Camilla Ulleland Hoel
@camillahoel.bsky.social
PhD, academic (Victorian & 20th & 21st c. literature, fans: Dickens, via Sherlock Holmes, to scifi), feminist, bibliophile, geek; regularly political. She/her.
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Eleven o'clock and all is well
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Eleven o'clock and all is well
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I'm so old, I can remember when this is the kind of thing dropped into the background of an SF story to make it Extra Dark...
your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I'm so old, I can remember when this is the kind of thing dropped into the background of an SF story to make it Extra Dark...
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“‘You are the world expert in your idea,’ I would say.”
This essay is big-hearted, heart-aching, tenderhearted, 🫀. It’s also so wise about the value of close reading, now/forever.
This essay is big-hearted, heart-aching, tenderhearted, 🫀. It’s also so wise about the value of close reading, now/forever.
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“‘You are the world expert in your idea,’ I would say.”
This essay is big-hearted, heart-aching, tenderhearted, 🫀. It’s also so wise about the value of close reading, now/forever.
This essay is big-hearted, heart-aching, tenderhearted, 🫀. It’s also so wise about the value of close reading, now/forever.
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I can't get over how quickly the window shifted at Google over what is acceptable from its image generator.
Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line.
No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.
Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line.
No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.
Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel
What are facts?
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I can't get over how quickly the window shifted at Google over what is acceptable from its image generator.
Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line.
No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.
Photorealistic 'evidence' of sensitive events was once a red line.
No longer. "Show the White House on fire with emergency crews responding" returns the desired image with no jailbreak.
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Åh som jeg elsker alle som skal fortelle oss hvordan vi skal bli mer effektive når det alltid. ALLTID. Betyr at man skal gi jobben sin videre til noen lenger ned i hierarkiet i bedriften, til partneren eller til prekariatet i det globale sør.
www.aftenposten.no/karriere/i/O...
www.aftenposten.no/karriere/i/O...
Han er omtalt som «verdens mest effektive mann» og jobber under én time hver dag: – Ikke gjør denne kjempetabben
Han er omtalt som «verdens mest effektive mann» og jobber under én time hver dag: Ikke gjør denne kjempetabben, råder han.
www.aftenposten.no
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Åh som jeg elsker alle som skal fortelle oss hvordan vi skal bli mer effektive når det alltid. ALLTID. Betyr at man skal gi jobben sin videre til noen lenger ned i hierarkiet i bedriften, til partneren eller til prekariatet i det globale sør.
www.aftenposten.no/karriere/i/O...
www.aftenposten.no/karriere/i/O...
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somebody who is good at the economy please help them budget this, their bullshit factory is dying
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
somebody who is good at the economy please help them budget this, their bullshit factory is dying
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Syklisten var 18 år og er nå død.
Kan dere være så snill og slutte å skrive om hjelm
Kan dere være så snill og slutte å skrive om hjelm
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Syklisten var 18 år og er nå død.
Kan dere være så snill og slutte å skrive om hjelm
Kan dere være så snill og slutte å skrive om hjelm
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At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.
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Og nå rydder Dagsrevyen(!) krigen i Ukraina, klimakrisen og situasjonen på Gaza til side for å få plass til å snakke godt å lenge om komiserien "Nissene i skjul". Almenkringkasteren oppfører seg 100% som en hvilkensomhelst komersiell aktør.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Og nå rydder Dagsrevyen(!) krigen i Ukraina, klimakrisen og situasjonen på Gaza til side for å få plass til å snakke godt å lenge om komiserien "Nissene i skjul". Almenkringkasteren oppfører seg 100% som en hvilkensomhelst komersiell aktør.
Berkeley being a twenty-something smart guy explains everything that has always baffled me about Berkeley.
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Berkeley being a twenty-something smart guy explains everything that has always baffled me about Berkeley.
How is that OpenAI cooperation going?
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How is that OpenAI cooperation going?
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Jeg antar folk ikke får høy puls om de hører at andelen offentlig ansatte i Norge bare har økt med litt over tre prosentpoeng på tjue år, om man trekker fra helse og omsorg.
Halvparten av veksten har skjedd der. Uten den hadde andelen faktisk vært lavere i dag enn for tjue år siden.
Halvparten av veksten har skjedd der. Uten den hadde andelen faktisk vært lavere i dag enn for tjue år siden.
Landet som valgte flere hender i helsevesenet
Her er beroligende medisin for alle som bekymrer seg for offentlige utgifter.
www.dagsavisen.no
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Jeg antar folk ikke får høy puls om de hører at andelen offentlig ansatte i Norge bare har økt med litt over tre prosentpoeng på tjue år, om man trekker fra helse og omsorg.
Halvparten av veksten har skjedd der. Uten den hadde andelen faktisk vært lavere i dag enn for tjue år siden.
Halvparten av veksten har skjedd der. Uten den hadde andelen faktisk vært lavere i dag enn for tjue år siden.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Choosing to be a fascist these days is deciding you can afford to play life on the easy setting, because you're a pasty-faced Establishment scion, and fuck everyone else.
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Choosing to be a fascist these days is deciding you can afford to play life on the easy setting, because you're a pasty-faced Establishment scion, and fuck everyone else.
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So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
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100% this.
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
100% this.
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Onsdag 26. november er det igjen donaudagen, datoen da 529 norske jøder ble deportert fra Oslo med DS Donau. En fin måte å markere dette på, er at vi også i år pusser snublesteinene og gjerne setter igjen et egna lys.
Her finner du kart og adresser der det finnes snublesteiner: snublestein.no
Her finner du kart og adresser der det finnes snublesteiner: snublestein.no
Snublesteiner
snublestein.no
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Onsdag 26. november er det igjen donaudagen, datoen da 529 norske jøder ble deportert fra Oslo med DS Donau. En fin måte å markere dette på, er at vi også i år pusser snublesteinene og gjerne setter igjen et egna lys.
Her finner du kart og adresser der det finnes snublesteiner: snublestein.no
Her finner du kart og adresser der det finnes snublesteiner: snublestein.no
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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A lot of the people lamenting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure from Congress—and celebrating her as some kind of principled maverick—are going to end up eating their words when she reemerges in 2028 to help lead a pro-groper, pro-Fuentes “America First” faction of the GOP.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A lot of the people lamenting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure from Congress—and celebrating her as some kind of principled maverick—are going to end up eating their words when she reemerges in 2028 to help lead a pro-groper, pro-Fuentes “America First” faction of the GOP.
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The lighting on this pic makes it look a snapshot from the trailer of the Cop30 movie
1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The lighting on this pic makes it look a snapshot from the trailer of the Cop30 movie
I have a new favourite piece of Sumerian art.
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have a new favourite piece of Sumerian art.