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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 45m

Audiences were unenthusiastic, and it flopped at the box office… Fifty years later, the film is now seen in a completely different light. Barry Lyndon is now unanimously recognized as a masterpiece and for many it is Kubrick’s best film english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

NASA, the IRA and a nervous breakdown: The making of ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Stanley Kubrick’s most underrated film

The historical drama starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson returns to theaters 50 years after an opening as tumultuous as its production

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 48m

We do not need to know that there are over 10,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, many of whom are children… We do not need to know that torture and sexual abuse of these prisoners is well-documented and pervasive www.bostonreview.net/articles/can...

Can Anyone Hear Me? - Boston Review

Palestinians are only allowed to exist if we don’t cause discomfort for those who seek to erase us.

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h

Powerful AI models are just getting better at doing what you ask or even figuring out what you want… my concern is the burden of articulation with LLMs, explaining what you want in a clear and substantive way, was a necessary condition for responsible use of LLMs markcarrigan.net/2025/08/30/l...

LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

This is a concise summary by Ethan Mollick of what I increasingly see as a key factor driving the evolution of consumer-facing LLMs: Using AI well used to be a pretty challenging process which invo…

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h

If there is a negative association between the placebo effect and the treatment effect, the actual treatment effect for those who actually require treatment can be both substantially larger and more heterogeneous than the headline results suggest jacoldsm.substack.com/p/why-might-...

Why might effect sizes be so small?

Here’s a typical abstract for a study of a drug that everyone knows works:

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h

When an argument is valid, it means that, if its premises were true, then its conclusion would have to be true… An argument might be valid even when one of its premises is questionable… you need clarity about what its words and premises actually mean psyche.co/guides/how-t...

How to check if an argument is valid | Psyche Guides

In logic, validity is prime. If you want to make valid arguments, or sniff out invalid ones, here’s what you need to do

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Abdi Hassan @abdihassan.bsky.social · 4h

Återigen en anmärkningsvärd publicering av Expressen som hänger ut enskilda demonstranter med namn och sammankopplar dem på vaga grunder med terrorism. Samtliga i 20-års åldern (två stycken tidiga dessutom) och inte makthavare i övrigt. Vinkeln är inte ens att Vänsterpartiet syns med dem.

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 6h

Slutar inte fascineras över åhörarnas blickar när jag berättar om skolkoncernernas kopplingar till regeringen. Folk har ingen aning, trots att allt är taget från öppna källor. Det är som att jag släpper en bomb över dem. Hur har media/vi alla kunnat misslyckas så med att berätta om den här saken?

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h

I’m being dragged into a sea of people who start thumping my head, screaming, trying to rip me limb from limb. They’re fighting over me. Cursing and whistling all around… after a struggle, the Hamas terrorists drag me, and quickly smuggle me into a building time.com/7322015/eli-...

I Spent 491 Days as a Hostage of Hamas. This Is My Story

“I brace myself for total darkness, for the Hamas tunnels I’ve seen on TV, the ones we’ve all heard about”

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h

Epoch AI, a think-tank focusing on AI trends, has suggested economy growth rates exceeding 20% a year… At such rates the economy would double in size three times a decade; children would grow up to be about 500 times richer than their parents timharford.com/2025/10/if-a...

If AI lifts off, will living standards follow?

Once artificial intelligence really gets going, how fast can the economy grow? Five per cent a year? Ten per cent? Fifty per cent? Name your number. If you want press coverage, make it a big one. A…

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 2h

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of settling the red planet can stop there… Would you like to simulate life on Mars?… lock yourself inside your freezer… people on the outside may deliver food to you no sooner than nine months after you ask for it defector.com/neither-elon...

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

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Minister för Popmusik och Skörlevnad @pappahutten.bsky.social · 2d

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 2h

An ICE agent had accompanied deported immigrants to more than fifty countries… A rooftop sniper had had “amazing experiences in foreign countries”… The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol... newsletter

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice

Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 6h

Faculty could be working with students to use AI for discovery, explore frontier problems, test hypotheses… Instead, students are using AI for homework avoidance… The entire undergraduate structure is calibrated for a steady, predictable trot hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...

The Faculty are Riding Horses

What the Nobel Prize Winners Might Say About That

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 14h

This. And this again.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 8h

Insomnia sent me down a whole rabbit hole of wikipedia and Youtube and I ended up seeing a young Jodie Foster being asked in an interview, "How did you know how to play a prostitute at 12??" and her response is just like, well, I didn't, so I started with the idea that she was a person.

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 8h

While the model is uncertain whether it’s covariate 1 or covariate 2 or a combination of them that does the heavy lifting, this uncertainty actually doesn’t matter for the rest of the model. That’s because when one of the covariates goes up, the other one does so, too www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Corrigendum: There was an embarrassing mistake in the SEM part of the original version of this blog post which has now been fixed. Many thanks to David Kenny for catching it! Scroll to the very end if...

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 8h

Estonian authorities shut down a stretch of road that passes through Russian territory… The guard service said on October 10 that a larger-than-normal group of masked, camouflaged Russian soldiers had been sighted along the road www.rferl.org/a/estonia-ru...

Estonia Closes Border Road After Unusual Appearance of Russian Soldiers

Estonian authorities shut down a stretch of road that passes through Russian territory after an unusually large group of Russian soldiers appeared on the road last week.

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SVT Nyheter @svtnyheter.bsky.social · 9h

Jimmie Åkesson kräver Jon Dahl Tomassons avgång
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Jimmie Åkesson kräver Jon Dahl Tomassons avgång

SD-ledaren Jimmie Åkesson kräver förbundskapten Jon Dahl Tomassons avgång efter Sveriges VM-kvalfiasko.

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 8h

Globalisation wasn’t just about opening up more cheap labour markets - it was about creating supply chains with hyper specialisations… Only when those supply chains are prodded and bent, as they are now, do we begin to learn how they actually function edconway.substack.com/p/the-rare-e...

The Rare Earths crisis and what it teaches us

How much of a big deal is China's latest salvo in the global trade war? And will it backfire?

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Tobias @toebias.bsky.social · 15h

Patient som inte haft råd att köpa mediciner hittad i dåligt skick utomhus. Ebba och Uffe som genomfört den politiken väljer att fokusera på kvinnors klädsel, avstängda SVT-mikrofoner och kanelbullens dag

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 9h

Warm-water corals… provide food and income to more than a billion people… “The marine heat wave hit 80% of the world's warm-water coral reefs with the worst bleaching event on record”… ”We do not have the capacities to address the cascading effects of tipping points” www.404media.co/earths-clima...

Earth’s Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a ‘New Reality’

The second Global Tipping Points Report warns that the world has crossed a key threshold as ocean heat devastates warm-water reefs.

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Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 10h

Det är ingen journalist som pratat om konstig stämning på regeringens presskonferenser där dom pratar om människor som boskap och hot mot civilisationen? Kanske upplevs det som normalt, så att ingen dålig stämning uppstår.

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 10h

AI is not just in a bubble, but one 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble, even four times bigger than the 2008 global real-estate bubble… LLMs cost an exponentially larger amount to train each generation, with a rapidly diminishing gain in accuracy www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 10h

…the bodies in most anatomical images were not volunteers… Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy was created during the Nazi regime, with at least 1,300 bodies of Jewish prisoners, Roma, queer individuals and political dissidents theconversation.com/the-dark-his...

The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent

Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 10h

Sweden’s foreign ministry did not respond in 1967. But IM… delivered blankets, clothing, 100 tons of wheat flour, powdered milk, food supplies, primus stoves, and kitchen utensils — including the now-legendary Skultuna pots, a brand dating back to 1607 theconversation.com/the-cooking-...

The cooking pot that became a symbol of Sweden’s commitment to helping Palestine

Many Skultuna cookpots survive in the kitchens of Palestinians, keeping alive the memory of Swedish friendship at a time of dire need.

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