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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man kan ha en hel de åsikter om delar av den tidvis idoliserande bild av USA som återfinns i den analys Duran gör i The Nerd Reich - han är trots allt amerikan och journalist, inte statsvetare - men det hindrar inte att delar av analysen är möjlig att instämma i.

Den gulmarkerade texten på bilden lyder ”There is no middle ground between freedom and fascism. The "centrist" playbook leads only to ruin in these circumstances. Political moderation in the face of despotism is a slower but surer way to arrive at the same destination.
While I fear the destruction Trump and his oligarch co-conspirators will impose over the next few years, the greater threat is that our descent into tech fascism will be spearheaded by liberal politicians who, co-opted and corrupted by Silicon Valley money, will abandon democracy without much of a fight.” (The Nerd Reich, Gil Duran, sidan 255)

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Then, there are those who claim their foundation to be moral, like the tech billionaires and their enablers. For this qoute to be used the way it often is Eisenhover should have phrased it ’to advance the wellbeing of our fellow humans’, but he didn’t. ’Moral’ is such a fickle concept.

Dwight D Eisenhover looks at you through the screen, side by side with the qoute ”If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance the cause that is right and moral, then it is not a political party: it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Med enterna, för klimatet! 🪾🪧🌍 och så alla vi andra också, förstås! www.naturskyddsforeningen.se/kampanj/den-...

Två enter, i demontrationståg för klimatet.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Priset för att du ska kunna använda elprylar och få AI-sammanfattningar, dygnet runt. För de flesta i Sverige är el något som händer magiskt. Eller så kanske man tycker att det ör OK så länge det är nån annan som drabbas?

Torrlagd älvfåra, nedströms Sveriges största vattenkraftverk i Harsprånget: ett vattenfall och en fors som varit torrlagd sedan kraftverkets invigning 1952.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Människor som på grund av omständigheter utanför deras kontroll (krig, svält, hetta) inte längre kan leva där de är födda och därför försöker hitta ett bättre liv nån annanstans ska alltså ses som invaderande skadedjur? För hur ska uttalandena annars tolkas? 🧵 1/3

Skärmklipp från SVT.se: bild på imigrationsminister Johan Forssell (M), rubrik ’Forssell (M): Får aldrig återvända till flyktingkrisen 2015. Under står det ’Åkesson (SD): ”En invasion” • Kritiken: ”Obefintlig empati”’

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is what colonialist extraction economy looks like, in Sweden. Conducted out of view of the majority population. These places are on the same scale as the data centers the government wants. And for what? Running statistic prediction machines that makes us dumber?

The Stregra compund, in Boden, all the way to the horizon… and it’s still just a small part of it: most of it is out of picture.

Harsprånget hydro power plant. The old river basin has been dry since 1951. The red structure on the horizon is a small part of the water magasine: the actual plant is out of picture.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Visited Easy Elsie, or ’the Lancaster’, as she’s called, today. Still present at the Käimutjegge bog, 82 years after she crashed.

Parts of a 1940’s Lancaster bomber, spread over a bog in the Swedish north.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When on the road in Norrbotten one need to stay alert for for reindeer on the road. (We stood still, which is the correct thing to do.)

Reindeer on the road, in front of the car.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Om fler läst Empire of AI (Karen Hao) skulle vi slippa detta slöseri med skattepengar. Då skulle alla veta att jättarnas datacenter alltid läggs i utflyttningskommuner och fattigsamhällen av ett skäl, och att nån handfull millar står sig dåligt mot 100-tals miljarder dollar och medveten lobbyism.

Skärmdump från SVT. För fullständig text, gå till https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/dalarna/ai-utvecklingen-ska-fa-en-skjuts-ny-hubb-startas-i-dalarna

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🧵Liberalismen som rörelse uppstod när handelsmännen och fabrikörerna tog strid med den besuttna adeln om makten. En liten kort period gjorde det att arbetare och borgare hade gemensam sak, men det upphörde för snart 200 år sedan när borgarna fick del av makten. ->

Skärmdump från SVT.se den 15 maj 2026:
Liberalerna vill fördubbla antalet
miljardärer
Antalet miljardärer i Sverige ska
fördubblas tycker Liberalerna. Partiet vill att Sverige ska ha 1000 miljardärer år 2036, dubbelt så många som uppges finnas i landet idag.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@moderation.bsky.app I REALLY don’t want explicit sexual content in my feed, but if a human’s uncovered legs are ’explicit sexual content’ then you are a zealous orthodox Abrahamite - islamic or christian, I do not care which - and a hypocrite of the first order. See attached screen grab.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Var i diagrammet tycker du att Sverige borde vara, och vart tycker du att vi är på väg? Var skulle länder som USA, Kina, Kanada, Ryssland, Tyskland eller Finland, hamna? Pågår en förskjutning? Vem vinner på det? Plotta ut och diskutera konsekvenserna för de som bor i respektive land.

Fyrfältare som beskriver aspekterna demokratisk-auktoritär på ena axeln och fokus på gruppen/staten kontra individen på den andra.
Modellen ska ses som ett analysverktyg när man försöker förstå hur olika stater och organisationer förhåller sig till varandra sett till makt och individens rättigheter.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Liquid Glass UI is such a brilliant study in screen real estate waste, and the lack of balanced proportions makes me seasick. Apple should know better. (Boxes in pic marks space burnt by mismanagement in the iOS Notes app.)

A screen shot of Apple’s iOS Notes app, with boxes added to highlight wasteful use of screen space.u

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Against the sun at Norr Mälarstrand. Stockholm, Sweden.

Picture of th walk by Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm, Sweden, looking west. Against the sun, so harsh contrasts, and in spring, so no leaves on the trees yet.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

LinkedIn, today. Somehow ’scaling ethics’ gives ’one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic’. But yeah, right: ethics needs to scale, ethics on an individual level - fx autonomy, integrity - can’t apply on, say, consumer segments? The context is Meta’s glasses. If anyone wondered.

Screen shot from LinkedIn post:
”Technology scales faster than ethics. The real question isn’t what companies can build, but what they should.”

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

What is even ”We are watching intelligence turn into infrastructure” supposed to mean?! No matter the growth/extraction-ideology underpinning the text the disdain of humans and humanity should be off-putting. But I guess enough LinkedIn-users are just that insecure to walk into the trap.

Screen shot of excerpt of LinkedIn post made by an AI influencer, text as follows:
— start excerpt —
My take:
We are watching intelligence turn into infrastructure.
The old assumption was: build a great model, then find customers.

The new reality is: secure power, compute, financing, and distribution then scale intelligence like a utility.

That shift changes everything.
— end of excerpt —

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

@bsky.app making a stand: international women’s day, which is about equal opportunities and women’s rights (and thus human rights) is classified as ”entertainment”. Good to know.

Screenshot of Bluesky app’s Explore/search screen, with the trending topics list showing International women’s day in second place, labelled as ’Entertainment’.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Underground, subdued. T-centralen at midnight on a weekend.

The walk between the old main part of T-centralen and the ’newer’ blue line. Blue ceiling overhead, black and white patterned walkway, almost empty of people despite it being a weekend night.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It’s only 6 months to mosquito season so why remove the mosquito net? ;-) -23 deg C outside, sunset at 13:14. Welcome to Norrbotten ❄️

Looking out through a window which has a mosquito net on the inside, part covered with ice on the outside, and a view of snowy fields and a setting sun at the horizon.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Liquid glass is a gif galore ricochet from the 90’s. Have Apple really not learned ANYTHING about basic usability, accessibility, and what have you?! What about your own heritage?! This is what happens when you neglect or fire your UX department, folks.

Image of the 1987 edition of Apple’s book Human Interface Guidelined: The Apple Desktop Interface, which was one of the first UI manuals that I read and used in my work, back when.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Rotary phones ringing in the dark. Bevelled buttons set in a <frame>. The quick switch circuit boards hidden by the snap lid of a Quadra 600. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to start again. And no lessons learned.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A brief break from the car crash that 2025 is: I give you winter in Stockholm.

A bench under a streetlight, between twin set of stairs: the entry to Kronobergsparken, at dark. The ground is covered by a thin layer of snow.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

…and when will I have the time to read this?! Hope springs eternal, et cetera et cetera.

Photo of the book The myth of good AI: A manifesto for critical artificial intelligence, by Arshin Adib-Mogahaddam

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Instrument of (Swedish) Government (1974:152) Chapter 1. Basic principles of the form of government Art. 1. First paragraph. All public power in Sweden proceeds from the people. Link to full text: www.riksdagen.se/globalassets... Swedish original: www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-...

Autumn, the ground covered by yellow leaves, tree trunks dark and branches halfway to bare. Stockholm district court seen in the background.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

För mig illustrerar detta utbyte i ett kommentarsfält precis var sprickan i svensk politik går: på ena sidan den som står för empati och omtanke, och en annan som anser att människor är objekt som kan sorteras i logiska fack och därefter värderas efter vilket fack de hamnade i. 🧵, 1/4 ->

Skärmdump från Facebook.
Inlägg från Dagens nyheter med ledtext
”Flera kommuner avböjer att samarbeta med regeringen kring frivillig återvandri g”, och sedan artikelrubrik ”Jokkmokks protest blev viral: ”Inte ängslig för trollen”, och en bild från Jokkmokk.

Skärmdump från kommentarsfält på Facebook.
Person A: ”Precis som vanligt visar vänstern att man inte respekterar demokrati.
Person B: Hört talas om kommunalt självtyre!
Person A: Hört talas om att man styr ett land med logik och inte medmänsklighet?

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Met a very late late night train from Stockholm when I was out picking wild raspberries.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Adjusting water levels. One of several hydropower plants along Luleälv.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Touristing at home: Grodkällan, a cold spring out on the highland mires.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

These creeping bellflowers are beautiful but weed, and quite invasive. We’re keeping them for now, for the pollinators, but eventually they’ll have to go.

Plant bed over-run with creeping bellflowers.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Brooding gulls across, across the yard.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Took the long way to the grocery after work.

The quay at Norr Mäalstrand, Stockholm, Sweden. Dramatic cloudscape, boats.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

On the road again, and this time on rail, not tarmac 👍 The engine switches direction in Boden, which is what is happening in the picture.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If anyone would like to know how far until rhubarb in Norrbotten, this is the answer. Still sub-zero at night.

Bare, grey, ground, with a handful of very small rhubarb buds.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I asked Le Chat how it had been instructed to answer questions. Talk about a non-answer designed to fool anyone trained not to think critically. #ai #criticalthinking #lechat

Screenshot.
Q: How do you define ’harmful or illegal activities’? Do you use any codex?
Le Chat answer: When determining what constitutes harmful or illegal activities, I follow ethical guidelines and legal principles that are widely accepted.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

”If we only get all the data, then we have all the knowledge.” Anyone who worked with ’Knowledge Management Systems’ in the 90’s know that this is not how it works.

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Feeding the machine - the hidden human labour powering AI, by James Muldoon, Mark Graham, and Callum Cant. Thought-provoking. 5/5 stars. 100% recommend. #ai #colonialism #extractioneconomy #labourmarket #taylorism #ethnography #politicalscience #economics

Photo of the cover of the book Feeding the machine - the hidden human labour powering AI

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Pella Bergquist @pellabergquist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If it’s fixable with duct tape it isn’t broken. Train 534 enroute to Stockholm. (The train set is in line for total refurbishment, and, well: whatever works, works.) #trainlife #x2 #sjab

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