I especially love this diagram.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

I går rundede borgerforslaget 20.000 underskrifter. Det er flot og opmuntrende, men der er langt igen. Jeg håber, at I - som jeg også selv forsøger - vil dele det vidt og bredt og på tværs af platforme, så vores politikere ikke kan skrive sig ud af historien om Afghanistan-krigen.

Kasper Junge Wester@veterandrusianer.dk · 2mo ago

Aldrig har jeg skrevet under på et borgerforslag hurtigere end dette. Jeg tvivler stærkt på, at der kommer noget ud af det, men jo mere postyr vi kan skabe – og jo sværere det bliver for beslutningstagerne at gemme sig – desto bedre. Det skylder vi hinanden. borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-...

New movement: altruist effectiveness. Goal is to use science to make people maximally altruistic, I envision our end being something like the Fordist mass person production you see in Brave New World. Thinking that virtue ethics should get its own galaxy brained public movement.

Alle der bruger AI bør læse denne artikel som forklarer det grundlæggende problem med at tro LLM'er kan generere fakta rigtig godt. Hvis man insisterer på at bruge teknologien bør man som minimum anerkende dens begrænsninger link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

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In seven EU countries, aviation’s climate impact is now higher than that from cars. The growth in aviation emissions threatens to cancel out gains made elsewhere by EV uptake and jeopardise Europe’s successes. Check out T&E’s deep dive into the state of European aviation ➡️ bit.ly/4bNNbD0

Chart for the ages. In Danish but what you see here is a significant decline in visits to official public health platforms after the launch of Google's AI summaries (which, systematically, provide non-evidenced health advice).

Insanely good episode this. So relevant beyond just UK

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 6mo ago

On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) is joined by investigative journalists @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @ethanshone.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Imagine writing this while the world hegemon traditionally underpinning global liberalism is doing fascist attempts at ethnic cleansing in its major cities www.ft.com/content/4c16...

"I found it reliable in a specific sense: it was always available" everything is gender

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This was the inspiration I needed today

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Holy hell, what an obituary

Wrote this in 2024 (src: doi.org/10.1177/0010...), with some suddenly very quaint optimism about terrorrial issues in the Arctic. How one gets overtaken by events...

even as denmark puts out statements asking the US to back off greenland, it won’t come out and directly criticize the US for violating international law in venezuela. it’s the typical western response: “maduro was bad and international law should be respected” but never stating who violated it.

I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)

Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Am I the only one noticing that content *about* AI seems much more prone to AI-generated slop? Especially uncritical social sciences and humanities writing

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 8mo ago

I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

What’s the opposite of a peace dividend? A war deficit?

Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people." www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Incredible

CNBC International@international.cnbc.com · 9mo ago

Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion. Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8

Danmark er blevet storeksportør af sprøjtegifte, som er ulovlige i DK og resten af EU. Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør. ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...

Danmark eksporterer tusindvis af ton EU-forbudt sprøjtegift

Læs mere her

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“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵

Now that election season is over, Norway again shows its true imperial face: Ethical guidelines for the Sovereign Wealth Fund to be loosened because of fear that they'll *actually* safeguard against investment in genocide. www.ft.com/content/12a5...

Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes

Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel

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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

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