Fucking antivaxers in Oslo.

There are no crimes, only acts of war. And so, the crime rate dropped to 0.

The rocky a$ap hostage negotiation situation comes to mind. The definition of "wrongful" will be all vibes.

Listening to Lina Khan and fair competition for startups, it is striking how procurement processes favor incumbents. The internal transaction cost of taking on a new vendor is staggering compared to just buying more from an existing one.

Skal være helt ærlig og si at jeg ikke helt liker at SSB publiserer analyse av inntekt for listekandidater etter parti. Klarer ikke å se informasjonsverdien, og det går tett på å bli politisk. www.ssb.no/valg/stortin...

Incredibly frustrated that the transit authority in Oslo forgot to place out punching bags to let people relieve frustration about the public transit.

"We do not suffer your mortal laws, we create them" is just short enough to be inscribed in Latin on the building.

The European Commission is setting a 2030 deadline to plug all the military gaps throughout the European Union as war rages in Ukraine.

I miss Mastodon. Can someone please write an angry thread about how using vowels is genocide?

The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

As the Norwegian election is approaching, I have made a mock debate between the parties based on the most salient questions from the US 🧵

Basert på debatten nå virker det nesten som at ingen andre land i verden noen sinne endrer skattereglene sine. Bare Norge. Og enhver økning gjør rammebetingelsene for næringslivet til gelé.

Reminder that a good fraction of the electorate will look at this and say "well, at least he is doing something".

The best thing about news like this is that all my Norwegian friends think that this still isn’t enough and Norway should do more. Thanks Norway this does go a long way ! 🇳🇴🤝🇺🇦

Wonder how much cheaper insurance would be if we were able to get a quote without handing off loads of personal info, guaranteeing us spam calls for days.

Trump is delivering on his campaign promise. The one about retribution, not the grocery prices one.

What the hell has Trump suggested to do this time?

I don’t think people give Trump enough credit for not committing to support Russia militarily.

Clicked and read a random job ad. The first bullet point in the job description said "Lead and coordinate intersectional knowledge processes" and I will never click on a job ad again.

The Norwegian government reaps what it sows. When they use the Nobel peace price committee as a retirement home for washed-up politicians, they can’t credibly claim it is out of their hands.

Imagine the job application that got an employer to say "well yes she is a convicted child trafficker and is in jail for 20 years, but her skills, qualifications and personal traits make up for all of that". Oh wait, the rules are different for these people.

We would not have the celebrities we do in Norway if we though lawyers defending bad people were themselves bad.

The impostors never get impostor syndrome.

Does anyone collect data on what people *think* the unemployment rate is? Something like a "vibeployment rate"?

Perfect time to catch the Inside Economics podcast, for their detailed take on the jobs report and revisions especially. overcast.fm/+AAsRb1hVP-A I suspect they taped this one before the BLS chief was fired.

This one wasn’t on my bingo card. Not this week, anyways.

Rooting out woke numbers is getting old. Please do something new, like publish all statistics in Base 8.

*Saddest* trade deal ever.

Reality shows are just documentaries in real-time.

GDPR is 7 years old now and an enormous piece of legislation both in word count and impact. It is healthy to be able to spot some issues. The focus on SMEs here is so typical of EU though. Only a few sentences on universal issues like enforcement practices.

This is a real and significant achievement for Europe – and I'm surprised that European leaders don't make more of it publicly. (That's not to say it's sufficient to meet what Ukraine needs, especially given where the conflict stands right now)

97% of new cars sold in Norway in June were electric and there are a lot of charging stations now, but managing to charge at a random one is still like playing the lottery. All charging stations should have to publish the percentage of successful charging attempts as a quality indicator.

One of the takeaways from this striking graph in @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's latest column is: "Perhaps 'learn to care' could replace 'learn to code' as the go-to career advice". A lot recent US job growth has been in healthcare www.ft.com/content/a9ea...

Two competing thoughts: 1) I know I’m stuck with a nazimobile, and I don’t want it to rename itself to AutoHitler. 2) better voice recognition would be awesome.

She stuck with it much longer than I had thought she would. Maybe she didn’t give us the universal payment and everything-platform she promised, but she did give us MechaHitler.

We have officially moved on to the next problem, which is good. But do not underestimate the EU’s ability to mess up procurement. Back when I started listening to @sicherheitspod.de, it was basically a sitcom about the German army’s attempt to buy helmets.

For the record, I can’t remember anyone in Norway arguing that grocery stores should be owned by the government. I don’t think even the former communist party wants that. Doubt our neighbors are much different.

I regularly check the @economist.com website to see if it is possible to unsubscribe without begging customer service. Their FAQ comes very close to saying I can do that. I have a hard rule not to subscribe to anything I can’t cancel myself.

Tired: Trade wars are good and easy to win. Wired: Nuclear wars are good and easy to win.

Trade war, regular war, civil war… is it possible that Trump simply wants to try all the wars? Can you guys please impeach him before he gets around to nuclear war? That one would really suck.

Weirdly consistent with results in the ultimatum game. People are, generally, willing to accept some loss in order to achieve what they perceive as a fair outcome. Although in this case people expected their lives to get better and cheaper.

Truly meditational.

"The old world is lost. We must prepare to fight monsters." is the subheading of an article in a Norwegian newspaper about US foreign policy. Really not mincing words there…

Half of dems are rooting for republican policies more than republicans are, because they want people to feel the consequences of their actions. The burn-it-down mood is strong.

NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce" www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Totally out of context, new benchmark for "old" really stings.

So much looking forward to the campaign. "You can’t chicken out for shit" will be a sick burn in the debates.

For a beautiful second, I imagined something like AirBnB but for prison cells.

The myth of the Single Market open.substack.com/pub/siliconc...