PG Holmlov
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 2m
”AI is just math” is already some bullshit I hear from certain quarters in ed-tech and beyond who balk at anyone's opposition to AI – which is sorta like saying Zyklon B was ”just chemistry”… AI will, however, be weaponized – it is already 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-prime-di...
The Prime Directive
Over a decade ago, at the height of the MOOC madness, many people crowed excitedly about "the end of college" – not because the various technologies they believed would enable this were any good (by "...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 9m
I
slept alone and dreamed
of you in an old house
back home among
your country people,
among the dead, not
any living one besides
yourself. I woke
scared by the gasping
of a wild one, scared
by my own breath, and
slowly calmed
remembering your weight
beside me poets.org/poem/breath-0
Breath
Who hears the humming / of rocks at great height, / the long steady drone
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 13m
Dated to about 1.95 million years ago, the skeletons suggest Australopithecus coexisted with Paranthropus and Homo, all living at more or less the same time… Baker argues the hominins likely saw one another and recognized they were different folk www.science.org/content/arti...
Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete?
The world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, in South Africa, poses a 2-million-year-old riddle of coexistence
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 23m
“I was shocked to find out… ‘you pull somebody over and they drive away and you can't pursue them?’… And they said ‘no, we can't’. We got that rule changed in 24 hours because of President Trump. The next night they had so much fun. They pulled people over” www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 28m
…it was a ridiculous situation. Employees of the federal government felt so threatened that they were turning to a random journalist in Brooklyn with a website she published herself… I realized how much it said about the state of our media institutions www.thehandbasket.co/p/grennell-c...
Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime
My full remarks to students and faculty at Grinnell College.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 58m
By early 2023, Moscow had quietly constructed a complex ecosystem of learning… the military is institutionalizing its knowledge… The result has been new tactics on the battlefield and better weapons… Ukraine is likely to face even greater destruction www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...
How Russia Recovered
What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
Skådespelaren Matthew McConaughey satt på en regnig uteservering och menade att hans AI-assistent minsann hade förstått att boka ett bord åt honom inomhus. Som att verkligheten kryllar av kypare som mer än gärna placerar sina gäster ute i ösregn www.arbetsvarlden.se/kronikor/jag...
Jag har börjat fantisera om Handelshögskolans rektor
Jag vill så gärna tro på Lars Strannegårds fantasier. Att vi skulle avstå det "lurendrejeri och lättja" som AI erbjuder, skriver Lotta Ilona Häyrynen.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
Om vår obror Bror Thorén är Joakim von Anka, är Michael Enghag – en av tre ägare i Hagvidssons förskolor – kung Midas. Bokstavligt talat… Hagvidssons förskolor har i snitt 20 procent utbildad personal men gick 30 miljoner plus förra året www.gp.se/kultur-noje/...
Friskolorna har förvandlat våra barn till enarmade banditer
Joakim von Anka-typer suger pengar ur systemet som ens fulla farbror brukade suga hjärnan ur kräftorna, skriver Marcus Berggren.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
Carl Öhman jämför AI-systemen med gudar. Enligt honom är de nämligen, precis som gudar, en sorts personifierade sammansmältningar av samhällets samlade kunskap och auktoritet… det är vi som lämnar över makten över våra liv, vårt mod, tro, och i slutändan oss själva www.uu.se/nyheter/2025...
”Vi köper trygghet från maskinerna” - Uppsala universitet
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
The website for Eyes Up which functions essentially the same way is still available. The site includes a map with dots that visitors can click on, which then plays a video from that location. Users are able to submit their own videos for inclusion www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
…the Bank of England’s financial policy committee warned… “market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on artificial intelligence… MIT showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from investments in generative AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
How to Keep Audio in Your AirPods
Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
Tap General.
Select AirPlay & Continuity.
Toggle on Keep Audio with Headphones… The feature also works with other wireless headphones, plus it's useful beyond in-car scenarios www.macrumors.com/how-to/ios-k...
iOS 26: Keep AirPods Connected When You Get in Your Car
If you wear AirPods during your commute but don't want your podcast or music suddenly blasting through the car speakers when you start the...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1h
Frog worked hard. He raked the leaves into a pile. Soon Toad’s lawn was clean. Frog picked up his rake and started home.

Toad pushed and pulled on the rake. He raked the leaves into a pile. Soon there was not a single leaf in Frog’s front yard. Toad took his rake and started home.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 1h
linguistic and cultural tools normalize the unthinkable… fundamental questions about the sustainability of democratic governance when substantial portions of the population have a direct economic interest in the perpetuation of war crimes and other abuses www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...
The Economics of Complicity - The Ideas Letter
The dramatic evolution of Israeli reservists from unprecedented protest before the October 7 attacks to near-total compliance with the Netanyahu administration’s campaign in Gaza cannot be explained b...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 3h
…teams and fans will have to rely primarily on air travel… the most pollutive transportation… the increase in road traffic is expected to be so great it will contribute to making this World Cup the most polluting ever. Public transportation options remain a major concern www.dw.com/en/will-the-...
Will the 2026 World Cup be a disaster for fans? – DW – 10/08/2025
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is set to be the most expensive, polluting and political yet.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 3h
”Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump wrote on social media. The Chicago mayor signed an executive order creating an ICE Free Zone that prohibits federal immigration agents from using city property www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 3h
This morning, Trump’s social media account posted: “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice [sic] Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” But Pritzker is standing up… “His masked agents already are grabbing people… for ‘how they look’” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-8-...
October 8, 2025
Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 3h
I will never compete with AI in word count or response time. But I will keep saying, “Tell me more about that…” … What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h
This is truly horrifying.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 13h
Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.
A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 4h
“We didn’t use to have 25 healthy, engaged years after 50 where people still need to work given the financial setup—and still want to contribute”… Our career systems, pension models, and corporate mindsets ignore our stretched lifespans laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/rethinking...
Rethinking work and HR for 100-year lives
Laetitia@Work #86
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 13h
Hockney depicted the couple in their living room, sitting in matching chairs… The foreground is filled by a large, low table set with stacks of books and a fruit bowl. The pieces of fruit are almost luminous in the west coast sunshine www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days
It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Backardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sitt...
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 13h
The atrocities of October 7 and their horrific and detailed documentation, ubiquitously disseminated on traditional and social media, have created a nation stuck in a loop, unable to move on, largely unable to acknowledge all the horrific things it has done since theconversation.com/october-7-tw...
October 7 two years on: Israelis and Palestinians caught between two conflicting ideas of peace
Voices from the victims of the Hamas-Israel war on both sides.
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 14h
…the model worked despite its apparent simplicity. The scientists had intentionally left out many factors… when ecologists try to add greater complexity to their models, they’re often no longer able to predict how the system will behave www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...
The Math of Climate Change Tipping Points | Quanta Magazine
Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 14h
In many moments, death was closer to me than my breath. Each time I escaped death, I wondered: “Am I really lucky that I survived?” Then I quickly remembered that I am in a city besieged by death from every direction, harvesting souls every second continent.substack.com/p/i-hold-my-...
I hold my phone in one hand and my heart in the other
"While international law and the Geneva Conventions stipulate the protection of journalists, the mark we carry – the word “Press” – has become a target instead of protection."
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