I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

The more coverage I read of the 28-point trash plan, the more I’m reminded of this quote by Winston Churchill. 

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up. Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc

Nær folket tykkjer kvar ein annan svikjar og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar, då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar: Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.

Vi har funnet enda en internasjonalt publisert forskningsartikkel der OUS har brukt data fra tusenvis av transpersoners pasientjournaler uten samtykke eller etisk godkjenning. Tidsskriftet Acta Paediatrica har publisert bekymringene våre i dag. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work. snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...

"The outer shell of the empire fell off in 1991, and many mistook that for collapse. Like a matryoshka doll, within one 'prison of nations' another waited," writes Andrew Chakhoyan, an academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in this op-ed.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum

Erna-er-fjerna-effekten.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

Islendska mun døya, segir Katrín.

"Det er alt for farleg å bruke det i yrke der kunnskap er viktig, og det gjeld veldig mange yrke: Journalistikk, utdanning, forsking, prosjektarbeid og mykje anna." Takk for at du bruker den faglige tyngden din til å si klart i fra @jilltxt.bsky.social 💚

Vid marteinsmessa såg eg ut og gådde–n, hin grannagarden, mesta gløypt av skoddun’; eg drakk ein kopp og fann åt dagem — vådde–n — og ha’ mest viljat lagt meg att på kodden.

„Uns Europäern bleibt, so unwahrscheinlich es klingen mag: Von der Ukraine lernen, heißt furchtlos und tapfer sein, vielleicht auch siegen lernen.“ Karl Schlögel hat eine großartige und beklemmende Dankesrede zur Verleihung des Friedenspreises des deutschen Buchhandels gehalten.

The Hörningsholm Hoard! We have finally been able to go public with the find site of the treasure found recently south of Stockholm (made up of 24 000 12th century coins + a wealth of Viking Period jewelry). See the preliminary report (great photos!) here: online.fliphtml5.com/eapth/urqp/

Noen refleksjoner om hvordan et Ukraina-informert perspektiv er nyttig for alle som leser og skriver om Russland www.minerva.no/avkolonialis...?

“The Norwegian ship OSLO CARRIER 3, with a Russian crew, was a few kilometers from Copenhagen Airport during the drone attack. Danwatch can now reveal that the ship's owners have previously collaborated with a large Russian paramilitary organization for years.”

Se, mannen min gir ut diktsamling!

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Kva er vitsen med å vera journalist om ein berre siterer og vidareformidlar utan å tenkja ein einaste tanke sjølv, utan å setja ord på noko som helst? Dei greier det fint når det er bagatellar som skal gjerast til skandalar. Kvifor i helsike greier dei ikkje å gjera faktiske skandalar til skandalar?

Eg visste ikkje at det retoriske verkemiddelet mord var noko ein må rekna med å møta på sambandsstatlege debattmøte.

Ganga skal, skal ei gjest vera æ i einom stad; ljuv vert leid ev lenge sit annars fletjom å.

History lesson

Skriver i avisa om at Norge har mange trær og lite ekte skog. Og om hvorfor vi maser og gnåler om at naturskogen må reddes – og draumen om at miljøministeren faktisk skal redde resten! Det er valgår! www.tb.no/mange-trar-l...

Sist på 1400-talet var nedertysk prestigemålet i Norderlondom. Lidvord Aslaksson nøytte dei nedertyske skålordi ‘got sint ju’ i eit heilnorskt lag på Bø i Saudherad året 1489. Då ein annan nordmann fann åt ’om for det, drog Lidvord kniven og drap hin.

«Eg kann ikkje vid det skrovet. Låt oss tala vårt fadermål og modermål; mid verda ei framare en dau hava voret. Mid kunna ikkje vid det målet, mid kabbretta kjeptane. Skrovom ikkje, so at mid skrovom ikkje frå oss halsbeinet!» (Arne Torleivsson, 1489)

As Poland’s new president brings faint rule-of-law reform hopes, a Hungarian judge proposes an “emergency regime” to block re-democratization by a potentially successful opposition. How can liberals reverse authoritarian populism? TÍMEA DRINÓCZI offers an answer. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-cons...

Before NATO summit last year -- a children's hospital bombed. Now during G7 -- 14 killed and homes erased in Kyiv. russia laughs at the impotence of the world's biggest democracies. And their panic of russia will pave the way to a much larger bloodied war.

«Daa samraadde hovdingane seg med kvarandre, og dei vart samtykte um de, at uaare kom fraa Domalde, kongen deira, og likeins at dei skulde blota han for gode aaringar og taka paa han og drepa han og farga stallane raude med blode hans. Og de gjorde dei og.» (Ynglinga-soga ved Steinar Schjøtt)

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

Eg kom på parti-møte; dei lova fritt og frakt at allskyns tjon dei bøte um vel dei finge makt. Ei små-ånd heldt so tale; då vart det minder gildt, for alt ho sa‘ var gale og ikkje vid’re mildt. Eg skunda meg av garde, var rædd um einkvan sjå at eg dei ordi harde der stod og lydde på.

We don’t know how close we are to triggering an Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC breakdown - but now we know a lot more about what it would mean for extreme temperatures in Europe. Good @carbonbrief.org piece on a new study just out by the Dutch colleagues! 🌊 www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...

russia keeps killing and destroying at full speed. And why wouldn't it? When the world responds with empty threats and even "understanding," not pressure and consequences.

If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them. History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.

Putin copies the dіctators of the past — Hіtler and Stalіn. Like them, he wages war under the guise of "liberation," destrоys the truth, spreads fear, and dreams of an empire built on the blоod of others.

ek : hauhalanda : mēlō : tawidō

Eg kom på parti-møte; dei lova fritt og frakt at allskyns tjon dei bøte um vel dei finge makt. Ei små-ånd heldt so tale; då vart det minder gildt, for alt ho sa‘ var gale og ikkje vid’re mildt. Eg skunda meg av garde, var rædd um einkvan sjå at eg dei ordi harde der stod og lydde på.

For the second time today, russians bombed Kharkiv, now with glide bombs. A 30yo woman died, and 16 people were wounded. One strike landed near the children's railway, the second bomb hit a private household in the central district. Outrageous.

Oh no. They do double taps. There are people burning in their apartments, and firefighters trying to help, and Russians doing double taps!

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told Fox News that had Ukraine been accepted into NATO back in 2008, today’s war might have been avoided. He added that only strength brings peace. "If you are weak, you invite aggression, that is why we support Ukraine as long as necessary."

I natt har eg blitt bombardert med hundrevis av droner, diverse kryssarmissil og visstnok også ballistiske missil. Det går fint med meg, men minst fire omkom. Tre av dei var redningsarbeidarar. For ein nasjon av heltar Ukraina er. Russland er ein kreftsvulst på menneskeheita. Send meir våpen.

German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

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Men alle må vera bollebakarar.