Norska riksarkivet har bytt ut sin startsida till en AI-prompt – som just har hjälp mig författa kampanjbudskap för fortsatt oljeutvinning.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Trodde dette var spøk men nei. Nasjonalarkivet byttet ut nettsiden sin med KI. Som ikke akkurat gjør en særlig god jobb med å hjelpe en bruker som vil vite hva sidene egentlig er for noe.

Allright, på tide å kutte i støtta til alle som går på BI www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/vil-...

Meta wants to add facial recognition to its smart glasses and thinks the political turmoil is an advantage since critics will be too busy with other issues to fight it. Previously they’ve scrapped facial recognition (on Facebook pics) as privacy concerns are extreme. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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

Study finds AI-generated images of neanderthals replicates research from the 1960s, not current knowledge. Full paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Visual summary on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DUeEkMfChG...

I stayed up too late finishing my slides for my short talk today. It's titled "LLMs are Metaphor Machines, and That's Bad for Science" and I connect Aristotle on metaphors to vector analogies and transformer models. If you can't be in NG5 in Bergen, it's also streamed www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8H6...

I am one of the most published academics on the childhood social transition, with 5 peer reviewed articles that relate to the topic. There is so much evidence of benefit of social transition. There is no evidence of harm. Not one jot. This will literally kill trans kids. No exaggeration.

OK; I've downloaded Libre Office after another excellent blogpost from @domford.bsky.social, my colleague at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social about how to exorcise Big Tech from your worklife. domford.net/posts/exorci...

Dette har allerede skjedd med enkeltpersoner. 👇👇👇

Does the Australian government raise more money from beer than it does from the tax on our gas exports? YES And the look on their faces is priceless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZln...

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I wrote up the talk I gave at CESTA a couple weeks ago, on how we're overdue on changing the narrative about what digital humanities prepares students for. It's not fallback jobs in tech, it's getting involved in your community in moments of crisis. And craft helps build those skills. #DHmakes

Making it illegal to protest genocide was not how I thought Australian policies would respond to the Bondi massacre.

Vi trenger en exit-strategi for amerikansk teknologi, slik Danmark nå utforsker alternativer. www.aftenposten.no/norge/politi...

Til deg som skriv BA- eller MA-opg m/kjønnsperspektiv/som rettleier slike studentar: Sjekk ut vår MA-stafett 09.03 og BA-stafett 16.03. Lenker 👇Del gjerne! @sirigloppen.bsky.social @rmuriaas.bsky.social @liserakner.bsky.social @drbertelsen.bsky.social @jilltxt.bsky.social @annelineriksen.bsky.social

In today’s episode of CDN’s podcast Off Center, I interview Hazel Wilkinson on how 18th century literary slop relates to today’s AI slop. This printer’s ornament showing a monkey copying out a book was often printed in books you might call “slop”… podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/o...

The 2026 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint is in Malmö on 11-12 August, with wonderful keynotes by @annettemarkham.bsky.social, Susana Tosca, @katjungnickel.bsky.social and @ubiquity75.xyz Submit abstracts by 30 March.

PhD fellowship in interdisciplinary gender research just advertised at the Center for Gender Research at the University of Bergen. Applications due 1 March. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Hilde Rød-Larsen, eldstedatteren til Terje Rød-Larsen, i Klassekampen. Hun utga en roman i høst, "I hvalens buk," som handler om korrupsjon i en maktelite som har mye til felles med det hun selv så som "pappajente", sittende i hjørnet med en bok på middager og møter. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

European Commission's formal analysis of TikTok has concluded today & finds it to represent 'addictive design' --great that someone is doing this work but would really appreciate some transparency in the process so that experts (like myself) could understand ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I just read Adorno’s 1952 essay on fascism, and found his point about the orality of the fascist demogogue and associative irrationality of their speeches. Obviously Trump’s style, but perhaps also social media? LLMs?

This is why you need betterimagesofai.org - database of better images of AI, all human-made and free to use with attribution. So many great images here, I use them all the time!

A few weeks ago my university (University of Bergen) finally made it possible to opt out of Copilot. Most of my colleagues don't know about this, so I'm reposting here! You have to apply for specific permissions in the IT system. hjelp.uib.no/solutions/op...

There are a lot of interesting critical theory papers on AI coming out these days and I want to discuss them with people, so I've started a reading group to meet some Tuesdays this semester at lunchtime here at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in Bergen. Bring your lunch and come! jilltxt.net/critical-ai-...

If you're interested in slop, you'll find this paper's attempt to define AI slop interesting. They identify 3 "prototypical properties of slop: superficial competance, asymmetric effort and mass producibility. Also 3 "dimensions of variability", why was it created, how personalized, how surreal.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Hm. Dette var Stortinget under debatten om å be om en utredning om å endre styreform fra monarki til republikk i dag. Er det vanligvis så få stortingsrepresentanter tilstede? www.stortinget.no/no/Hva-skjer...

I spent St Brigid’s Day up at the Bridestones mapping gulleys and peat hags with Bridestones Rewilded. In the dusk I walked in the woods. The bulbs are through and Spring is on its way.

If you're interested in AI and in Bergen you should come to the UiB AI seminar on Friday, Feb 13th from 10-12, featuring @hannaroine.bsky.social, Zahra Rizvi, Scott Rettberg and me from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! If you're not in Bergen, you can sign up to watch it online. www.uib.no/en/ai/181273...

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Takk til Grete Wold (SV), Tobias Drevland Lund (Rødt), @uneaba.bsky.social (MDG), Sivert Bjørnstad (FrP), Heidi Nordby Lunde (Høyre), Åsmund Aukrust (Ap) og Ingvild Wetrhus Thorsvik (Venstre) for å ha fremmet forslaget til Stortinget om å vurdere å skrote monarkiet som skal drøftes i dag!

Stortinget skal I DAG drøfte forslag om å utrede alternative styringsformer til monarkiet. Innstilling til vedtak er å ikke gjøre det. Er det likevel sjanse for at de vedtar det? Krever vel bare simpelt flertall for en utredning siden grunnloven ikke endres i dag? www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-...

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New article on AI and fascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Noe av det som er skikkelig kult med å kunne lede nettverk for forskningsdatahåndtering ved OsloMet er å kunne invitere PKI (rep @aninehartmann.bsky.social ) til å snakke om et brennhett tema som viser hvor tett datahåndtering og forskningsetikk går sammen. Det er også åpent. Så bare del :)

I’m pleased to see Norwegian politicians saying Norway needs to stop using Palentir’a services. Yes! It’s great that the police stopped using them, but customs still does. This is a threat to national digital sovereignty. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

My passion side project is about the Saturday night soirées Charles Babbage hosted at his London home from the early 1830s until the early 1850s. There were so many fascinating people at those soirées. Last week I ran the larp I'm developing about it for our students. jilltxt.net/larping-babb...

My paper with @annesigrid.bsky.social, Zahra Rizvi and Elise Strand Hagen was accepted for Narrative 2026! The title is "What is unnarratable for a language model? Orbital narration as compensation for what AI cannot say" Looking forwards to the conference!https://conferences.au.dk/narrative2026

Folk på Reddit diskuterer bloggposten min om at Tojes debattinnlegg plutselig endret seg språklig til å bruke masse ikke-men konstruksjoner, noe han ikke brukte før desember 2025. www.reddit.com/r/norge/comm...

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Kjære journalister: ikke vær mikrofonstativer for tekselskapene som vil selge oss mer KI for å tjene mer penger. Her er noen av de mange norske forskerne med kompetanse på KI og etikk og arbeidsliv - og jeg har nok glemt mange, for vi er mange og dette er en kjapp liste. jilltxt.net/norske-forsk...

“The normalisation of One Nation, through reality TV, breakfast TV slots and inclusion as a serious political player in Australia has been media-driven, dressed up as the people’s choice,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Read Amy Remeikis’ full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4alz8EU

this is the adorable Stafford Beer I know: his 1981 attempt to imagine TV as a two-way channel between the government and the people. now where is my Algedonic Meter! #otherNetworks #cybernetics

På tide 👏 Hvordan er det i Norge om dagen?

SCHOLAR'S CODEX - preorders now launched! A collection of essays on Souls games written by academics from at least three continents. Each chapter takes it starting point from an item in one of the Souls games to talk about existentialism, humanity, irony, disempowerment, time and more.

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84