Had my dinner together with this guy today! It was having grass, I had tomato salad and kroppkakor (South-Swedish dumplings).
Hjalmar Fors
@hjalmarfors.bsky.social
Historian of science, medicine & books & lover of all things weird and wonderful. Posts in English and Swedish.
The Guardian today: ”The US accounts for more than 20% of global tissue consumption despite having only 4% of the world’s population. ” Strange!
Minst 50000 gick ut idag! #denstoraklimatdemonstrationen
Det här börjar kännas mäktigt! #Denstoraklimatdemonstrationen
Om krisen eller kriget kommer: OLW dillchips och Hjärnes Testamente.
Arcimboldo’s librarian sits quietly and modestly on a wall at Skokloster castle (north of Stockholm). He’s next to Arcimboldo’s more famous Vertumnus painting of Rudolf II.
Beheading from a physiological point of view by Frithiof Holmgren (1831-1897). Holmgren is more well known for his discovery of colour blindness. But this here was also a somewhat peculiar research interest of his.
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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@magdalenaandersson.socialdemokraterna.se Troligen hänger du inte här fortfarande Magdalena men om du gör det så läs den här analysen.
Hjalmar Fors@hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 3mo ago”If you, as the far right, know that your centrist opponent is committed to trying to give you what you want, you just keep asking for stuff.” Briliant analysis! Nails it!
”If you, as the far right, know that your centrist opponent is committed to trying to give you what you want, you just keep asking for stuff.” Briliant analysis! Nails it!
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 3mo agonotes for burnham
Here’s a nice detail of the frontispiece of W. H. Ryff, New Kochbuech fuer die Krancken (1545). Hagströmer library, collection of the Swedish pharmaceutical society. Cooking for the sick and infirm in the 16th C!
Another milestone in the (still too slow) clean-energy transition: Wind and solar produced more of the world's electricity than fossil gas for the first time ever in April ember-energy.org/latest-updat...
During his talk at RBS, James Malin—not on Bsky—showed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobel’s Nitro-Glycerin Company I’d like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print history—we need to make something with it for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org
Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2026/05/viki... great research by @medivalist.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social #medieval #Vikings #Abbasids
Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds - Medievalists.net
A remarkable new study argues that Vikings may have supplied rare Arctic falcons to the rulers of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate, creating a trade network that stretched from Iceland to Baghdad in the ninth…
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A Japanese oil tanker has crossed the Strait of Hormuz after paying transit fees to Iran in Chinese yuan, according to official Iranian media.
I'm obsessed with this! From the incomparable Bette Midler . . . 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj5...
ALL YOU FASCISTS (Bound to Lose) Music Video Bette Midler
YouTube video by Bette Midler
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...? A researcher at Gothenburg U made up a skin problem caused by too much screentime, and uploaded a popular science piece and "preprints" online. Soon, LLMs would treat the condition as real, and the fake study cited in real medical papers.
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”I went to a French restaurant accompanied by four very well dressed poets. We all ordered steaks with pepper. When the steaks arrived, we rubbed them all over our clothes, soaking ourselves in the sauce. Once this was accomplished, we ordered the same thing again and repeated the act. … ”
Leeches! By Per Boström. Tonight’s lecture at the Hagströmer Library. Don’t think we ever had as many questions as we did this evening.
By the way, tomorrow #Finland will have been independent for longer than we were a part of the Russian Empire. Finland had been part of Russia for a total of 39,526 days. It will be 39,526 days since independence on Monday, February 23, 2026. suomenkuvalehti.fi/mielipide/ol...
Oletko huomannut? Suomi on pian ollut kauemmin itsenäinen kuin osa Venäjää
Suomen itsenäistymisestä tulee kuluneeksi 39 526 päivää maanantaina 23. helmikuuta 2026, kirjoittaa Ilkka Hemmilä.
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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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This piece by Rebecca Solnit is one of the most deeply moving explorations of what tech takes from us, how it transforms us, how it demands we become more like it and less human, that I've read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
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Yes, this is my hand holding a real unicorn (narvahl) horn!
Today I’m giving a lecture on the continuation of alchemy in the 18th century. Come and listen if your in Wroclaw, Poland. If not you just have to miss out! hist.uwr.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
