As people say, is this bad?

Med fare for å gjenta meg selv, det er umulig å ta en liberal/bluesky/generell offentlig diskurs seriøst når den kun evner å se karakterer som Schevig eller Charter-Svein, men i det store og hele er/var totalt ok med at Aavitsland, kanskje det nærmeste en offentlig talsmann for FHI 1/4

Lite viser hvor isolert fra den materielle verden den norske bluesky- intelligentsiaen er når en stor krise er i emning. Keep on cosplaying antifascisme i den liberale boblen ass.

USD 200 a barril is the kind of carbon shock therapy that will have devastating social and economic effects across the world. Yes over long run it may shift us faster to public renewable but till then there's a lot of short term pain bsky.app/profile/bloo...

Et dette riktig @zweizz.bsky.social? I et krise/selvforsyningsperspektiv er vi relativt sett isolert for mangel på kunstgjødsel og diesel, da yara har avtale om prioritere norsk landbruk og Mongstad raffinerer. Men, med en selvforsyningsgrad under 50% vil uansett inflasjon på importert mat...

We're on track to cross 2C in the forties, and guess what, 2040 is as far into the future as 2012 is in the past.

Food for thought: In Sweden the people who pushed for mass infection were already in power in public health, and were never pushed out. Now they're even being rehabbed by a current top official and the x-director of NIPH. Thread below in Norwegian, with receipts.

Dette er aktiv historieomskriving fra Stoltenberg (nåværende FHI-topp Aavitsland driver med det samme på twitter), i forbindelse med Tegnells besøk. Flere burde stille spørsmål om hvorfor dette ønsket om å forsvare den svenske pandemiresponsen. www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/hane...

"People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets." Read @pkrugman.bsky.social on the latest incident of people making piles of cash using insider info about national security matters & how it could amount to treason. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Not arguing against this, but here's a riddle: WHO (and various entities of public health, the UK pandemic hearings etc.) have acknowledged the droplet theory was wrong. A huge epistemic shift. Yet public health continues to recommend surgical masks, filtering masks for AGP only, and arbitrary 1/2

Herd immunity by May, they say or maybe it's in June Certainly by August never change the tune Sickness is inevitable just like life and death COVID is a common cold droplet breath by breath

The pandemic has been a brutal eye-opener to how inertia, individually and institutionally, leads to various levels of denialism and historic revisionism. Tegnell (former Swedish state epidemiologist) is lecturing Scandinavia, amongst others Norwegian public health officials 1/4

11/ Full piece with @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social -- no paywall www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Family of Birds with Fish Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe 1989

Module 3 of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. Encouraging to see explicit recognition of the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand aerosol science, and the "clear failure" of IPC leaders to understand that they might be wrong. #medsky #scisky covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu....

"In 2022, Semieniuk and his co-authors found that US-owned fossil fuel companies recorded over $300 billion in profits(...)The profits were not the result of scarcity; they were the result of pricing power exercised under the cover of geopolitical instability."

The ultimate "we'll update our understanding but keep the old praxis" is when public health (like in Norway) made the pretty effing huge epistemic shift from droplet to aerosol, while simultaneously keeping recommendations of surgical masks, 2m, and FFP for AGP and highly symptomatic patients only.

News from Sweden: "Long-term changes to the peripheral immune system lasting weeks to months in individuals recovering from mild to moderate or severe SARS-CoV-2 are likely to have implications for susceptibility to new infections". Certainly sounds like a great thing to catch regularly.

The common post-COVID condition that doesn't exist in Norway. And if it does it's surely brain prediction errors amplified by social contagion. European Hart Journal: "Our findings demonstrate a significant increase in the incidence of POTS following the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting a...

According to the UK/Scandi/Euro bps-milieu, influential to the very top of Norwegian public health, what WHO/Europe is doing here is akin to amplifying brain prediction errors through social contagion. www.who.int/europe/event...

As a middle-aged man somewhat prone to climate pessimism, I've grown weary of a certain toxicity certainly overrepresented, but not exclusive, to this stratum. Advice: Don't listen to collapsologists that turn antivax as soon as a pandemic hits, nor the ones (as here) that cowrite with them.

Fascinating thread on how some folks on the Norwegian left fell in ❤️ with the MAGA/MAHA/Great Barrington/RFK Jr coalition’s pandemic revisionism & its push for mass infection over vaccination Some of these folks don’t ❤️ this coalition kidnapping people or erasing trans people—but it’s ALL linked

The border is everywhere: "Even if the Trump administration rejects mention of climate change, it is offering a bleak vision of a national fortress in the face of large-scale human suffering.(...) Border security is the primary element of national security." www.thenation.com/article/envi...

As @gavinyamey.bsky.social says, if you can't see the link between the pandemic-contrarian anti-public health in charge under RFK jr., and ICE, you are not paying attention at all. Yet Bals, as the Norwegian left in general (and public debate at large), and despite writing, podcasting and...

I learned from the pandemic that for large parts of the left, solidarity as in a real material sense having to do something practical that breaks with the old norms, like e.g. masking, evaporated into thin air once they, rightly or wrongly, felt reasonably safe themselves.

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜 I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is. medium.com/@margarmitch...

"We try to manage the whole inflation problem by focusing on only the interest rate whereas I would argue that there’s a range of other systemically significant prices that we should also be paying attention to if we want to achieve greater price stability."

"In contrast, the authors find that warming rates have increased to 0.34-0.42C per decade, across the five different datasets, since the February 2013-February 2014 period." www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...

This retweet is from a Norwegian top public health official and de facto pandemic spokesperson. He recently blocked me on twitter for calling him out for trans hate and Covid misinformation. He defends Bhattacharaya, and thinks Kulldorff is a competent guy.

Just watched this hour or so of mostly polite small talk. The only, and extremely vanilla, critical questions were pointed at Salminen regarding pandemic closures. Not so much as a mildly challenging question pointed at Tegnell (who unsurprisingly shows no levels of critical self reflection),...

Robert A. Pape: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

"But beginning in the early 2000s, the legal constraints on war began to erode. After Al Qaeda’s devastating attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States began to use force throughout the Middle East against those it deemed to be a terrorist threat."

Robert Pape—a leading IR scholar in aerial bombing—offers three historical lessons from his seminal "Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War": 1: "Air power rarely produces friendly regime change." 2: "External attack fuses regime & nation." 3: "Retaliation is often delayed & asymmetric."

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

From early February: lareviewofbooks.org/article/iran...

Something something spectacle.

Det er en åpenbar sammenheng mellom Covid, Long Covid og sykefraværstallene. Forøvrig et dårlig tegn at det finnes så få Ebba Wergelander i norsk samfunnsdebatt: "Det er ingenting å hige etter å skulle ha lavt sykefravær, hvis man sammenligner seg internasjonalt." www.nrk.no/vestland/lav...

And yet this rain, although devastating, is a mere drizzle compared to the floods from a supercharged water cycle in Earth's worst episodes of rapid warming. And we're hurtling there at unprecedented speed. archive.ph/gddQE

The regular reminder that people of power in Norwegian (and Scandinavian) public health both cheer and share ideas from the RFK-enabling anti-public health movement, and that progressives/pundits/"the left" largely don't care.

Claiming an IPCC lead author behind an EU climate report is an ecological dimwit is certainly a take. Such "attacks" are a sad, but not uncommon occurrence in some circles of climate-social media. There is of course huge uncertainty to how both climate, ecosystems, and human society will react,...

In the late Triassic, a vast expanse of volcanic eruptions in modern day British Columbia and Alaska injected enough CO2 into the oceans and atmosphere to warm the planet by 4-7°C. This supercharged the water cycle, lashing much of the world with hard rains.

This text very effectively reveals ideas, sadly shared by parts of Norwegian/Scandinavian public health, that at the very best is a mindset fixed in a state of endemic fatalism. Reducing levels of colds and flu through public health measures is "arrogance" against an omnipotent natural world...

While touted as a climate win, just replacing petrol cars with ginormous EVs in Oslo and other non-rural areas is such a sad reminder of the lack of imaginative futures.

"But if it’s due to a cloud feedback loop, the acceleration is likely to continue — and bring with it worsening heat waves, storms and droughts. “If there is a strengthening cloud feedback — a positive cloud feedback associated with warming — that’s going to persist,” archive.ph/XmUjT/again?...

Yes. Time is not on our side. Global temperatures are 20x more likely to rise by 2.5C than 1.5C over the next two decades according to S&P Global. www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/r...

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Despite decades of research and sophisticated computational climate modeling, the magnitude and pace of these events have surprised scientists, raising questions about how well current climate projections capture risk. At the same time, research on climate tipping points, amplifying feedbacks,...

Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery. buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

"The analysis finds that as global heating increases, climate damage is more likely to arrive through extreme weather, cascading disruptions and tipping points, rather than through slow, manageable changes to economic growth." www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

On the other hand today's rate of warming is way faster than during the PETM. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...