Per Widén
@perwiden.bsky.social
Idéhistoriker, Konstvetare, Pappa. Gift med världens bästa enligt min fru. En av huvudkällorna till Wikipedias artikel om marsvin.
Ny bok i december 2025: Att skapa en patriotisk historia.
Ny bok i december 2025: Att skapa en patriotisk historia.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
För den som vill se innehållet hänvisas till: www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.j...
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Jag vet inte hur det är med de andra högstatustidskrifterna, men allt som publiceras i Nature numera bör nog anses som skräp? Peer review-funktionen har uppenbart helt upphört att fungera och redaktörerna har lämnat skeppet.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Jag vet inte hur det är med de andra högstatustidskrifterna, men allt som publiceras i Nature numera bör nog anses som skräp? Peer review-funktionen har uppenbart helt upphört att fungera och redaktörerna har lämnat skeppet.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
Det här blir en intressant utlysning och tjänst att följa! Hoppas det blir många bra sökande!
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www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Professor in Digital Art History - Uppsala University
Professor in Digital Art History, Department of Art History, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Det här blir en intressant utlysning och tjänst att följa! Hoppas det blir många bra sökande!
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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This. The enshittification of Google is not really helpful for users.
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This. The enshittification of Google is not really helpful for users.
Techmiljardärernas självbild som genier är verkligen helt rubbad. Thiel har byggt ett betalsystem på nätet och ett system för att analysera stora mängder information. Kompetent ingenjörsarbete får man anta, men knappast så mycket mer. Zuckerberg byggde en glorifierad databas.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Techmiljardärernas självbild som genier är verkligen helt rubbad. Thiel har byggt ett betalsystem på nätet och ett system för att analysera stora mängder information. Kompetent ingenjörsarbete får man anta, men knappast så mycket mer. Zuckerberg byggde en glorifierad databas.
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“They asked too many [x] and not enough historians“ seems to be a chronic problem
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“They asked too many [x] and not enough historians“ seems to be a chronic problem
Jag saknar förstås en del av kontexten här, men Venedigbienallen kommer bli, eh, intressant nästa år.
never been happier not to be related to someone. allen's ethical hollowness is slightly a surprise. curator uslip, not so much. the sponsoring organization is a mar-a-lago socialite pop-up.
If there ever was a time for Jeff Koons...his giant Christmas tree ornaments could have gone straight from Gagosian to the pavilion.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Jag saknar förstås en del av kontexten här, men Venedigbienallen kommer bli, eh, intressant nästa år.
Inte ens sånt som LLM:er skulle kunna tänkas vara bra för är de bra för. Tvärtom faktiskt. Tråd! 🧵
Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Inte ens sånt som LLM:er skulle kunna tänkas vara bra för är de bra för. Tvärtom faktiskt. Tråd! 🧵
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Max this thread up hundredfold for the practice of research and writing in the humanities. 1/2
Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Max this thread up hundredfold for the practice of research and writing in the humanities. 1/2
Igår kväll när jag gick och lade mig bredvid den småfebriga snart fyraåringen petade jag undan hans ben som stack ut tvärs över sängen… Plötsligt öppnade han ögonen och stirrade på mig och sa: ”Du! Det var DU som gjorde det!” Sen la han ner huvudet på kudden igen och somnade om.
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Igår kväll när jag gick och lade mig bredvid den småfebriga snart fyraåringen petade jag undan hans ben som stack ut tvärs över sängen… Plötsligt öppnade han ögonen och stirrade på mig och sa: ”Du! Det var DU som gjorde det!” Sen la han ner huvudet på kudden igen och somnade om.
Det här är ett väldigt spännande projekt!
How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Det här är ett väldigt spännande projekt!
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Aliens and the End of Philosophy -
existentialcomics.com/comic/630
existentialcomics.com/comic/630
Aliens and the End of Philosophy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Aliens and the End of Philosophy -
existentialcomics.com/comic/630
existentialcomics.com/comic/630
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Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.
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mixing cassis with the communion wine and calling it a kirie eleison
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
mixing cassis with the communion wine and calling it a kirie eleison
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
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I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
Lunglav!
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Lunglav!
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Åker runt med lillen på olika badhus och idag var det dags för denna otroliga funkisdröm:
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Åker runt med lillen på olika badhus och idag var det dags för denna otroliga funkisdröm:
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Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
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There was an AI from Nantucket,
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
There was an AI from Nantucket,
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
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Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.