Frode Forfang er god på problembeskrivelsene og ikke så god på løsningene, mente vi i Klassekampen før sommeren.

Måltall på deportasjoner har alltid slått meg som det absolutt verste eksemplet på mål- og resultatstyring.

Trump er hastigt i færd med at omdanne USA til et personalistisk diktatur med stærke totalitære og facistiske tendenser. Og han møder kun meget begrænset modstand fra institutioner og civilsamfundet. Jeg havde - selvom jeg forsker i diktaturer - aldrig troet, at det kunne komme så vidt, så hurtigt.

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Å herrejemini for et opplegg. Jeg har jo ment lenge at full tosensorordning vil kollapse norsk akademia, og IHVERTFALL om ingen tilsatte fra utenfor EU kan ta sensuroppdrag uten å risikere oppholdstillatelsen sin. Her må nesten dept på banen snart… www.khrono.no/har-jobba-i-...

on today's episode of racial capitalism

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

MB kommer også her med ode til Melvyn Bragg og In our time. Som @bernhardellefsen.bsky.social har jeg helt kroppslige minner knyttet til episoder. Husker særlig en trikketur ca 2011 da jeg innså at en deltaker som snakket om forskeren Al-Biruni var faren til en venninne, living the dream.

Sagaen om Putins stormannsgalskap fortsetter? Men jeg tror ikke han sa akkurat det, VG.

That's an all-time euphemism.

Hvis du ikke har sett denne ennå, er det bare å ønske god fornøyelse. Sterkt å kaste seg ut i en jenka når spørsmålene blir litt kinkige.

And this was after they gave Trump that gilded jet and everything.

“#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland. Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi.” Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Frøya for future! Er det en ting?

Håper noen tar notater om hvordan man kan drive valgkamp mot milliardærer.

Oh, I LOVE this, and I LOVE Melvyn Bragg and In Our Time. Reminds me I have episodes to catch up on.

Dette har jeg tenkt på også. Med endrede familienormer, living apart together, forsøk på å få ting til å gå opp med mine/dine/våre barn, et mer fleksibelt arbeidsliv, og f eks for akademikere som kanskje ikke får jobb i samme by, virker dette så utrolig utdatert.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Tenk at du faktisk må til The Guardian for den beste forklaringa på kvifor superrike er i mot formueskatt: Dei kan ikkje lure seg unna

A refrain of mine lately has been “everything is so stupid and so lethal.”

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Biden's WH aided and abetted Stage 1 of Gaza genocide: siege, displacement, killing of at least 50k people (over 80% of them civilians), and obliteration of infrastructure. The Trump WH has aided and abetted Stage 2: starvation, mass destruction of Palestinian cities, preparation for expulsion.

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.

God forbid Americans see democracies (Brazil, S. Korea…) holding presidents accountable for illegal activities. They might get ideas.

The problem is there's nothing to say the administration won't ignore this order.

Oh, this is a great choice.

Vakkert og storsinnet, men jeg blir så forbanna over at de i det hele tatt må tenke tanken på å si dette nå. Helvete heller.

Ære være Northern Playground som prøver å drive butikk på en bærekraftig og redelig måte www.northernplayground.no/en/activism/...

no but this is crazy

Love this!

"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes: defector.com/it-took-many...

Really appreciated this discussion with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI in higher ed and what we and students are losing in terms of opportunities to go from struggling to mastering something, and learning as a relational/social process. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...

They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

“That attack took out Al Jazeera’s entire Gaza City news crew. … It was a direct hit on a journalist tent. Journalists are civilians, and to kill them in war is a war crime,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @skynewsrss.bsky.social. Watch here⤵️ news.sky.com/video/commit... #NotATarget

Det er ikke sånn at gutter bare magisk har blitt skeptiske til likestilling. Det er store krefter i sving som jobber knallhardt for reversering av likestilling.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

It feels increasingly… unfortunate… that we rely on Microsoft for so much of everything. Things are really going great here on this timeline where this is coming out of something that’s not The Onion but actually one of the best news outlets on tech/politics.

This spring I saw the Rescued treasures of Gaza exhibit at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. 5000 years of history as an abundant oasis, so full of life. Most info plaques ended along the lines of “then the IDF flattened the garden and turned it into a parking lot for armored vehicles”.

I, too, would vote for the library socialist if I were in New York.

Har han ikke hørt om kronisk sykdom…? Jeg kommer ikke akkurat til å dø tidlig av kronisk migrene, som jo rammer mange kvinner midt i arbeidslivet, men jeg ble definitivt sykemeldt av det… www.vg.no/nyheter/i/gw...