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Victor Pressfeldt @vpressfeldt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Valmyndighetens slutliga räkning i regionvalet anger upp till 172 procents valdeltagande i fyra valdistrikt i Norrtälje. Rösterna ser ut att ha räknats dubbelt. Sverigedemokraterna gynnas mest, V missgynnas mest. Felet hjälper en sverigedemokrat att nå personröstspärren. valkoll.com/norrtalje/

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Välfärdsföretagen nöjer sig inte med att utföra äldreomsorg. Ny forskning från Uppsala universitet visar hur de också försöker påverka vad kvalitet ska betyda och därmed hur deras egen verksamhet ska bedömas. Från utförare till regelmakare! tankesmedjanbalans.se/forskning-va...

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

15 years ago today a white supremacist — opposed to “multiculturalism” and feminism — killed 77 in Norway. When the language of racism and misogyny are normalised as “just words” and “free speech” we wallow in historical ignorance. The line between language and violence is straight and unbroken.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sweden: European Social Rights Committee calls for an end to Sweden’s two-tier healthcare system "A major victory for the human rights of vulnerable EU migrants," says @asjohansson.bsky.social from Amnesty Sweden www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Sweden: European Social Rights Committee calls for an end to Sweden’s two-tier healthcare system

Amnesty International welcomes a landmark decision by the European Committee of Social Rights finding that Sweden breached the right to health without discrimination.

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Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A lesson that we should have learnt, outbreaks can become very large, very quickly and early control is so important to avoid that. Each day of delay in international support going to local teams has massive consequences down the line. Now is the time act.

Figure 1 of the paper showing case growth over time and predictions up to day 160. Curves rising steeply, illustrating exponential growth of outbreak.

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Remember "Climate wedges"? Turns out that BP was behind this soothing notion.

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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Superbe photo d'aurore depuis l'espace par Sophie Adenot !

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

TIL: US tap water contains phosphate fertiliser for lead control.

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Céline Keller / @krustelkram on Twitter @celine.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Why is Jens Spahn (the Majority leader of the German Bundestag) and Kaja Kallas (the Vice President of the European Parliament) on this list (Peter Thiel’s secret society “Dialog”)?

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Spoke at #LSEFestival today about my new book, The Common Good Economy. Thank you to Larry Kramer and the audience for their incisive questions.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2026

Based on the guidelines we issued yesterday, please obtain prior approval for the collaborations you began years ago.

NIH: Does work outside of the U.S. require prior approval?
Foreign components are defined as a significant scientific element or segment of a project outside of the United States.

Significant work performed by a researcher in a foreign location qualifies as a foreign component, whether or not NIH funds are expended.

All foreign components must receive NIH prior approval.

Other examples include, but are not limited to:

the involvement of human subjects or animals at a foreign site,
extensive foreign travel by recipient project staff for the purpose of data collection, surveying, sampling, and similar activities,
collaborations with investigators at a foreign site anticipated to result in co-authorship,
Note, that while not all co-authorship situations represent a true collaboration, the NIH indicates that all cases of foreign co-authorship should be reported to the NIH funding Institute or Center as soon as recipients are aware of it. Review more information and details on NIH International Co-Authors and NIH: NOT OD-26-084
use of facilities or instrumentation at a foreign site; or
receipt of financial support or resources from a foreign entity.
All foreign components must receive NIH prior approval. If a PI is unsure if foreign activity may qualify as a foreign component, err on the side of seeking prior approval.

NOTE: The NIH has not yet provided guidance for how to request the addition of more international project components to an existing awarded PF5 project. NOT OD-25-155.

International activities may also require the UW’s International Activities Assessment.

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Microsoft tries to improve its -750% profit rate on its AI offerings. isaiprofitable.com

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

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mml-europe.bsky.social @mml-europe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Public investment is not unaffordable. Governments create money when they spend. Join us in Stockholm on 27 June to learn how to build resilient economies without austerity. Steven Hail leads the workshop. Register now. #MMT events.humanitix.com/anti-austeri...

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We can't do 'good' in the economy without a new economic theory of what 'good' is. The Common Good Economy sets out the foundational shift: from reactive corrections to proactive objectives we design and work on together.

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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

Europe needs independent social infrastructure, not just an app. This is what we're building. eurosky.tech/build/

Screenshot of Eurosky webpage showing progress on building European social infrastructure and showing:
2 of 9 components built – 2 in progress

Personal Data Server — Complete
Where your posts and data live, hosted in Europe, under European law.

Migration Tool — Complete
Move your existing Bluesky account to Eurosky in minutes.

Relay — In progress
Listens to every post across the entire network in real time.

PLC Directory Mirror — In progress
The identity registry that verifies who you are across every app on the network.

Indexer — Needs funding
Indexes and organises network content to power feeds, discovery, and search.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Constructive alignment vs GenAI: "The deepest challenge of AI in education is not academic integrity. It is whether we will allow our schools and universities to define learning as the production of acceptable outputs. If that is our standard, outsourcing will always look like efficiency."

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

finally it's here my magnum opus a greasy grind through historical grit the mayonnaise essay, or, mayomento mori buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Notable Sandwiches #141: Smörgåstårta

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by @robertjbennett.bsky.social (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social (William Morrow; Gollancz) 1/

Best Novel
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow; Gollancz)
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK)
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor US; Orbit UK)
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
1,153 ballots cast for 555 nominees. Finalists range 126-210.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A Moscou, on soutient mordicus qu'on ne félicitera pas Magyar pour sa victoire car la Hongrie est depuis des années "un pays hostile". D'ailleurs, Poutine n'a jamais été ami avec Orban. En fait.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

check it out: a whole new website for psychic damage profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Another day closer to the end.
The release of the first iPhone is now closer to the dissolution of the Soviet Union than to today.
Dec 26, 1991 → Jun 29, 2007 → Today.
15 yrs, 6 mo to past event.
18 yrs, 9 mo to today.

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"För vem gör tekniken det den gör? Mot vem?" Nu är åtminstone deras mål tydliggjort.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We have to admit that the “anti-woke” framework has proved itself to be exceptionally successful - and not only discursively. This is visible not only in its peculiar global outreach but, more importantly, in the fact that while being an empty concept it has nonetheless >>

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Daniel Ekman @dekman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Vänta ... så Johan Forssell skickade som MUF-ordförande avklippt "hästhuvud" till en fackordförande, och är nu livrädd för målade äpplen?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2026

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

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Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review

The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

When capacity is treated as fixed, the eugenic (and of course neoliberal) premise of “not everyone can be taken care of” is depoliticized as an economic discovery instead of named as a political decision. And that move does not merely reflect an able-bodied baseline—it produces one. 7/

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Crowdfunding the resistance, one filament roll at the time.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

There are ample professional disincentives to spilling the inner workings of a court; even misconduct is rarely disclosed. Only reason to demand NDAs is if the Justices are engaging in conduct so egregious that the legal profession would recognize the need for court employees to disclose it.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

DHS in Portland used Hexachloroethane gas a few days ago, really dangerous stuff in your lungs, acutely and long term. Need a combo respirator filter to help with it. most NATO countries consider it an illegal chemical weapon now. Evidence the feds have tried to hide their use of it previously.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university. 1. Idéhistoria A 2. Homologisk algebra 3. Inblickar i mekanik: planetbanor och robotar 4. Systèmes temps réel. 5. AToPLaC: Advanced topics in programming languages and concurrency

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Signe Krantz @signekrantz.swifties.social · 24/01/2026

Redan nu griper och utvisar polisen barn, demonstranter och människor som trodde att de hade en säker framtid i Sverige. Redan nu har vi en betydande väljarkår som jublar när andra får det svårare och skulle välkomna en diktatur. Jag vet inte var det skulle kunna leda och vill inte komma dit.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

But more broadly, this highlights a fundamental weakness of Microsoft’s design. If MS can easily produce this to law enforcement, then anyone who compromises their cloud infrastructure (and customer service infrastructure, or can forge a plausible LE request) can potentially access that data.

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 16/01/2026

Det finns få saker jag månar så mycket om som barns rättigheter. När jag började skriva om förslaget till sänkt straffbarhetsålder visste jag att många vara kritiska. Men att i princip alla remissinstanser ställer sig frågande till vad regeringen grundar sina beslut på är spektakulärt.

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En faktaresistent regering driver igenom fängelse för 13-åringar

Motståndet bland remissinstanserna är massivt, befogat och motiverat. Regeringen hör inte, eller väljer att inte höra, och backar tillbaka Sverige mer än 100 år i tiden.

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Ken Feinleib @feinleib.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

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civ-il disorder 🇵🇸 🕎 ☮️ @uncivil.work · 21/11/2025

me: oh god it can't get worse can it roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling

Roose: Would you ever put a prediction market inside Roblox — like, let kids bet with their Robux and say, “I bet he’s gonna steal a Tung Tung Tung Sahur?”

Newton: Or, “I bet he’s not gonna Dress to Impress.”

Baszucki: We would — I think we would have to do that — once again, I’ll share some of the complexity. Every single country in the world has different legislation around loot boxes and kid gambling. And so we would have to be — it sounds very fun and obvious. Like, I love that —

Roose: Oh, to be clear, I think this is a horrible idea.

Newton and Baszucki: (laughter)

Roose: I was just interested if you were thinking about it.

Baszucki: Well, I actually think it’s a brilliant idea if it can be done in an educational way that’s legal. And so, imagine no free Robux, no free prizes, just a game called the Dress to Impress Predictor, where it’s not like trying to get kids’ money or anything like that. I would be a big fan of it.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/11/2025

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

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The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Johannes Borgström @joborgs.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Third-party network-wide algorithmic feeds: enabled by the ATproto architecture!

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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

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Per Sicking @persicking.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Överskott i statsbudgeten är någon annans underskott. Det här samtalet med Peo Hansen om pengar, välfärd och migration behöver ses av många fler: youtu.be/GeUWyVhNHzE

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