One of the many problems with the term "AI" is that it doens't refer to a coherent set of technologies, rather lumping together different types of automation. >>

"Isramila ska utvisas till Turkiet, ett land hon aldrig varit i, inte behärskar språket i och där hon saknar både nätverk och skydd" – Jag menar att detta är en konsekvens av en allt mer restriktiv migrationspolitik säger hennes advokat www.vlt.se/2025-12-20/i...

Grading this semester has been AI hell. I've had to write "this doesn't exist" so many times that now I have a standard response that I can copy and paste. I've given more Fs for cheating this semester than in all of the previous classes combined.

This is perhaps the best thing I’ve watched about tech policy this year. 5min to explain what went wrong and how to fix it in a humorous way. And not just the internet either may I add! Lack of choice and competition is problematic everywhere. Highly recommended. #Enshittification #techpolicy

Cory Doctorow really has a way with words, here explaining enshittification for a mainstream audience – and why it happens. Mastodon and Bluesky get a shoutout at the end. Sidenote: I'm still fascinated by how the US beeps certain words in their broadcasts. What other countries do this?

Alla behöver gå in och lyssna på intervjun med Johan Eriksson, ordförande i Advokatsamfundet, som totalsågar regeringens kriminalpolitik i Nyhetsmorgon Någon borde transkribera hela inslaget. Så många lager i paradigmskiftet. Oerhört farligt det som sker. Var finns den politiska oppositionen?

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

Responsible parents help their kids set up burner emails.

Vi alla som har kunskapen om hur demokrati byggs o vidmakthålls måste höja våra röster, mobilisera o trycka på! www.dn.se/debatt/vara-...

"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @leitmedium.de 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.

"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated." from zenodo.org/records/1778... @olivia.science , @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al read the whole thing!

New business card landing page. An easy way to reach my socials, sites and newsletter(s). per.axbom.com

I love the idea of data walks. Would love to organise these in Stockholm. spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p... #DataWalks

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

Remembering David Noble: The belief that "progress without people is something good or desirable is what fucks up so much of this world.

Our collective task is not to save tech but to save us, our world. The resonant computing manifesto is too focused on means and not on ends. And that's basically the core issue. The belief in technological determinism.

Was just in this part of Ohio visiting family and these were on *every* lawn in the town my grandma lives in. It seems to be a uniting issue across the political spectrum.

“Men kött har ju, av någon outgrundlig anledning, blivit väldigt polariserat.” säger landsbygdsminister Peter Kullgren (KD) till SvD och lägger i samma stund ut ett Facebook-inlägg där han står med en korv i munnen och skriver “Alltid retar det någon. Trevlig kväll 🌭”. 🤯 www.svd.se/a/EydAdA/pet...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

A poptastic parrot.

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

I’ve found myself reacting and doing a double-take on some replies to messages that I get from both friends and colleagues. Are they using ”AI” to reply to me (or in group chats)? 1/3

AI and human rights. Video, slides and transcript from my January 2022 talk. axbom.com/aihr/ #HumanRights

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

we've written about this in the past firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

The latest in pardon corruption: Joseph Schwartz, a convicted fraudster, paid two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to get him a pardon. And it worked 🤯 youtube.com/shorts/_1n_C...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Om några timmar föreläser jag på Internetdagarna om Digital omtanke. Jag har lagt ut bilderna på bloggen för allmän beskådan 😁 axbom.se/ind25/ #ind25 #ind2025 #internetdagarna

I love the abstraction of the "AI" bubble popping. But the very probable effects haunt me. Desire to Pop

Just going to drop this link for no particular reason, other than the Safety team here is staffed by utter clowns www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

In one of my first talks about human rights and AI (2022) I used the widespread printing press reference to emphasise that in many cases it supported colonialism. axbom.com/aihr/ This text really breaks down common printing press misrepresentation. Love it!

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Varenda remissinstans avstyrker förslaget med stöd i barnkonventionen och barnens bästa. Institutet för mänskliga rättigheter skriver att det innebär ett brott mot Sveriges internationella åtaganden. Vad gör vi när det ändå passeras? Vad är nästa steg? Varför fortsätter vi på samma sätt?

Would you like a South Up, Aotearoa Centred world map? Of course you would! www.redbubble.com/people/teren... The perfect Christmas gift for all your mapping friends. #OrganizationOfCartographersForSocialEquality

In case you were, like me, wondering why Sarah Kendzior suddenly disappeared from Bluesky.

ALL my websites were down for just over an hour this morning. Sorry about that if you were looking for info on any of them. I run about 12 websites off my Cloudron server and my redundancy could be better. Something to invest in in the new year. Seems I'm having Nginx issues...

The amount of time I end up showing @axbom.com inclusive panda model to people that come up with these ideas is just tiring axbom.com/panda/

Fint porträtt av Dan Waern. amatöridrottare med flera världsrekord, skogsbonde i Bollebygd, som sålde sin bragdmedalj för att kunna åka på semester med sin fru till Spanien. Avstängd på livstid för att ha pratat ärligt om att han fick betalt för sitt idrotts-deltagande.

Just wanted to give a shoutout to @rogueamoeba.com They've consistently supplied me with high-quality purposeful software for more than a decade. And always fun to use. I'm thoroughly impressed, and thankful. rogueamoeba.com

Klokt från Katrine Kielos om hur människor och maskiner är bra på olika saker. www.svd.se/a/jQ87JL/sta...

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Läs hela ”Barn får inte rösta, de har knappt några rättigheter, men de ska bära hela ansvaret för ett samhälle som faller isär.” www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Eyd...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Real talk about how ”AI” is accelerating climate change and having adverse effects on previous and ongoing efforts by others. Brilliantly researched and presented by Heidi Lim. It’s an hour, summarising three months of research. Worth the watch. yt.axbom.com?id=MRiRmxnwlCo

Imorgon inleds rättegången mot fyra män ur nazistiska Aktivklubb Sverige. Jag har intervjuat Mohammad, 42, som sparkades medvetslös. Det är en ganska lång intervju. Mohammad har mycket att säga. Läs hans ord: www.dn.se/sverige/moha...

Det är poetiskt för mig att motsatsen till mångfald är enfald. 😘

Honestly, if a newsletter doesn’t require opt-in there is really no reason to trust subscriber numbers. Most newsletters get a significant number of spam subscribers. But obviously in a numbers game very few are going to admit this. If you pay to send out your newsletter, you pay attention.

Mood: A tech product marketed as a replacement for mundane tasks is overwhelmingly used as a replacement for human connection.

En skola i Flen bjöd in till föräldramöte på fler språk än svenska och rekordmånga kom. Istället för att prata om att alla måste kunna svenska och dra in rätten till tolk kan man välkomna människor på olika sätt. www.ekuriren.se/nyheter/flen...