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Valdemar Baes Aaholst

@aaholst.bsky.social
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Msc. student in sociology and pol sci research assistant at Uni. of Copenhagen. Internet culture. Communication and media. Politics, bureaucracy, and state power. And digital methods. Also on Twitter (@vald0506) and Mastodon (@aaholst@sciences.social).

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/07/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance. Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger. Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below. They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models." The web is being murdered. So aggravating. digital.hagley.org
"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
So many universities that today are greenlighting intellectual property theft just years ago were punishing their own students for similar actions lsureveille.com/187594/news/...
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University to enforce fine for illegal downloads - Reveille
Trying to save $1 by downloading a media file for free will cost University students $50 if caught on a campus network after August 1. To discourage students from downloading or sharing movies and mus...
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Laura Serra @lauraserra.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️ www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
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Kasper Junge Wester @veterandrusianer.dk · 13/02/2025
Jeg har ikke abonnement på Børsen og kender derfor ikke detaljerne, men det her lyder lovende. Rigspolitiet er en af de danske myndigheder, der aktivt betaler Elon Musk for et guld-flueben. Fornuftigt, hvis man nu tager det op til revision.
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Dansk politi vil vriste sig fri af X og Elon Musk
Dansk politi vil vriste sig fri af X og Elon MuskNår landets politikredse hurtigt skal informere om alvorlige hændelser eller sende efterlysninger ud, sker det på platformen X. Her er politiet langtfr
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal" Disagree: 71% Agree: 9% Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077
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Nature @nature.com · 24/01/2025
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 18/01/2025
A clear practical guide.
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Lægeforeningen @laegeforeningen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Tak for opbakningen til Lidl. Stærkt at gå forrest og tage del i ansvaret for en røg- og nikotinfri fremtid 💪Vi håber flere følger trop #dkpol #sundpol via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
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Lidl bakker op om Lægeforeningens nye forslag til udfasning af nikotin og tobak | Lidl Danmark
Lidl har allerede taget markante skridt mod udfasning af tobak og nikotin i kædens butikker og vil inden udgangen af 2028 stoppe salget helt. Derfor er Lidl meget positive over for Lægeforeningens nye...
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Pablo Saavedra Garfias @dunklewolke.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Sociologists & Philosophers trolling again by trying to play the science card. What's next in their survey? "In a scale 1-5, how much do you agree that global warming is caused by the increase of temperature" 🤔🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤯??? #AcademicSky 🧪⚛️🌎⚒️🎢
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Absolutely unsurprising www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/u...
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Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I couldn't find a starter pack on the political economy of digitalisation, so I made one. (Self-)recommendations accepted! go.bsky.app/SGZAADH
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Andreas Antoni Lund @ndreasantonilund.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Beskæftigelsesministeren gør det klart, at den kommende beskæftigelsesreform bliver baseret på politiske holdninger ved at understrege, at forslagene fra regeringens ekspertgruppe for beskæftigelsessystemet ikke er regeringens forslag #dkpol #dkbiz #beskæftigelse
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Halsboe varsler opgør med 15 års beskæftigelsespolitik og advarer om specifikke besparelser før forhandlinger
PODCAST: Forud for forhandlingerne om en gennemgribende reform af beskæftigelsesindsatsen advarer beskæftigelsesministeren om at spare på lediges uddannelsesrettigheder. Samtidig gøder hun jorden for,...
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/12/2024
Experts have been warning us about this for decades: "We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages Online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our history with them." www.businessinsider.com/digital-dark...
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We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
From Gawker to the Cartoon Network, online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our cultural history with them.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/11/2024
Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
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Valdemar Baes Aaholst @aaholst.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Meget enig! Man kan mene meget om lobbyisme, og der er ubetinget fordele ved lobbyisme, men som minimum må det være transparent. Både ift hvem politikere mødes med og hvem, der hopper frem og tilbage mellem politik, embedsværk og interessevaretagelse #dkpol
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The victory march of democracy has ended What can we as researchers do? In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies. The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year. A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it 1/8
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Mikael Olai Milhøj @mikaelmilhoj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Jeg skal hilse fra @malthedahl.bsky.social - og lidt fra mig - at I da gerne må sikre, at I har sat sprogindstillinger til dansk, når I poster herinde, så vi kan måle jeres aktivitet via BS's API :-) bs-dk-post-e6271510d638.herokuapp.com
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Magtudredningen 2.0 er nu også på Bluesky: @magtudredningen2.bsky.social
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Bo Therkildsen @bozeuthen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Advarsel: denne profil er en fake profil, der ved at bruge DJs logo og twitter-handle foregiver at være DJ. Det er den ikke: @djintweets.bsky.social
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...
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Esben Salmonsen @esbensalmonsen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Serviceoplysning til #dkpol: kandidatudvalgets afrapportering komme på et ukendt tidspunkt i morgen. Jeg håber at forligspartierne lytter og sætter handling bag ambitionerne #uddpol
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Valdemar Baes Aaholst @aaholst.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#dkpol er eftersigende et af de ti mest brugte tags lige nu
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Andreas Andersen🇩🇰 @aandersen.eu · 18/11/2024
Nu er tre af folketingets partier allerede kommet på Bluesky - @konservativedk.bsky.social, @alternativet.bsky.social og @venstredk.bsky.social. En del af folketingspolitikerne er også kommet herover. Det lover godt for den politiske debat #dkpol
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Robert Grandt @robertgrandt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Politiet i Norge logger seg av Twitter for godt, etter 13 år med effektiv kommunikasjon ut til publikum. #politidk #dkmedier #dkpol #dksome www.vg.no/nyheter/i/mP...
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Siste tweet fra politiet på Twitter
Etter 13 år logger politiet av Twitter for godt. Eksemplene på humoren de har brukt for å nå publikum, er mange.
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Henrik Schack @schack.dk · 17/11/2024
Måske etablerede medier kunne gøre lidt ekstra ud af deres Bluesky handle? Det tager ikke mange minutter bsky.social/about/blog/4... #dkpol
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How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
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Valdemar Baes Aaholst @aaholst.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Jeg har lavet en liste med de danske MF'ere, der pt har lavet sig en profil på @bsky.app. Skriv gerne, hvis der kommer flere til, som skal tilføjes #dkpol
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