Johan Pelck Olsen
jpkolsen.bsky.social
Johan Pelck Olsen
@jpkolsen.bsky.social

Software/data engineer in bioindustrial research. Posting mostly in Danish and mostly about politics and tech.

Not a fan of platforms owned by billionaires (fool me once…), so I would actually prefer to follow you on Mastodon.

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Johan Peder Olsen is a Norwegian political scientist, and professor emeritus in political science at the University of Bergen, known for his work on new institutionalism.

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En kort #introduktion: Jeg er biokemiker af uddannelse, software-udvikler af profession og er her mest af alt for at følge de folk der ikke migrerede til Mastodon dengang Musk overtog Twitter. Jeg er her mest for #dkpol og #dkmedier
I overmorgen sker det ... Juleaften!

Og tanken om at skulle stege 3,5 kg fugl, en flæskesteg, balancere to kartofler, hvoraf den ene skal dækkes af karamel, lave sauce og tilmed holde rødkålen varm imens, kan give sved på overlæben.

Derfor kommer her en logistisk hjælpetråd til din julemiddag:

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Den 22. december fylder Informations mangeårige klummeskribent og tidligere chefredaktør Georg Metz 80 år. I den anledning bringer vi et interview af ham fra 2021.

www.information.dk/kultur/2021/...

Ouch

User picture checks out
🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨

From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.

Who will win? You decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final

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€85 billion for 9.9 GW is €8,600 per kW. But that excludes financing cost during the lengthy construction. That will be subsidised by the French state in this case, but it obscures the comparison with other power generation technologies.

Oh, and final investment decision is only due next year.
“The mind-set shift needed here is to acknowledge that while climate change is real and harmful, the utility of fossil fuels is not something the oil and gas industry tricked the public into,” Matthew Yglesias writes.
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Do. Why Don’t Democrats?
Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.
nyti.ms
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.

Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'

None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.

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“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…”

TLDR: It was never about drugs

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Der er gode grunde til, at Palæstina igen er på dagsordenen i EU-parlamentet i næste uge. Israel fortsætter nemlig med at fordrive og forfølge palæstinenserne på vestbredden, dræbe palæstinensere i Gaza, angribe Libanon og Syrien.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland
Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers
www.theguardian.com

Gad vide om hun også kæmper i december?

… I mean how would I know to mix glue in the formula?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

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Latest Levada Russia poll: Do you think we should continue military operations or begin peace talks?

26% continue military operations
65% begin peace talks

Biggest gap so far.

Perhaps Trump should ask Putin why he's ignoring what his people want.

www.levada.ru/2025/12/04/k...
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

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As @garymarcus.bsky.social has long argued: LLMs fundamentally don't know what's true or false. Hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a feature. Google has bet its business on technology that guesses what is most likely true or false for you, instead of sending you off to find truth for yourself.

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This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.

This is a GOOSEFISH.

This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.

It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.

fullfact.org/online/tasse...

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Vi ser på jer, #dkpol, danske medier og danske myndigheder!!

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⚡We can now reveal that Israels biggest weapons firm, Elbit Systems, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal 👇
www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contr...
www.ftm.eu
The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:

HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?

In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
Just a little reminder:

Elon Musk is lying to you.

He bends when asked to, and the fine X received from the EU has nothing to do with censorship.

Musk simply refuses to follow laws and be transparent, and he gets a tiny fine for it

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𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐋Æ𝐆𝐄𝐁𝐄𝐒Ø𝐆 𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄

Løhdes tandlægeforslag ville have kostet mig ca 2.000 kroner i 2025, hvis man i min alder ville have fået et offentligt tilskud på 750 kroner.

Værs’go fra folkepensionisten med de gamle tænder til de raske med pæne lønninger.
Regeringen vil give gratis tandlægebesøg til alle
Politisk udspil skal få flere til at lægge sig i tandlægestolen ved at give ét gratis tandlægetjek om året.
www.dr.dk

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Så er der valgflæsk!
@sophieloehde.venstre.dk deler ud...
Alle skal have tilskud til årligt tandeftersyn
Men regeringen har ingen penge med
Tilskuddet til voksentandplejen - voksne med dårlige tænder (læs: socialt udsatte) skal finansiere.
Dem der har skal gives #dkpol
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Regeringen vil give gratis tandlægebesøg til alle
Politisk udspil skal få flere til at lægge sig i tandlægestolen ved at give ét gratis tandlægetjek om året.
www.dr.dk

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Man skal sgu være mere end rablende ligeglad med alt og alting hvis man kan finde på at købe en Tesla…

Det her shit er ikke for sjov!!!

#dkpol

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Kan oplyse, at jeg ikke er blevet fejlciteret
»Nu har jeg arbejdet med dyreetik i 25 år, og jeg er endnu ikke stødt på en velbegrundet etisk teori, som på nogen måde kan forsvare det, der foregår i den intensive animalske produktion«.

- Mickey Gjerris
@mickeygjerris.bsky.social

🎁
»Den eneste vej« til bedre dyrevelfærd er end ikke på tale i Bruxelles
Der kommer kun bedre dyrevelfærd i landbruget, hvis antallet af dyr reduceres, lyder kritikken. En ny landbrugsstøtte kunne skubbe på i den retning, men EU-toppen afviser.
politiken.dk

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some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

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I assumed the NSS would just ignore/deprioritize Europe (It did that on defense/NATO).

But the actual message was: Europe matters to us, we must save it from itself, the EU and its wokeness. Thus, the USG is going all in on foreign interference to help the far-right win a civilizational war.
a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .
media.tenor.com

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Er der nogen som kan sende mig linkene til den danske mediedækning af den nye amerikanske sikkerhedsstrategi? Kan ikke lige finde den.
Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

De største modeller vi ser i dag bliver aldrig rentable. De skal være markant bedre eller markant billigere og lige nu ser det ikke ud til at skalering opnår det første mens det er decideret kontraproduktivt ifht. det sidste