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PG Holmlov
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 16m
När hon fick klart för sig vad hon skulle få i allmän pension, 18 000 kronor i månaden före skatt, insåg hon att hon behövde fatta en rad beslut… hon fick arbeta kvar längre än hon tänkt… flytta från sin gamla bostad till en mindre med billigare avgift arbetet.se/2025/10/13/b...
Anette fick flytta 15 mil för att ha råd att gå i pension
68-åriga barnmorskan Anette Segerblad har 50 år inom vården bakom sig.
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Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 5h
Är man gammal nog att sitta i fängelse är man gammal nog att få köra bil. Sänk körkortsåldern till 13!
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booqatana @joqatana.bsky.social · 5d
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They called me mad! Bastard @madbastard-v2.bsky.social · 5d
Wow, half a million cars?

That's way out of whack considering there are only *checks notes* 298.7 million cars registered in the United States alone.

Or, in other words, inhalers that many people need to live are 0.16% of the problem that cars are.

Damn, when you put it like that.....
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CNN @cnn.com · 6d
The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh
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CNN @cnn.com · 6d
The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5d
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h
My corgi Clyde has selected his outfit for #NoKings Day.

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Anna W Gustafsson @annilina.bsky.social · 2h
Ja för all del: stäng av mikrofonerna för alla utom den som talar men ännu viktigare: inför ett VAR-team som faktacheckar debatterna, bryt for rättelser under pågående debatt. Uppenbara lögner, där det finns tydliga rätt och fel: gult kort. Ska det vara ett spel behövs spelregler och domare.
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NikaaaAAAAHH 🎃 👻 @mxnectarine.bsky.social · Mar 29
Jag vill inte ha en remake på Saltkråkan, jag vill ha en prequel till Karlsson på Taket där man får veta under vilka omänskliga former han får propellern
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 1h
The Nordic countries are not only post cash, we are post cards too.

We realised on the way to the airport in Iceland that we forgot to bring any credit cards (because we never use them) and five days later it turns out that we don’t need them in Sweden or Denmark either, phones are enough 👌🏼
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies while marginalising alternative ways of knowing… the languages considered ‘low-resource’, spoken by hundreds of millions… When a language becomes marginalised, the knowledge embedded within it often disappears aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
…the decline in tariff rates over 90 years had been achieved through negotiations, in which the U.S. and other nations agreed not to backtrack on tariff reductions… Now Trump is learning, to his obvious shock, that other nations can also play trade hardball paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
How Trump Is Making China Great
Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
… down there, mountains are sea mounts… It’s really quite astonishing that less than a decade ago, this single piece of data analysis discovered almost twice as many sea mounts as there are mountains in Switzerland everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-mounta...
The Mountains At The Bottom Of The World - 1: Massif Attack
A two-parter on the world's longest mountain range (no, not *that* one).
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 2h
Overall, only about one in eight of the papers received any media attention at all… Of the 129,000 studies that did garner coverage, men-led papers were found to receive more attention overall and were heavily overrepresented in the top 5% of most covered studies www.science.org/content/arti...
When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow
Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 2h
They all asked, “How did you find out?” And Mary was telling, “I found out because this random AP photographer knocked on our door in the middle of the night”… It was a lot of fun for me to be able to watch someone who had no clue that this was even a possibility www.science.org/content/arti...
What’s it like to tell someone she won a Nobel Prize?
Science chats with photographer Lindsey Wasson, who captured how Nobel winner Mary Brunkow reacted to life-changing news
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump: "We're not gonna go into a war. But if we do, we're going to win that war like nobody has ever won a war before. We will not be politically correct."
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 2h
Where I grew up, that word alone – ain’t – could mark you as someone who’d never get out… the British accent wasn’t just smoothing over. It was a whole other identity, a cocoon of fantasy so complete I felt protected inside it… The absurdity was part of the thrill psyche.co/turning-poin...
How my fake accent became a full-blown identity experiment | Psyche Turning points
When I spoke like someone I wasn’t, people listened more closely. What did that say about them – and me?
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 3h
…women’s relative longevity may derive, in part, from having double X chromosomes, that protects them against harmful mutations… most mammals are like humans, with the females of nearly three-fourths of mammal species outliving their male counterparts www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Why do women outlive men? A study of 1,176 species points to an answer.
A growing body of evidence suggests that women’s relative longevity may be linked to having double X chromosomes.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 3h
I would sometimes hire someone and tell them the kind of figures I wanted made. It would take days or weeks for them to get back, but now I have a much faster research assistant who understands instructions better than any human and completes tasks in seconds www.richardhanania.com/p/how-ai-mad...
How AI Made Me 33% More Productive
Taking the grunt work out of writing
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 9h
If you compare the cost of solar or batteries between China and the U.S., people always point to labor costs… even more important is they’ve heavily invested in automation. The number of workers per [battery produced] is about six times lower than in the U.S. e360.yale.edu/features/han...
This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight
Countries are falling short on reducing emissions, but British data scientist Hannah Ritchie looks at the numbers and sees the world making real gains on climate change. In an interview, she talks abo...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 9h
Later, ICE transferred the group of carpenters to a maximum-security prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, where there were more than 300 inmates serving sentences for various crimes such as robbery, rape, and homicide www.texasobserver.org/brazilian-ca...
A Brazilian Carpenter's 51-Day Detention Journey from Vermont to Texas
“On the first day, I thought they had picked me up by mistake..."
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 9h
…birds from locations spanning Australia, China and Zambia use the same call to identify their parasites, despite never into contact with each other… even if the call is coming from different species on different continents, they instinctively investigate www.birds.cornell.edu/home/vocal-w...
Birds’ Vocal Warnings Provide New Insight Into the Origins of Language
Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal warning to identify parasitic enemies near their nests, an international team o...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 10h
…a CEO complaining that the cost of acquiring a customer had gone from $13 to $250 over ten years, due to higher prices on Instagram and the inability of any other ad platform to offer comparable results… “everybody’s margin becoming Facebook’s profits” www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Will the Trade War Pop the AI Bubble?
Tech monopolies have created an AI bubble that could take down the economy. China just threatened to pop it. What happens now? Plus, the Pope dons his anti-monopoly hat, and more.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 10h
”You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music... AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past”… daughters watching their fathers’ legacies puppeteered for viral content nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/the-reckon...
The Reckoning: Sora 2 and the Year We Said Enough
"Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"
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