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Human being. Curious. Nerd. Trains. Railways. Society. Democracy. Digital.
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In an economy where everything has to turn a profit on a 24 hour basis no one has time to care about the future… even if the future is next week.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Brooding gulls across, across the yard.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Regeringen tar gärna åt sig äran av skapade jobb men låter små kommuner med svagt skatteunderlag stå ensamma med hela risken. Hela Sverige ska leva? www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Detta kallas politisk prioritering: underlätta för flyget men belägga tågtrafiken med så höga banavgifter att även verksamheter med räls fram till dörren tvingas välja lastbil, av ekonomiska skäl. www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Do not get fooled by the ’we just want to protect the women’ talk. To longtermists and evangelicals both a woman has one single use: as a breeder.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Took the long way to the grocery after work.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

At what point do civil servants such as myself cease to serve the people, turning instead into enablers of a would-be fascist state? And is that worse than spending ones’ life trying to drive engagement with a shopping platform or a betting site? Watching Andor surely triggers the old grey matter.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Första steget på vägen mot det egentliga målet: beröva obekväma medborgare medborgarskapet, även om man fötts med det och inte har något annat? Obefogad oro? Se hur fort verkligheten förändrades i USA och tänk en gång till. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

When someone makes a detailed analogy between digital infrastructure and railway dito that is wrong on every point made and you just take a deep breath and back out of the room…

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

On the road again, and this time on rail, not tarmac 👍 The engine switches direction in Boden, which is what is happening in the picture.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This what happens when we champion productivity over quality: when bait to lure in viewers to the ads are more important than the actual content. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

’Artificial intelligence’ do not exist: it’s only the current incarnation of the STEM True Believers faction trying to find god in the machine, a straight line from the late 17th century proto-scientists trying to get closer to god by getting a glimpse of the divine design.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

In our hearts we all know the truth: being super-fast at making complex statistical computations does not equal intelligence, and it certainly is no substitute for wisdom or experience. #ai #artificialintelligence

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

One more day of ’I can’t understand /insert your choice of scientific field/ and therefore my opinion has more value than peer reviewed research (and if you try to convince me otherwise you’re a SJW who hates free speech)’ arguments. WTF is wrong with people?!

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Tech is neither good nor bad. It’s how we use it, and that’s on us. Hand over the power to profiteers, exploiters, snake oil men? Or look at society, at the most vulnerable, saying that only when everyone has a good life is life, and society, good? Your choice. Every day.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

If anyone would like to know how far until rhubarb in Norrbotten, this is the answer. Still sub-zero at night.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

If the surveillance state it is at all possible, and only hindered by law and/or tradition, it will happen. Only way to make it NOT happen is to make it very hard, i.e. make design choices that fx keeps data spaces separate and incompatible.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

In full bloom, even though the day is grey. #magnolia #kungsholmen #spring

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

This here is one important signal. Corporate nation states are about to be born, with the current US regime acting as midwife, and with Europe watching, fingers crossed that it’ll turn our to be a bad dream only. Now is not a time for passivity. #thefutureisnow www.linkedin.com/posts/bryson...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

At least spring is coming.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

It used to go ’if you’re not paying for it you are the product’. Nowdays you’re not only the product: you pay to work on a product which you then pay to use, so that you can be the product. #feedingthemachine #infiniteloop #llm #degenerativeai

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

”There's a crack in everything: that's how the light gets in.” /Leonard Cohen, the song Anthem, from the album The Future (1992)

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The computer has ’disappeared’ the operational model and the production line, hidden it behind the anonymous, one-dimensional, screen. And thus a lot of knowledge and agency was lost.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

A law without a sanction is a suggestion, not a law. We are now learning the consequences of that. Fast and hard.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Blown away. Cold and windy.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

And as for Canada, so for the entirety of the EU and the EES. The step prior to oblivion is ubiquity, but do we still have the power to get away? #technofeudalism #nationalsovereignty #personalautonomy #democracy

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Honest question. Is unhindered logarithmic growth really the only valid mode of existence for human society?

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

I asked Le Chat how it had been instructed to answer questions. Talk about a non-answer designed to fool anyone trained not to think critically. #ai #criticalthinking #lechat

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments