Reposted by Thorgeir HolmMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20hNew dinosaur klaxon.bbc.co.ukIsle of Wight fossil identified as new dinosaur speciesInvictibellatrix would have been up to four metres long with feathers and had 20cm claws. 1926566 265
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Friends — It's time to defund Elon Musk. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-m…robertreich.substack.comDefund Musk!Friends, 1134237627097 23.8K
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmIryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tonight 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 64923 49
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 32829198 829
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ooop www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgAncient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchmentNewly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged 411036 110
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmErik Schreiner Evans🌻 @schrevans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Verda 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 02211 22
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI 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...404media.co‘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." 401525708 1.5K
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 YearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 502779592 2.8K
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026Ein katolsk ervelut som for matnytte skuld kom seg heilbrigd gjenom trudomsskiftet ȯg. 010 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOle Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Elias Blix si kongesong-utgåva er råare. 3245 24
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmErik Schreiner Evans🌻 @schrevans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026No 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 59516 95
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmIllia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’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. 47992191 992
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmØystein Hellesøe Brekke @oysteib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Haakon 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.) 2479 47
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026Fordom på 1200-talet hadde dei tvo Håkonar samstundes eit bil. Det løyste dei greidt med Håkon gamle og Håkon unge. Sagde eg greidt? Hå-kon kon-ung. Hæ? Hå-kon ung-e? Kvi stotar du? Hå-kon hå-kon-ung? Det sagde eg då ikkje han var. No stotar du atter! osb. 0101 10
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026Eg 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? 020 2
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmTim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026what 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 326773 267
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026OTD 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 312953 129
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmUNITED24 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. 25320159 320
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOle Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Ein dag skal eg skriva kronikken* um skilnaden på turist og rekar. * kåseriet 052 5
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026Ja, hokyn hev vokativ -o på ukrainsko (og sudryske målføre). 010 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOle Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Skal 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. 073 7
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOle Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Dersom 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. 34310 43
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmAnne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Det bør ligge i rikskringkastingens mandat å bidra med tilstrekkelig honorerte oppdrag til kunstnere og håndverkere av alle slag. Særlig når profesjonene deres er truet. 3499 49
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026Eg flutte ut i 1998. Eg vitja einkvan i dei nye blokkom i 2005 med slik tilskrift du nemner; eg tenkte ikkje på um *alle* blokkene hadde den tilskrifti då. Kann henda det ligg att eit kart yver blokkene på netet ein stad – me *hadde* internet den gongen! 000 0
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026Hæ? Hev dei lagt burt hustali? Hosso finn folk fram no, då? 111 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmBoardda Mihkkal @mbergnordlie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I 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-...ao.noRedd 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? 88922 89
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmIryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026What 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 68957 89
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026Eit 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. 010 1
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026Torsland > Tosland > Totland. Torland > Tolland> Toilla’n? 100 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 16/08/2026Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions ft.trib.al/tiZmPiVft.trib.alBig Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissionsFT analysis finds 60 largest planned facilities could emit equivalent of 27 coal plants or 24mn cars per year 106546 65
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Dumping 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. 517463 174
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language! 492512702 2.5K
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026Um Vedret er no myket rødt, alt Vedr skal vera Godvedr stødt, men naar ein ser det nærre, so gjeng det ymist att og fram: det eine fær en fegre Ham, det andre verder verre. 001 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOle Jakob Totland @oleneikopp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Dette er vel kjende saker, men no kom eg på noko granneagg frå Odalen i Ferdaminni fraa sumaren 1860. @tjabergnissen.eurosky.social 264 6
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026Ja, det er ikkje berre tidi då dei dreg lotto-tali, då? Dersom det enno er ein ting i fjerrsjåne. So at visa er um einkvan som ikkje rakk denne sendingi? 001 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmSigvat @sigvat.maanebedotten.no · 02/08/2026Eg 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 26815 68
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Science 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 2489 48
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026Det skyrer den slurvutte O-en. Den slagen gjekk sletts ikkje fyre seg i 50-om. 000 0
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026Det er snarlikt skriftene åt mor minne, d.e. den handskrifti dei nam i skulam på 1950-talė. 100 1
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmErik Holten @holtenher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Odysséen, 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... 1222260 222
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026Turn a movie into a linguistics article The Silence of the Lambda 1143 14
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026Eikvan kann ha lånt han i natt, men då var han visst ikkje undergjerande som hin i Røldal. 000 0
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmOleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Putin 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. 49551 95
Reposted by Thorgeir HolmAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026Lindsey 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...theatlantic.comHistory Will Judge the ComplicitWhy have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? 20572132598 7.2K
Thorgeir Holm @thorgeir.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026Det er helst bladstyraren som veld di, sann. 000 0
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
