Tenk at UiO for bare et par år siden flyttet hele mail-infrastrukturen sin til Microsoft. *UiO.* Som introduserte Internett i Norge.

I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long. I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.

Posting for no reason: european-alternatives.eu

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.

Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...

Apply for the Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 Jun-3 Jul 2026 on Monte Verità, Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps. ascona2026.sciencesconf.org

Seems like a bunch of people are joining BlueSky recently after the whole X situation, so maybe it's worth highlighting this again. Also, if you feel like you should be on this list, send me a message!

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

“I have treated patients who have harmed others. I have cared for people in police custody, people accused of violent crimes…. None of that alters my obligation. When someone is bleeding in front of you, your duty is to stop the bleeding.” @josephsakran.bsky.social

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

Lite understreker at klimakatastrofen ikke betyr noe som helst for norsk planlegging og tankegang, enn det at flytrafikk og det å reise med fly, ses på som en slags norsk naturtilstand. Nå MÅ altså Tromsø flyplass bygges ut. Ikke et ord om klimamessige konsekvenser, 1/

We can’t ignore the gendered dynamics of what we just saw katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

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It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

It is IMO immensely helpful that they’re just saying it, right out. It was always like this, but there was previously a pretence that it wasn’t. No longer.

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com He’s always been this way.

EU gjør allerede i dag det denne teksten tar til orde for, å regulere tekgigantene og arbeide for digital suverenitet. Nettopp derfor er tekfascistene og Trump så fiendlig innstilt til EU. Men dette ønsker ikke nei-siden å være med på, selv om de etterlyser det. @volvo240.bsky.social

Today is a good day to donate to those who defend against barbarity savelife.in.ua/en/ also: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

"Measles. An old-fashioned word. People do not say much any more. But we increased it, 5,000%, 10,000%, 15,000%. The likes of which nobody has seen before. Measles." For once he would not even be lying.

The #EU is the last bastion of global democracy and the free world on Earth. If it falls... whats replaces it? #China? #Russia? The #TrumpRegime? I feel like so many people deeply underestimate the peril we're in. Individual democracies on their own would just get picked off one by one

Die EU wird nun ganz offen von den Autoritären aus USA & Russland angegriffen - mit direkter Unterstützung der Rechtsextremen hier. Wer in Politik & Wirtschaft jetzt nicht klar Position bezieht - gegen jede Kooperation mit der AfD & für die Unabhängigkeit von BigTech - macht sich mitschuldig. 1/

The latest from an honored member of the Royal Society. Every week he attacks the foundations of society in the UK and the EU and @royalsociety.org is apparently too worried about retribution to do anything about it.

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Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.

USA har nettopp publisert en ny sikkerhetsstrategi, som beskriver en total omlegging av amerikansk utenrikspolitikk sammenlignet med før Trump. Dette er åpenbart ekstremt viktig for oss som er avhengige av USA for å forsvare oss. Og det er ikke spesielt gode nyheter ... En liten tråd.

What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ

Regjeringen kan ha lovet EU det de nekter å gi MDG

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

Sadly, this is true, and already happening. Maybe I'd say "environment of increased uncertainty" but in substance, right.

Det jeg syns er rart er at det stadig påpekes ovenfor MDG at "dagens oljepolitikk har flertall i stortinget", mens ingen påpeker at klimaloven også ble vedtatt med bredt flertall i stortinget. Det er sjukt at MDG må kjempe som løver for å få de andre partiene med på å nå mål _de selv har lovfestet_.

The fact that there are still so many women who support this creature is so scary, because it shows us how many women have been socialised to accept such treatment as normal.

As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal. Piece by George Riekeles and I. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

I dag skriver jeg i Dagsavisen om norsk klima- og oljepolitikk, som i 30 år har blitt forsøkt adskilt fra hverandre. Norge kan ikke bare betale Brasil for å la skogen stå, vi må også la olje ligge. www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/no...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!