Johannes Borgström
@joborgs.bsky.social
Associate prof at Uppsala University in Programming languages
Swedish econ through an MMT lens - MMT for Sweden
Born at 335 ppm, living in Stockholm 🇸🇪 previously 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇨🇭
Private account, he/him, 🌹 🇺🇦 🟣
Swedish econ through an MMT lens - MMT for Sweden
Born at 335 ppm, living in Stockholm 🇸🇪 previously 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇨🇭
Private account, he/him, 🌹 🇺🇦 🟣
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Johannes Borgström
@joborgs.bsky.social
· Mar 25
Kan ingen köpa in Baumol 2012 till alla länsfullmäktige? Man borde inte få rösta på en offentlig budget utan att ha läst och förstått den.
(Klippet är från sciendo.com/article/10.2..., Baumol 2012 är ”The cost disease. Why computers get cheaper and health care doesn’t”, Yale University Press.)
(Klippet är från sciendo.com/article/10.2..., Baumol 2012 är ”The cost disease. Why computers get cheaper and health care doesn’t”, Yale University Press.)
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
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Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
Third-party network-wide algorithmic feeds: enabled by the ATproto architecture!
On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!
About The Other Night...
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Third-party network-wide algorithmic feeds: enabled by the ATproto architecture!
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
Holy shit, this is kinda huge if you're into the social sciences
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Holy shit, this is kinda huge if you're into the social sciences
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Överskott i statsbudgeten är någon annans underskott. Det här samtalet med Peo Hansen om pengar, välfärd och migration behöver ses av många fler:
youtu.be/GeUWyVhNHzE
youtu.be/GeUWyVhNHzE
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Överskott i statsbudgeten är någon annans underskott. Det här samtalet med Peo Hansen om pengar, välfärd och migration behöver ses av många fler:
youtu.be/GeUWyVhNHzE
youtu.be/GeUWyVhNHzE
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I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood.
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood.
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
And that’s… not a joke, actually.
The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism.
This book is his Battlefield Earth
It's Fiver Friday!
#FiverFriday
#FiverFriday
💛💙𝗜𝘁’𝘀 #FiverFriday - 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼!
Today, help bring visibility to Ukrainian fundraisers!
Here's how:
💙Quote Repost this post
📸Include a screenshot of your $€£5 donation
📝Add a short description of the fundraiser
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#NAFO #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
Today, help bring visibility to Ukrainian fundraisers!
Here's how:
💙Quote Repost this post
📸Include a screenshot of your $€£5 donation
📝Add a short description of the fundraiser
🔗Tag their Bsky handle & comment in the thread
⤵️1/2
#NAFO #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's Fiver Friday!
#FiverFriday
#FiverFriday
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To decolonize & democratize economic structures one needs to understand how to remove the chokehold of inflation & abusive market power. For that one needs to understand Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Fadhel Kaboub explains in this 8-minute clip.
youtu.be/pDPT6uUg8ro
youtu.be/pDPT6uUg8ro
MMT and inflation explained in 8 minutes ~ Fadhel Kaboub
YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
To decolonize & democratize economic structures one needs to understand how to remove the chokehold of inflation & abusive market power. For that one needs to understand Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Fadhel Kaboub explains in this 8-minute clip.
youtu.be/pDPT6uUg8ro
youtu.be/pDPT6uUg8ro
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
September 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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this is a history of the pre-trump era that tries to show how seemingly abstract, theoretic ideas about what liberalism *is* - that's it's a neutral arbiter - really lowered our readiness when the threat came
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
Liberals: Alas, the Time Has Come to Throw John Rawls Under the Bus
The greatest liberal philosopher of the twentieth century guided his creed toward neutrality. In the age of Trump, we can no longer afford that.
newrepublic.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
this is a history of the pre-trump era that tries to show how seemingly abstract, theoretic ideas about what liberalism *is* - that's it's a neutral arbiter - really lowered our readiness when the threat came
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
newrepublic.com/article/1992...
I may spend too much time online, but I didn\t know about these guys.
September 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I may spend too much time online, but I didn\t know about these guys.
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
Community credit money for an activist community!
"Naming these arrangements as credit, and making them receivable across partners and agencies now, refuses that delay. It turns the boundary from a horizon we wait on into a configuration we can reorganize together."
Tax the Rich Campaigns Need Coalition Credits
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective As Zohran Mamdani and allied progressives turn a campaign victory into governing capacity, the primary weapons used against them will be fiscal. Centri…
moneyontheleft.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Community credit money for an activist community!
Malicious uses of LLM-based AI services:
reports from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
reports from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
3 resources in 1 post:
Open AI has released a new report outlining the ways in which threat actors used their generative AI products to support their social engineering attack operations. They provide the case studies.
openai.com/global-affai...
Why is this useful? 🧵
Open AI has released a new report outlining the ways in which threat actors used their generative AI products to support their social engineering attack operations. They provide the case studies.
openai.com/global-affai...
Why is this useful? 🧵
Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025
Our latest report featuring case studies of how we’re detecting and preventing malicious uses of AI.
openai.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Malicious uses of LLM-based AI services:
reports from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
reports from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
Peer review meltdown in one diagram.
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
7. We show that this setup leads to a pernicious positive feedback loop. When submissions increase, more peer reviewers are required. Either current reviewers have to spread their effort thinner, or less qualified reviewers must be recruited. Either way, review accuracy drops.
![Flow diagram. At the center is the key cycle: Authors reduce self-screening --> Reviewer pool becomes depleted --> Accuracy of review declines --> [back to] Authors reduce self-screening.
Outside arrows lead to this central cycle.
Greater emphasis on elite journals --> authors reduce self-screening
More journals create more opportunities for fresh review --> reviewer pool becomes depleted
Common pool dilemma reduces desk rejection rates --> reviewer pool becomes depleted.
There is an additional cycle:
Accuracy of review declines --> Authors learn less from reviews --> Authors reduce self-screening](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreieslgd5btmytfr2vrqg2v2kqyv3bnwjcommpcxurp2ju4yjdbm454@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Peer review meltdown in one diagram.
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…
Trump-era polsci as distilled on social media,
in 59 parts ending with a ☢️💥
in 59 parts ending with a ☢️💥
Text 59. poli sci department thread by Paul Musgrave (musgrave.substack.com, currently also on a bsky break I guess bsky.app/profile/did:...)
(h/t @jjinandtonic.bsky.social)
(h/t @jjinandtonic.bsky.social)
The civ-mils and comparativists seem very concerned right now.
July 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Trump-era polsci as distilled on social media,
in 59 parts ending with a ☢️💥
in 59 parts ending with a ☢️💥
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
Hmm, let’s see… mass detention of civilians without trial or traditional legal protections on the basis of identity (race, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation) rather than any criminal act, often for an indefinite period and done principally to expand political power. Check.
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
The really cool thing about this service is that if Bluesky the company were to shut every one of our servers down hard, this can still migrate your account to a new pds and keep going. Really awesome stuff for decentralization
The internet was meant to be free - your identity shouldn’t be locked behind a login screen.
Introducing bsky.storage 🐔🤝🦋
Now you can back up your Bluesky data hourly + recover your account if Bluesky ever goes dark. Simple, free, & fully in your control.
Learn more:
medium.com/@storacha/in...
Introducing bsky.storage 🐔🤝🦋
Now you can back up your Bluesky data hourly + recover your account if Bluesky ever goes dark. Simple, free, & fully in your control.
Learn more:
medium.com/@storacha/in...
Introducing bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
Take back control of your online identity. Our new tool, bsky.storage, backs up your Bluesky account hourly — free, secure &…
medium.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The really cool thing about this service is that if Bluesky the company were to shut every one of our servers down hard, this can still migrate your account to a new pds and keep going. Really awesome stuff for decentralization
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
"Politiker har först lagstiftat fram en marknad som gynnar friskolor. Sedan har de köpt in sig i den själva. Det är inte bara kladdigt - det är perverterat, odemokratiskt och farligt... vinsterna är stora och hotet från politiken minimalt."
tankesmedjanbalans.se/koncernernas...
tankesmedjanbalans.se/koncernernas...
Koncernernas budskap till aktiemarknaden: Vi tjänar jättemycket pengar!
Vad kan man göra för att hjälpa till i kampen mot skolkoncernerna?Det är en fråga jag ofta får. Mitt tråkiga men ärliga svar är att fler måste orka sätta sig in i skolmarknadens ekono
tankesmedjanbalans.se
May 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Politiker har först lagstiftat fram en marknad som gynnar friskolor. Sedan har de köpt in sig i den själva. Det är inte bara kladdigt - det är perverterat, odemokratiskt och farligt... vinsterna är stora och hotet från politiken minimalt."
tankesmedjanbalans.se/koncernernas...
tankesmedjanbalans.se/koncernernas...
I'd been hoping for the different factions behind the putsch to fall apart either due to the resistance or to decisions favouring one over the other: this is a very good start.
Hope that DOGE crumbles without him. Cheers! 🍻
Hope that DOGE crumbles without him. Cheers! 🍻
“His departure was quick and unceremonious. He did not have a formal conversation with Trump before announcing his exit, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, who added that his departure was decided ‘at a senior staff level.’” www.reuters.com/world/us/elo...
Elon Musk leaving Trump administration, White House official confirms
Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after a tumultuous period working to restructure the federal government, a White House official confirmed.
www.reuters.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I'd been hoping for the different factions behind the putsch to fall apart either due to the resistance or to decisions favouring one over the other: this is a very good start.
Hope that DOGE crumbles without him. Cheers! 🍻
Hope that DOGE crumbles without him. Cheers! 🍻
Utbildningsministerns syn på lärosätenas förhållande till staten:
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Utbildningsministerns syn på lärosätenas förhållande till staten:
Reposted by Johannes Borgström
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-provision-in-the-big-ugly
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king
Don’t let this happen
robertreich.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-provision-in-the-big-ugly
Currently the state only extends its power to issue money to banks and financial institutions (as credit).
Why not increase the independence of regional governments and government agencies such as universities by extending money issuing powers to them? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...
Why not increase the independence of regional governments and government agencies such as universities by extending money issuing powers to them? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...
May 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Currently the state only extends its power to issue money to banks and financial institutions (as credit).
Why not increase the independence of regional governments and government agencies such as universities by extending money issuing powers to them? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...
Why not increase the independence of regional governments and government agencies such as universities by extending money issuing powers to them? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...
Better late than never: Uppsala University "calls on the Swedish government to condemn Israel’s actions, to immediately resume its funding of UNRWA and to actively work within the EU to take all measures (including imposing trade sanctions on Israel) to prevent a genocide."
www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
May 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Better late than never: Uppsala University "calls on the Swedish government to condemn Israel’s actions, to immediately resume its funding of UNRWA and to actively work within the EU to take all measures (including imposing trade sanctions on Israel) to prevent a genocide."
www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
www.uu.se/en/news/2025...