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Thorgeir Holm

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 12h
Tonight is shaping up to be another terrifying night for Ukraine. Russian aircraft carrying missiles are reportedly already in the air, and dozens of Shahed drones are already attacking the country. Yet another sleepless night ahead for millions of Ukrainians. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ooop www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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Erik Schreiner Evans🌻 @schrevans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Verda ser på medan 6000 menneske blir svolta i hel av Russland. Dette er det du er for, du som er mot militær støtte til Ukraina. Send meir våpen. #Oleshky
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Elias Blix si kongesong-utgåva er råare.
Tone: Gud signe Norigs land.
Gud signe kongen vaar,
gjev honom mange aar 
med frægd og fred!
Raad honom i hans gjerd,
legg styrke i hans sverd,
støyt svik og nidingsferd
til avgrunns ned!

Gjer honom striden lett
for landsens trygd og rett,
hans arm gjer sterk!
Legg i hans gjerning inn
anden og styrken din,
gjev honom Davids sinn 
til alt ditt verk!

Høgt sver kvar Noregs mann
aa verja vel sitt land,
tru mot sin drott.
Med trufast hug og mod
stødt Noreg viljug stod 
aa vaaga liv og blod 
for Gud og drott.

Blix (etter Fogtmann).
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Erik Schreiner Evans🌻 @schrevans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No er eg og samtlege medsjåførar kome oss ut av Ukraina. Det har vore ein absurd tur. Flyalarmar og eksplosjonar i eit heidundrande køyr. Med unntak av søvnunderskot, går det bra med oss. Men at folk skal leva fleire år av liva sine under slike forhold, er heilt ufatteleg. Russland må nedkjempast
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m beginning to suspect that wasting years dragging feet on military aid to Ukraine and playing escalation management games, giving an aggressive militaristic Russia the time and resources to ramp up its war machine to full power against the free world, might not have been the brightest idea.
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Øystein Hellesøe Brekke @oysteib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Haakon VIII is the first King of Norway to have two Norwegian born parents since King Magnus the Lawmender, who died in 1280. (Still part of the "immigrant population" though, as the statisticians define it - two foreign born grandparents.)
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
Eg går at svallet stilnar etter bordom og minnest mang ei ervedrykkja fordom; det spyrst ei etter gullẽ eldr jordom — nei, kven skal no oss refsa lognom ordom?
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SunnyandSheryl @commgal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A woman with a cane stands at a ticket window staffed by a man. A nearby kiosk has an out of order sign. The ticket clerk says, "OK, one more time. Go home and log on to our website from your computer, create an account and purchase your ticket with your credit or debit card, download the ticket to a smartphone, then come back at the allocated time...Just what part of 'easier and more convenient ' don't you get?"
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
what ppl forget about LLMs is that if you start every prompt with “i am an academic so a very special and smart person“ then anything that follows has no carbon or water cost, no refugees have to clean the data of violent child abuse imagry, and everyone is fairly compensated for their stolen work
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
OTD 23rd of August 1989 Baltic Way protest was timed specifically to the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (MRP). For decades, Soviet official policy denied that the secret protocols dividing Eastern Europe into Soviet and Nazi spheres of influence existed. 🧵 1/9
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22/08/2026
🚨 EVIDENT WAR CRIME. Russian forces published horrifying FPV drone footage showing the deliberate tracking and striking of an unarmed civilian riding a bicycle near Kramatorsk. This is direct, documented proof of Russia’s intentional terror against innocent Ukrainian civilians.
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ein dag skal eg skriva kronikken* um skilnaden på turist og rekar. * kåseriet
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Skal fjernsynssendingar gjerast kostnadseffektive, kann riksprogramsjef Olav Midttun sitja ved pulten sin og dosera framfor kamera. Ein treng ikkje illustrera alt mogeleg berre for di ein kann.
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dersom Norsk rikskringkasting ikkje vil bruka pengar på illustrasjonar, animasjonar eller innspeling av scenor, og med di skapa ringverknader, arbeidsplassar og menneskeleg kreativitet i kulturnasjonen, so kann vel programmet like godt sendast på radio. Det er eit fullgodt kringkastingsmedium.
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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Det bør ligge i rikskringkastingens mandat å bidra med tilstrekkelig honorerte oppdrag til kunstnere og håndverkere av alle slag. Særlig når profesjonene deres er truet.
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Boardda Mihkkal @mbergnordlie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I forbindelse med bydelsreformen risikerer vi at heile indre by i Oslo blir omdøpt til "Christiania." Skal vi kalle opp sentrum av Norges hovedstad etter en egoman, blodtørstig, sameforfølgende heksejeger fra Danmark? Det synes i alle fall ikke jeg. www.ao.no/christiania-...
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Redd Oslo fra «Christiania»
«Christiania» seiler opp som mulig nytt navn på Oslos indre by. Hvem er det egentlig vi risikerer at Oslo sentrum blir oppkalt etter?
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What could be more cruel than striking a shopping center with a drone on a Friday evening, when it is full of people? Striking it again as people are trying to escape. That is what russia did in Kryvyi Rih today. As of now, two people are reported killed and 15 injured. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Eit eple hvarn dag held visst doktar’n undã; eg fyller koppen, lit at eg må stunda i trygd på heilsa, mod og heile skrunda, og vissa held han meg ifrå å blunda.
Eit eple um dagen held doktaren undan.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16/08/2026
Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions ft.trib.al/tiZmPiV
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Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions
FT analysis finds 60 largest planned facilities could emit equivalent of 27 coal plants or 24mn cars per year
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Dumping Big Tech isn't just a matter of personal politics or even of tech sovereignty (which is a con anway) it's a matter of survival. Big Tech is the latest flag bearer for civilisation-ending extractivism and all the delusions about progress that keep us addicted to it.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Dette er vel kjende saker, men no kom eg på noko granneagg frå Odalen i Ferdaminni fraa sumaren 1860. @tjabergnissen.eurosky.social
Dei tvo Grannar i Odalen.
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Sigvat @sigvat.maanebedotten.no · 02/08/2026
Eg tykkjer medier kan gå tilbake til å betale folk som veit ting for å skrive ein kronikk her og der om tingen dei veit framføre å halde seg med husnissar som skal meine ting om alt mogeleg dei ikkje har peiling på. Men det er kanskje berre meg
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Science isn’t only about solving problems, it’s also about the random process of coming up with new ideas while working on a problem. By solving math problems for us, AI takes away this random element and the theory-building process that happens behind the scenes. 1/3
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Erik Holten @holtenher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Odysséen, tykkjer eg, tek seg heilt fantastisk godt ut i Arne Garborgs attdiktning. Men boka kom berre ut i åra 1918–1919. Difor har eg tilrettelagt henne som ebok. Ei tidleg utgåve av epubben er no på plass, og ein skrivarvennleg pedeff er på veg. Alt gratis, sjølvsagt. github.com/holten/odyss...
Kvadratisk tittelside med John Flaxmans portretteikning av ein laurbærinnkransa Odyssevs i profil frå 1793. Tekst: Odyssevskvædet. Homer / A. Garborg.
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026
Turn a movie into a linguistics article The Silence of the Lambda
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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Putin is waging war against mothers and their children. The Russian army cannot win on the battlefield. The Russians are not strong, they are cruel. That is why they launch daily attacks on the civilian population, trying to break Ukrainians' resistance.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I god sportsånd vart òg sentrale krefter på motstandarlaget hylla på Karl Johan.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For the trolls gaslighting those of us who've been playing or watching football our whole lives, here's the fucking video. VAR and FIFA knowingly allowed an England goal that they're well aware should've been disallowed. The game shouldn't have gone to ET.
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From the sports community on Reddit: England's goal against Norway was a result of the ball hitting the camera cable
Explore this post and more from the sports community
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The Gaily Show @thegailyshow.org · 11/07/2026
VAR not around to take back England's goal. But it certainly was there to take away Norway's. 🤔
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
A goal deserves a dróttkvæð vísa: Haralds arfar hurfu hǫfði ok beinum í einu vængbrotinna engla viðfangs — víða með belli á velli — hvatir ok skutu héðan hátt unz Andrés mátti ljósta knetti með listum — liðit kann vel við leikinn.
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
Eit mål er vel ei drottkvæd visa verd: Haralds arfar hurfu hǫfði ok beinum í einu vængbrotinna engla viðfangs — víða með belli á velli — hvatir ok skutu héðan hátt unz Andrés mátti ljósta knetti með listum — liðit kann vel við leikinn.
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
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Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death
The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
På leikvollẽm vil dei oss rettno bjoda å spenna mote tiljune og roa; med snøggom rykk og langpasningar goda er ball-leik-folket visst på siger modat.
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Ole Svarthumle @svarthumle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Eg har faen ikkje ord. Berre legg ned heile Klima- og miljødepartementet og gi makta til Fremspartiet. Dei er i det minste ærlege om at dei drit i alt. www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/mini...
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Ole Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Til lukka med skogfinnedagen frå denne skogfinskætta huslyden!
Skogfinskt flagg yver bustadfelt på Hadeland.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
SNYDER: Trump is ludicrously weak, and everything he touches turns to loss. He went to Madison Square Garden and the Knicks lost. I mean, more seriously, he tries to help Russia win a war, and even there he fails. Like, he has sort of incredible power to turn people into losers.
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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What is important to understand about Russia’s night-time attack on a world-renowned Christian landmark in Kyiv. They deliberately struck the Lavra—built during the era of Kyivan Rus’, when Moscow itself did not yet exist—with a Russian drone.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/06/2026
My thesis that LLMs are mostly useful as a high-interactivity high-variety tarot deck seems bolstered by astrology and tarot readings being the 9th highest use case of genAI in 2026 after such things as relationship advice, fan fiction, and therapy.
A complex chart showing the change in top 10 uses of genAI from 2025 to 2026.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New post: "Stolen Revolution" Coverage on Iran has focused on Trump, not what's going inside the country. So we talked to the authors of a brilliant new book on Iran's recent history about the war, the regime and the chances for change. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
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Stolen Revolution
Can Iran escape its history?
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Oh my gosh, this is real. I’ve already been a DDG user (mostly avoiding Google) for years. But this is now set as my home page. noai.duckduckgo.com
Screenshot of the no AI version of DuckDuckGo. The search dialogue box reads search privately without AI. Underneath to text boxes read: we’ve turned off AI assisted answers, we removed AI generated images.
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Thomas Wystrach @wystrach.de · 25/05/2026
#Papst Leo XIV. ist ein Schlag gegen die #KI​-Propheten gelungen! Die Enzyklika #MagnificaHumanitas löst die hohen Erwartungen ein. Sie stellt ein Manifest gegen die drohende #Technokratie dar, meint @ajournomento.bsky.social:
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Papst Leo XIV. ist ein Schlag gegen die KI-Propheten gelungen
Die Enzyklika „Magnifica humanitas“ löst die hohen Erwartungen ein. Sie stellt ein Manifest gegen die drohende Technokratie dar, sagt Louis Berger.
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Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026
D’er fullgod kost, mi’sann, ei’kvan avskurden: Eg sit med koppẽm, smakar på uppburden som féll på meg, og ser d’er rått på jorden’; d’er gildt, då, vera innanfyri hurden’.
Kopp med kaffi. Skål med brownieavskurdir.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 11/05/2026
Russian narratives often describe the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children as ‘saving the children from war’. The war that Russia started.    Returned Ukrainian children describe armed supervision, intimidation, political indoctrination, and pressure to renounce their Ukrainian identity.
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