Shit I am trying to get a bit back to BlueSky but the character limit is infuriating once I had gotten used to Notes on Substack. I stayed on Twitter a long time due to all connections and inertia. But once I left I find that the tech matters a lot for my choice. Substack wins hands down.

Exactly! A constitution is really just a piece of paper unless it is believed in by the people of a country. That belief is determined by the media. Which is why a democracy lives or dies based on the state of its media.

The Nazis put up their worst camps like Auschwitz abroad (Poland). And US seems to do the same now with El-Salvador prisons. Now this isn't entirely new. There is a shameful chapter of doing this with Gitmo. This is America setting up a de-facto Gulag or concentration camp system.

As a Norwegian, what is happening in the US today makes me think of our on traitor Quisling. His party NS committed treason against Norway, and so is Trump and the Republican party. You cannot treat this as Jan 6th yet again and pretend nothing happened. There is a moral hazard in ignoring treason.

Oh this is just hilarious. Anyone who is America's enemies must be celebrating now as the US does more damage to itself than Russia, Islamic terrorists, North Korea, Iran or anyone else could ever have achieved. The Manchurian candidate comrade Krasnov sure paid off for the Kremlin

I long thought Elon Musk and Trump are completely different people. Elon Musk unlike Trump has actually done innovation with his companies as oppose to merely shady deals. But increasingly it is becoming clear that while Musk is an innovator he is also a fraudster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWwz...

Unfortunately not around here so much anymore as I have come to really fall in love with substack. Posts that can be edited and no characters limit! Also it is a place you can interact with the other side without them dragging the whole thing into the mud as they have done on X

After having spent a lot of time making longer AI videos, I am increasingly skeptical that Hollywood has that much to fear. It is one thing to make a shorter impressive looking demo. It is quite another thing to create something specifically towards a particular vision. Let me clarify a bit....

Woho I was in a podcast. I have been before but Andrew impressed me with very good reflections, thoughtful questions and analysis. The topic we discussed is something I struggle a lot about how to think about. There are both an intellectual and emotional dimensions to my view on Trumpers.

No policy maker is going to read this, but you might still be interested in joining me in a discussion about what is a realistic solution for peace in Ukraine. What I talk about here is not what I actually want to happen, but what is realistic IMHO. open.substack.com/pub/erikexam...

Science has been political ever since Galileo had to crawl before the Catholic Church for challenging their dogma. It was political when it was used to serve Nazi race science. It was political when physicists spoke out against the Nuclear bomb. Say science isn’t political is absurd. Always has been

This is what Diddy didn’t get: You have to openly brag about exploiting women and call that “free speech absolutism”. Support Trump and then you will get rewarded and praised for your crimes. Seriously, we live in a sick world. This sends a terrible message to women www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Just one more piece of evidence that Trump is just straight out evil. Then again he has numerous rape accusations against him, got sentenced in a civil court for rape and his first wife testified that he raped her under oath during divorce court. She also died in a suspicious “accident” later.

How confident are you that you will vote again, or that it will matter? youtu.be/Cd3d8iqJyy8?...

Now that Elon Musk is increasingly becoming a menace to the free world. What alternatives exist for access to Space that could compete with SpaceX? New Zealand Rocket Lab is one honorable mention. Led by a very charismatic Peter Beck, whom I don't think would betray Ukraine. www.rocketlabusa.com

It was only a matter of time before Elon would betray Ukraine. Social pressure has been against him thus far. But Trump is enabling him to betray Ukraine. If you got Starlink, please consider canceling the subscription. We must stand united against Elon's oligarchy ambitions. Hit him where it hurts

Elon Musk's Grok 3 looks to be amazing but we should not pay to use it because none of his companies should be supported. Also Grok tends to push more conservative talking points. ChatGPT is better in this regard. Even Chinese DeepSeek may be better because they aren't pushing a right-wing agenda

A reminder that Elon did in fact make a standard American Neo Nazi salute. While not the same as Hitler, it was the same as American Nazis. Makes sense given where he lives.

Behinds Elon Musk's geek charms is a mobster. He has done the mobster oligarch dream: He has captured government and now uses that power to pressure other companies into doing business with him. Corporations should to the opposite. Demonstrate you do not want a business leader running government.

I am a Norwegian monarchist, and find it deeply ironic how Americans conservatives being proud of not being monarchy, essentially want Trump to be a King. Not ceremonial monarchy I support but an absolute monarchy where Trump has absolute power like kings of old. Where the king is the law.

Here in Norway there is an increasing realization that Trump is killing NATO we are already starting to make defense alliance deals with other European countries such as the UK. A new security framework is emerging as US can no longer be trusted as an ally. www.nrk.no/nordland/for...

Would it not be ironic if we got rid of Trump because his airplane crashed due to his own dismantling of air safety. I think that would be preferable to other innocent people dying in the months to come due to his reckless destruction of US air safety.

Can we please retire this ridiculous notion that the American right ever cared about free speech on Twitter? No, they never cared about free speech. They care about their hate speech being propagated because that is what THEY liked. They are fine censoring others www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi0h...

Minorities and immigrants are indeed overrepresented on crime statistics, but the far-right are overrepresented on the terror statistics, the "overthrow democratic government" statistics, mass murder statistics and more. Combatting the far-right has far higher priority than immigration challenges.

Trump is throwing Ukraine under the bus. The rest of us must step up. I am not in an ideal economic situation but I decide to give 100 euro today towards Ukrainian military defense. This is not just about Ukraine, but the European security, the whole international order u24.gov.ua

Musk and DOGE are bulldozing the administrative state, and building a harrowing new reality for working people. W/ @ahjohnson.bsky.social & @parismarx.com

It was a critical error to rely so much on a superpower like the US. If a superpower goes rogue you have few options. Self-defense must not base critical parts of defense on weapons from any superpower. Even those friendly at the moment. open.substack.com/pub/erikexam...

What a massive POS Kanye West is. Why does he have friends? Why does anyone work with him or aid him? He should be boycotted. Maybe he is a healthy reminder that anyone can be a POS racist. Skin color doesn't matter. www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

It has been great coming over here to BlueSky from X. Leaving X I started spending my social media time on BlueSky and Substack Notes. I am however realizing that maybe I like Notes best. No post length limit. You can edit previous posts. Good intellectual climate. substack.com/notes

This is so sad. We have put too much money and resources into frivolous rubbish like this over physical stuff that matters like trains, nice walkable streets, schools, trams, nice squares for people to meet and socialize in the cities. I'd say let us start spending resources on bring physical back

I don’t get why the US spends so much on its military when all you need to take over the US is learn how to stoke the ego of a narcissist, build some social media troll farms.Oh and a capitalist class who is willing to sell out its own country for a tax cut.

This is the dumbest timeline. Trump fired a bunch of people that oversee our nukes because he had no idea what they did, so he had to hire them back. More proof this is a hatchet job www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

What I wonder is why do we still treat the US with respect? With this attitude should we not make a stand. Walk back this rhetoric all regular meetings stops. Say American officials are no longer welcome in Europe or Canada. Make a stand against this aggression. We cannot tolerate it.

Canadians, how do you feel about the US now? Economic warfare against a friendly neighbor with the intention of annexing it seems like a profound provocation. What is the mood in Canada now over this? I get really angry about the US over this, and I am Norwegian. So I wonder how it feels to Canada.

The Trump approach to "peace" is absurd. It basically states, that if the victim just rolls over and doesn't fight back then you have peace. Neville Chamberlain used that "peace" solution with Hitler repeatedly. He kept avoiding war repeatedly until even he realized that his "peace" didn't work.

The American "solution" to corruption is that instead of the rich paying regular income government employee to do their bidding (normal corruption) they simply buy the whole position for themselves. Apparently in America people don't think that is corruption.

There is one thing to end USAID. Maybe government is out of money or whatever. But when you do something that drastic, the natural thing would be to express regret over the hardship it will cause people. But that wasn't what Elon Musk did. He gleefully joked about it. He thought it was funny. Evil

I have not verified the data myself, but this article seems to undermine a common right-wing talking point about how girls becoming more liberal and using social media is causing some suicide epidemic. Apparently the opposite is happening. Old dudes kill themselves. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is what Elon Musk got us. He was supposed to help us accelerate the transition to electric transportation. His radicalization is going to hurt his very own companies double: 1) it undermines EVs in general 2) it undermines his brand. Who wants Tesla after this? arstechnica.com/uncategorize...

Making satire about the Trump administration is hard because they do all the vile stuff you normally describe in exaggerated satire texts. It is as if Trump read a satire over right-wing politics and decided that should be his whole platform.

The only good decision Elon and Trump will be making while in office. SLS was alway a total waste. Starship will be a better choice. Alternatively use Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

I cannot stand Elon Musk, but he has half a point because this researcher is doing exactly the same thing yet again that caused the grooming scandal to grow so big in the UK. Going out of his way to cover up the ethnic component of the scandal. Don't they learn? theconversation.com/i-worked-on-...

“On Wednesday, Musk shared a faked video claiming USAID had sponsored celebrity visits to Ukraine. Darren Linvill of Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub told NBC News the video was manufactured Russian propaganda.” @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on the origins of right’s USAID attacks

Elon Musk's recent interventions in the UK and Germany have gone down poorly in both countries - 69-73% say Musk trying to influence national politics is unacceptable - 63% say Musk knows little to nothing about issues in their country - Musk net favourability: -52/-53 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Andrew Tate is a truly evil man. A look at how he threatened and humiliated women in the worst ways to do his bidding. The corrosive nature of trafficking where victims themselves became part of the system of abuse. A pyramid of abuse. Remember many look up to him www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1t6...

Sitting over here in Norway I am relieved to see Americans pushing back and it having some effect. We cannot let the US fall. It has allies all over the world. The US is at the center of global security framework and trade. US falling to autocracy would be disastrous www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGq9...

Are we surprised? The guys helping Musk tear down the US federal bureaucracy are a bunch of racists, saying stuff like "normalize hatred of Indians." Vivek Ramaswamy needs to wake the f*ck up and realize what side he is on and what a useful idiot he is to them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XHn...

So Elon will eagerly protect hate speech but not voices speaking truth to power exposing is illegal activities. That is the right-wing hypocrisy. Their "free speech" advocacy is only about speech they want. I am at least open and honest about what speech I oppose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdYa...

What is happening in the US today is unprecedented, but in this article I wanted to have a look at the root causes and compare with the underlying forces driving similar problems in the 1930s. open.substack.com/pub/erikexam...

Look at this video guys and girls. That is the kind of people Trump pardoned. Horrible violent men. An interview with his abused wife. Sad to say, but actually kind of good the police shot him at a traffic stop. He was a dangerous violent menace to society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfQY...