Amund Brandal
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Jeg er veldig glad for at A Christmas Carol er skrevet allerede for om den hadde blitt gitt ut i dag hadde vi fått 8000 ord i Minerca om hvor urettferdig fremstilt Ebenezer Scrooge var som tross alt skapte mange arbeidsplasser og hadde fokus på kostnadskontroll
Film #19 A muppet christmas Carol
Beste versjonen av denne boken som er fanget på film hands down 👍
Beste versjonen av denne boken som er fanget på film hands down 👍
December 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Jeg er veldig glad for at A Christmas Carol er skrevet allerede for om den hadde blitt gitt ut i dag hadde vi fått 8000 ord i Minerca om hvor urettferdig fremstilt Ebenezer Scrooge var som tross alt skapte mange arbeidsplasser og hadde fokus på kostnadskontroll
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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
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AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
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The Trump administration is now adopting the same completely deranged, apeshit definition of “extremism” that has been observed for a decade and much longer, in some cases, by e.g. the Times of London.
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Trump administration is now adopting the same completely deranged, apeshit definition of “extremism” that has been observed for a decade and much longer, in some cases, by e.g. the Times of London.
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New UK MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations. Tech creates “peril” as weapons, drones and robots inflicted devastation on the battlefield, and some algorithms could “become as powerful as states”.
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
New MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations
Blaise Metreweli, in her first public speech as head of the intelligence agency, says the world is being remade by technology that was once the stuff of fiction
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New UK MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations. Tech creates “peril” as weapons, drones and robots inflicted devastation on the battlefield, and some algorithms could “become as powerful as states”.
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
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Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
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It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It’s not him being a teenage Nazi that’s the issue here: it’s that he’s still one now, he has been throughout and his politics are those of the racist, fascist far right. The difference between him and e.g. Griffin is that Farage knows where the line is and that he should push at it, not cross it.
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The Republican Party is full of Nazis, while also accusing all progressives of antisemitism.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
The right tore itself apart over Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist. Trump shrugged. Now he's everywhere.
Read: bit.ly/3KJb6K2
Read: bit.ly/3KJb6K2
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Republican Party is full of Nazis, while also accusing all progressives of antisemitism.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
It’s one of the stupidest things of all time.
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Why Trump will fail on the economy
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Why Trump will fail on the economy
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I, like the vast majority of the UK population, am not a high earner, an entrepreneur or a skilled frontline worker.
And yet that doesn't mean that I don't work hard and do my best to contribute to my community and the country. This is nothing but deliberate, carefully framed racism from Labour.
And yet that doesn't mean that I don't work hard and do my best to contribute to my community and the country. This is nothing but deliberate, carefully framed racism from Labour.
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I, like the vast majority of the UK population, am not a high earner, an entrepreneur or a skilled frontline worker.
And yet that doesn't mean that I don't work hard and do my best to contribute to my community and the country. This is nothing but deliberate, carefully framed racism from Labour.
And yet that doesn't mean that I don't work hard and do my best to contribute to my community and the country. This is nothing but deliberate, carefully framed racism from Labour.
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Good to see society can be reduced to people who either "give" or "take".
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Good to see society can be reduced to people who either "give" or "take".
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
Is it healthy that the people who run government see the people they govern that way?
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Fotballen ble kalt «the working man’s ballet». Nå danser verdens vakreste idrett diktatorenes dans. Har fotballen sunket lavere enn øyeblikket Fifa-presidenten overrakte en «fredspris» til Donald Trump?
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Da fotballen fikk fotfeste blant arbeiderklassen i England ble den kalt «the working man’s ballet». Nå danser verdens vakreste idrett diktatorenes dans. Har fotballen sunket lavere enn øyeblikket Fifa...
josimar.no
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fotballen ble kalt «the working man’s ballet». Nå danser verdens vakreste idrett diktatorenes dans. Har fotballen sunket lavere enn øyeblikket Fifa-presidenten overrakte en «fredspris» til Donald Trump?
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«Hei og velkommen til dette utstillingsvinduet for fotballen som politisk verktøy og pengemaskin. Også kjent som VM-trekning.
Vi minner som vanlig om at ingen må blande fotball og politikk, med mindre vi kan tjene penger og makt på det. Da er alt lov.»
www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...
Vi minner som vanlig om at ingen må blande fotball og politikk, med mindre vi kan tjene penger og makt på det. Da er alt lov.»
www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...
Fotballens skjebne er solgt til høystbydende!
VM-trekningen avslører fotballens politiske spill og FIFAs maktspill.
www.tv2.no
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
«Hei og velkommen til dette utstillingsvinduet for fotballen som politisk verktøy og pengemaskin. Også kjent som VM-trekning.
Vi minner som vanlig om at ingen må blande fotball og politikk, med mindre vi kan tjene penger og makt på det. Da er alt lov.»
www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...
Vi minner som vanlig om at ingen må blande fotball og politikk, med mindre vi kan tjene penger og makt på det. Da er alt lov.»
www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...
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"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down"
uk politics in a nutshell
uk politics in a nutshell
There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"immigration has to go up for our growth goals, but our policy is to bring it down"
uk politics in a nutshell
uk politics in a nutshell
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En rant jeg hadde i går som kanskje tåler offentlighetens lys: hvorfor får så mange offentlig ansatte ikke skikkelig sommeravslutning? Alle fortjener god mat og vin. Det er god ledelse. Hvorfor dusjer privat sektor sine ansatte i luksus i juni, mens vi tror offentlig ansatte ikke bør få det samme?
June 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
En rant jeg hadde i går som kanskje tåler offentlighetens lys: hvorfor får så mange offentlig ansatte ikke skikkelig sommeravslutning? Alle fortjener god mat og vin. Det er god ledelse. Hvorfor dusjer privat sektor sine ansatte i luksus i juni, mens vi tror offentlig ansatte ikke bør få det samme?
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It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
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Development money is the means by which FIFA's senior leadership controls its less wealthy member associations.
With this deal, it's letting Saudi Arabia in on the action directly.
With this deal, it's letting Saudi Arabia in on the action directly.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Development money is the means by which FIFA's senior leadership controls its less wealthy member associations.
With this deal, it's letting Saudi Arabia in on the action directly.
With this deal, it's letting Saudi Arabia in on the action directly.
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Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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"One irony of this situation is that while those on the British left tend to defend the BBC on principle, they are often exasperated by its deference to the right-wing press..."
Exactly.
"The Plan to Bring Down a Giant." www.cjr.org/the_media_to... in Columbia Journalism Review.
Recommended.
Exactly.
"The Plan to Bring Down a Giant." www.cjr.org/the_media_to... in Columbia Journalism Review.
Recommended.
The Plan to Bring Down a Giant: How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.
How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC.
www.cjr.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"One irony of this situation is that while those on the British left tend to defend the BBC on principle, they are often exasperated by its deference to the right-wing press..."
Exactly.
"The Plan to Bring Down a Giant." www.cjr.org/the_media_to... in Columbia Journalism Review.
Recommended.
Exactly.
"The Plan to Bring Down a Giant." www.cjr.org/the_media_to... in Columbia Journalism Review.
Recommended.