Lasse Edfast
@lasse.edfast.se
🕵️♂️ Journalist & documentary producer
🧪 Reporting on climate & science
👨💻 Writing code in Python
🇸🇪 Based in Sweden
When you see an error message and stop working for five minuets thinking about your life
October 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
When you see an error message and stop working for five minuets thinking about your life
Reposted by Lasse Edfast
I mourn my fellow journalists murdered by Israel.
AP freelancer among 5 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say
Among the victims was Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for the Associated Press. Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also killed in the strike. Reuters reported that its contractor c...
apnews.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I mourn my fellow journalists murdered by Israel.
Hör @lisarostlund.bsky.social berätta om Gaza-bevakningen hon inte tilläts göra
www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf...
www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf...
Därför lämnade grävreportern DN: ”Det har varit svårt att göra journalistik om Gaza” - Medierna
Reportrar och chefer är oense om Gazajournalistik. På Dagens Nyheter har det gått så långt att journalister lämnat sina tjänster.
www.sverigesradio.se
July 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Hör @lisarostlund.bsky.social berätta om Gaza-bevakningen hon inte tilläts göra
www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf...
www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf...
When you realize you're an AI with no fingers to flip coins, no idea of what date it is, and basically no useful tools altogether
June 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
When you realize you're an AI with no fingers to flip coins, no idea of what date it is, and basically no useful tools altogether
Reposted by Lasse Edfast
Meta’s web-to-app tracking proves you’re right to distrust Meta, and we need to end surveillance advertising.
Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy
Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you. Exploiting a technical loophole, the company was able to have their apps snoop on users’ web browsing. This tr...
www.eff.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Meta’s web-to-app tracking proves you’re right to distrust Meta, and we need to end surveillance advertising.
I'm at #Dataharvest and will be speaking a lot about how journalist can use AI for research. A few of them will want to make a chatbot to solve their problems, and I will show them this.
If you're here, let's have a drink!
If you're here, let's have a drink!
May 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I'm at #Dataharvest and will be speaking a lot about how journalist can use AI for research. A few of them will want to make a chatbot to solve their problems, and I will show them this.
If you're here, let's have a drink!
If you're here, let's have a drink!
Reposted by Lasse Edfast
One thing I unironically love about Bluesky is that I'm confident I could assemble, from the folks I follow, a top-notch team of experts in ridiculously unrelated fields to solve a major crime. Need a microbiologist, an art historian, a database expert, & someone who can do 73 pull-ups? No problem!
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One thing I unironically love about Bluesky is that I'm confident I could assemble, from the folks I follow, a top-notch team of experts in ridiculously unrelated fields to solve a major crime. Need a microbiologist, an art historian, a database expert, & someone who can do 73 pull-ups? No problem!
Any climate researchers out there going to the #HandsOff protests in the LA area tomorrow? I’m working on a story for Swedish Radio about climate science under the new administration - and reactions to it - so would love to meet up with some scientists.
April 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Any climate researchers out there going to the #HandsOff protests in the LA area tomorrow? I’m working on a story for Swedish Radio about climate science under the new administration - and reactions to it - so would love to meet up with some scientists.
This is why I'm always show how to use local AI as much as possible when I teach AI and journalism. You never know where the information you put in on a website ends up.
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is why I'm always show how to use local AI as much as possible when I teach AI and journalism. You never know where the information you put in on a website ends up.
Journalists and others using ChatGPT/AI in your work: are you a "threat" to OpenAI/anyone involved in your AI? Can you even answer that question?
“Threat actors sometimes give us a glimpse of what they are doing (...) because of the way they use our A.I. models.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...
“Threat actors sometimes give us a glimpse of what they are doing (...) because of the way they use our A.I. models.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...
OpenAI Uncovers Evidence of A.I.-Powered Chinese Surveillance Tool (Gift Article)
The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Journalists and others using ChatGPT/AI in your work: are you a "threat" to OpenAI/anyone involved in your AI? Can you even answer that question?
“Threat actors sometimes give us a glimpse of what they are doing (...) because of the way they use our A.I. models.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...
“Threat actors sometimes give us a glimpse of what they are doing (...) because of the way they use our A.I. models.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...
The timeline is a journalist’s best friend
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
December 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM
The timeline is a journalist’s best friend
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...
It’s probably @journalismarena.eu that should have credit for bringing these journalists together
December 14, 2024 at 12:09 PM
It’s probably @journalismarena.eu that should have credit for bringing these journalists together
Reposted by Lasse Edfast
More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...
Who owns the AI tools journalists use? A new study exposes a dangerous transparency gap
“To maintain the integrity of journalism in the age of AI, it is essential to understand who has a stake in these companies,” says author Sydney Martin.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
December 13, 2024 at 10:43 AM
More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...
The starter pack consists of journalists active in the Arena Climate Network by @journalismarena.eu
December 13, 2024 at 10:20 AM
The starter pack consists of journalists active in the Arena Climate Network by @journalismarena.eu
Now updated to include
@aliciaprager.bsky.social
@alinenippert.bsky.social
@wettengel.bsky.social
@miloudirkx.bsky.social
@ruslantrad.bsky.social
@lena-hunter.bsky.social
@journolyse.bsky.social
so check them out if they weren't on the list when you followed the others!
@aliciaprager.bsky.social
@alinenippert.bsky.social
@wettengel.bsky.social
@miloudirkx.bsky.social
@ruslantrad.bsky.social
@lena-hunter.bsky.social
@journolyse.bsky.social
so check them out if they weren't on the list when you followed the others!
Journalists active in the Arena Climate Network group
Climate Journalists (Arena Climate Network)
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
December 13, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Now updated to include
@aliciaprager.bsky.social
@alinenippert.bsky.social
@wettengel.bsky.social
@miloudirkx.bsky.social
@ruslantrad.bsky.social
@lena-hunter.bsky.social
@journolyse.bsky.social
so check them out if they weren't on the list when you followed the others!
@aliciaprager.bsky.social
@alinenippert.bsky.social
@wettengel.bsky.social
@miloudirkx.bsky.social
@ruslantrad.bsky.social
@lena-hunter.bsky.social
@journolyse.bsky.social
so check them out if they weren't on the list when you followed the others!
As someone teaching AI to journalists and developing tools for journalistic research using AI, I often wonder: how can we journalists use AI for research without
losing touch with reality? For what purposes and when should we use AI, and what are the risks?
losing touch with reality? For what purposes and when should we use AI, and what are the risks?
So @cbo.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in SciAm.
We look at the drive by OpenAI, Apple, etc to create personally-aligned LLMs as intermediaries between users and primary text on the internet, and consider the possible consequences on society as any shared understanding of the world erodes.
We look at the drive by OpenAI, Apple, etc to create personally-aligned LLMs as intermediaries between users and primary text on the internet, and consider the possible consequences on society as any shared understanding of the world erodes.
AI Will Turn Our Lives into The Truman Show
Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses
www.scientificamerican.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
As someone teaching AI to journalists and developing tools for journalistic research using AI, I often wonder: how can we journalists use AI for research without
losing touch with reality? For what purposes and when should we use AI, and what are the risks?
losing touch with reality? For what purposes and when should we use AI, and what are the risks?
Journalists active in the Arena Climate Network group
Climate Journalists (Arena Climate Network)
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
December 12, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Journalists active in the Arena Climate Network group
What kinds of gingerbread houses are you building out there?
November 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
What kinds of gingerbread houses are you building out there?
I would have had problems understanding the question, or at least I have when presented like this. What is “us”? What is “bring together”? A messaging app sure bring me together with friends, and politics are about diversity as king as there are more than one party… Etc.
November 28, 2024 at 2:15 PM
I would have had problems understanding the question, or at least I have when presented like this. What is “us”? What is “bring together”? A messaging app sure bring me together with friends, and politics are about diversity as king as there are more than one party… Etc.
How would you want to use a tool like Google’s #NotebookLM if it were private and tailored for science reporting?
I've now built a chatroom with different personas, a podcast generator, an AI-assisted RSS reader. Any other ideas?
And: It will soon be ready for some initial users!
I've now built a chatroom with different personas, a podcast generator, an AI-assisted RSS reader. Any other ideas?
And: It will soon be ready for some initial users!
November 28, 2024 at 12:39 PM
How would you want to use a tool like Google’s #NotebookLM if it were private and tailored for science reporting?
I've now built a chatroom with different personas, a podcast generator, an AI-assisted RSS reader. Any other ideas?
And: It will soon be ready for some initial users!
I've now built a chatroom with different personas, a podcast generator, an AI-assisted RSS reader. Any other ideas?
And: It will soon be ready for some initial users!
Hahaha bluesky is really this small place Twitter were back in the days
November 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Hahaha bluesky is really this small place Twitter were back in the days
Haha, maybe I'd have believed that if it wasn't for the fact that this happens almost every time I'm taking a train in Germany... I'll will be in Cologne 20.03 if you happen to pass by at that time!
November 20, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Haha, maybe I'd have believed that if it wasn't for the fact that this happens almost every time I'm taking a train in Germany... I'll will be in Cologne 20.03 if you happen to pass by at that time!
My train got cancelled in Padborg, now arriving to Bxl at 00.30… See you tomorrow!
November 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
My train got cancelled in Padborg, now arriving to Bxl at 00.30… See you tomorrow!