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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Norways biggest bank DNB is creating a stir by doing the two meme downsizings US tech companies have done since the pandemic: 1. Back To Office Downsizing 2. «AI Productivity» Downsizing Both are widely considered to be fake and just excuses for regular downsizing.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Life in corporate IT 2026: - opening the Gitlab issue someone asked me to review - noticing that issue description spans several pages and includes multiple, lengthy bullet lists - WTF? - closing issue. Finding something else to do.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thinking about that we need a follow-up from @forbrukerradet.bsky.social that shows how the Ensh*ttificator gets help from a swarm of AI bots to massively scale up his ability to make stuff shitty youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/10/2026

To feel optimistic about the AI bubble paying off, you have to be willing to ignore the mountains of evidence before your eyes. The latest indicator of bad things to come that debt is becoming more expensive than ever. www.wheresyoured.at/credit-crunch/

Every day somebody asks me when or how the AI bubble will burst, what might cause it, what potential avenues I’m missing, begging, pleading for some sort of hole in the argument outside of “but what if all the bad things don’t happen and the good things are even better than we imagined?”

These questions come from everyone ranging from random internet people to hedge fund managers on my Terminal trying to squeeze me for free research, and every one carries with it some thin vein of wrongheaded hope — that there’s some subtle failure in my arguments and, in turn, some way in which this all turns out okay.

Even those actively agreeing with me hesitate to follow my arguments through to their logical endpoint, mostly because doing so can make you feel a little queasy. If you actually sit and think about the consequences of what’s happening rather than just a collection of different events organized in a row that you have to remember to speak about on a podcast, it’s easy to say stuff like “Anthropic has $413 billion in non-cancellable compute contracts” or “$18 billion in Oracle data center debt is trading at 84 cents on the dollar” without ever really thinking about what any of that means.

Everyone acts as if everything in the AI boom is going to go fine, all without much consideration of the real world and its consequences for the greater tech industry. They assume that OpenAI and Anthropic will go public, grow forever, raise whatever debt they need, and that every single data center investment will work out fine.

And make no mistake, these companies will need at least $50 billion or more in debt every single year, all with what will likely be low-grade junk credit ratings.

It’s time to talk about why that’s very, very unlikely.

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Snorre Valen @snorrevalen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tekst i Stortinget er makt. Politikk blir til ved at mennesker, som representerer mange flere mennesker, sliper på, forhandler om, og strever med nettopp tekst, fra lokallag og helt til Statsministerens kontor i Oslo. Det er galskap å legge til rette for bruk av KI i Stortingets arbeid.

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(+) Å slippe KI inn i Stortingets arbeid er galskap

En av de viktigste bestanddelene i det norske representative demokratiet er tevlingen om utforming av tekst. Når KI får «hjelpe til» i dette strevsomme arbeidet, kortsluttes det demokratiske kretsløpe...

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vår rasering av Sbankens nettbanksløsninger var en stor suksess sier DnB´s konsernsjef. Vi vil nå øke vår effektivitet i "ignorer-din-kunde" (IYC) prosesser og utvikling av rævva teknologi vha AI 💪🚀

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Corporate life in 2026: Me: "I'm not sure I understand the meaning of that sentence?" (referring to a bullet point in ppt or meeting notes) Author of sentence: "Er, no, me neither.."

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Are @litterat.party · 02/10/2026

At stadig fleire aviskommentatorar og business-folk no må ytre seg med åtvaringar om "KI-shaming" betyr berre ein ting: It's working

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Ine Harsten 📎 @iharsten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"AI-toget er her, og det forlater snart stasjonen." For noe vanvittig sludder, og pølseselgerprat. Gjennom 40 års arbeid med EDB/IT har jeg opplevd utallige tog som som var iferd med å forlate stasjonen. Tidlig syttitall var kunnskap om BASIC livsviktig for å være et fullverdig menneske, 1/

Ingrid Elise Sønstebø-Sundt Røa For 37 minutter siden

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AI-toget er her, og det forlater snart stasjonen. Liv Aasa Holm (88) har bestemt seg for å gå på toget, i motsetning til mange i hennes aldersgruppe. For mens nesten halvparten av Norges befolkning bruker kunstig intelligens hver eneste dag, stopper det opp når nordmenn går på jobb. Særlig for seniorene.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If you're evil, you're at least competent" 😨😱

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m so bored with all the discussion around AI. Can we talk about some useful technology, like heat pumps?

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The delegates at the UN general assembly during Trump's speech

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Negroni love - the story. Play it when you need a spark of joy in your life m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgm...

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NEGRONI LOVE - The Story

YouTube video by Mind Enterprises

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oskar Westerlin har blitt gammel og har gått ut på dato som influenser ungdommen. Så hvem er det som 'påvirkes' av hans lese-tips? Jo, det ser altså ut til å være kvinner bosatt på Frogner, Oslo. www.nrk.no/artikkel/mam...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/09/2026

he's the prime minister of Spain, but graphic design is his passion

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

En gang i uken løper jeg rundt i kontorlandskapet mens jeg peker og skriker høyt og skingrende, sier Aker topp. Det handler om å lære de ansatte hvordan de kan stå i stormer. Jeg kaller konseptet «post-traumatic growth» e24.no/naeringsliv/...

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– Norsk arbeidsliv er for «soft»

Aker-topp Matts Johansen mener dagens unge ikke er rustet for å håndtere utfordringene som møter dem og ønsker et tøffere norsk arbeidsliv.

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forbrukerradet.bsky.social @forbrukerradet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Har du lagt merke til at ting døyr litt for tidleg? Det har vi òg 👀 Det er tema for vår nyeste rapport. / Ever noticed how things tend to die a little too soon? So have we 👀 That’s the topic of our latest report. Les rapporten/read our report👉forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"When an industry that is eating itself alive through "hyperscaling" demands that the government bless a conspiracy to halt competition and ban open source alternatives, you should be suspicious." 🎯 pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b...

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Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Sverre Sk📎 @desverre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fortsetter kampen for digital suverenitet, og har skrevet et innlegg i Digi om mobilplattformer. Og om googles nye retningslinjer for Android som rulles ut nå. Har også skrevet til Digitaliseringsdepartementet om saken tidligere.

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Digital suverenitet – ikke for mobil?

Kan vi leve med at vi kan velge mellom kun to plattformer fra ett land? På den viktigste digitaleenheten for de fleste – enheten som vet ALT om oss.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So, the co-leader of the German homophobic and anti-immigration party AfD is lesbian and has a wife from Sri-Lanka? I´m confused 🤯

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 07/09/2026

Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This journey starts Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as crow flies, 6281 route-km Project background: longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu Follow live: longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu

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AnthroBOOlogal 👻 @anthropologal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Attention folks on the West Coast of Norway 🇳🇴:

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/08/2026

Climate pals, what are your favorite examples of actions that simultaneously reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to climate changes that we can no longer avoid? Joint Adaptation and Mitigation (JAM), if you will.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The study found an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. That's... a lot

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hei norsk presse, når skal dere slutte med de minutt for minutt oppdateringer av kongelige som kjører til og fra steder? Det er både invaderende og dørgende kjedelig på samme tid. Herregud, skjerpings.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Norsk presse: AKKURAT NÅ!! En kongelig har kjørt et sted i en bil!!!!

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 8 acts you've seen live - Prince - Raga Rockers - De musikalske dvergene - U2 - Farmers Market - Freddie Hubbard - Chick Corea - Diana Krall

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AnthroBOOlogal 👻 @anthropologal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I remember expressing disbelief when a Norwegian told me he didn't ski right after I moved here. He said, "Norwegians don't have to ski! Even the King agrees!" then showed me this video. It made a huge impression on me and I've always had love for Harald after watching this:

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Norway Is Us

YouTube video by Jan Brogger

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Attended an oil conference in Norway with fellow climate reporter @brettvsimpson.bsky.social this week and the local paper interviewed us there. Honestly, still pretty pleased with us😂

Screenshot of an interview that reads: "Courage is this year's ONS slogan. [Q from reporter]: What kind of courage do the participants need?
"I really sympathize with these men who must have the courage to continue to have the largest profit in the world," says Westervelt.

"It must be difficult to fight against all the opposition," says Simpson.

Clarification: Here both ladies are laughing, and they speak in a satirical tone.

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Tone @abelone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

«Nordmenn er enslige, skilte, barnefamilier og gamle ektepar. Nordmenn er jenter som er glad i jenter, gutter som er glad i gutter, og jenter og gutter som er glad i hverandre. Nordmenn tror på Gud, Allah, Altet og Ingenting» Takk for alt, kong Harald ❤️

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Mathias Kilsti Hals @kilstihals.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

what the actual føkkings føkk

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026

Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...

Microsoft Is Retiring Excel’s COPILOT() Function After Just One Year
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Calendar icon Published on August 15, 2026

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Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

Microsoft says the formula is redundant
Microsoft is removing COPILOT() because Excel already provides other ways to access the same AI capabilities.

Users can continue working with Copilot through the Copilot side pane and the Dynamic Action Button (DAB). Microsoft is not removing the underlying AI features from Excel, only the dedicated spreadsheet function.

The retirement comes as Microsoft continues expanding Copilot elsewhere in Excel. The company is adding multi-agent web search to Copilot in Excel, giving the assistant more advanced capabilities for finding information online.

Microsoft is also unifying Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a si…

Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

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