Erik Holten
holtenher.bsky.social
Erik Holten
@holtenher.bsky.social
Serious science demands serious facial hair
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Har du aldri blitt kalt sær, er det ikke sikkert du har blitt kalt kul heller
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Ja, hvorfor var 1970- og 80-tallet boligfeltets gullalder? Det er i hvert fall en del forutsetninger som måtte være på plass (forts): www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Gx...
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Targeting the free press is nothing new for this administration or for Trumpism but this feels like an elevation of hostiles
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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alternativ til whamageddon
Gå lengst mulig uten å se noen poste «julen er faktisk en tung tid for mange 😞😞» med sponsorlinker til Lyko og home for christmas som bakgrunnsmusikk. når du ser noen blokkerer du kontoen og så bruker du et ekstraliv og til julaften har du en mye triveligere feed
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Why Elon Musk purchased Twitter :
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🪞Lille speil på veggen der, hvem blir fattigst i landet her?
🏳️‍🌈Selv om BÅDE FrP, Rødt, MDG, Senterpartiet, Venstre og SV er helt ENIGE om identisk løsning, iflg respektive partiprogrammer …

Har ikke hørt en eneste debatt om dette, så vi får lese statsbudsjettet 2026.🥁
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Anyone who calls Europe warmongers or talks about Ukrainian supporters wanting to fight to the last Ukrainian is a russian stooge. The only warmonger who seeks to kill as many as needed to subjugate and destroy Ukraine is the russian dictator.
❗️“We are READY to fight to the LAST Ukrainian” — Putin
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"

"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"

"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"

"About as intelligent as a border collie."

"So, intelligent. Why?"

"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Avisa Oslo har fleire artikler om denne tragikomiske saka frå Alexander Kiellands plass måndag, men denne var tidlegast og er dessutan ikkje mura inn. Biletteksta er ekstra fornøyeleg.

www.ao.no/vet-ikke-hva...
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Det er ganske sprøtt at det er en egen journalistutdanning når hele jobben består av å skrive ned det folk sier og sette sitatstrek foran. Journalister må være veldig, veldig, VELDIG dumme om de bruker tre år på å lære noe så enkelt.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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«I lekkede russiske dokumenter dukker navnet til en dansk aktivist opp. Nå spres innleggene hans i norske Facebook-grupper som protesterer mot metanhemmere i dyrefôr.» Fra @faktisk-no.bsky.social
Bovaer-aktivist nevnes i russiske påvirkningsplaner
Navnet til danske Kent Nielsen dukker opp i lekkede dokumenter fra et statlig russisk fond. Samtidig deles innholdet hans hyppig i norske landbruksgrupper.
www.faktisk.no
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Den nyvalde stortingsrepresentanten Julia Eikeland (Ap/Rogaland, f. 2000) vel annleis kurs når ho navigerer i etikkfarvatna enn den fullbefarne stortingsrepresentanten Frode Jacobsen (Ap/Oslo, f. 1968).

www.universitas.no/hoyskolen-kr...
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This. I've been working with "machine learning" since before the current AI-fever and it's an invaluable tool in science and engineering.

LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tråd om eitt av visa den epistemiske allmenninga vår undergravast på.
The deeper problem isn’t just misinformation, its the collapse of shared verification environments and the rise of influencer-led moral-epistemic systems that feel more authentic than institutions.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Sånn er det nå. Les ordene fra tidligere utenriksminister i Litauen, Gabrielis Landsbergis, nøye. Les de deretter en gang til og så en gang til. For sånn er det nå #frittukraina #HmmHelsehjelpUkraina landsbergis.com/the-28-point...
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Dette er en helt suveren oppvisning i språklig framstillingsevne. youtu.be/PIIVDFjIrl4?...
Kvifor har Noreg levande dialektbruk?
YouTube video by Eldar Heide
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tråd
The plan says that "A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States." This implies that both Russia and the Trump administration don't see the US as part of NATO in any real sense. That should deeply alarm every other NATO state.
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM