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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🌟 The Academy’s meeting has begun, and the Session Hall is gradually filling up with journalists waiting for our announcement. It’s time for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to decide on this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Watch the live broadcast at 11.45 a.m. CEST at kva.se! 🎥 #NobelPrize

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Playing a Lord of the Rings Hack of Thirsty Sword Lesbians (i'm an entwife), and it made me make memes mid game, which is always a good sign.

Arrested Development "But it might work for us" meme, with How about Taking the Ring, like Isildur, Deagol and Smeagol as what may work out for them.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 24/08/2026

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 21/08/2026

👍 Östasiatiska 👎 V&A

DN-rubrik: Stoppad leverans och kritik från Kinas ambassad – nu ställer Östasiatiska in utställning

Guardian headline: V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer
This article is more than 4 months old
Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publications

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 13/08/2026

”a well structured large historical data set”. Hahahahaa

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 26/07/2026

The sky above the port osv osv. Peppen är enorm.

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Jourhavande Filosof @systerfrida.se · 23/07/2026

Förlåt Erika det var säkert en jättebra utbildning, men vårt problem är inte att vi saknar folk som dokumenterar ramverk, vårt problem är att användare klickar på länkar i mail så fort nån ber dem, delar ut sitt lösenord till sina barn och sen ändå kommer med compliance-krav till serverteamet

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Det finns bara två möjliga förklaringar till det här haveriet. 1) Expressen har kommit fram till att sånt som öppen nazism och våldsfantasier om ickevita inte är så värst farligt. 2) Hela ledarredaktionen har drabbats av akut kollektiv minnesförlust om vad ”SD:s övertramp genom åren” bestod av.

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Chuck Wendig @handle.invalid · 11/05/2026

aaahahahahaha hahahahahaaahahaha hahaha hah aaahhhahahaha the kids are all right y’all

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 05/05/2026

superintressant undersökning av American Alliance of Museums om trovärdighet och förtroende för museer. ur artikelserie i @utstallningskritik.se om AI och utställningstext signerad Sofie Bergkvist: utstallningskritik.se/2026-3/ai-oc...

citerad text: "I USA har American Alliance of Museums låtit undersöka människors förtroende för museer. I undersökningen ställde de en öppen fråga om det fanns något särskilt som människor kände oro över när det kommer till förtroende och trovärdighet hos museer. Många svaranden lyfte oro över användningen av AI inom museer. Reaktionerna var starka och handlade bland annat om att risken för att AI genererar felaktigheter skulle minska deras förtroende för museer. Ett citat från undersökningen säger: ”Jag skulle tycka det var svårt att stötta ett museum som använder AI för att producera innehåll.” I en uppföljande undersökning kring just AI svarade över 70 % av deltagarna i enkätundersökningen att de önskade att AI inte användes alls när det kommer till utställningar. 19 % tyckte att AI var okej för att brainstorma idéer, men inte att skriva de färdiga texterna. Trovärdigheten och förtroendet som museer uppbär, är alltså redan under prövning, och det finns all anledning för museer att fundera på en policy kring sin användning av AI-verktyg i sin verksamhet."

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026

And of course, the people who value process knowledge the *least* are the AI bros who think you can replace skilled workers with a chatbot trained on the things they *say* and *write down*, as though that somehow captured everything they *know*. eof/

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thanks to Cam Rogers on Facebook for articulating exactly the issues around the new animated Firefly that's been announced.

It's set between the end of the show and the 'Serenity' film. I can guess why: they consider Wash, and the Wash/Zoe relationship, too valuable. But this really is both a mistake and an act of creative cowardice. Whether that was the cast's call or the money's call the point stands.
Don't get me wrong: we have much bigger problems at the moment. But, to take a moment away from those problems and address a point of craft:
I can't believe the US is still - STILL - death-gripping the notion that prequels are a good idea. There's an inherent lack of tension in having *read the ending already*. An ending, I might add, that fueled a ton of unresolved tension - desire - to know *what happens after that ending*. Fans have held that tension for almost twenty years and this is what they get.
Prequels fundamentally disrespect the trust and investment viewers placed in what you made. If it was a story worth telling you'd have started there. On some level we all know we're being handed warmed-up leftovers.
Final point: I had no intention of supporting this as Baldwin (who plays Jane) was one of the main instigators of GamerGate and *created the hashtag*.
By association the cast approves of his company while also enriching him. If you're cool with providing work for a pop-eyed right-winger who created what is arguably the defining incel movement and marshalled an army of men to terrorize women for having careers and opinions then, frankly, nobody should feel safe working with you ever again. And you certainly shouldn't be supported.
Especially in this current moment.
Weak art, stale bread, handled by a dirtbag whose involvement diminishes everyone involved. Take a hike.

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 20/02/2026

Inte bara myndigheter – bra grundskelett för alla egentligen.

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Nikaaaaaaaah! 👻🎃 @mxnectarine.polycule-slut.cloud · 19/02/2026

HiFi really is Astrology for straight men

M-AUP
TECH NEWS
Audiophiles Fail to Hear Difference in Signal Passed Through Copper Cable, Banana, and Tray of Mud

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DespotDahl @despotdahl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Mycket kul nu när nya förvaltnings-AI-systemen testas och förevisas. Idag hade vi en exempelfråga där alla som kan ämnet direkt konstaterade att svaret är fel. "Ja, man måste ju alltid dubbelkolla uppgifterna. Men den är bra till introduktioner i ämnen man inte kan." Där man då inte ser felen.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 14/01/2026

Men, men? Det är på riktigt?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/12/2025

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything

I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 14/12/2025

Allvarlig fråga: hur får vi svenska politiker att sluta använda X?

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 12/12/2025

Om man ens tvekade på att datacenter-i-rymden var helt orimligt så kan man läsa.

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 19/11/2025

Ibland (ofta) dyker de upp. Ögonblicken där techbros visar att de faktiskt inte kan någonting alls utöver att ha gott självförtroende.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 25/10/2025

me replaying mass effect: of course the AI is people 💕 me IRL: flip the fucking permanent off switch on that stupid janky AI slop machine KILL IT

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 18/09/2025

Behöver du livas upp och bli glad? This will help.

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

they’re so close

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 02/09/2025

Säg att det här är ett skämt eller en ond dröm, snälla? För det kan väl inte vara på riktigt?

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John Moore @johnofnorwich.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The answer to the question "How hard can it be???" is nearly always "Harder than you appreciate".

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2025

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
theverge.com
The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary
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Muriel Sparklehorse @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Catching up w the guy who made the BM chatbot where you could chat w human remains & did u kno your uncomfortableness with that comes from "an obsequious need for moral & ideological purity, & obedience to a set of ideological principles that were far from mainstream" www.talms.me/posts/living...

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What I Learned Going Viral On Museum Twitter | Jonathan Talmi

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Linus Larsson @linuslarsson.se · 25/07/2025

Man tar semester några veckor och ALLA missar Sverigevinkeln: HR-chefen från Coldplayklippet har jobbat på SVENSKA databasföretaget Neo4j. amatörer

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The Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The best part about a Colbert presidency is that he would absolutely revoke all contracts to Anduril, Palantir, etc purely out of disgust at their misappropriation of Tolkien.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2025

In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.

In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 01/07/2025

Läste Neuromancer första gången när jag var 14. Flera omläsningar av allt Gibson sedan dess. Det här är väldigt stort.

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Glad to see the old Broad Street Pump myth finally getting some public criticism. Terrible causal inference - I think we should stop teaching it altogether, or maybe teach it as an anti-model of good reasoning.

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Olof Somell @somell.se · 02/05/2025

Mycket. Viktigt. Content.

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Excellent piece by @culturedoug.bsky.social here about how the heritage institutions that are supposed to be safeguarding our cultural commons are acting more like landowners.

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Muriel Sparklehorse @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"content (pee) is stored in the codebase (the balls)"

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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