Illimar Rekand

Så "The Best Summer" på BIFF i går - er 35 alderen eg endelig begynner å høre på Sonic Youth?

I love reading the wiki article about Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the man behind "I put a spell on you" (also made famous by the CCR cover and many others). It's surprisingly detailed considered that he is mostly known for "that one song": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screami...

"Despite the commercial success of the gimmick, Hawkins resented the shock-factor that made him famous. He found it exploitative, and believed it undermined his sincerity as a vocalist and a balladeer."

"bemoaned the Screamin' epithet given to him by his label, saying "If it were up to me, I wouldn't be Screamin' Jay Hawkins ... James Brown did an awful lot of screamin', but never got called Screamin' James Brown ... Why can't people take me as a regular singer without making a bogeyman out of me?"

... removing most of the grunts that had embellished the original performance; this was in response to complaints about the recording's overt sexuality."

"Soon after the release of "I Put a Spell on You", radio disc jockey Alan Freed offered Hawkins $300 to emerge from a coffin onstage. Hawkins initially declined, reportedly saying "No black dude gets in a coffin alive – they don't expect to get out!"

The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a "raw, guttural track" that became his greatest commercial success and reportedly surpassed a million copies in sales Although Hawkins blacked out and was unable to remember the session, he relearned the song from the recorded version "

"Hawkins blacked out and was unable to remember the session, he relearned the song from the recorded version. Meanwhile, the record label released a second version of the single, ...

" I want to come up with my own ideas. I've got all the information that I need to get from you to do what I want, now if you stick around, I'm going to make your life miserable."

and about the famous track: " "Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad." The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where "Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon."

" In a 1993 interview, Hawkins recounts telling his music tutor, ...to leave before I make your life miserable [...] because with the type of music I want to play. The things I want to do with music and don't want to do it the old conventional way that everybody knows...

Ka er greien med at Gardemoen har så få stikkontakter? Hver gang jeg har sikret meg en sitteplass med gaten er det aldri noen stikkontakter i nærheten

This year's Nobel prize in chemistry is so incredibly cool and I hope to see this type of chemistry get more widespread use

Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics@compoundchem.com

This year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded for research which helps chemists make just one of a molecule's pair of mirror images 🪞 It's useful in making medicinal molecules and gives insights into why biological molecules are formed from single mirror-image building blocks 🧬 #ChemSky 🧪

doi.org3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printingDead mosquitoes find new life as ultrafine 3D printer nozzles, enabling sustainable microscale manufacturing.

"necroprinting" is the most 40k-coded term and I love it "3D Necroprinting: Leveraging Biotic Material as the Nozzle for 3D Printing" doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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depths of wikipedia

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

22 Sept

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

8 Sept

This "so dangerous it has to be useful" narrative is tedious, and highlights how little these companies have fear regulation in the current US environment. But it's worse. If and when the technology actually gets dangerous, the boy will have already cried wolf so many times we'll ignore him.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.

8 Sept

welcome to the zeitgeist of 2026:

doi.orgAre chatbots reliable text annotators? SometimesAbstract. Recent research highlights the significant potential of ChatGPT for text annotation in social science research. However, ChatGPT is a closed-sour

8 Sept

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

3 Sept

AI seminars at my department have a rule to _not_ express opinions in neither the presentations nor the discussions, which result in an interesting example of doublespeak in action

3 Sept

"this is a recommendation, not an opinion" Isn't that what a recommendation is??

en.wikipedia.orgDrinking from shoes - Wikipedia

19 June

Ready for Tons of Rock next week en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinkin...

10 June

*runs docker command* --> SSH connection cuts out --> "oh fuck"

youtu.benublu & Vaiko Eplik - MEELDIVAD TYDRUKUD feat. OrelipoissYouTube video by nublu & kawasaki

9 June

bänger youtu.be/jKLszK1U8fg?...

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depths of wikipedia

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

8 June

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

Etter å ha hørt på «Bare Erlend og Steinar» i en stund nå, føler jeg for å lage en en bingo: 1. Erlend snakker om fotball 2. Erlend snakker om serien «Alone» 3. Steinar fremstiller et komplekst problem som avslører en av hans indre usikkerheter

4. Steinar kommer med et løfte om å starte noe som aldri blir nevnt igjen

Mja, sikker på det? Jeg skjønner at Khrono vil ha en "KI-skole" for å føle seg hipp, kul og med i tiden, men hvem er det som egentlig leser disse?

khrono.noLa KI finne litteratur og hjelpe deg med fagfellevurderingenLær hvordan du kan bruke KI til litteratursøk uten å gå i baret. Og selv om fallgruvene er mange, kan KI også være en god hjelp i arbeidet med fagfellevurdering.

Fra www.khrono.no/la-ki-finne-...

whosampled.comwhosampled.com

4 May

This information changed my life www.whosampled.com/sample/19201...

sprakradet.noPå godt norsk – norske avløserord for engelske ord - SpråkrådetListe over en del norske ord som kan brukes i stedet for de tilsvarende engelske. Lista inneholder først og fremst ord som er på vei inn i allmennspråket.

27 Apr

Språkrådet sin "På Godt Norsk"-liste er full av så mange gode men også forferdelige forslag: sprakradet.no/godt-og-korr...

27 Apr

det er leit at det finnes mange tech-begrep som sjelden anvendes, eksempelvis "tjening"/"webhotell" for hosting (fint med distinksjonen også ;) ) eller "indiaøl" for IPA. Men så har du B2B som blir "handel mellom næringsdrivende" 🥴

youtube.comUiB AI #19: KI for bedre utdanninger?YouTube video by Universitetet i Bergen

13 Apr

My colleague Sondre Bolland held this talk about AI and learning: www.youtube.com/live/7QLRiuA... A bit more nuanced take than what normally is discussed on this platform, and the studies described herein definitely have some major flaws, but I still think it’s worth checking out.

12 Mar

I thought Gorillaz had lost their touch with some very mid albums in the last 10 years, but "The Mountain" is a very nice collection of sonds worth a listen

10 Mar

what, notepad on windows has had markdown rendering since when??

no.wikipedia.orgFrøya Sjursæther – Wikipedia

4 Mar

veldig kult at @froyasjursaether.bsky.social har lastet opp bildet til Wikimedia Commons som brukes i hennes egen wikipedia-artikkel: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%B...

24 Feb

why can't I seem to do even one installation using docker containers that doesn't fail?

24 Feb

one of the nicest things about working in a university is that no one gives a fuck about what clothes you are wearing

khrono.noForeleser mistenkes for å ha funnet opp sin egen «nobelpris» og gitt den til seg selvAllerede i 2018 fattet rumenske journalister mistanke. Litteraturforeleser Florent Montaclair nekter for å ha gjort noe galt, men fransk politi er ikke helt enig.

20 Feb

www.khrono.no/foreleser-mi... 🤦

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European Greens

@europeangreens.eu

13 Feb

The news is Greener on the EU’s side.

5 Feb

setting up conda on a new windows computer and getting it to run in Powershell/terminal is still such a pain after all these years

4 Feb

I nest my loops because they seem very tired of repetitive work and they probably need a good place to take a nap

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Chemjobber

@chemjobber.bsky.social

1 Feb

Other people: "Don’t ask me about my political opinions of the President, because I’d rather not answer." Me to my daughter, yelling down from our house's roof: "If I die, tell your grandkids I hated Donald Trump."

nrk.noEcura skal ha ført pasientjournal i Teams – Statsforvaltaren har sendt bekymringsmeldingHelseaktøren Ecura skal ha ført pasientjournal i Microsoft Teams. Statsforvaltaren ser alvorleg på saka.

27 Jan

www.nrk.no/mr/ecura-ska... Når datahåndtering går galt :(

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

@seamas.bsky.social

26 Jan

Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.

Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs@ashponders.bsky.social

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.