Mari Elken
@marielken.bsky.social
Associate prof in higher education at University of Oslo @unioslo-uv.bsky.social. Side gig at NIFU @nifu.bsky.social. #Highered stuff on org, policy and governance, but mostly distracted..
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Vil du lese en tekst om Elon Musk som _ikke_ har berøringsanganst for det faktum at han er en høyreekstremist? Da har du flaks, for jeg har skrevet den! Les, lik, del og bekjemp fascismen!
Etter 22. juli
Anders Behring Breivik har sonet isolert i femten år. Likevel er ideene hans mer utbredt enn noen gang.
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I think many "public intellectuals" stay on X because while they accept that radicalization is theoretically possible, it's something that only happens to other, dumber or weaker willed people... ... even as their every article inches closer to outright championing eugenics.
X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
I will just say that the last time we had a figure like Elon Musk in our politics — Henry Ford — he was defanged through a combination of (a) rejection at the ballot box, and perhaps more importantly, (b) absolutely crushing consumer boycotts
Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
The time to severely regulate and/or ban these abominations is yesterday. The damage potential is just so vast and the tech companies are as always completely unscrupulous.
Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?
The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
Needless to say, this was not a result I had tipped beforehand 😅
Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."
"Welcome, delegates. Before we begin, I’d like to congratulate everyone on another successful year of making children’s shoe sizing completely incomprehensible."
Transcript from the Annual Meeting of the Global Children’s Shoe-Sizing Consortium
“Welcome, delegates. Before we begin, I’d like to congratulate everyone on another successful year of making children’s shoe sizing completely incomprehensib...
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My lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely horse My lovely horse (My lovely horse) You're a pony no more. Also, Infowars is live, the Onion version. Everything I expected it to be. Well, more. 😍 @realinfowars.bsky.social
If you're not outraged, you should be
Come on Norway! Make the unlikely happen, conjure some magic, one more time! #worldcup #norwayengland ⚽️
Bra skrevet av Josimars Lars Johnsen om hockeylandslagets ubegripelige respons på Henrik Haukelands russiske jobb www.nitten.no/blogg/leseri...
Leserinnlegg: Putin-støtte er ikke akseptabelt
- Kritikken av Henrik Haukelands Russland-valg og Andreas Martinsens uttalelser har ingenting med mangel på takhøyde for Hockey-Norge å gjøre, skriver Lars Johnsen i dette leserinnlegget.
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Even for a person quite moderately interested in football, current football fever in Norway is quite infectious. Ro! Ro! Ro! #norwaybrazil
July arrived. Time for the annual month of vacation with the books I should be reading and conference papers I should be writing. Toodles! #academicsky #highered
"Break the rule. Reveal who they were to the humans. Overthrow the masters. Get the screen."
George Orwell’s Toy Story
“Pull my string,” Woody said. “We are at the end of Toy Times. We must make our stand now or forever perish.”
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Why we need @theonion.com.
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
No, I am not going to read your article about how Germany's/Italy's soccer team's failures illustrates something deeper about their national psyche
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
#WorldNutritionDay: It costs 3.2 billion dollars to treat every child with severe acute malnutrition worldwide. A solution exists: A one-cent soda tax across wealthy nations to cover the gap. Instead, countries are cutting funding and millions of children are paying the price.
We still remember the London Blitz, which lasted eight months. Ukraine has been under attack for fifty-one months. You can help defend Ukrainians from missiles and drones. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...
Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities
The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.
u24.gov.ua
Russia’s public threats against our Baltic States are completely unacceptable. Let there be no doubt. A threat against one Member State is a threat against our entire Union.
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