athina fokidou

Political economy/development consultant. MSc Globalisation & Development SOAS. Adopted Londoner + Single Sculler. All views my own.

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

I'm on Bluesky https://t.co/rDq46FgP0Q

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Sometimes, I impress myself, with myself.

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Thank you @PhilanImpact for the opportunity to highlight these examples.
#ESG
#charity
#donors

[Philanthropy Impact @PhilanImpact]

📖 Philanthropy Impact Magazine Spring Edition 34 Part 1 of 2

👉 Read the latest edition here: https://t.co/NQtiWvWviF

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Book recs:
👓I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
🫠The Ghosts by Antonia Barber
💣Sound System: The Political Power of Music by Dave Randall
💫A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike

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Cycling adventure
#eastlondon
#isleofdogs
#greenwich
#barrier
#royalvictoria

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

There's nothing in the world, that I would have like more, than...

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Crying laughing crying

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’.

This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems.

Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Reset

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The most annoying thing about being human right now is knowing we already have the intelligence and resources to end world hunger, fight climate change, and cure cancer, but greed and billionaires keep millions suffering instead. The wasted human potential is heartbreaking.

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

“I don’t do politics.”
Well, now you're doing $6 gas.

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Chattng to Labour Party door-knockers in tower hamlets south.

They recognize the biggest issue in the room, that's bleeding Labour voters to the @TheGreenParty in local elections.

And that's:
#Palestine

#zackpolanski

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CEO role at Global Witness https://t.co/rYMVGjqFFo

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A Strange day by the Cure, sounds of early 90s from the Rebound Club, Athens https://t.co/60hc6S0FTL

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@Variety Try telling me Mark Jenkin is not influenced by @neubautenorg

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Hello spring x

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

Beau-ti-ful.
Re-written the story.
💜

[PLACEBO @PLACEBOWORLD]

Lady Of The Flowers RE:CREATED VERSION is out now. Watch the full-length lyric video: https://t.co/IJtFMlroP8

This footage is taken from our first ever visit to North America in 1996.

Videography: Levi Tecofsky

[athina fokidou @athinaf]

What do you call the friend who calls when you're napping?
Asking for a friend.

[Variety @Variety]

'Rose of Nevada' Review: George MacKay and Callum Turner Set Sail on a Bewitching, Time-Surfing Voyage https://t.co/4ChLBErnDh