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.
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Skulle sjekke om @gruelig var aktiv her, og det var han ikke, antar denne her posten er fra mens han satt og skrev NFR-søknad på FRIPRO-prosjektet han nettopp fikk om eugenikk...
FRIPRO-midler til å forske på hva slags liv vi som samfunn ser som ønsket og uønsket - Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi (ISS)
– Det går en rød tråd fra gårdagens tvangssterilisering til dagens selvoptimalisering, sier professor Jan Grue. Med 12 millioner kroner fra Forskingsrådet skal han og forskerkollegaer undersøke nytt o...
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kommer snart jeg skal bare sende francis galton en mail med noen eugenikk-relaterte spørsmål
This is such a good answer by comedian Josh Johnson to the question "how much does AI impact your job and are you afraid of it for the future?" youtube.com/shorts/7JYZV...
Josh Johnson on why he thinks that AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCut
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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This made me think of when I first moved to Canada and learned that electricity (as in your power bill) was usually called hydro, because - like in Norway - a lot of power is hydroelectric.
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
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 year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
Dagens rapport fra hjemmekontoret i kronisk migrenelivet: ice pack, filterbriller, aromaterapi, nevromoduleringsdings, energidrikk og pomodoro-timer. Sukk.
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?
Bli min kollega! NIBR er et utrolig hyggelig sted å jobbe, og vi driver med mange spennende ting! www.oslomet.no/om/ledige-st...
NIBR søker forskere
OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet er Norges tredje største universitet med 23 000 studenter og over 2600 ansatte. Vi har campus i Oslo Sentrum og på Romerike. OsloMet leverer forskning og utdanning med hø...
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Føler at dette er noe en Aftenposten-versjon av NYT Pitchbot kunne funnet på.
- We need power to charge the electric buses 🙏 Karianne Tung: Data center goes brr Karianne Tung will always make sure Big Tech wins.
Når vi gir og har gitt avkall på masse natur for å produsere energi så burde kanskje den enkleste prioriteringen være å sette strøm til busser som må bli utslippsfrie foran nye ekstremt strømstørste datasenter for trene ai-modeller eller utvinne kryptovaluta. Men Neida…. www.nrk.no/trondelag/ny...
the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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.
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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i mostly write about the (romance) novels I read on my Substack (in a monthly reading roundup), but I just wrote a dispatch from French heatwave number 2 and 3. plenitude.substack.com/p/hot-french...
Hot French summer
A dispatch from canicule number 2 and 3.
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Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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.
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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.
Alle andre nyhetsmedier: Haaland avslører favoritthårstrikk mens brasilstjerne innrømmer å ha hørt om Norge Filter:
FILTER AVSLØRER: Regjeringen lar gruvedumping fortsette, selv om Høyesterett har kjent tillatelsen ugyldig. Men beslutningen fra klima- og miljøministeren hviler på et notat fra Miljødirektoratet som ikke vurderer hvor langt avfallet sprer seg.
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.
I’m finally reading this history of energy sources, published in English as More more more, and quite enjoying the takedown of Nordhaus that it starts out with. if only it were so simple…
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