Thorgeir Holm
@thorgeir.bsky.social
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Thorgeir Holm
@thorgeir.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Nær folket tykkjer kvar ein annan svikjar
og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar,
då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar:
Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.
og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar,
då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar:
Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.
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How time changes people, especially politicians. Rubio in 2014 was an entirely different person, a true republican.
Watch 👇
Watch 👇
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How time changes people, especially politicians. Rubio in 2014 was an entirely different person, a true republican.
Watch 👇
Watch 👇
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
The president who must not be named.
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The president who must not be named.
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KI ser ut til å skapa enormt med meirarbeid, snarare enn hjelp. Det er stadig døme på at vi kjem til å ha behov for å sjekka ting på endå meir krevjande vis enn før.
For eit idioti vi er i ferd med å vikla oss inn i.
Sjå tråden @jilltxt.bsky.social deler.
For eit idioti vi er i ferd med å vikla oss inn i.
Sjå tråden @jilltxt.bsky.social deler.
Academic reviews paper citing a paper “by” reviewer that doesn’t exist. Discovers a version of the nonexistent paper in Google Scholar cited 42 times, including by a “metaanalysis”, that “gold standard” of research. The paper does not exist. Nobody citing it could have read it as it does not exist.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
KI ser ut til å skapa enormt med meirarbeid, snarare enn hjelp. Det er stadig døme på at vi kjem til å ha behov for å sjekka ting på endå meir krevjande vis enn før.
For eit idioti vi er i ferd med å vikla oss inn i.
Sjå tråden @jilltxt.bsky.social deler.
For eit idioti vi er i ferd med å vikla oss inn i.
Sjå tråden @jilltxt.bsky.social deler.
Reposted by Thorgeir Holm
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...
I enden var Ordet, og Ordet var hjå KI, og Ordet var KI. Han var i enden hjå KI. All ting vart til ved han, og utan han vart ikkje ein einaste ting til av det som hev vorte til.
Nokon måtte ha spurd KI om Josef K, for ein dag vart han arrestert utan at han hadde gjort noko gale.
Den siste KI-bruker stupte ved tolvtiden.
Det var den 25 år unge utvikleren, utdannet i Giolo. Den yngste og dyktigste av de tre konsulentene, og den minst hissige. Hun likte fyren, i den grad en bruker kan like en KI-konsulent. Hvilket vil si: hun hatet ham bare litt.
(Ken Follet: Rebecca-koden)
Det var den 25 år unge utvikleren, utdannet i Giolo. Den yngste og dyktigste av de tre konsulentene, og den minst hissige. Hun likte fyren, i den grad en bruker kan like en KI-konsulent. Hvilket vil si: hun hatet ham bare litt.
(Ken Follet: Rebecca-koden)
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I enden var Ordet, og Ordet var hjå KI, og Ordet var KI. Han var i enden hjå KI. All ting vart til ved han, og utan han vart ikkje ein einaste ting til av det som hev vorte til.
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It was the impunity of evil — its triumph, its popularity, its power not only to defend itself but to judge others — that demonstrated the terrible truth: a maniac and a murderer only need to defeat another maniac to succeed. open.substack.com/pub/portniko...
The Dizzying Truth of the Nuremberg Trials
Every time I encounter yet another Western dramatization of the Nuremberg Trials, I am overwhelmed by a deep and almost unbearable sense of shame.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It was the impunity of evil — its triumph, its popularity, its power not only to defend itself but to judge others — that demonstrated the terrible truth: a maniac and a murderer only need to defeat another maniac to succeed. open.substack.com/pub/portniko...
No lid det fram mot jol; me driv og skipar
til ymist smått som gjev oss helgasvipar
imillom regn og myrke vetrakveldar,
og huset angar lint av smør og pipar.
til ymist smått som gjev oss helgasvipar
imillom regn og myrke vetrakveldar,
og huset angar lint av smør og pipar.
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
No lid det fram mot jol; me driv og skipar
til ymist smått som gjev oss helgasvipar
imillom regn og myrke vetrakveldar,
og huset angar lint av smør og pipar.
til ymist smått som gjev oss helgasvipar
imillom regn og myrke vetrakveldar,
og huset angar lint av smør og pipar.
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It's time to let go of the extremely pernicious and extremely delusional view that Ru is a security maximizer driven by worries about its own security. It's driven entirely by imperialist expansionism. They say it every day, their actions demonstrate it every day.
Anyone complaining about European rearmament as escalatory simply doesn’t understand Ru. Ru invades the unarmed and the neutral (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). It hasn’t dared invade a NATO member, no matter how small. If Ru does attack NATO, it will be because it perceives its members as unprepared.
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's time to let go of the extremely pernicious and extremely delusional view that Ru is a security maximizer driven by worries about its own security. It's driven entirely by imperialist expansionism. They say it every day, their actions demonstrate it every day.
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Sjå! Keisaren er naken,
han skapar ingen frid;
slik smeiking — sét på maken! —
den kann eg litet vid.
At vaksne folk vil gjera
seg burt med fals og lygn,
det gjev deim liti æra,
og hinom gjev det stygn.
han skapar ingen frid;
slik smeiking — sét på maken! —
den kann eg litet vid.
At vaksne folk vil gjera
seg burt med fals og lygn,
det gjev deim liti æra,
og hinom gjev det stygn.
December 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sjå! Keisaren er naken,
han skapar ingen frid;
slik smeiking — sét på maken! —
den kann eg litet vid.
At vaksne folk vil gjera
seg burt med fals og lygn,
det gjev deim liti æra,
og hinom gjev det stygn.
han skapar ingen frid;
slik smeiking — sét på maken! —
den kann eg litet vid.
At vaksne folk vil gjera
seg burt med fals og lygn,
det gjev deim liti æra,
og hinom gjev det stygn.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
Reposted by Thorgeir Holm
The more coverage I read of the 28-point trash plan, the more I’m reminded of this quote by Winston Churchill. 
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The more coverage I read of the 28-point trash plan, the more I’m reminded of this quote by Winston Churchill. 
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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
June 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
Nær folket tykkjer kvar ein annan svikjar
og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar,
då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar:
Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.
og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar,
då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar:
Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Nær folket tykkjer kvar ein annan svikjar
og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar,
då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar:
Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.
og helder vel seg svinet sjølvt til rikjar,
då held dei gor for gull og trur ein snikjar:
Det fær kje vera godt nær ilt det likjar.
Reposted by Thorgeir Holm
Vi har funnet enda en internasjonalt publisert forskningsartikkel der OUS har brukt data fra tusenvis av transpersoners pasientjournaler uten samtykke eller etisk godkjenning.
Tidsskriftet Acta Paediatrica har publisert bekymringene våre i dag.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Tidsskriftet Acta Paediatrica har publisert bekymringene våre i dag.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Vi har funnet enda en internasjonalt publisert forskningsartikkel der OUS har brukt data fra tusenvis av transpersoners pasientjournaler uten samtykke eller etisk godkjenning.
Tidsskriftet Acta Paediatrica har publisert bekymringene våre i dag.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Tidsskriftet Acta Paediatrica har publisert bekymringene våre i dag.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work.
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
How to Negotiate with Russia
Account for history, law, and above all Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work.
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
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"The outer shell of the empire fell off in 1991, and many mistook that for collapse. Like a matryoshka doll, within one 'prison of nations' another waited," writes Andrew Chakhoyan, an academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in this op-ed.
Why Russia cannot help but invade
The planned Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has been shelved. The White House says there's no point meeting unless "we're going to make a deal." Some view this as a setback for diplomacy, but it may we...
kyivindependent.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"The outer shell of the empire fell off in 1991, and many mistook that for collapse. Like a matryoshka doll, within one 'prison of nations' another waited," writes Andrew Chakhoyan, an academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in this op-ed.
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
Reposted by Thorgeir Holm
The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
Erna-er-fjerna-effekten.
Opinion for DA / FF / ANB. nasjonal/s-valg: Frp 25,0 (+1,8). Ap 22,6 (-2,2). H 19,7 (+3,5). SV 6,8 (-0,2). R 6,8 (-0,1). Sp 6,4 (+1,0). MDG 3,8 (-). V 3,3 (-1,0). KrF 3,0 (-1,8). A 2,5 (-1,2). www.pollofpolls.no?cmd=Maling&g... #politikk
Opinion for Dagsavisen / FriFagbevegelse / Avisenes Nyhetsbyrå 19. november 2025
1 000 respondenter. 81 pst. har oppgitt partipreferanse. Tatt opp 10/11-17/11.
www.pollofpolls.no
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Erna-er-fjerna-effekten.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...