Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over* 775286034864
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/04/2026stargate is dead - or more operatively never actually existed. Norway was never happening. Next up on the deathwatch is Stargate Argentina, which was only ever a letter of intent. Also fair to ask whether OpenAI ever takes Oracle's data centers. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-... 1140657
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 12/04/2026“If it’s already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?” Australian researchers have found that extreme heat mortality is "seriously underreported” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study findsAnalysis of six extreme heatwaves found when temperature and humidity were accounted for, all were potentially deadly for older people 5225109
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183456900
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11/03/2026So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool. 13864298
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Tech company: At last we have created a Golem, a being well known from ancient scripts like: - Don't create a Golem!, - Creating a Golem is the ultimate sin!, - Creating Golems will be the new Downfall of Man and create Hell on Earth! 000
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Of course they did. a) because the could b) because they could enrich them selves on the outcome 000
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zZ5...youtube.comDead Cross + Jello Biafra "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off"YouTube video by Ipecac Recordings 000
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trumps endgoal: The United Banana Republics of North and South America (including Greenland) 000
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/11/2025Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds 202415426
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerKathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now 110663185
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Elon Musk’s anti-woke version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, cites neo-Nazi forums in multiple places as source. A great validation of the notion that when people say they’re anti-woke, they just mean they’re hyper racist.nbcnews.comElon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study findsAn analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month. 5333105
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies. 771643877
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 06/11/20251 På lang sikt, som jo er det perspektivet tekno-gjengen liker å ta, så vil jo det å bremse oppvarming redde flere liv enn hva vi klarer på kort sikt. For å bruke artikkelens eksempler, så vil jo både hetebølger, diare, malaria, tørke bli stadig større problemer med økt oppvarming. ...dn.noBill Gates sier farvel til Greta Thunberg (+)Microsoft-gründeren tar et oppgjør med dommedagsprofetene. 120
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerMatthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025New newsletter klaxon! Suppose that generative AI does ultimately kill the job market. What happens next? I argue that the tragic lessons of the Thatcher era can serve as a warning. www.whatwelo.st/p/whats-past...whatwelo.stWhat's Past is PrologueGenerative AI's Dream is a Thatcherite Nightmare 27815
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Kometen kommer og Sent i november er begge fin høstlesning. Og begge kan du finne på Spotify, lest av forfatteren selv, Tove Jansson www.nrk.no/bokbrevet/bo...nrk.noJeg hadde ikke lest en eneste bok - så fant jeg den perfekte trøstenI en utrygg verden trenger vi Mummifamilen 010
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Grokpedia skriver langt om Norge, med et fyldig avsnitt om "Ethnic Composition and Native Identity" som du neppe finner andre steder 🫤 grokipedia.com/page/Norway#...grokipedia.comNorwayNorway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula along with the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Jan M... 010
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 27/10/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71...youtube.comEnshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed ZitronYouTube video by Clarion West 000
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 27/10/2025Can't read the article because it's paywalled, but... A big issue with LLMs I highlighted TWO YEARS AGO is that they can be manipulated (poisoned) by state actors to say what they want and that this is an unsolved problem fundamental to the tech www.baldurbjarnason.com/letters/the-...baldurbjarnason.comThe poisoning of ChatGPTWeb dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland 1153
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Kvinnestreik på Island før helgen, og det så vi lite til av i norske medier 🫤 www.ruv.is/english/2025...ruv.isWomen's Strike 2025 - live blog - RÚV.isEvents are being held across the country today in connection with the women’s strike. The occasion marks half a century since the (first) Women’s Day Off in 1975. Organisers say there has been a setba... 000
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerInternet Archive @archive.org · 22/10/2025We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby.... 252612643
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources. The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor. 514429
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Welcome to the AI slop era. 0445
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal Müllerscott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social 930391157
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2025In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on! 16770371
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 18/09/2025youtu.be/3zZ5uDSBATo?...youtu.beDead Cross + Jello Biafra "Nazi Trumps Fuck Off"YouTube video by Ipecac Recordings 000
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal Müllergrannydoodle.bsky.social @grannydoodle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025My favorite Venn diagram. Nice and colorful. 955937
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal Müllerpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts 152856337
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerFabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known” apnews.com/article/chin...apnews.comUS tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in ChinaU.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing. 13014
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/09/2025If robotaxis are Sputnik, ubiquitous, affordable, accessible public transit is a space elevator. 23800109
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerIan James @ianjames.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...latimes.comHumanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drierResearch shows vast portions of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. Groundwater depletion accounts for two-thirds of the continents' water losses, contributing to rising oceans. 10246162
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 03/09/2025arstechnica.com“Mockery of science”: Climate scientists tear into new US climate reportDepartment of Energy is not serious about engaging with the scientific community. 310640
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Hun kunne lagt til at meta allerede bremser innsatsen og at flere av de nyansatte innen ai har gått videre www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kom...aftenposten.no1 milliard for å begynne i ny jobb? KI-stjernene er nå verdt like mye som Haaland.USA satser alt på KI. Milliardene sitter ekstremt løst. Men er det verdt det? 000
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2025Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...axios.comAI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workersSoftware and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine. 11632361059
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has *already* destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...citrusindustry.netHow Florida Orange Production Plummeted 92% in 20 Years -USDA ERS recently recounted how natural disasters and diseases have reduced Florida’s orange production by 92% since the 2003–04 season. USDA 101892709
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerCanadian Hammer 🇨🇦 🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · 22/08/2025“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty” … or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾 www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...digitaljournal.comMicrosoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereigntyMicrosoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty. 1632898979
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog, by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.usermag.co/p/substack-s...usermag.coSCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blogThe alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." 1123090
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/07/2025When you live in a world where caring about other people is political and billionaires gleefully celebrate using the power of the government to hurt people, a vanilla Superman story from the comic books reads like a radical leftist agenda. 514326
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/07/2025After 9,000 Microsoft employees were laid off earlier this week, an XBox executive producer shared some Copilot & ChatGPT prompts the recently laid off could use to deal with their job loss. I’m sure he means well but this is incredibly tone deaf. 1610311
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...nytimes.comFIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup 44293513180
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal Müllerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵 308145213315
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 5421851113
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/05/2025When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law 2 years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all learn not to This new DB has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, 20 from just this month! simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...simonwillison.netAI Hallucination CasesDamien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer. That's … 515049
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I agree with this principle from @simonwillison.net , and it is one of the reasons for the POC I made of an HTMX-app served from static, using - Service Worker for SR - SQLite (WASM) for data - OPFS for persistence - PWA for installing on desktop Web is wonderful ❤️ github.com/kjartanm/htm...github.comGitHub - kjartanm/htmx-swContribute to kjartanm/htmx-sw development by creating an account on GitHub. 010
Kjartan Rekdal Müller @kjartanrm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025So @htmx.org is all about SSR, and not those silly SPA-thingys? Well, hold my beer (just buy me one first), and I'll give you a SPA-ish HTMX-application: github.com/kjartanm/htm... Fear not! It is all about love for hypermedia and web as platform 😍 - HTMX - PWA - Service Worker - SQLite using WASMgithub.comGitHub - kjartanm/htmx-swContribute to kjartanm/htmx-sw development by creating an account on GitHub. 061
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11/05/2025This interview with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark is interesting as he considers himself an AI pessimist and believes it’ll contribute 3-5% GDP growth versus 20-30% touted by AI optimists. He also expects healthcare will be the hardest industry for AI to crack given privacy and regulations.conversationswithtyler.comJack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact (Ep. 242)And the inevitable future of AI-enhanced parenting 4507
Reposted by Kjartan Rekdal MüllerThe Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A few weeks ago @science.org published essay I co-wrote claiming that in Autumn 2024, the world was in it's best position in human history to eradicate both measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth. The change in tone highlight some troubling things 1/theguardian.comWorld may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist saysAs infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ grows 15522
