Kári Tulinius
kattullus.bsky.social
Kári Tulinius
@kattullus.bsky.social
Yet another goddamn Icelandic writer.
alltaf þegar ég sé svona fréttir þá grunar mig að eftir nokkur hundruð ár verði talað um stafræna tímann sem myrkar aldir sem fátt er vitað um

sem samfélag vitum við hvernig á að geyma upplýsingar á pappír til langframa en það er engin reynsla komin á langtíma varðveislu stafrænna upplýsinga
Kirkjubækur færðar yfir á rafrænt form - RÚV.is
Skráning í kirkjubækur Þjóðkirkjunnar verður færð yfir á rafrænt form í lok mánaðar. Þær hafa verið handskrifaðar öldum saman. Sóknarprestur segir þetta töluverða breytingu, en í takt við tímann.
www.ruv.is
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The scarf story: one of my last outings with my singing teacher before he went into hospital, he insisted on taking me out to afternoon tea. And I insisted on getting him a gift... 🧵
I just bought a very emotional scarf
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
dead in the middle of Little Italy
little did we know that we riddled
some middlemen who didn't do diddly
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I can only hope that the reason "librarian" is not on this list is b/c they are afraid of us. As they should be.

Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊

(repost from before where I left off the word NOT)
Anyone see a problem here? Speaking as a teacher with a master’s degree, I’m insulted.
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
For the last week or so I've been mainlining the catalogue of French 80s indie rock darlings Les Calamités, in aural and visual form, so I turned it into a MetaFilter post. Pretty much every track of their small catalog is a banger.
'Je suis une calamité/un bâton de dynamite allumé'
Les Calamités were a French indie rock band from the town of Beaune in Burgundy comprised of Caroline Augier, Isabelle Petit, Odile Repolt and Mike Stephens. They recorded 16 bangers between...
www.metafilter.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I picked Sapiens up in a bookstore once and put it down when I realized that the author didn’t understand the difference between the concepts fiction, belief and myth. From this podcast episode I learned there’s so much more wrong with it.
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5

Day 44

Midnight Blues
by Emily Wurramara
Warnindhilyagwa/Australia, 2024

Of all the songs I've voted for, this is the one I most urge people to listen to if you haven't already.
I'm not good at music blurbing - it's just so real and perfect.
Emily Wurramara - 'Midnight Blues' (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Emily Wurramara
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
it’s remarkable to think that postal services, because of their innate usefulness, survive everything, even imperial collapses, heck, the Persian Empire‘s postal system survived Alexander the Great, but in less than a year the dude in charge of the US has shut down parcel post to the country
Posti: No parcels to US this Christmas
Letters and Christmas cards will still be delivered, Finland's national mail carrier confirmed.
yle.fi
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In 2013 I went on a work trip to Stockholm, saw that there was a big exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s works at the Moderna Museum. I’d seen reproductions of her works, which absolutely didn’t prepare me for the full force of seeing them in person. Since then, a lot has been learned about her.
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
Possession is an esssy by Alice Gregory in the New Yorker [archive] about Hilma af Klint, her breakthrough abstract paintings, religious beliefs, posthumous fame, drama in the foundation that...
www.metafilter.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Those clowns at the ice cream factory
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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www.metafilter.com is still really good. Digg, Fark, Reddit and the rest have come and gone, but MetaFilter keeps chugging away. The $5 membership is such a good quality filter.
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.
www.metafilter.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I love to see comically large American flags at car dealerships flying half-staff for Dick Cheney. Ain't that America?
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change
December 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM
írskur vinur minn mun væntanlega hætta að senda mér skilaboð með óhróðri um íslenskar tannlækningar frá og með deginum í dag
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
hvað er uppáhaldslagið ykkar um rigningu?

(ekki um rigningu en er lag sem skýtur upp í huga minn þegar rignir óvænt)

(rosalega vanmetin plata, að mínu mati sú besta sem flaut með fyrstu bylgju rapps á íslensku)
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Kun on puuduttanut itsensä sarjoilla (Netflixin loistava The Beast in Me viimeksi)

niin itkin vuolaasti tämän elokuvan alusta loppuun. Niin hieno, tytöt, Laura Birn ja muut ❤️ #elokuvataivas
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
forvitni min var vakin, og við reyndumst vera í sjöunda eða tíunda sæti (eftir því hvaða lönd eru talin með)
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This factual error is from the otherwise very good article about wingnuts getting het up about D&D being popular with people who aren’t white guys with retrograde beliefs. Speaking of the type … Gary Gygax had nothing to do with the invention of role playing games, though he took credit for it. 1/3
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Ég hef verið að hlusta á færeyska lýsingu á leik þeirra við króatíska landsliðið í knattspyrnu á Radio Garden (áfram Færeyjar!), og ég skil mun meira en ég hélt ég myndi gera. RÚV ætti að endurvarpa Kringvarpinu þegar ekkert annað er á RÚV 2, Íslendingar væru engan tíma að læra færeysku.
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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U.S. catholic bishops criticizing Trump's crackdowns obscured that at the same conference they tried to make sure way more trans people die due to a lack of life-saving medical care.

Catholic hospitals see 1 in 7 patients. In some areas they're the only medical system:
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement an...
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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“AI is a backlash. AI is anti-worker.
I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is.”

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-obs...
AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University. "There is no good way to say this." These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
we've all been there, seen a film and decided immediately, yeah, this is how I'm gonna dress from now on
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
jedúddafokingmía hvað island duty free punktur is er mikið drasl

ofan á allt annað lítur textinn út fyrir að vera vélþýddur

„vörumerki ástarinnar allt um kring“

sá texti sem er á annað borð þýddur, það er að segja, allar vörulýsingar eru á ensku, þótt íslenska sé valin sem tungumál
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM