Anders S. Løvlie

Anders S. Løvlie

@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Research: Human-Computer Interaction, design, AI, art, museum experience design and more. I mostly post in English, occasionally in Norwegian or Danish. He/him. Politics: Member of @voltdanmark.org

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Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Reminds me of this classic: www.independent.co.uk/news/arabic-...

independent.co.ukMost Americans say 'Arabic numerals' should not be taught in schoolSeventy-two per cent of Republicans oppose Western world's standard numeric system, according to research designed to 'tease out prejudice among those who didn't understand the question'
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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The Bulwark
@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

«At vi ikke klarte å måle en tydelig effekt, fritar oss likevel ikke fra å fortsette å jobbe med det.»

kode24.no@kode24.no

Utviklerne hos Tet Digital (Ruter osv.) fikk Claude og følte seg mer effektive. Men det ble ingen målbar effekt. 🤷‍♀️ – Det er frustrerende, men ikke overraskende.

kode24.noTet testa Claude: Følte seg raskere, ingen målbar effektTet Digital deler resultatene av sin KI-pilot: – Produktlederne så ikke den samme produktivitets- og kvalitetseffekten som utviklerne, skriver Stein Inge Morisbak og Marte Fritzøe.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈
@patigallardo.bsky.social

«Algorithm» is named after the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who «helped introduce algorithmic methods for solving mathematical problems, popularized the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals (including the concept of zero) in the West, and laid the groundwork for algebra».

npr.orgHow 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematicianIn the 9th century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Thomas Hegghammer
@hegghammer.net

When the JD Vance administration takes Greenland and the Baltics fall to Russia it will be because the European white collar worker refused to touch a word processor that looks a tiny bit different from Microsoft Word www.tomshardware.com/software/mic...

tomshardware.comDenmark’s bid to ditch Microsoft Office for open-source alternative Collabora collapses in under six months — employees cite issues with style, formatting, and tracking changesLooks like Microsoft won this time.
Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

This is a badge of honor

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Norway: "I didn't get the Nobel Prize so I don't want anybody from Norway. I don't want anything to do with Norway…Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually."

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Yeah why don’t Danes love the USA like they used to do. It’s a mystery

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries? We can't we take people from Norway and Sweden and Denmark? By the way, Denmark gave us Greenland ... what do you take, Venezuela or Greenland? We got them both!"

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

I’m old enough to remember a time when, if you wanted to show footage of a prominent political opponent doing a Nazi salute, you’d have to fake the images. Oh sweet old bygones of two years ago

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

If you believe this I have a system I want to sell you. Great price, it’s practically stealing

Reuters@reuters.com

Palantir says it cannot shut off NATO AI system as Europeans fear US tech dependence reut.rs/4zKEFyK

reut.rsPalantir says it cannot shut off NATO AI system as Europeans fear US tech dependenceUS software ​company Palantir sought to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no "kill ‌switch", after disruptions to Ukraine's Starlink services heightened concerns about reliance on US tech firms.

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Kate from Kharkiv
@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

Witkoff to Putin: "You talk so much about President Trump being a humanitarian. You're a humanitarian also, sir, I salute that. I commend you, I thank you." HE MURDERS BABIES! BABIES!!! In their strollers. He murders adults too, entire families. Every day. I can't believe I'm fucking watching this!

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

For Norge er dette småpenger. På tide å velge hva som er viktigst for oss, penger eller menneskeliv?

Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦@pravda.ua

‼️ EU urges partners to cover Ukraine's €70 billion funding gap in 2027

pravda.com.uaEU urges partners to cover Ukraine's €70 billion funding gap in 2027 – PoliticoBrussels is seeking greater financial contributions from Canada, the UK and other international partners as Ukraine faces rising costs and a major funding shortfall next year.
Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Just finished watching The Diplomat, a science fiction series imagining a world in which representatives of the US government are intelligent, sophisticated people working for what they believe to be right

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Never rely on US tech

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social

9/ What Musk has demonstrated is that the Starlink kill switch is real, that he personally controls it, and that he's willing to use it for purely personal reasons, against the interests of his own company and country. This is utterly disastrous for SpaceX's credibility.

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Geir Rakvaag
@geirr.bsky.social

I 2003 satte The Dixie Chicks karrieren på spill ved å si at de skammet seg over at presidenten i USA (George W. Bush) var fra Texas. 23 år etter har The Chicks ei ny offisiell t-trøye for høstens turné.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Really sad to see how far Denmark is willing to go in its fight against immigrants. Now leading the charge together with Italian neo-fascists. Trump would be impressed.

Henrik Plaschke@henrikplaschke.bsky.social

1. The Danish "social-democratic" PM Mette Frederiksen continues her attacks - backed by the neo-fascist Italian PM Giorgia Meloni - on the Spanish socialist PM Pedro Sánchez facing elections next month. A transnational black alliance against Spanish socialists defending an open and solidarity-based

euobserver.comDenmark lashes out again at Sánchez over Spain’s migration regularisation, but EU summit avoid linking migration to crimeDanish prime minister Mette Frederiksen lashed out again at Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez on migration during a summit debate in Brussels on Friday.
Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Yes

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social

Ukraine and the rest of Europe must be firmer with Trump. That doesn't mean starting useless fights or drama, but it means appeasing him less and standing ground when he makes bad decisions. We need to learn to say no to him far more often

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

No US strategy ever lasts more than24 hours

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social

plot twist: Zelenskyy’s office told the FT on Thursday that Starlink’s functionality had been restored and speed limits lifted, confirming a report by Bloomberg

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

True

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

To understand how the Trump administration behaves and makes (and unmakes) policy, you have to understand that it comes from a constant battle between incompetence and evil. Their policies are usually a combination of both in different measures.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

Never trust the US

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

Midweek update. This is the week when trusting the USA was shown to be a catastrophe. The second part has a detailed primer on the Starlink/Starshield sabotage of Ukraine. This is US being a fully fledged Putin ally and will cause many Ukrainian deaths phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

phillipspobrien.substack.comMidweek Update #31: Paying The Price For Trusting The USAThe Spacelink/Spaceshield Sabotage of Ukraine: A Primer; A Warning to Europe and the World.

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Adam Schwarz
@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

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Phillips OBrien
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

European states are now going to observe the price paid for not preparing for a post-US security future the moment Trump was nominated in 2024. Unfortunately the price will be paid by Ukrainians.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

"no early warning from our partners" The US cannot be trusted. The EU needs to get its shit together. The EU could help Ukraine win this war without the US, if only we had the will to do it

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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

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iacob
@iacob.bsky.social

Norsk offentlighet bekymrer seg mer for Hans Rustads medlemskap i Redaktørforeningen, enn at Marian Hussein blir hetset ut av politikken.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH
@gavinyamey.bsky.social

In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

Anders S. Løvlie
@anderslovlie.bsky.social

«Some of America’s most elite universities bring in foreigners» Makes you think about correlation and causation and such

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."