Valdemar Baes Aaholst
@aaholst.bsky.social
Msc. student in sociology and pol sci research assistant at Uni. of Copenhagen. Internet culture. Communication and media. Politics, bureaucracy, and state power. And digital methods. Also on Twitter (@vald0506) and Mastodon (@aaholst@sciences.social).
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance.
Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger.
Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.
Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger.
Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.
BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance.
Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger.
Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.
Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger.
Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.
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Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
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Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
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So many universities that today are greenlighting intellectual property theft just years ago were punishing their own students for similar actions
lsureveille.com/187594/news/...
lsureveille.com/187594/news/...
May 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
So many universities that today are greenlighting intellectual property theft just years ago were punishing their own students for similar actions
lsureveille.com/187594/news/...
lsureveille.com/187594/news/...
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How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️
www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...
www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...
May 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️
www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...
www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...
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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
March 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
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Jeg har ikke abonnement på Børsen og kender derfor ikke detaljerne, men det her lyder lovende. Rigspolitiet er en af de danske myndigheder, der aktivt betaler Elon Musk for et guld-flueben. Fornuftigt, hvis man nu tager det op til revision.
February 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Jeg har ikke abonnement på Børsen og kender derfor ikke detaljerne, men det her lyder lovende. Rigspolitiet er en af de danske myndigheder, der aktivt betaler Elon Musk for et guld-flueben. Fornuftigt, hvis man nu tager det op til revision.
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"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal"
Disagree: 71%
Agree: 9%
Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077
Disagree: 71%
Agree: 9%
Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077
January 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal"
Disagree: 71%
Agree: 9%
Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077
Disagree: 71%
Agree: 9%
Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077
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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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A clear practical guide.
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A clear practical guide.
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Tak for opbakningen til Lidl. Stærkt at gå forrest og tage del i ansvaret for en røg- og nikotinfri fremtid 💪Vi håber flere følger trop #dkpol #sundpol via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
Lidl bakker op om Lægeforeningens nye forslag til udfasning af nikotin og tobak | Lidl Danmark
Lidl har allerede taget markante skridt mod udfasning af tobak og nikotin i kædens butikker og vil inden udgangen af 2028 stoppe salget helt. Derfor er Lidl meget positive over for Lægeforeningens nye...
via.ritzau.dk
January 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Tak for opbakningen til Lidl. Stærkt at gå forrest og tage del i ansvaret for en røg- og nikotinfri fremtid 💪Vi håber flere følger trop #dkpol #sundpol via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
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Sociologists & Philosophers trolling again by trying to play the science card. What's next in their survey? "In a scale 1-5, how much do you agree that global warming is caused by the increase of temperature" 🤔🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤯??? #AcademicSky 🧪⚛️🌎⚒️🎢
A group of philosophers and sociologists have come up with the idea to regularly poll scientists in order to establish and maintain a “scientific consensus.” While this might sound plausible, it’s a terrible idea. Here’s why.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zucX...
Sociologists Want to Establish Scientific Consensus
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Sociologists & Philosophers trolling again by trying to play the science card. What's next in their survey? "In a scale 1-5, how much do you agree that global warming is caused by the increase of temperature" 🤔🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤯??? #AcademicSky 🧪⚛️🌎⚒️🎢
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December 22, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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I couldn't find a starter pack on the political economy of digitalisation, so I made one.
(Self-)recommendations accepted!
go.bsky.app/SGZAADH
(Self-)recommendations accepted!
go.bsky.app/SGZAADH
December 18, 2024 at 9:36 PM
I couldn't find a starter pack on the political economy of digitalisation, so I made one.
(Self-)recommendations accepted!
go.bsky.app/SGZAADH
(Self-)recommendations accepted!
go.bsky.app/SGZAADH
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Beskæftigelsesministeren gør det klart, at den kommende beskæftigelsesreform bliver baseret på politiske holdninger ved at understrege, at forslagene fra regeringens ekspertgruppe for beskæftigelsessystemet ikke er regeringens forslag
#dkpol #dkbiz #beskæftigelse
#dkpol #dkbiz #beskæftigelse
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www.a4medier.dk
December 19, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Beskæftigelsesministeren gør det klart, at den kommende beskæftigelsesreform bliver baseret på politiske holdninger ved at understrege, at forslagene fra regeringens ekspertgruppe for beskæftigelsessystemet ikke er regeringens forslag
#dkpol #dkbiz #beskæftigelse
#dkpol #dkbiz #beskæftigelse
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Experts have been warning us about this for decades:
"We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
Online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our history with them." www.businessinsider.com/digital-dark...
"We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
Online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our history with them." www.businessinsider.com/digital-dark...
We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
From Gawker to the Cartoon Network, online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our cultural history with them.
www.businessinsider.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Experts have been warning us about this for decades:
"We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
Online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our history with them." www.businessinsider.com/digital-dark...
"We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
Online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our history with them." www.businessinsider.com/digital-dark...
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Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it
news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
news.mit.edu
November 26, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it
news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
Meget enig! Man kan mene meget om lobbyisme, og der er ubetinget fordele ved lobbyisme, men som minimum må det være transparent. Både ift hvem politikere mødes med og hvem, der hopper frem og tilbage mellem politik, embedsværk og interessevaretagelse #dkpol
LOBBYISME
Ansættelsen af Venstres tidligere formand som toplobbyist i Dansk Erhverv peger på, at vi skal have et lobbyregister i Danmark.
#dkpol #dkøko #dkbiz
www.berlingske.dk/kommentar/st...
Ansættelsen af Venstres tidligere formand som toplobbyist i Dansk Erhverv peger på, at vi skal have et lobbyregister i Danmark.
#dkpol #dkøko #dkbiz
www.berlingske.dk/kommentar/st...
November 26, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Meget enig! Man kan mene meget om lobbyisme, og der er ubetinget fordele ved lobbyisme, men som minimum må det være transparent. Både ift hvem politikere mødes med og hvem, der hopper frem og tilbage mellem politik, embedsværk og interessevaretagelse #dkpol
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The victory march of democracy has ended
What can we as researchers do?
In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies.
The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year.
A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it
1/8
What can we as researchers do?
In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies.
The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year.
A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it
1/8
November 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
The victory march of democracy has ended
What can we as researchers do?
In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies.
The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year.
A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it
1/8
What can we as researchers do?
In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies.
The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year.
A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it
1/8
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Jeg skal hilse fra @malthedahl.bsky.social - og lidt fra mig - at I da gerne må sikre, at I har sat sprogindstillinger til dansk, når I poster herinde, så vi kan måle jeres aktivitet via BS's API :-)
bs-dk-post-e6271510d638.herokuapp.com
bs-dk-post-e6271510d638.herokuapp.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Jeg skal hilse fra @malthedahl.bsky.social - og lidt fra mig - at I da gerne må sikre, at I har sat sprogindstillinger til dansk, når I poster herinde, så vi kan måle jeres aktivitet via BS's API :-)
bs-dk-post-e6271510d638.herokuapp.com
bs-dk-post-e6271510d638.herokuapp.com
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November 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Advarsel: denne profil er en fake profil, der ved at bruge DJs logo og twitter-handle foregiver at være DJ. Det er den ikke: @djintweets.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Advarsel: denne profil er en fake profil, der ved at bruge DJs logo og twitter-handle foregiver at være DJ. Det er den ikke: @djintweets.bsky.social
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Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content.
But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.
sites.google.com/view/maritaf...
But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.
sites.google.com/view/maritaf...
November 19, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content.
But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.
sites.google.com/view/maritaf...
But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.
sites.google.com/view/maritaf...