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Göran Bolin
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Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
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Communication & Media Studies 35%
Sociology 19%

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"Det är därför noterbart, om än inte förvånande, att MSB:s nya ”Om kriget kommer”-broschyr för företag tar upp motståndskraft mot cyberangrepp men inte beredskap för att de egna digitala systemen blir oanvändbara."

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Ändå bra att det här äntligen får lite större uppmärksamhet, så kanske vi som tjatat om detta i åratal kanske äntligen slipper avfärdas som techfientliga ludditer.

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The US invoked article 5 once. After 9/11.

European, including notably Danish soldiers, fought and died in your subsequent wars.

As NATO allies of the United States.

#FactsMatter

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🚨 Call for a PhD student in media and communication studies at Lund University, Sweden out now! Fully-financed, four years+one year extension for teaching. We focus on critical and interdisciplinary approaches to media and communication.
Deadline 31 March 🚨

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral Student in Media and Communication Studies
The Department of Communication is an interdisciplinary, international, and dynamic environment for education and research in media and communication studies, strategic communication, and journalism,
lu.varbi.com

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Finska medier vs svenska medier

Clear the beach for surfing!

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“Well, I just want to tell you it’s all happening,” Trump said as he concluded the event, calling Gaza a “beautiful piece of property.”
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
"It's all happening": Trump basks in the pomp surrounding his new "Board of Peace"
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is taking place in Davos. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
Trump makes concluding remarks. He says Gaza ceasefire push began because he is “a real estate person at heart, and it’s all about location, and I said, ‘look at this location, on the sea, look at this beautiful piece of property’”.
Here's the "Board of Peace" representatives on stage at Trump's launch event.

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Netanyahu har fått ställa in den planerade signeringsceremonin i Davos, för medlemskapet i Trumps "Board of Peace" eftersom Schweiziska myndigheter meddelat att han omedelbart skulle gripas då han är internationellt efterlyst av ICC för krigsbrott i Gaza.

RIP ironin.
Ska utvisas ensam efter att ha levt i Sverige sedan hon var fyra år - det enda liv hon rimligen har något minne av.

Så här får inte ett land behandla människor som utan egen förskyllan är utelämnade till dess makt.
www.mitti.se/nyheter/joma...
Jomana, 18, skulle ta studenten i vår – nu utvisas hon
Jomana Gad bor i Upplands Väsby och utvisas från Sverige: Kompisar kämpar för att stoppa
www.mitti.se
Vi måste förbereda oss på att havsströmmarna i Atlanten stängs av. Följderna för Norden blir omfattande, skriver svenske forskaren Johan Rockström och Islands klimatminister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson. Jag hoppas nordiska politiker läser den här texten och inser allvaret.
DN Debatt. ”Vi vet inte var tippningspunkten ligger – men den närmar sig”
Vad händer om Golfströmmen stannar av? Den senaste forskningen tyder på att vi kan närma oss så kallade tippningspunkter.
www.dn.se

Also: When I write in my native Swedish, I try to see if there are Swedish translations that can be used (as service to e.g. students).

Media & Communication Studies (humanities/soc.sci): I usually cite from language I have read in (e.g. Swedish, German, Italian, French). Sometimes journals or publishers want me to add a translation of titles into English, sometimes not).
You're going to read a lot of headlines out of Davos that misleadingly suggest that a transatlantic crisis has passed. But if you listen to Trump's entire speech, it sounds like the crisis is just getting started.
Beware The "Trump Won't Use Force in Greenland" Headlines
The transatlantic crisis is hardly over. Trump is so psychotic that Mark Carney is telling the truth about the 'rules-based international order.' PLUS: Three podcasts I guested on!
www.forever-wars.com

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Dr. Martin Kragh, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies: An end to the Russo-Ukrainian war on Moscow’s terms will make accountability for war crimes and political persecution in the occupied territories of Ukraine impossible. sceeus.se/en/publicati...
Political Persecution in Russia and on the Occupied Areas of Ukraine - Sceeus
SCEEUS Report | Political Persecution in Russiaand on the Occupied Areas ofUkraine | By Martin Kragh
sceeus.se

Many people would say that there are other things unrecognizable. US politics and politicians, for example.
Trump: "Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. We can argue about it but there's no argument. Friends come back from different places and say, 'I don't recognize it.' And that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way."
La silueta de una mano pintada en negativo en la pared de una cueva en Indonesia tiene al menos 67.800 años de antigüedad, más que ninguna otra pintura rupestre hallada. Esto cuestiona la visión clásica de que el arte rupestre explota en Europa hace unos 40.000 años
Hallada en Indonesia la pintura rupestre más antigua de la humanidad
El nuevo descubrimiento, de 67.000 años de antigüedad, confirma que el arte no surgió de la nada en Europa y apunta a un origen previo en Asia y Oceanía
elpais.com

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När Hans Blix, som varit toppdiplomat sen Trump gick i blöjor (för första gången alltså) säger så här:
"Det tyder på någon rubbning, värre än bara vanligt dåligt omdöme eller narcissism."
Då vet man att han menar det.
Trump: "Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. We can argue about it but there's no argument. Friends come back from different places and say, 'I don't recognize it.' And that's not in a positive way. That's in a very negative way."
Finland-Swedish political cartoon from 1938, by Tove Jansson the creator of Moomin.

Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

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Gårdagens rubriker om Grönlandsdramat visar hur svårt det är för europeiska ledare att interagera med Trump när de samtidigt inte kan acceptera det han säger gång på gång.

www.dn.se/varlden/krit...
Kritiken: Europas militärinsats på Grönland var misslyckad diplomati
Europeiska länder skickar soldater till Grönland och skapar spänning mellan EU och USA
www.dn.se

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När Wikipedia fyller 25 år står det kvar som ett undantag som överlevt dotcomkraschens kommersialisering.

I algoritmernas era har uppslagsverket visat sig både mer omstritt och nödvändigt än någonsin, skriver @rsmsflscher.bsky.social.

www.flamman.se/ai-modellern...
AI-modellerna vore ingenting utan Wikipedia
Rasmus Fleischer: Wikipedia blev robotmat – men är fortfarande oersättligt
www.flamman.se

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⚡️Trump blames Ukraine war negotiations deadlock on Moscow, Kyiv failing to align on talks.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Jan. 20 that he has been unable to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, claiming that neither side is consistently willing to agree to a deal at the same time.
Trump blames Ukraine war negotiations deadlock on Moscow, Kyiv failing to align on talks
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Jan. 20 that he has been unable to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, claiming that neither side is consistently willing to agree to a deal at the same time.
kyivindependent.com
"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.

ht: Dagmar Monett
The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026
This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...
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