Conformity gate er så rep tv.

FINALLY! UiB employees can apply for permission to remove Copilot from Word, Powerpoint and Excel! Of course, using LibreOffice is probably an even better idea, but at least there's now an opt-out - complex as it may be. hjelp.uib.no/solutions/op...

Alt jeg vil for tiden er å lese Nancy Mitford men så må jeg eksistere og være voksen og jobbe og sånt.

"A collective of pirate activists seeking to preserve music history has announced that it has backed up a gigantic portion of Spotify’s music catalog. They did this as part of a broader effort to preserve humanity’s culture and art as humanly possible."

Anna's Archive figured out how to scrape and archive Spotify including the metadata, art and songs themselves. Extremely cool, extremely ambitious project. We're lucky to have those folks.

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

❔ Have you read and valued a Programming Historian lesson? 💡 Ever thought about writing one? Share a method or tool that you know well, and help others to learn. 🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog 📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities

@proghist.bsky.social posted our annual call for lesson proposals! We're looking for translators of our Spanish and French. We also welcome proposals for original lessons on new topics not yet covered by our journal. Please reach out to me at [email protected] with any questions!

–Vi er veldig overrasket over at det å utradere vår egen flere generasjoner lange rolle som kultur- og medieinstitusjon til fordel for overlagt usammenhengende, fordummende, uredelig og spekulativ ragebait skulle resultere i et dårlig renommé. Ingen kunne se dette komme, sier styreleder i Dagbladet.

Perpetuum mobile

Here’s a thread of three resources I’ve written that people have made good use of — esp. in undergrad and master’s curriculums linking humanities, media studies, and critical AI.

Just finished it. It’s super weird it’s probably the only novel about digital humanities, as a social environment (working with a computer in a lit/ssh lab: should I learn program?) and a recursive theme (text is constantly self-conscious of lexical patterns). And it predates the word for decades.

2/ Kjære NRK 2. Gi nattevaktene på desken opplæring i vesentlighetskriterier og forby AI-genererte overskrifter.

‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage This happened during the recent CCC conference.

‼️All of the white supremacist dating profiles have been published on okstupid.lol

A poem for our times, by Hayley DeRoche

“Everything from Hitler to the Black Panthers.” In a chat with Book Lust host @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social, Mimi Pond explains why the Mitford Sisters continue to fascinate her & why their influence exceeded the political power women were allowed to have at the time. WATCH: youtu.be/CVtJCb7oEco

“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty” - Jessica Mitford

I just deleted a post because I am in the USA for another few days. What an insane world.

Samarbete mellan Fifas och Nobels fredspristagare. www.nrk.no/urix/eksplos...

Forfriskende lesning som tar for seg hvordan en film som er produsert bra og jevnt god fortsatt kan ha større mangler: "To the extent there are any politics here, it is an unreflective centrist conviction that the left is bad and annoying even if, for now, the right is more powerful and dangerous."

After removing Maduro, the USA will finally be able to bring freedom to millions of barrels of oil.

Venstre: hva jeg vil se Høyre: hva strømmetjenester i Norge tilbyr

i have better conversations on here than any other app and there are communities for a really diverse range of interests. whenever people describe bluesky as a hugbox or playground for neoliberal scolds, i assume it is user error bc i see basically none of that.

Contrary to common beliefs, we find that misinformation isn’t universal or a general condition of our media ecosystem. Instead, it's specifically associated with radical-right populist parties that spread misinformation as a political strategy. 5/

In the literature, there are two competing explanations for "echo chambers": 1️⃣ Algorithms curate what we see (“filter bubbles”) 2️⃣ People choose like-minded peers (“selective exposure”) Our new study suggests something surprising: both explanations might be wrong. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2508.10466

Algorithms are not necessary for the creation of echo chambers. All that is required is people muting or leaving when they have a bad interaction. Then an echo chamber arises with minimal preferences. From @pettertornberg.com #psych arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10466

Twitter/X is a story on its own: 🔴 While users have become more Republican 💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗50 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to slightly Republican-leaning.

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

[email protected]'s keynote in Oxford was fantastic. What comes after the traditional model of social media ends? 1) Algorithmic broadcasting platforms (everything turning into TikTok and Instagram reels) 2) Private and semi-private spheres (like group chats) 3) Chatbots and LLMs as new media

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

💚 Humaniora 💚 "Humanities scholars are trained precisely to navigate such complexities, understanding how truth shifts and unfolds as contexts change, how to read documents for their conditions of production, and how to distinguish legal fictions from lies."

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

What makes a work literary? To reduce literary style to “sentences,” as so many do, is akin to reducing the style of painters to “brushstrokes.” Brushstrokes matter, sure. [...] But, just as obviously color, composition, pattern, light, and many other aspects of a painting all work together"

I think this says it all!

Rereading an old fave on AI: "Playing devil's advocate reveals that most of our strongest objections to "AI" are really objections to large-scale, text-generating decoder models. The encoder models powering semantic search sidestep many of these issues but introduce a new, more subtle set"

The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

brukernavnet mitt er, tro det eller ei, akkurat det samme på historiegrafen app.thestorygraph.com/profile/sort...

I 2026 vil jeg oppfordre til å støtte IFI 💪🏻 Mitt nyttårsforsett er å fortsette med aktivitet for å motvirke transfobi og skape trygge rom i akademia.

i 2026 bør du støtte ifi

I 2026 vil vi ha en medmenneskelig feminisme med plass til alle. ❤️ Bli med på laget for å bygge en inkluderende & solidarisk feministisk bevegelse i Norge! 💪💖🌈

«Feminismen er et universelt menneskerettsprosjekt som bygger på solidaritet, interseksjonalitet og medmenneskelighet» ... sa vi og nesten 30 andre organisasjoner & fagmiljøer i 2025. I 2026 vil vi ha en medmenneskelig feminisme med plass til alle. ❤️

Happy new year #HNY 🎇 Fingers crossed 🤞🏽

these solicit action from a crowd, but don't care who replies or why they reply, as long as they do reply. these are a "call to action" in the branding sense. i don't come here to act. we're surrounded with marketing that asks us to ask. i come here to share who i am with people i like 2/

Dette.

This is like actually amazing advice. bsky is my platform where I am like "fuck it, I'm me. I don't care what people think". My FB is more curated for friends and family sensibilities. My twitter was "be interesting to professional contacts". All facets of me, but actually a lot less filter here.

Nytt år, og nye lesemuligheter! La oss bli venner på Storygraph så jeg kan bli inspirert av hva du leser 💚 (Og fordi FUCK GOODREADS.) app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brus...

Har vært sammen med denne karen i 10 år i dag. (Og gift i litt over 5). Ja det er faktisk slik som i disse romcoms-filmene at folk bare blir sammen på nyttårsaften mens fyrverkeriet går av i hundre i bakgrunnen og alt virker magisk og glitrende. Tenk det.

Velkommen etter NRK. Jeg og @krisekarro.bsky.social skrev om dette i @tbatbadottno.bsky.social for 5 år siden.