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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 4h

If you compare the cost of solar or batteries between China and the U.S., people always point to labor costs… even more important is they’ve heavily invested in automation. The number of workers per [battery produced] is about six times lower than in the U.S. e360.yale.edu/features/han...

This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

Countries are falling short on reducing emissions, but British data scientist Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees the world making real gains on climate change. In an interview, she talks abo...

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 4h

Later, ICE transferred the group of carpenters to a maximum-security prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, where there were more than 300 inmates serving sentences for various crimes such as robbery, rape, and homicide www.texasobserver.org/brazilian-ca...

A Brazilian Carpenter's 51-Day Detention Journey from Vermont to Texas

“On the first day, I thought they had picked me up by mistake..."

www.texasobserver.org

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 5h

…birds from locations spanning Australia, China and Zambia use the same call to identify their parasites, despite never into contact with each other… even if the call is coming from different species on different continents, they instinctively investigate www.birds.cornell.edu/home/vocal-w...

Birds’ Vocal Warnings Provide New Insight Into the Origins of Language

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team o...

www.birds.cornell.edu

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 5h

…a CEO complaining that the cost of acquiring a customer had gone from $13 to $250 over ten years, due to higher prices on Instagram and the inability of any other ad platform to offer comparable results… “everybody’s margin becoming Facebook’s profits” www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

Monopoly Round-Up: Will the Trade War Pop the AI Bubble?

Tech monopolies have created an AI bubble that could take down the economy. China just threatened to pop it. What happens now? Plus, the Pope dons his anti-monopoly hat, and more.

www.thebignewsletter.com

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 6h

”You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music... AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past”… daughters watching their fathers’ legacies puppeteered for viral content nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/the-reckon...

The Reckoning: Sora 2 and the Year We Said Enough

"Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"

nickpotkalitsky.substack.com

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 6h

The indictment sits in a Nevada file, gathering dust. And somewhere in Tel Aviv, a man once charged with trying to meet a child for sex is still at liberty, perhaps writing code for the same government that pretends he never existed www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-man-wh...

THE MAN WHO FLEW HOME

How a senior Israeli cyber official accused of child predation in Las Vegas boarded a plane instead of facing justice.

www.closertotheedge.net

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 14h

A standard of care that calls for replacing breasts with stiff and senseless fabrications without mammary functioning both reflects and is rooted within an asymmetrical binary whereby a woman’s value depends in large part on her objectification www.sapiens.org/culture/wome...

When Women Say “Ta-Ta” to Ta-Tas

An anthropologist fighting cancer navigates the social pressure in the U.S. to get breast reconstruction after a mastectomy.

www.sapiens.org

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 15h

85% av de anställda i servicebranschen har upplevt eller bevittnat kränkande beteenden från kunder… allt från förolämpningar och trakasserier till rena aggressionsutbrott. Var femte serviceanställd säger att de utsatts för hot eller trakasserier minst en gång i månaden www.prevent.se/arbetsliv/me...

Otrevliga kunder ett stort problem för servicepersonal - Arbetsliv

Raseriutbrott, hot och sexuella inviter från kunder. För anställda i servicebranschen är det inte ovanligt att möta den typen av beteenden, enligt en ny rapport.

www.prevent.se

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 15h

…careers of literary titans of the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries bear similar hallmarks: The disappointing debut. The stalwart editorial advocate. The understanding time is a meaningful factor… Nowadays, tremendous pressure to succeed from the beginning thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 15h

…social-media platforms shared a foundational premise with critics in the disinformation field: platforms have a unique power to influence users, in measurable ways… Look closer… much of the attention for sale on the internet is haphazard, unmeasurable, or fraudulent harpers.org/archive/2021...

Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein

Selling the story of disinformation

harpers.org

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 15h

If “things are stalling… I might say, ‘Please find a good, engaging, funny answer to this to keep the conversation going’”. He never copies entire answers – “ChatGPT formulates things in a very obvious way” – but he uses certain lines that sound most like him www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 15h

…stationarity means that things aren’t changing through time… nonstationarity is the status of a time series whose statistical properties are changing through time… this is the reality we live in… climate change is impacting ecosystems across the world predirections.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to the age of nonstationarity

A statistical property that undermines ecosystem management under climate change.

predirections.substack.com

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 16h

The finding is based on data from 312,000 British residents who describe themselves as regular drinkers. Those who had a glass of wine or two — particularly red — at mealtimes were 14 percent less likely to develop the metabolic disease over the next decade studyfinds.org/wine-with-di...

Having a glass of wine with dinner may help you avoid diabetes, study says

Researchers from Tulane University report that drinking wine with dinner could actually help stave off diabetes.

studyfinds.org

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 17h

I kept returning to his chilling promise that he was prepared to die: “I love death more than you love life.” He was right that Jews prize life above all else. Jewish law’s highest priority is the preservation of human life; it trumps any other religious rule www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

‘I Love Death More Than You Love Life’

The terrorist at the synagogue

www.theatlantic.com

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 22h

Mängden citeringar är ett erkänt djupt felbart mått på kvalitet, ett på sin höjd tveksamt mått på genomslag. De flesta citeringar innebär inte att ditt arbete behandlas i substantiell bemärkelse… Undviker vi risken för snedfördelning genom… mätbara mått? www.tidningencurie.se/kronikor/ar-...

Är din mest citerade artikel också din bästa artikel? | Tidningen Curie

Vad säger egentligen antalet citeringar om forskningens kvalitet? David Brax skriver om värdet av de sällan citerade artiklarna.

www.tidningencurie.se

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 22h

Men företagen inom vård och skola… gör vad de är satta att göra: generera vinst… genom att välja billigare patienter respektive elever, minska personalkostnaderna… allt färre lärare är behöriga, särskilt på friskolor, där man anställer lärare som inte kan svenska www.flamman.se/darfor-alska...

Därför älskar högern den stora staten

Leonidas Aretakis: Högerns statsvurm gör mig till anarkist

www.flamman.se

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, I love you! 💙❤️💙

This gives me great hope, and a good chuckle.

#StopTheMadness #StopTrump #Resist 👊🏼

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 22h

Säkrare betyder alltså att de ger ett bättre skydd mot graviditet. Inte att de skulle vara bättre för dig i övrigt… ett avslöjande på Tiktok chockade många unga kvinnor: deras preventivmedel kunde orsaka cancer! Och p-piller klassas faktiskt som ”grupp 1 cancerogen” www.flamman.se/jag-tog-pill...

Jag tog pillret – och blev någon annan

Frigörelsen kom i en blisterförpackning. P-pillret gav kvinnor kontroll över våra kroppar, men band oss också till läkemedelsindustrin, gjorde oss deppigare, och förändrade vår sexualitet. Var det vär...

www.flamman.se

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 22h

…det är märkligt att regeringsrepresentanter fortfarande, i nådens år 2025, väljer att göra uttalanden exklusivt på X istället för på andra plattformar eller direkt till media. Det är som att de lever kvar i hur samhällsdebatten såg ut för 10 år sedan fredrikwass.substack.com/p/mina-fem-t...

Mina fem tankar efter att Svenskarna och internet släpptes idag

Meta måste skärpa sig. OpenAI måste skärpa sig. Elon Musk måste skärpa sig. Men inte jag. Jag är redan skärpt.

fredrikwass.substack.com

PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 22h

Det Maktbarometern visar är att de största kontona på X i dag är högerns jobbigaste kulturkrigare. Men trots att han är störst på X så är det ingen i världen utanför som på länge hört ett pip från moderaten Hanif Bali www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/RzJ...