Arnfinn

Arnfinn

@eielsen.bsky.social

Control engineering enthusiast. Deviser of solid-state machines. Peevish and excitable.

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Arnfinn
@eielsen.bsky.social

Nå har jeg fått flere anledninger til å sammenlikne norsk helsevesen med utenlandsk helsevesen for de samme medisinske tilstander, og i Norge har det alltid vært dårligere. Hvem er det man snakker med i dette landet for å foreslå forbedringer i medisinsk behandling?

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Andreas De Block
@andreasdeblock.bsky.social

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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David Roberts
@volts.wtf

Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?

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Dr. Jonathan Foley
@globalecoguy.bsky.social

We shouldn’t eat so much beef. Period.

Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social

Science shows that lowering our risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes doesn't require us to go vegan or even give up beef altogether. But it does call for some protein swapping. Read the article by @enviroem.bsky.social to learn more: https://bit.ly/4x2yGnz

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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social

Alt text photo of an ad in a bus shelter at Nutfield Close with a pink background, a photo of musk shrugging and looking smug and the text “if you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving you’re not a visionary you’re just a cunt”

Kevin Beaumont@doublepulsar.com

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Kalle Kniivilä
@kallekn.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy

The rented house metaphor is inaccurate, but otherwise yes. What Anthropic’s Forced Shutdown Means for European Sovereignty | PixelUnion - Free your photos from American tech platforms https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/06/antphoic-mythos-export-controls/ @pixelunion

pixelunion.euWhat Anthropic’s Forced Shutdown Means for European Sovereignty | PixelUnion - Free your photos from American tech platformsWhen a U.S. export-control order silenced Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 across Europe overnight, it shattered the myth of the 'safe American cloud', and proved digital sovereignty is now a survival requirement.

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WIRED
@wired.com

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

wired.comA German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI OverviewsThe ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

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David Roberts
@volts.wtf

Today on Volts: I talk with Tim Sahay (@70sbachchan.bsky.social) & Kate Mackenzie (@katemac.bsky.social), who run @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter & podcast, about the current oil crisis & the need for US energy wonks to grapple more with international finance & politics. Fun!

volts.wtfThis oil shock won't be like the othersKate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay break down why global inflation and Chinese manufacturing mean the old fossil fuel playbook no longer works.

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Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com

This one point is proving remarkably challenging to get across: ALGORITHMIC FEEDS ARE EDITORIAL You wouldn't expect to do well pitching your ideas to a newspaper or TV that hates you. Why expect anything better from X or Insta, which are openly authoritarian media?

Anil Dash@anildash.com

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

Arnfinn
@eielsen.bsky.social

12 år, krysset ekvator 2 ganger, nesten bare rammen igjen av den originale sykkelen, skeivt bakhjul, ellers er alt som det skal, klar for skoleferiependling

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Auke Hoekstra
@aukehoekstra.bsky.social

Ppl, esp. in @theguardian.com are prone to Pearl clutching over mines for EV minerals while conveniently forgetting meat. So maybe this picture is a helpful reminder of where our priorities should lie.

Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social

Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says. Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds Story by me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comRainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report saysNeed for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds

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Thomas Hansen
@thomashansen.bsky.social

Danish pension fund blacklist SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance AkademikerPension will not buy SpaceX shares at any price near $1.8 trillion IPO target, saying $SPCX cannot reasonably be worth > $1 trillion and Musk’s voting control makes it uninvestable $TSLAQ

bloomberg.comDanish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX, Citing Governance IssuesA $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.
Thomas Hansen@thomashansen.bsky.social

SpaceX IPO gives serial securities fraudster Elon Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits Anyone who buys SpaceX IPO must waive right to sue the firm The policies “will erode typical shareholder protections in unprecedented ways,” and «the only person who can fire Musk is Musk» $TSLAQ

arstechnica.comReport: SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuitsAnyone who buys into SpaceX IPO must waive right to sue the firm, report says.
Arnfinn
@eielsen.bsky.social

Jeg kom nettopp på at det var Frp som fikk fjernet skatteklasse 2 i 2018 med begrunnelse om at det var så mange innvandrere som ble omfattet av ordningen. I praksis skatteøkning for alle fra et skatteletteparti, og rammet en demografisk gruppe hardere enn andre.

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Rutger Bregman
@rutgerbregman.com

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state. When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut. That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com

"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."

techcrunch.comJeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point | TechCrunch"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."

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Kalle Kniivilä
@kallekn.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy

Känner du en tomhet i bröstet, en tomhet som bara kan fyllas av ännu mer AI? Inte? Synd, för nu blir det mer AI. 😆 Bra text av @linuslarsson.se @LinusLarsson https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/linus-larsson-sa-kommer-googles-nya-sokruta-att-forandra-ditt-liv-pa-natet/

dn.seLinus Larsson: Så kommer Googles nya sökruta att förändra ditt liv på nätetGoogle gör sin sökmotor ännu mer AI-baserad. Målet är att ingen ska behöva klicka sig vidare. Hur kommer det att påverka resten av nätet?

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Phillips OBrien
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

The Trump administration is now openly stealing from Europe. They are taking in funds through PURL, supposedly to provide arms for Ukraine, but refusing to deliver the weapons. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

pravda.com.uaWP: European allies concerned about future of US weapons supplies to UkraineEuropean allies are increasingly concerned about the future of US weapons deliveries to Ukraine as American stockpiles shrink and doubts grow over Pentagon spending transparency.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

British Gaza flotilla activists say they needed hospital care after Israeli forces’ abuse

theguardian.comBritish Gaza flotilla activists say they needed hospital care after Israeli forces’ abuseAlice Chapman and Zak Khan say they were beaten, kicked and spat on after detention near Crete last week Two British activists have said they were admitted to hospital after being beaten by Israeli forces who intercepted their Gaza aid flotilla last week. Alice Chapman and Zak Khan were among 180 members of the Global Sumud flotilla detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in international waters near Crete late on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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The Verge
@theverge.com

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

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Graham Marbles
@grahammarbles.bsky.social

This was the Bronx in the 80’s

Tony Stark@tonystark.bsky.social

Don’t think folks understand what quality of care 80s healthcare was. Then there’s the environmental toxins, the food (the food/coffee/beer renaissance did not take place until 2010-ish, Italian roast espresso is considered ritzy in White Collar). Material quality post oil crisis was awful.

Arnfinn
@eielsen.bsky.social

Billig diesel eller gratis kollektiv?

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social

The Victorian government says public transport will be free across the state in April in a bid to relieve cost-of-living pressure as fuel prices continue to climb.

abc.net.auPublic transport to be free for Victorians in AprilThe Victorian government says public transport will be free across the state in April in a bid to relieve cost-of-living pressure as fuel prices continue to climb.