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This is glorious news.sky.com/video/i-will...

Det er til å bli matt av. Jeg tror det hele skyldes at toppolitikken selekterer for mennesker som er totalt uinteressert i IT. Det er samme dynamikk som gjør at vi mangler en KI-strategi www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/tvin...

And now glm-5.2. This is wild artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm...

Rare and attractive job opportunity: Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Oslo. Deadline 15 September www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I've been exploring open-source LLMs for agentic assistants since December, and I'm blown away by the latest batch of models (Kimi K2.7 Code and Minimax-M3). It's the first time I sense no practical difference, for my use, between them and the flagship models (Fable excluded) 1/2

My agentic assistant is a grumpy old man and I love it

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

I have an idea - make bran flakes and other ‘junk food’ cereals subject to a social media style curfew but under 18s are only allowed to eat them AFTER 8:30 in the morning About as workable as the other plan www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reflections on the Iran war from @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/collection/b...

New analysis from me on tracking the Islamic State through the Worldwide Activity Map over the past 3+ years www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...

Good list of groups doing great work on surveillance tech. boltsmag.org/everything-e...

Vacancy in Intelligence Studies: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/149225-...

All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

"– Jeg er glad for å lære at det tilsynelatende finnes regjeringer som er enda mer naive overfor USA enn den nederlandske regjeringen. Jeg hadde ikke trodd det var mulig" www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/nede...

On the IRGC operative who is allegedly behind 18 attacks on Jewish schools and synagogues. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

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Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social

Dette er helt korrekt tilnærming og betryggende å høre: "– Strategien vår er å eie det som er permanent, det vil si data, betydningen av og styringen av dem. Og så la teknologien være utskiftbar." www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/fors...

All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

Paired with the news that Canada is opting against buying US surveillance aircraft, this news out of Norway further underscores the extent to which allies are hedging against an increasingly unreliable and even predatory US. www.reuters.com/world/norway...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Progress. Kudos to the APSR.

"there is often no human meaning there, these posts are just meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no equivalent understanding in return"

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

New @hrw.org report exhaustively details how an Emirati private security company with close ties to the highest levels of the UAE government recruited Colombian mercenaries, trained them at a UAE military base, and deployed them for the siege and capture of El Fasher, Sudan.

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

"People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced." retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

“Stochastic parrots”

NuExtract3 (4B, Apache-2.0) does OCR *and* structured extraction. Point it at a dataset of scanned index cards + a JSON schema → clean catalog JSON One command on huggingface Jobs. (or skip the schema for plain Markdown OCR) Script + dataset 👇

At least 3 killed in shooting at San Diego’s largest mosque, police say www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/u...

Adding @courrierinter.bsky.social to my blacklist of newspapers who take subscriptions online but only accept subscription _cancellations_ by telephone (@thetimes.com was already on it). May your days be rainy until you fix this malpractice. It is disrespectful of customers and their time

Nå er det nasjonaldag hver dag

Right - you all thought that quiz was too US-centric. So I've vibe-coded something far more British. Specifically British, because I am *not* making a Northern Irish Political Compass. From taxes to the monarchy, answer the questions and see where you sit. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

This looks fantastic

The thing I love about letters is that you get an authentic look inside people's lives from thousands of years ago, and what you see is that people are still people. Like Bahianu here, who is too scared to ask a woman out that he likes, so he asks the governor of Nippur to ask her for him instead.

Oxford's Middle East Centre is looking for a new administrator www.sant.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/mi...

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Growing evidence that 100% of all public relations specialists in the UAE perished during the war. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...

Britain investigates Microsoft over business software dominance reut.rs/4eMHY1g

TIL that Raspberry Pis are manufactured in Wales (and have been since 2012). The chip itself is produced in China, but the chip design (ARM) is British, as is the RPi Foundation. This makes the Pi one of the closest things to a European-manufactured computer www.raspberrypi.com/news/explore...

The sources said Saudi Arabia made Iran aware of the strikes and this was followed by intensive diplomatic engagement and Saudi threats to retaliate further, which led to an understanding between the two countries to de-escalate. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...