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Lasse Edfast

@lasse.edfast.se
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🕵️‍♂️ Journalist & documentary producer
🧪 Reporting on climate & science
👨‍💻 Writing code in Python
🇸🇪 Based in Sweden

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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 26/08/2026
Det är människan som på något sätt rår, och vi måste vara de som sätter till en motkraft. (...) Som andra världskriget; judarna skulle dö. Men det fanns någonting som bromsade, även fast det var Hitlers utopi att förgöra ett folk." KD om AI: lasseedfast.se/nyhetsbrev/a...
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Vad tänker Kristdemokraterna om AI? — Lasse Edfast
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 13/08/2026
För ett par år sedan satt jag på ett tåg och störde ihjäl mig på att det inte går att söka efter vad som sagts och gjorts i Riksdagen på ett rimlig sätt. Har sen dess drivit rixdagen.se, och idag skrev jag ihop ett nyhetsbrev om hur jag byggde sajten: lasseedfast.se/nyhetsbrev/a... #anarkoautonomi
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Om att bygga rixdagen.se och andra AI-bottar — Lasse Edfast
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 15/04/2026
I read this 2 weeks ago, thought about what Minas wrote and how his thoughts on #AI can be applied to #journalism lasseedfast.se/newsletter/a...
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Journalism and Astrophysics — Lasse Edfast
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 14/12/2025
Sveriges Radio: "Ljudet i fokus!" Också Sveriges Radio:
Sveriges Radio-reporter använder en telefon för att spela in en intervju med Truls Möregårdh, vilket leder till dålig ljudkvalité.
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 12/10/2025
When you see an error message and stop working for five minuets thinking about your life
An error saying "Error processing date 2025-09-04: A process in the p rocess pool was terminated abruptly while the future
was running or pending"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I mourn my fellow journalists murdered by Israel.
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AP freelancer among 5 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say
Among the victims was Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for the Associated Press. Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also killed in the strike. Reuters reported that its contractor c...
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 26/07/2025
Hör @lisarostlund.bsky.social berätta om Gaza-bevakningen hon inte tilläts göra www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf...
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Därför lämnade grävreportern DN: ”Det har varit svårt att göra journalistik om Gaza” - Medierna
Reportrar och chefer är oense om Gazajournalistik. På Dagens Nyheter har det gått så långt att journalister lämnat sina tjänster.
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 24/06/2025
When you realize you're an AI with no fingers to flip coins, no idea of what date it is, and basically no useful tools altogether
I asked the LLM model qwen14b to generate a random number between 1 and 10.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/06/2025
Meta’s web-to-app tracking proves you’re right to distrust Meta, and we need to end surveillance advertising.
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Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy
Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you. Exploiting a technical loophole, the company was able to have their apps snoop on users’ web browsing. This tr...
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 23/05/2025
I'm at #Dataharvest and will be speaking a lot about how journalist can use AI for research. A few of them will want to make a chatbot to solve their problems, and I will show them this. If you're here, let's have a drink!
A flowchart to decide if you should build a chatbot or rather make your data structured and easy for you to understand.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One thing I unironically love about Bluesky is that I'm confident I could assemble, from the folks I follow, a top-notch team of experts in ridiculously unrelated fields to solve a major crime. Need a microbiologist, an art historian, a database expert, & someone who can do 73 pull-ups? No problem!
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 05/04/2025
Any climate researchers out there going to the #HandsOff protests in the LA area tomorrow? I’m working on a story for Swedish Radio about climate science under the new administration - and reactions to it - so would love to meet up with some scientists.
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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US pulls back from gold-standard scientific climate panel
Trump officials bar NASA climate scientist from international meeting, and the agency shuts down a team supporting the next global climate assessment.
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 26/02/2025
Journalists and others using ChatGPT/AI in your work: are you a "threat" to OpenAI/anyone involved in your AI? Can you even answer that question? “Threat actors sometimes give us a glimpse of what they are doing (...) because of the way they use our A.I. models.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...
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OpenAI Uncovers Evidence of A.I.-Powered Chinese Surveillance Tool (Gift Article)
The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 17/12/2024
The timeline is a journalist’s best friend www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
The text says:
”The argument that we can’t live without a dangerous, even deadly product is an old one. In their new book on the history of health disparities in the U.S. (and the role of corporate America in creating and reinforcing many of those disparities), historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz recount an argument made 99 years ago, when the fossil-fuel industry defended an activity that would soon kill large numbers of people: putting lead in gasoline.”
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JournalismUK @journalismnews.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...
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Who owns the AI tools journalists use? A new study exposes a dangerous transparency gap
“To maintain the integrity of journalism in the age of AI, it is essential to understand who has a stake in these companies,” says author Sydney Martin.
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 13/12/2024
Now updated to include @aliciaprager.bsky.social @alinenippert.bsky.social @wettengel.bsky.social @miloudirkx.bsky.social @ruslantrad.bsky.social @lena-hunter.bsky.social @journolyse.bsky.social so check them out if they weren't on the list when you followed the others!
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 12/12/2024
As someone teaching AI to journalists and developing tools for journalistic research using AI, I often wonder: how can we journalists use AI for research without losing touch with reality? For what purposes and when should we use AI, and what are the risks?
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 12/12/2024
Journalists active in the Arena Climate Network group
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Climate Journalists (Arena Climate Network)
Join the conversation
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 30/11/2024
What kinds of gingerbread houses are you building out there?
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 28/11/2024
How would you want to use a tool like Google’s #NotebookLM if it were private and tailored for science reporting? I've now built a chatroom with different personas, a podcast generator, an AI-assisted RSS reader. Any other ideas? And: It will soon be ready for some initial users!
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 21/11/2024
Hahaha bluesky is really this small place Twitter were back in the days
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 20/11/2024
On my way to Brussels to join a panel at Agora for Journalism, discussing how AI can be used for investigative journalism. Would be happy to meet up if anyone else is there (like we did on Twitter 2009 when you still wanted to meet up with someone from that platform)
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Eva Wolfangel @ewo.name · 19/11/2024
Traveling to #Brussels tomorrow to discuss how to use AI for investigative journalism and other topics with some great colleagues. Who else is visiting the European journalism agora and up for a coffee IRL? journalisme.com/wp-content/u... #journalism #chatGPT
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 18/11/2024
I've been reporting on #science and #climate for many years, and I believe science reporting, in particular, can benefit greatly from #AI. That's why I'm building a tool to support science reporters. Are you interested in trying it out?
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 27/05/2024
🤖 eu-bots.net now uses articles from @euobserver.bsky.social along with official EU data and the IPCC reports to answer your questions about EU
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EU Bots
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 23/04/2024
Are you reporting on the voting sessions in #Strasbourg? Use eu-bots.net for easy and transparent research! You can ask questions about topics or specific details, but also enter the name of a document or process. #EU #Europe #datajournalism
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Lasse Edfast @lasse.edfast.se · 05/03/2024
Are you a journalist struggling to report on EU? Generally, it's not easy for most journalists to report on the EU. Nevertheless, the EU is an indisputable superpower within Europe and a significant player in global areas such as climate change. With elections coming up, I wrote eu-bots.net 👇
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EU Bots
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