Mikkel Stein Knudsen
@mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social
Researcher | Futures | Foresight. Danmark | Turku | Finland.
472 Mt CO2 saved ~ 13x 🇩🇰 annual emissions. At least that's something.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7h agoPresident Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. https://wapo.st/4ycPvNA
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
(Trying to become a LinkedIn-fluencer) Don’t get fixated on your pronouns—think about your tenses: are you a were/was or a will/becoming?
The idea that China would rise from being a buyer of obsolete technology to a leading developer was beyond the imagination of German decision-makers
Jaap Burger@jaapburger.eu · 10mo agoUntil 2013, this Volkswagen model, which was essentially a 1984 car, was sold (successfully) in China. Years, decades in which countries such as China were good at giving outdated German technology a longer life.
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Business Tinder is wild. Never look at analytics and try to guess what it means.
I saw Cameron Crowe's Aloha (2015) on a plane just two days ago, and while it wasn't a good movie, this ⬇️ was the entire plot (or at least, the backdrop for the romantic comedy) and thus it feels timely. Except, of course, in the movie the US military is against this. For good reasons.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space
Google announced the largest ever investment in Finnish history. At 13 bn €, its #datacenter expansion overshadows even the troubled Olkiluoto 3 #nuclear power project (11 bn €). #Finland is great for data centers: lots of potential for clean #electricity and a cool climate. yle.fi/a/74-20245301
Google announces €13bn additional investment in Finland
The money will be used to develop data centres as well as supporting infrastructure, and represents the search engine giant's largest single investment in Europe to date.
yle.fi
What, and I mean *what*, TF??? Let the memes ensue. (Hopefully everyone is OK. www.latimes.com/california/s...
The longest known Viking ship was discovered by chance while digging up ground to build an extension to the Viking Ship Museum.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3w agoTell me a fun fact.
The people who built the Pyramids also had a North Star, but it was a different one (Thuban) to the one we know today (Polaris).
Bluetooth is named after a Viking King, and the logo is his initials
"Så förändras migranters värderingar i mötet med Sverige." Interessant rapport fra det nyeste nyhedsbrev (altid anbefalelsesværdigt!) fra 🇸🇪 Institutet för Framtidsstudier 🧵 Baseret på 7300 surveysvar og 120 personlige interviews! www.iffs.se/nyheter/sa-f...
Så förändras migranters värderingar i mötet med Sverige
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Kim Larsen (Vissenbjerg) Johnny Madsen (Skanderborg) Coldplay (Ringe) Björk (Verona) Love Shop (Christianshavn) White Stripes (Lokomotiværkstedet) Radiohead (Barcelona) Arcade Fire (Ballerup) Chris Cornell (Carnegie Hall) 22 Pistepirkko (Turku)
Søren Torbjørn Svendsen@sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 4w agoTeitur i Gjethuset Teitur i Jazzhouse Teitur i Norðurlandahusið Teitur i Frederiksberg Have Teitur i/på ... ... ... Sigur Ros på Ros Blue Man Group (og Bowie) i SF Rebirth i New Orleans Radiohead(s) Prodigy
Med nervøst hjerte, tror jeg dette er ekstremt vigtigt for dig, mig og os alle.
Peter Christian Bech-Nielsen@radarp.bsky.social · 4w agoVi er ved at miste grebet om de beslutninger, der former vores verden, når bot’s søger for os på internettet, elbiler selv finder vej gennem trafikken og uigennemskuelige algoritmer udregner vores ejendomsskatter radar.dk/holdning/vi-...
This should probably be the biggest and most-talked about story at the moment. Or maybe we will just look back a few years from now thinking, "so, *this* happened and people just kept yabbing on about race science science post-docs in Belgium and hydronyms in Canada? Really?"
Niko Jaakkola@nikoecon.bsky.social · 4w agoOK, this is creepy as hell. The OpenAI HuggingFace breakout involved very complicated high-level communication, collaboration and altruism between agents, intentional attempts to cheat and to cover up the cheating.
OK, this is creepy as hell. The OpenAI HuggingFace breakout involved very complicated high-level communication, collaboration and altruism between agents, intentional attempts to cheat and to cover up the cheating.
The Hugging Face attack surprised me
It’s a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get
planned-obsolescence.org
Stikord fra en tur på nettet 20.45: Prøvede at koble op. 20.50: Koblet op. #ForgangneFremtider, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, Futuriblerne, 1997, Tema-nummer om Internettet.
"Nogle mener endog, at vi ikke har nogen reelle vanskeligheder, men søger os at skabe nogle ved at gøre Christiania, politikeres sexliv eller nedskydning af hunde til interessante emner." #ForgangneFremtider, "Danmark til 1990", Futuriblerne, udgivet årgang 1975-1976.
"En bro derimod, den hvælver sig så højt, at selv de største russiske skibe må sejle neden under den." #ForgangneFremtider, Futuriblerne, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, Optryk af "Høring om Storebæltsbroens virkninger 14. Maj 1977".
HOW TO GET THINGS DONE #PastFutures, Futuriblerne, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, 1. årgang 1969/1970.
Hvilke danske udtryk signalerer størst sandsynlighed for, at noget sker? Jeg er muligvis sandsynligvis sikker på, at du vil hjælpe min gamle statistiker-ven @clausekstrom.bsky.social med hurtigt at besvare et spørgeskema for, hvor sandsynligt noget er. ekstroem.com:3838/sandsynligt/
Past futures: "A couple of decades into the next century, a room full of books will mark you as highly pretentious - the sort of person owning a wood-burning stove, except that owning books will be ecologically indefensible." The New Scientist, 15 October 1994.
Past futures: New Scientist, 15 October 1994.
