Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor.

When you remove all the tax havens, Norway has the highest GDP per capita in the world. The U.S. is at number 5. Its average life expectancy is four years longer than in the U.S. On the list of countries with the least corruption, Norway is #4, the U.S. #29. But hey, you do you, Don.

Lord, you people really need to read more books and pay attention to some science. Good luck trying to control how people adopt technology. Ignore the sociotechnical at your own peril. This is not the capitalocene, it's the moronocene.

Come on. This is about as shocking as a supermarket cash register line at 5pm. He was known as 'Lady G' for years in D.C.'s gay scene.

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Ivo Caprino, 1975). Køge Bio, Denmark, sometime in the late 1970s. This stop-motion classic is fantastic, but I was only 5 or 6, so I don't remember much other than becoming entranced by the experience of cinema...and I still am. ESB was my 3rd or 4tth cinema visit, btw.

Cheetolini says he "mandates" that big data centers produce their own power. You can't mandate that, you moron. Only Congress can. And if it leaves us with a majority of off-grid data centers, you'll have cut off one of the few weapons we have against rogue AIs - pulling the plug remotely.

Today is the 40th anniversary of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's criminally overlooked 'Liverpool' album. Someone did a fan remix that removes some of the insanse amounts of reverb Trevor Horn put on when he did the final mix. It makes the songs stand out more, and...er...Frankly, sounds great!

MAKE EAST GERMANY GREAT AGAIN!

Like, A LOT.

In case you were in any doubt that Tommy was a right-wing activist. And unlike the other side, who violently attack opposition activists, El-Sayed actually does the democratic thing and schools him. Persistent non-violence always wins over violence.

Damn right.

Really? You're going for the 'American Gangster' aesthetic? Is this really what you want to be signaling, Secretary Rubio?

Maybe one advantage of the AI boom is that at some point, people will regain enough shame to ask questions like this to a chatbot in private. You know, instead of polluting the public discourse with half-finished thought processes (which is the nicest way I can describe this.)

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

In 1998, I worked one night shift in a 7-Eleven in Copenhagen. It was, however, mostly because I was undercover as a freelance journalist trying to reveal some surveillance and labor malpractices. The magazine that had commissioned the story unfortunately chickened out and never published it.

Although Shannon and I subscribe to two different schools of ethics as ethicists, we both agree that this is unethical. That's how unethical it is.

Is Talerico going to do the U.S. version of Andy Burnham in the UK? Burnham is building a platform on finally disavowing 40-50 years of Thatcherism. Is Talerico ready/brave enough to do the same for Reaganism in the U.S.? It sounds like he's going in that direction.

Day two of owning a flying Tesla Roadster.

Eric Morrison does it again. Watch it all. I'm quite certain you'll agree with his conclusion. Also, the Olahs and Coxons of this world are irrefutable evidence that ageism and youth fixation is not just morally wrong, it also leads to major corporations being represented by social imbeciles.

The responses to this are absolutely hilarious. Well done, Bluesky. (I'm still amazed that nobody thinks about what happens when you turn off the power to the machine running the LLM)

The fundamental epistemic injustice of AI.

Monopoly power and politics of code means Gen Ai makes the user legible without ever becoming legible to the user. (In fact thats AI’s entire value proposition — make know without being known.) Literacy cannot overcome that kind of architecture of secrecy.

I wonder if it can be argued that capital punishment violates the separation of church and state? If consciousness simply ends, no punishment is experienced. You cannot experience a loss of experience. You'd have to believe in an afterlife for CP to be a punishment. Ergo CP is a religious act.

I don't know if it's the depiction of a father-son relationship, the notion of hope as a distant memory, the song's anniversary making me feel old, or just its inherent sadness reflected in the absolute madness and hardship of the times we are living through. But I can't stop crying rn.

1996 Skin and Skunk Anansie have a message for the man who wrote Metallica's anti-war, anti-landmine song 'One': Yes, it's f'n political!

Seriously? He used his spouse's account to ask AI about how to spy? More evidence that many frontier AI developers are total imbeciles when it comes to the world the rest of us live in (see also: Jacob Coxon's The Daily Show interview.) When will CS programs begin taking this problem seriously?

As I have previously mentioned here: NO, you are not seeing less Russian influence bot activity on social media because Ukraine hit a Yandex data center. Unless you live near the datacenter and had your entire Internet connection disrupted. That would bring down the bot activity for you, I guess.

I'll keep whining until Columbia University, Columbia Pictures, Columbus, OH, etc. are renamed after Leif the Lucky. As a reminder, Columbus never even set foot in North America. This is my Viking way of objecting to a day celebrating the beginning of 500 years of European colonialist atrocities.

People are now asking me if it is true that the Ukraine attack on a Yandex center in Russia has caused a drop in bot activity on their favorite platforms. I want to answer "You are a victim of the trope of immateriality! Read up on how data networks work!". But I just choose to sigh and explain.

I just checked Danish news media...and there's nothing about this horror. Maybe it already passed by in the news cycle. But this is definitely taking up any noticeable space in the public discourse there. Which is on brand for the country I grew up in, unfortunately.

Sarah Cooper shows her comedic genius once again

Instead of renaming AI to SI, we should begin describing the products we have as IA: Intelligent Automation. That's much closer to what they actually do and it implies that a human is still the initiator. (And the French could change their current IA term to AI)

Listen to women of color. They have known intersectional oppression their entire lives and thus have the sharpest injustice radars of us all. It's not coincidental that those of them who are also AI experts now say, in unison, that AI doomer rhetoric is a distraction from real injustice.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Hey, don't forget co-writer Shmargaret Shmitchell! (Whenever I tell my students about this paper, I point to with @mmitchell.bsky.social to show how great brains can have great senses of humor, but also to set the baseline for the power Google wielded (poorly) in firing @timnitgebru.blacksky.app)

This is what standing up to soft oppression looks like. May everyone find the courage to do what @ruha9.bsky.social did in similar situations. Thank you, Prof. Benjamin. (Seriously, F*** those guys)

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Anything Sun-ha Hong writes is worth reading. Go take a look.

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...