Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

We need a Star Trek episode about how the invention of the universal translator caused people to stop valuing actually learning languages, while they fatally overestimated the UT's accuracy and the resulting misunderstandings led to a massive war that tore the quadrant apart

Om någon i Göteborg undrar varför det är en rökpelare nära Götaplatsen så är det bygget bredvid min svärfars lägenhet som råkat sätta eld på gummimattorna (?) under en sprängning.

Here's how to REALLY offend a paleontologist 🦴🦕 #GameChanger / @GianmarcoSoresi.bsky.social

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

Jag uppskattar bojkotten mot de stora kedjorna men tycker också det är lite roligt att jag och min sambo av ren pengabrist har fått ha vår egna lilla bojkott den här månaden.

En sak jag hoppas ändå kommer med den amerikanska apokalypsen är att folk i Europa ser och förstår vad radikalhögern faktiskt vill. För ingen tror väl att det skulle bli annorlunda om SD, AfD eller Nationell samling fick total politisk majoritet (med vissa lokala detaljer olika)?

Och tågen skulle gå i tid

Me: "I wouldn't want to go to the US, I can't support that country" My (trans) partner: "I mean, I straight up can't go"

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

Really can not exaggerate how dire it is that the US flat-out disappeared a foreign student

Some fun PhD student positions now available in Visby, both in archaeology and cultural heritage. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Breaking my hiatus just to say that Sweden will finally be sending something really goofy to Eurovision. About time!

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same. (See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

It took me a couple of episodes before I figured out what was bothering me about The 100, which everyone around me loved. It was that everyone was the exact same flavour.

Happy Christmas to everyone celebrating old calendar Christmas today!

Gamers: adding a difficulty slider compromises the artistic vision of the game devs Also gamers, apparently: I need an AI filter over every face in my game

some things on the internet get old and cringy but I do not think I will ever get tired of watching Tom Holland's Umbrella performance for the rest of my life instant smile on my face, every single time

folks, when you ask a chatbot about how it's programmed, it doesn't actually give you accurate answers - it gives you a series of predictive guesses drawn from a corpus of what other people have said about AI and the way you asked it. Meta's 'AI' personalities are not spilling secrets to you.

So very tired of an acquaintance of mine who keeps posting "funny" memes about gaining weight ("The more you weigh, the harder you are too kidnap" etc). As you might have guessed, she's your average person who weighs 5-10 kg more than she did at 20 and now has to be self deprecating about it.

My old PhD advisor, Henrik Williams, wrote a short article about this passage. Litr means "colour" and is a pretty unusual dwarf name. Henrik argues that this is what's left from a story about how fire got so many colours.

Notch is a racist. Notch is a misogynist. Notch is a homophobe and transphobe. Do not give Notch your support. Do not give Notch your money.

I'm so sorry, but I can't afford to donate to more than a few people every month. I wish I could.

Självklart är det fullt möjligt att få ned utbetalningarna till sjuklön om man ändrar reglerna så att det är svårare att få tillgång. Men det finns alltså absolut inget som tyder på att fler då börjar jobba. Det som händer är att fler sjuka blir fattigare. Då får man vara tydlig med att det är målet

I've now finished Thank Goodness You're Here and am probably joining everyone else in hoping @secretsleepoversociety.com will play it.

Det här med utökad semester sätter fingret på något som stör mig när folk pratar om hur de minsann tog tåget till Rom i somras: det är jättebra, OM MAN HAR TID. En extra veckas semester är inte görbart för väldigt många.

TIME TO CREATE BUCKAROOS. yes there will be little pieces that you keep seeing and thinking 'this is broken this is wrong' but honestly most of these things fall into two categories 1 they give you flavor and power or 2 nobody even notices. NOW GET OUT THERE AND PROVE LOVE BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING

Boss made a dollar, Grandad made a dime. But that was a poem From a simpler time. Boss made a thousand, Gave my Dad a cent. But that coin paid the mortgage, Or at least it paid the rent. Now bosses make a billion, And give us workers jack. Then smugly blame society, For the labor that they lack.

Here’s a whole thread on this absolutely unbelievable admission of guilt on a national scale.

Min pappa gillar inte riktigt jul. Min farmor fick ofta tvärnog mitt i julstöket och bara drog från köttbullarna på spisen och försvann i timtal. Sund hantering av att bli överväldigad.

"Förr fanns minsann inga npf-diagnoser" Jag, gräver i arkiv och hittar saker som: ➡️Löjtnant ger ut en tidning i 5 år för att han inte fick skriva om angorakaniner i kaninföreningens medlemsblad. ➡️"Om ljus m.m." en essä på 5 A4 av en kemist som blev avbruten på kemistårsmötet. 🫡

I have a very silly little song that I sing whenever I can't find my partner in the supermarket (or any other place for that matter). He's an easily distracted short king, he disappears a lot.

Same.

Really looking forward to this.

We're playing Alas for the Awful Sea and are naming our ship. Turns out looking in your board game collection is really helpful. The Wingspan. The Azul. The Alhambra. The Cartographer.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

If it's an 'authoritarian drive' in China to remove trans people from public view, what's it called in the UK and US?

In tonight's board game, a rampaging Ankylosaurus, genetically enhanced to be a carnivore, killed one park employee and a tour guide.

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

För att vara ett äkta folkmord måste det utföras i de vita folkmordsregionerna i Europa. Annars är det bara mousserande massmord

the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none

Jesus F. Christ

Getting really into Old Swedish. Unable to believe that anyone would find me attractive, to the point of shutting down whenever someone actually flirted with me.

Fat Aioli

My first completed illustration of the year is a follow up to one of my most popular illustrations (linked below). This new one is titled "Fealty." 😁