Anne Balke Staver

@anneavelo.bsky.social

Senior Researcher at NIBR/Oslo Metropolitan University. Political scientist working on migration&integration policies, but chiefly interested in bikes, books, bees, bistronomy & trains. Somewhere between Oslo and Lyon.

He is literally saying "reality is not my ideology." He has gone to war against science; science as a description of reality will win in the long run because science as reality doesn't go away even if you close your eyes and yell.

"The National Academies seem dead set on using taxpayer dollars to push their radical climate agenda and influence court decisions, but not on my watch. My office flagged their fraudulent behavior back in February and gave them the chance to make things right, but instead they doubled down and created yet another biased
document to force their ideology on Americans,"
- Attorney General Austin Knudsen

I have lots of thoughts and emotions, but I really wonder what the "climate is not that important" crowd think when they watch what is unfolding in Nepal. They will surely deny any climate link. If they admit any climate link, would that mean they need to change their world view too?

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Jeg mottar delvis AAP. På AAP opptjener man ikke feriepenger. Om man faktisk kommer seg i jobb igjen, har man kanskje litt ekstra behov for den ferien - og man har jo stått med mindre inntekt en stund også. Vi har visst i årevis at det er brudd på EU-retten å ikke gi ferieopptjening fra første år.

– Åpenbart at ferieloven er i strid med EU

Norge bryter med EØS-regler ved at nyansatte ikke får betalt ferie det første året, mener advokat Harald Breivik.

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New UN report on the environmental cost of LLMs. Key points include: inference (use) causes 90% of energy cost; web search with AI summary costs 10 times a regular search, and video generation is extremely energy intensive. Also, land and water use must be tracked too. unu.edu/inweh/collec...

Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

unu.edu

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Absolutely shit map of a country roughly the shape of Belgium with three regions, and Brussels in the middle but absolutely nothing else is right.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

Europe, the last few days: 🇫🇷 France: Hottest day ever — 43.8°C 🇪🇸 Spain: Hottest June day — 42.7°C 🇩🇪 Germany: Hottest day ever — 41.5°C 🇨🇿 Czechia: Hottest day ever — 40.9°C 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Hottest June day — 38.8°C 🇩🇰 Denmark: Hottest day ever — 37°C 🇬🇧 UK: Hottest June day — 36.7°C #climatecrisis