Argentina
billwearsties.bsky.social
Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
drjennya.bsky.social
The de-recognition and othering of trans and enby people in the US and UK is one of the most shameful and appalling elements in our turbulent backlash times
charlottegarden.bsky.social
Here's the operative portion of the memo. It is ominous but also vague, which will pressure admins towards overcompliance.
Current state and federal law recognize only two human sexes: male and female, as outlined in House Bill 229, Governor's Letter, and Executive Order. Therefore, while recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity, faculty must comply with these laws in the instruction of students, within the course and scope of their employment.  As a system, our role is to provide clarity and guidance to administration, ensuring that each university fulfills its legal obligations. I appreciate your continued diligence in reviewing course materials, curricula, syllabi, and other instructional documents and following established procedures to make timely adjustments where needed.
drjennya.bsky.social
Amazing reporting - chaos monkeys trashing the public service machine...
evystadium.bsky.social
What was it like when the DOGE overlords infiltrated the government? “For five months we were instructed to bring in our own toilet paper. I literally kept two rolls at my desk. I wish I were joking.” 🙃
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
Reposted by Dr. Jenny Alexander
Reposted by Dr. Jenny Alexander
donmoyn.bsky.social
Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains
drjennya.bsky.social
Shocking to see and solidarity with those staff. No nation or its people is immune to democratic backsliding. For Hannah Arendt there is ever present danger of the disempowerment of the people in representative democracy, making them susceptible to autocratic elites cloaked in populism.
drjennya.bsky.social
AI will make our lives better, they said...
mharrisondupre.bsky.social
NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce.

In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners.

futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...
Futurism

Poison Tongue

Sep 18, 11:05 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

"My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why."

Image: A frustrated-looking woman holding up her phone to a man who looks confused.
drjennya.bsky.social
Just deleted my account - so done with GenAI content theft and this new T&Cs identity theft
wolvendamien.bsky.social
In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.
By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services
drjennya.bsky.social
"The slide toward competitive authoritarianism in America depends, crucially, on acquiescence — on the idea that people are unwilling to bear the costs of standing up to each individual attack on liberty before they can combine into true authoritarian control over society"
drjennya.bsky.social
Important work here - I fear we are sleepwalking towards a hostile take-over of British democracy by US techno-fascism
bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour

A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/p...
Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour
A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK
bylinetimes.com
drjennya.bsky.social
More AI theft incoming - but at least there's an opt out!
elinorcarmi.bsky.social
LinkedIn is changing its terms of use and will automatically opt you in to use your data for training their AI models...

Make sure you opt out in the settings..

I guess it's nice of them to warm people? 🥲

Great to see all those privacy by design regulations doing its magic 🫠
Settings LinkedIn use of data for AI
drjennya.bsky.social
WTF - always read the smallprint!
nposegay.bsky.social
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
drjennya.bsky.social
Great post on how gotcha social media virality is the goal
drjennya.bsky.social
The arc of the political economy of social media bending the algos towards... whatever their billionnaire owners want to bend them towards
jennycohn.bsky.social
As predicted: “Oracle [founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison], Andreessen Horowitz [founded by Trump/Thiel ally Marc Andreessen] consortium will control 80% of TikTok…” 9/16/25

Ellison & Andreessen also funded Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, so this is kind of like capturing Boardwalk & Park Place. 1/
Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz consortium will control 80% of TikTok in U.S.: Report
Current users of the app will be asked to shift to a new app, which TikTok has built and is testing.
www.fastcompany.com
drjennya.bsky.social
He cast himself as a wizard in his sycophantic job application aka that MAGA kids' book The Plot Against the King, but I'm not seeing the wiz here...
Reposted by Dr. Jenny Alexander
joelhs.bsky.social
The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded, after studying the evidence exhaustively, that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
www.nytimes.com
drjennya.bsky.social
"Social media, as currently built, leads users to take extreme political positions and demonise the opposing side. This makes constructive engagement difficult, allows outlandish conspiracy theories to flourish, and promotes demagoguery over deliberation."
Reposted by Dr. Jenny Alexander
redhotworld.bsky.social
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"

So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵