Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And then there is "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach. A book that is bafflingly bad yet sold loads in the early 1970s; it was considered a cult classic in some quarters. Must be all the drugs those guys consumed. 000
Reposted by Jan HauglandPeter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BIG NEWS! I am launching a new podcast together with colleagues from the Cluster of Excellence on Cross-Cultural Philology here at the LMU in Munich. It's called Pages of History and will appear once a month, following today's initial launch with three episodes. pagesofhistorypodcast.net 17333
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I know this is deeply unpopular on Bluesky, but people in coding-adjacent fields, and many in maths, are pretty shell shocked by LLMs right now. Just about everybody else, in any knowledge/information-processing related field, are in total denial and have no idea what will hit them. 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If more people knew how many awesome concerts they could get into their living room through Twitch, they'd spend far more time there. www.twitch.tv/kimarieskytwitch.tvKimarieSky - Live on Twitch🫰Live on a Friday y'all!🌈 !list !tip | Streaming music. 001
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This reminds me of Lord Curzon, later (?) British Viceroy of India, who in the absence of servants late at night was so baffled by the mechanism used to open his window he instead broke it with a log to get fresh air. 082
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026An unexpected beautiful sunny day in #Bergen #Norway. Nice 010
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026nhi.no/livsstil/ege...nhi.noFatigue - Symptomer, årsaker og tiltak - NHI.noFatigue er en følelse av total utmattelse og mangel på energi. Det gir en uforklarlig og vedvarende konstant slitenhet. Lær om symptomer og tiltak her. 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Douglas Adams wrote that the "kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right" - And apparently, it turned out to be so! 3627
Reposted by Jan HauglandAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9doc.govt.nzKākāpō population reaches new milestoneThe official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds. 9690239
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Cult" just means religious or social group you dislike. "Brainwashing" is a cold war fearmongering myth. No special trickery is needed to make people believe stupid shit - just normal social expectations from the in-group. 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Jehovah's Witnesses leadership has just dropped the infamous prohibition on blood transfusions. Only whole blood is still prohibited, and afaik that is rarely used anyway. Wonder what the relatives of those who died refusing blood treatment think now. www.jw.org/en/library/s... #jwjw.orgProducts Derived From Whole BloodHow Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Show Respect for Life? 074
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They think about politics as a way to raise their social standing by performing to signal membership and adherence to in group talking points. 010
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The loss of industry jobs was severely disruptive for many communities, even though there existed other jobs in the economy that over time absorbed most of the people affected. But if all knowledge work is also automated, is there anyway left to go? 100
Reposted by Jan HauglandBadger Punch Games @badgerpunch.com · 10/09/2026Roguecraft DX is OUT NOW!🎉🥰 At last this beauty is out in the wild! We have a new release trailer that we wanted to share with you! Thanks for all the support over the years of Roguecraft DX development! Much love and appreciation!❤️ 65013
Reposted by Jan HauglandThe Economist @economist.com · 03/09/2026The backlash is fuelled by misinformation and misunderstandingbit.lyThe moral panic over data centres is foolishThe backlash is fuelled by misinformation and misunderstanding 1041
Reposted by Jan HauglandJonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How do you expect a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle without a bit of oil for lubrication? 1193
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Just took this photo. The moon is always so underwhelming in photos. #Bergen #Norway 020
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Late to the party, but I could push it a little bit towards the next arbitrary round number. 001
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Unfortunately, large scale carbon capture will never work in the real world. Anybody claiming otherwise is delusional or a scammer. There is no substitute for stopping emissions of fossil fuel. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...projects.propublica.orgFalse Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t WorkAs global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr... 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In an alternate timeline, where the Latin and Greek roots of English words have been swapped. Src: old.reddit.com/r/etymology/... 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tonight's partial solar #eclipse not at all seen from #Bergen, Norway 🥲 010
Reposted by Jan HauglandAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"It’s not just that the crystal is old. It’s that something this small and this fragile-looking has outlasted almost the entire physical Earth it formed on. Continents have assembled and broken apart, oceans have opened and closed, and entire mountain ranges have risen and eroded" 4499187
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The railway tracks put down for way too much money in the 1840s at least left behind incredibly valuable infrastructure. In 3 to 5 years the $trillion GPUs in data centers worldwide will be obsolete and sold for scrap. 010
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026That is horrible. Best wishes for you and your family! 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Key words from 1968 (long time ago, I know): Application programming interface Green revolution Hate speech Mega Press kit ...and a surprise 1968 origin: coronavirus www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...merriam-webster.comTime Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1968See which words were first recorded in 1968. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used. 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026You don't drive massive media engagement by saying "it's ok I guess." That one classicist knows her media. It's outrage machines all the way down. 110
Reposted by Jan HauglandProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out. 9840201933
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If the Bastille had the Spanish team's defence, today would not have been Bastille day. 010
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It would make more sense to ban boomers from 'predatory algorithms'. That's where the serious damage is. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comEU chief pledges social media ban to protect children from ‘predatory algorithms’Ursula von der Leyen’s commitment comes after panel of experts calls for restriction for under-13s 010
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Remember it made a serious impression on me when I watched it back then. 000
Reposted by Jan HauglandDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“The central tragedy of The Peloponnesian War is the story of growing Athenian arrogance and hubris and its fateful consequences. Modern-day Athenians, trumpeting the virtue of strength, would do well to heed Thucydides’s warnings.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comThe Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They MustWhat Thucydides really thought about power. 17516
Reposted by Jan Haugland"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Looking forward to the Habsburg Rematch today when Spain plays Austria. May the largest chin win! 1426322
Reposted by Jan HauglandDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/06/2026That helps explain why big media, always the handmaiden of power, works so hard to frame climate concern as some fey, boutique, out-of-touch elite concern. They don't want you to know that other people are concerned too. If you knew that, you might organize & push for change! And so we get this: 7333142
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026People who aren't chronically online are also shocked to find most people are not totally outraged by the existence of AI writing/art. 030
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The radical left circular firing squad is working hard to mess up the best opportunity for a total landslide since Goldwater. 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It's positive in the red-on-red sense. Also, if European right wing extremists realise MAGAs are not their friends, that is a tiny step towards engaging their brain cells, obviously a mostly futile project. 000
Reposted by Jan HauglandPaul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 19/06/2026No matter what age you first encounter quantum entanglement, from 0 to 120, it's still startling! (Photo by Taryn Adams) 591572173
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It would be much more beneficial to society if we banned boomers from social media. 000
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Well, Iran could demand to use Trump as a footstool. It's a natural next step (heh) and has solid historical precedent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria...en.wikipedia.orgValerian (emperor) - Wikipedia 010
Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A good lightning strike and I will have to reconsider my atheism. 140
