Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉
@bjornar1.bsky.social
Retired graduate student in international relations. Software engineer in training. Chronic idealist and hopeless cynic. Anticolonialist. Chaotic good. Mostly human (unconfirmed). He/him/"oy, you there!". Norwegian expat. Toronto, Ontario.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
TIL Kristallnacht and the fall of the Berlin Wall happened on the same day of the year. Stark opposites.
87 years ago today, the Kristallnacht burned. 36 years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell.
Whether from the darkness of 9.11.1938 or light of 9.11.1989, the lesson for 🇩🇪 in 2025 is clear: Fight for freedom. Stop fascists. #StandWithUkraine. Their fight for freedom & peace is ours.
Whether from the darkness of 9.11.1938 or light of 9.11.1989, the lesson for 🇩🇪 in 2025 is clear: Fight for freedom. Stop fascists. #StandWithUkraine. Their fight for freedom & peace is ours.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
TIL Kristallnacht and the fall of the Berlin Wall happened on the same day of the year. Stark opposites.
Thing is, AI has become too big to save and it's only because AI companies are taking on astronomical debt levels, secured mostly by their business with each other. For govt, a bailout would be a trillion $ open-ended commitment. When the music stops, it will be very, very ugly.
I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout
people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago
people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Thing is, AI has become too big to save and it's only because AI companies are taking on astronomical debt levels, secured mostly by their business with each other. For govt, a bailout would be a trillion $ open-ended commitment. When the music stops, it will be very, very ugly.
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'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'
Deeply, deeply creepy
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Deeply, deeply creepy
Oh yeah, ofc it's the *women's* fault. Not, you know, legions of incompetent, entitled, bigoted bro dudes
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Oh yeah, ofc it's the *women's* fault. Not, you know, legions of incompetent, entitled, bigoted bro dudes
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Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
![Comments from Watson and Crick reveal the gender harassment that Franklin endured in the lab. Throughout The Double Helix, Watson's famous 1968 book recounting the race to the famous structure, Watson condescendingly refers to Franklin as "Rosy," a nickname never used to
her face. "There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents," he writes, though neglecting to critique his male colleagues' cosmetic or sartorial choices.
He adds that her "belligerent moods" interfered with Wilkins' ability to "maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA." For that reason, " [c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. ... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab." In the 1993 book Nobel Prize Women in Science, Crick was quoted as saying, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt-let's say, a patronizing attitude towards her."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreiewhgtr2ax623ct6za3ap67uvjdxz5sjac7nirhnhcohb4gl75xii@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
Tldr: Watson and Crick made their DNA breakthrough after stealing Franklin's photos of chromosomes. She got no credit. Watson is also an inveterate racist and sexist.
No paywall: archive.is/LUP82
No paywall: archive.is/LUP82
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Tldr: Watson and Crick made their DNA breakthrough after stealing Franklin's photos of chromosomes. She got no credit. Watson is also an inveterate racist and sexist.
No paywall: archive.is/LUP82
No paywall: archive.is/LUP82
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This article explains rather well why Ukrainians are right to regard ordinary Russians as culpable in the war. Facilitators
But it makes for depressing reading.
I shall have to get her book, however
inews.co.uk/news/world/r...
But it makes for depressing reading.
I shall have to get her book, however
inews.co.uk/news/world/r...
I'm a Russian living in London - this is what people back home think of Putin
Jana Bakunina reveals what pro-Putin friends and family told her while visiting Yekaterinburg, and how opponents are burying their heads in the sand to survive
inews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This article explains rather well why Ukrainians are right to regard ordinary Russians as culpable in the war. Facilitators
But it makes for depressing reading.
I shall have to get her book, however
inews.co.uk/news/world/r...
But it makes for depressing reading.
I shall have to get her book, however
inews.co.uk/news/world/r...
"Christ on a bicycle, I'm not done digging Kissinger's circle yet and now you're telling me I have to make another for Cheney two levels below this one? Tell him to take a number and go wait in the Lake of Torment."
- The devil
- The devil
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Christ on a bicycle, I'm not done digging Kissinger's circle yet and now you're telling me I have to make another for Cheney two levels below this one? Tell him to take a number and go wait in the Lake of Torment."
- The devil
- The devil
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Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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Two things can be true at the same time, Canada.
1. Yes, I’m disappointed with some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approaches so far, particularly around climate action, and his definations of “nation-building.” We should expect better.
2. Carney is still light-years better than Pierre Poilievre.
1. Yes, I’m disappointed with some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approaches so far, particularly around climate action, and his definations of “nation-building.” We should expect better.
2. Carney is still light-years better than Pierre Poilievre.
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Two things can be true at the same time, Canada.
1. Yes, I’m disappointed with some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approaches so far, particularly around climate action, and his definations of “nation-building.” We should expect better.
2. Carney is still light-years better than Pierre Poilievre.
1. Yes, I’m disappointed with some of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approaches so far, particularly around climate action, and his definations of “nation-building.” We should expect better.
2. Carney is still light-years better than Pierre Poilievre.
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"If Mamdani's elected I'm leaving NYC"
1) lol bitch as if you would ever, but also
2) Your terms are acceptable.
1) lol bitch as if you would ever, but also
2) Your terms are acceptable.
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"If Mamdani's elected I'm leaving NYC"
1) lol bitch as if you would ever, but also
2) Your terms are acceptable.
1) lol bitch as if you would ever, but also
2) Your terms are acceptable.
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I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
Approved use of glitter, which I normally believe is an abomination (microplastics).
✨✨✨ Smart move by resistors.
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Approved use of glitter, which I normally believe is an abomination (microplastics).
Hey @gotransit.bsky.social, a detour on Lakeshore W from Oakville to Bramalea to go to Union is insane, esp when you have to wait 30min at Bramalea for a connecting train. Why on Earth no direct bus from Oakville to Union???
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Hey @gotransit.bsky.social, a detour on Lakeshore W from Oakville to Bramalea to go to Union is insane, esp when you have to wait 30min at Bramalea for a connecting train. Why on Earth no direct bus from Oakville to Union???
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it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
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JD Vance’s couch watching that Erika Kirk hug
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
JD Vance’s couch watching that Erika Kirk hug
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I mean, Yasser Arafat was also a Nobel Laureate. So was Aung san Suu Kyi, who went on to run cover for Myanmar's violence against the Rohingya. Hell, in '73 they gave the prize to Henry Kissinger.
So, you know, it's a little hit-or-miss.
So, you know, it's a little hit-or-miss.
Beginning to wonder if the Nobel Peace Prize can ever recover from this.
November 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I mean, Yasser Arafat was also a Nobel Laureate. So was Aung san Suu Kyi, who went on to run cover for Myanmar's violence against the Rohingya. Hell, in '73 they gave the prize to Henry Kissinger.
So, you know, it's a little hit-or-miss.
So, you know, it's a little hit-or-miss.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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you either need universal basic income for humans or you must limit the use of Gen AI in such a way that humans aren’t radically impoverished as a result.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
This seems more like an argument for universal basic income than for limiting technology. (I think both are probably futile in the current political environment, but I’d prefer the latter.)
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
you either need universal basic income for humans or you must limit the use of Gen AI in such a way that humans aren’t radically impoverished as a result.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.