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Lasse Hægland
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Frontend-development teacher, cat lover, travel enthusiast, hobby genealogist, history buff, sci-fi fan, punk rocker at heart.
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Signs of 400,000-year-old Neanderthal campfire found in UK – DW – 12/10/2025
Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Objective truths are still out there. It’s just harder than ever to know what they look like.

What’s Up With That?

[StarTalk video: 15min]
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How to Tell What’s Real Online
YouTube video by StarTalk
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December 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone

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South Korea's Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster
The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
RIP
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.

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Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
Har hatt en liten bølge av selgere som har prøvd å ringe meg i det siste...

Godt å se at Myndighetene er på saken.

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Selgere skal ikke ringe deg med vanlig mobilnummer - ber bransjen stramme inn
Nkom – Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
Bruk ulønnet tid på open source prosjekter, eller noe annet man brenner for. Ikke jobb gratis for en kommersiell aktør.
– Gratisarbeid skal ikke være en inngangsport til arbeidslivet
Nito mener ulønnet arbeid kan føre til alvorlige konsekvenser: – Karrierestart kan bli til et klassespørsmål.
www.kode24.no
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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‘“we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19 percent longer than without — AI makes them slower”’
AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
futurism.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
Hvor lenge går det før noen sonderer muligheten for en FrP, Høyre, KrF og Senterparti flertallsregjering? #valg2025 #blåbrun #regjeringsskitfte
September 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
RIP
Forfatter Tor Åge Bringsværd er død
Forfatteren bak bøker som Karsten og Petra, Tor Åge Bringsværd, er død, skriver VG.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.
arstechnica.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
RIP
Ingvar Ambjørnsen er død
Forfatteren Ingvar Ambjørnsen har gått bort, 69 år gammel.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Bondhusvatnet yesterday, see alt text for details.

#hiking #nature #travelling
A rowing boat on the bluegreen waters of Bonhusvatnet a short hike up from Sunndal in Hardanger, Norway. You can just see Bondhusbreen in the mountains behind, an arm of the Folgefonna glacier.
July 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
arstechnica.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Burg Blankenberg, Hennef, Deutschland
May 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist.
First panel: a line of modern electric cars. Second panel: A woman and a man are talking. She is holding a book. She says "It's hard to get excited about these new electric cars when I've seen much ambitious possibilities in fiction" "Sci-fi fan,huh?" he asks Third panel. "Uhh... yeah. Sci-fi." she says unsurely, looking at her book. Fourth panel: We can see a page of the book. It shows animals happily driving food-shaped cars in the style of Richard Scarry. The cars are labelled: Pickle car, Apple car and Hotdog car.
May 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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#DeepSeaMining - NO!

We cannot destroy the last relatively pristine havens of #Biodiversity. We have so little knowledge of what is there
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Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on
Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.
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May 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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If you don’t understand why GenAI hallucinates so often, and most people don’t, read this:

garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-lar...
Why DO large language models hallucinate?
The Henrietta Chronicles continue, guest starring Harry Shearer
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May 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
The Viking Age is undergoing a revisionist transformation | Aeon Essays
The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far East
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May 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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"The study, which used 16 of the most widely used large language models to generate 576,000 code samples, found that 440,000 of the package dependencies they contained were “hallucinated,” meaning they were non-existent."
AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.
LLM-produced code could make us much more vulnerable to supply-chain attacks.
arstechnica.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
xiaolasse.bsky.social
"Sánchez said the power cut originated at 12.33pm on Monday, when, for five seconds, 15 gigawatts of the energy that was being produced – equivalent to 60% of all the energy that was being used – suddenly disappeared."

How the f*** is that possible?

#powercut
Spain and Portugal power cut: experts rule out cyber-attack
Rare weather conditions also thought unlikely to be behind blackout as 99.95% of Spain’s electricity supply is restored
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April 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The rise of dopamine culture.

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April 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Have seen parrots in all the parks in and around London for years, but this is the first time I've managed to get a decent photo with my iPhone
Parrot in a tree just outside Richmond upon Thames
April 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Walking along the Thames river, south from Richmond, and found this Gray Heron on top of Strawberry Hill House between Twickenham and Teddington.
Gray heron on the roof of a Manor House with a white spire
April 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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arstechnica.com
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
Some wealthy Europeans have death rates 35 percent lower than the richest Americans.
arstechnica.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM