I understand the excitement about technology “rediscovering lost texts.” I do, & I get the media hype. But I wish people knew that there are hundreds of thousands of “lost” texts just sitting in manuscripts in libraries, which have never been published outside of those single manuscripts. 1/n

Hva er Homer om ikke en episk ungdomsbok?

Four years ago two people was killed and 21 wounded in an attack targeting the LGBTQI+ community in Norway in a terrorist attack on the eve of Pride. We must never forget the harms these attacks cause and the wounds, visible and invisible, carried for years after by those affected and the community.

Ok, another sci-fi question; so we've known about other planets (and obviously the moon) since like forever - I'm wondering when we first imagined other beings living on them? Are aliens an ancient concept? I know Méliès imagined beings on the moon in early cinema...

Today, the European Parliament has voted on AI Act simplification rules, including a ban on AI systems that generate nonconsensual intimate images. National regulators warn, however, that many member states still lack the authority needed to enforce the measures, Joana Soares reports.

Drain the swamp, fix the pool, make everything great again...👍 👌 🙄

There is a massive push for AI from the Norwegian government, but yet again, as happened in the 90s, the focus is on using and consuming, not creating or producing. We make ourselves dependent on American tech companies yet again.

Risky times be risky

This encapsulates the entire maga "movement". The perfect metaphor.

Stas at Vy annonserer i Norge for togturisme til en by togene deres *ikke* går til...

About 20 years after Facebook went mainstream I still wonder what the term "influencer" means - in reporting it seems to neither be used as a reflection of follower count, nor of actual influence i.e. over policy, leading to the conclusion it might mean "willing to do stuff just to post about it."

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Artister kaller Gen-Z zombiepublikum og klager over at de ikke lar seg rive med av...VG-Lista...de mener dette kommer av "selvsensur" og at publikum er som "sauer som sto og beitet." - har de vurdert om det kanskje er VG-lista og artistene som er problemet her? www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/8pE...

I don't even remember the names of several of these...why does the UK need so many PMs?

My conspiracy theory of the weekend is that Gallifrey and Mandalore is the same planet.

So the peace deal lasted about as long as the American blue paint job?

One of the things I love about optical signal cables (fibre internet, optical audio, etc.) is the speed and signal quality, another is ofc thinking about all the little lights shining around the world to keep us all connected.

In between the lines, there's a lot of obscurity I'm not inclined to resign to maturity If it's all right, then you're all wrong But why bounce around to the same damn song? You'd rather run when you can't crawl

Iran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation, Graeme Wood argues: “Watching Trump and his aides sell the deal is in some ways as humiliating as the deal itself.”

A 36-year-old man has been arrested after a series of violent attacks across Edinburgh, appearing to target Muslims, which left five people injured. news.sky.com/story/counte...

Getting news from Brazil that the emergency messaging service in several states has been hijacked to send the message "Misantropia" or misanthropy to everyone's phone - while this warrants investigation, it may be tied to M/NVE. revontulet.co/insights/53q...

What I don't understand, if advertising is such a big economy, is why I mostly just see/hear the same 4 ads over and over again ad infinitum...

It's nice to see the body parts of this guy - who is apparently essential to transfers of power in Britain - appear to have grown back.

1/ Let's look at the Dialog member list. Thiel's invitation-only private society. There is a $4.75B nuclear influence network in it. A former Enron exec and a former fashion model co-founded it. Ridiculous, but true.

There should be some sort of criminal court, perhaps an international one, for sad old men who start wars simply to boost their own ego (and manipulate markets)...

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

Now that Trump has made peace with Iran, I should perhaps consider making peace with Docker...

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Wonder how upset President Trump will be when he doesn't get the Nobel for having "made peace" in Iran....

There's Interview with a Vampire, the Vampire diaries, and the What We Do In The Shadows style mockumentary of vampires - what's next? The vlog of a vampire? The vampire podcast?

Pres. Pezeshkian allegedly signed the agreement w the US digitally...DocuSign or Adobe sign or something is now at the core of diplomacy, and I'm not sure how I feel about that...

Er det bare meg eller har lakrisbåter blitt mykere?

Ordføraren i Sør-Odal, Knut Hvithammer (jau, de har heilt rett, Odalen er skrivi av Tolkien) seier han har fått "mange sterke reaksjonar" på at det flaggast med regnbogeflagg frå rådhuset. Men, og her er greia, reaksjonane "kjem IKKJE frå innbyggarane i kommunen". Hatnettverket er organisert.

Even before the Islamic Center attack, San Diego had a long history of white supremacist violence

475 million of them are accidentally clicking on a link in Instagram and getting annoyed

Preach! "...this popular term overstates the novelty of most of what is purportedly captured by it" "...these patterns suggest that cross-ideological interaction, particularly in the pursuit of some tactical advantage, is a structural feature of the behavior of violent extremist movements."

Weird how Anthropic was forced by the government to shut down it's latest model within days (hours?) of the SpaceX's IPO - almost as if someone wanted to put theor thumb on the scales of valuations in the AI/Server Farm race....

As we're getting further into the 21st century, I'm starting to feel just how far into the 20th century WWII was - considering that the war felt like ancient history when I was a child (last decade of the 20th century), that perspective shift somehow also makes it feel closer than ever in time.

Here's a few things to do instead: Funding youth mental-health services, training safeguarding staff, specialising the investigators, building recovery pathways, and placing responsibility and liability back where the harm is made through enforcement action to promote genuine safety.

"Recent Federal Actions Have Put Veterans at Risk."

Important story this one. "Russia recruits people as "proxies", offering payment to carry out acts of violence, sabotage, and espionage." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The UK announced this morning that it will ban under-16s from social media. Australia already has. Norway, France, and a line of US states are close behind. www.linkedin.com/pulse/age-li...

Jotted down some notes on why I think the whole age restriction thing is dumb Age limits regulate the child, not the platform www.linkedin.com/pulse/age-li...

Ok, so Claude/Anthropic just blocking its latest model is a whole thing - but what are the ripple effects of that in the long run when we can't trust basically any vendor - ie, what are good alternatives to Stripe?

At some point we don't need journalism anymore - we'll all have moved to virtual reality, and all the virtual reality news will be covered by artificial intelligence - metaverse cometh!

Høres ut som kode for «Vi slenger så mye penger på KI at vi ikke har råd til journalister lenger». Dette går sikkert bra.

"A teenage social media ban is the digital equivalent of seeing our parks full of needles, broken glass, and violent thugs – and deciding that a “KEEP OUT IF YOU’RE UNDER 18” sign stuck on the entrance is enough." www.jamesrball.com/p/a-teen-soc...

Our research team is ramping up for coming midterms. Looks like we'll be busy. If you're interested, here's an interactive graph (thanks to Stephen Prochaska) showing how X influencers re-ran the "rigged election" narrative during/following the CA primaries. faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Cumu...

What's also weird is how the entire world is in America celebrating football - meanwhile the Americans are celebrating basketball 🏀 🤔 ⚽️

Having grown up in Oslo it's also weird how Deichmann is a shoe shop and not a library...