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Alexandra Gallant-Lee
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Nature & Science Illustrator, Multi Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 12h
BRAINS is my award-winning comic, now available for purchase in print, from Radiator Comics www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... for $15 and digitally through itch for $6
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Nov 28
You can download BRAINS for $6 on itch right now! alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
The cover of BRAINS - a colorful brain and the word 'brains' Page 1 is a single panel 'It can feel like plucking fruit off a tree... and seeing what's inside' Illustration of a branch of a tree with peaches on it, and a cross section of a peach, instead of a pit, there is a brain Page 2 is 4 panels Panel 1: "...and sometimes" text over an illustration of a peach Panel 2: "it's a pit" (cross section of a peach, with the pit visible) Panel 3: "or a worm" (a fruit with a worm poking out of it) Panel 4: "but sometimes... it's a universe" the brain/pit in the peach from the previous page is zoomed in and now has rings around it like a planet in space An abstract illustration of a nervous system and eyes and the words memory, language processing, cognition, sensory perception, emotion, imagination, visual & auditory processing, logic Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU" Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
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Maybe they just have absurdly high turnover! The possibilities are endless!
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools. “Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.” Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.” But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Check out my new header!
Kitsulie avatar header image, with big yellow wings and Kitsulie logo
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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it looks so good, omg, I love it!!!!!!
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Of course it's Whoop. I've never seen more ghost jobs by a single company in Boston than Whoop and it's like do the jobs exist? Are you trying to artificially show growth and activity by posting jobs you never hire for just for data collection purposes? Who knows!
andrewqmr.bsky.social Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 42m
“Thursday’s event, held at the Kenmore Square headquarters of Whoop … was the official kickoff of the new Massachusetts AI Coalition. The private sector initiative describes its mission as making Boston ‘the most welcoming city in America’ for entrepreneurs working on new AI startups.’”
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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“[Sam] Altman appeared via video to help [Governor Maura] Healey announce that #Massachusetts will be the first state to roll out OpenAI’s ChatGPT software to all 40,000 employees of the executive branch of government.”

#mapoli
At launch event for new AI council, Gov. Healy says state employees will get access to ChatGPT
Gov. Maura Healey announced the three-year, $4.3 million annual deal with OpenAI at a Thursday event launching the Massachusetts AI Coalition.
www.masslive.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Two left!
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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When we were evaluating them at the hospital I worked at over a decade ago, surgeons tried them and the response was "I guess I could see how this could be useful with a lot of caveats, but it's a lot easier to see how it will be terrible and make us look like assholes and creeps" and that was that.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h
I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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75% of my students are future health professionals. Do you really want a physician or nurse or pharm. who has no critical reading/thinking skills, who cannot communicate worth a damn or knows enough to ask questions/problem-solve when something feels off? Would you put your life in the hands of AI?
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d
Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Pretty amazing (if unsurprising) that Meta was writing this memo at almost the exact same time that it launched its war against the book Careless People
damonberes.com Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 1h
Egregiously cynical, even by the low standards of this company: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” But I’ve had no doubt that such a feature is inevitable.
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Hazel and I gave a presentation for some senior illustration students at Emily Carr today! Unfortunately I didn't get any photos but I do have this slide from our powerpoint to share with everyone.
"Our most important advice: If you have never finished a comic before, make a >30 page comic before starting a large one. I literally cannot stress this enough."
February 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Btw the thing that finally pushed these women to form a union was a new contract that let the company own their likeness and IP in perpetuity including to use in AI.

So we're all fighting the same fight in different ways!✊

apnews.com/article/neva...
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Chimp heads, different vibes all cool.

Available

#sculpture #fineart
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Ormiscaig, 24/4/21
Ink sketch of Ormiscaig, a village in the Scottish Highlands
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Today is the last day to apply!!
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Haley House is teaming up with Massachusetts College of Art and Design and local restaurants for their largest community fundraiser. The Souper Bowl, happening this Sunday, Feb. 15 at Hibernian Hall, features 400 ceramic bowls and local soups from award-winning chefs.
‘Souper Bowl’ in Roxbury swaps footballs for bowls of soup
Haley House is teaming up with Massachusetts College of Art and Design and local restaurants for their largest community fundraiser. The Souper Bowl, happening this Sunday, Feb. 15 at Hibernian Hall, ...
www.wbur.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Legend
crookedknight.bsky.social David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 3h
Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
The DJ round though, hooo boy.There were so many clues I felt I knew but just wasn’t quite sure enough to buzz, especially after jusssst missing the second DD (if only I had literally 1-2 more seconds!) So after missing that, I told myself to hold back and NOT NEG. I really didn’t want to go red as I found it challenging to get in when we all knew the answer. There was no guarantee I’d pick up enough buzzes to claw my way back. As the game got down to the wire I looked at the scores and realized I didn’t have enough ground to overtake them. And with the difficulty of DJ I thought the odds of me being the sole solve on FJ were basically nil. But they were verrrrry close to one another. So my best chance was to try to force a tie, as them each having to bet it all was my only path to victory. For the last few clues I held back, watching them volley. Then, with two clues remaining the scores were 7200, 7600 with $800 in play. I knew I HAD to get one of the last two $400 clues to leave the right amount on the board. Somehow the buzzer gods smiled on me, and I managed to nab the second to last clue, then didn’t buzz on the final clue, just praying Isaac got it instead of Josh
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
The DJ round though, hooo boy.There were so many clues I felt I knew but just wasn’t quite sure enough to buzz, especially after jusssst missing the second DD (if only I had literally 1-2 more seconds!) So after missing that, I told myself to hold back and NOT NEG. I really didn’t want to go red as I found it challenging to get in when we all knew the answer. There was no guarantee I’d pick up enough buzzes to claw my way back. As the game got down to the wire I looked at the scores and realized I didn’t have enough ground to overtake them. And with the difficulty of DJ I thought the odds of me being the sole solve on FJ were basically nil. But they were verrrrry close to one another. So my best chance was to try to force a tie, as them each having to bet it all was my only path to victory. For the last few clues I held back, watching them volley. Then, with two clues remaining the scores were 7200, 7600 with $800 in play. I knew I HAD to get one of the last two $400 clues to leave the right amount on the board. Somehow the buzzer gods smiled on me, and I managed to nab the second to last clue, then didn’t buzz on the final clue, just praying Isaac got it instead of Josh
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won
February 13, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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I went to college for criminology and criminal justice and used to do research into law enforcement misconduct as part of my education and have been working on zines lately that through that lens - I've got a zine examining scams and how race and gender play a part I'll have out soon. Also this:
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23d
This Place is a Prison - an examination of former prisons and jails that have been transformed into something new, how we engage with those spaces and whether it is possible to do so ethically or not. $8 www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
A hand holding a small comic called This Place is a Prison, These People Aren't Your Friends, it has the Liberty Hotel in Boston, a former city jail, as the background of the cover
February 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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We really need to figure out a workable non-MOOC system for teaching the people! I think I, and many other academics, would have fully enrolled courses outside of a traditional university setting.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3h
I had a dream last night that I designed a new First Year Seminar called “The Art of the Dinner Party” where students spent the semester reading and writing about the social, political, economic, gendered, and cultural history of hosting—and it culminates in an actual dinner party.
February 13, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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The ADA argued condescendingly that I would rehabilitate myself w/community service so something good would come of this. The way men speak to women they know they could never measure up to.
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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this owns so fucking hard www.independent.co.uk/arts/wutheri...
Wuthering Heights is just another example of the poshification of the arts
If you’re a creative in Ireland, you may now be offered a basic income of £1,000 a month to pursue a career in the arts. It’s groundbreaking, and, says Richard Benson, may be the only way to smash the...
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Just four copies of this one left!
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23d
Fried Zine Tomato is also available to purchase in print for the first time, too, for $10 🍅 www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...
a hand holding a copy of my comic, Fried Zine Tomato, the cover has three tomato fruits on it and a bunch of sprawling vines
February 13, 2026 at 1:18 AM