Bjarte Aune Olsen 🌈
@bjarte.auneolsen.no
Web developer. Making hvemder.no as a hobby because telemarketing is annoying. Working for Novacare in Norway, mostly on Optimizely and Sanity websites for different clients. Programmer since 2010. Live by the forest in Oslo with my wife and two sons.
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I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...
It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...
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August 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...
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Honestly, the funniest thing about this is that over the past 50 years, there have been more Republican presidents who were male cheerleaders than those who have been in combat.
Three Republican presidents were male cheerleaders in college: George W. Bush at Yale, Ronald Reagan at Eureka, and Dwight D. Eisenhower at West Point.
I'll wait for the GOP to comment on that, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
I'll wait for the GOP to comment on that, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
August 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Honestly, the funniest thing about this is that over the past 50 years, there have been more Republican presidents who were male cheerleaders than those who have been in combat.
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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Demokratiet har falt men i det minste fikk ikke den ene jenta spille amatør-lacrosse på universitetet lenger.
July 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Demokratiet har falt men i det minste fikk ikke den ene jenta spille amatør-lacrosse på universitetet lenger.
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VI KLARTE DET! Takket være en flodbølge av delinger og anbefalinger har Filter Nyheter i dag bikket 4000 betalende abonnenter. Vi har, helt seriøst, aldri sett på maken. Driften framover er nå sikret – og Filter har tatt igjen Document, den selverklærte «MAGA-bevegelsen i Norge». Igjen, tusen takk!!
June 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
VI KLARTE DET! Takket være en flodbølge av delinger og anbefalinger har Filter Nyheter i dag bikket 4000 betalende abonnenter. Vi har, helt seriøst, aldri sett på maken. Driften framover er nå sikret – og Filter har tatt igjen Document, den selverklærte «MAGA-bevegelsen i Norge». Igjen, tusen takk!!
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While we’re on founding fathers, I think people actually *underrate* the Gothic horror of Jefferson and Sally Hemings. She was his slave, she was also his dead wife’s much younger half sister as a result of Jefferson’s father in law raping *his* slave.
June 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
While we’re on founding fathers, I think people actually *underrate* the Gothic horror of Jefferson and Sally Hemings. She was his slave, she was also his dead wife’s much younger half sister as a result of Jefferson’s father in law raping *his* slave.
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May 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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New from 404 Media: the CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan website. Was part of the network of sites the CIA used to communicate with sources. Iran discovered the network, imprisoned people. Later dozens died in China after exposed www.404media.co/the-cia-secr...
The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New from 404 Media: the CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan website. Was part of the network of sites the CIA used to communicate with sources. Iran discovered the network, imprisoned people. Later dozens died in China after exposed www.404media.co/the-cia-secr...
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one lesson the Trump folks have learned is that the media will almost never say someone is “corrupt” or did something “illegal” — they’ll only ever say that questions have been raised. which means that it makes more sense to do something blatantly illegal than to stop halfway
May 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
one lesson the Trump folks have learned is that the media will almost never say someone is “corrupt” or did something “illegal” — they’ll only ever say that questions have been raised. which means that it makes more sense to do something blatantly illegal than to stop halfway
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New: Mike Waltz appears to be using an unofficial fork of Signal in the cabinet meeting, which archives messages elsewhere, off device. Unclear what potential security implications of this are:
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
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May 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New: Mike Waltz appears to be using an unofficial fork of Signal in the cabinet meeting, which archives messages elsewhere, off device. Unclear what potential security implications of this are:
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
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“you, and your children, and your children’s children will work in our factories until you each die” is quite a sales pitch
April 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“you, and your children, and your children’s children will work in our factories until you each die” is quite a sales pitch
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I’ve been testing out this new search engine under the extremely intensive use case of fact checking a book and I gotta say this is the best search I’ve used since old google. It consistently delivers what I’m looking for. Absolutely worth the cost by a mile.
kagi.com
kagi.com
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March 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I’ve been testing out this new search engine under the extremely intensive use case of fact checking a book and I gotta say this is the best search I’ve used since old google. It consistently delivers what I’m looking for. Absolutely worth the cost by a mile.
kagi.com
kagi.com
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Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
If you are planning to move away from the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem for books, the deadline is tomorrow.
That is the last day you will be able to download the books you have paid for, if you ever want to read them anywhere else than on a Kindle.
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
#kindle #amazon
That is the last day you will be able to download the books you have paid for, if you ever want to read them anywhere else than on a Kindle.
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
#kindle #amazon
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
www.theverge.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you are planning to move away from the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem for books, the deadline is tomorrow.
That is the last day you will be able to download the books you have paid for, if you ever want to read them anywhere else than on a Kindle.
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
#kindle #amazon
That is the last day you will be able to download the books you have paid for, if you ever want to read them anywhere else than on a Kindle.
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
#kindle #amazon
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oh hey look the Heritage Foundation just changed its name theonion.com/think-tank-c...
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...
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February 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
oh hey look the Heritage Foundation just changed its name theonion.com/think-tank-c...
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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I am trying very hard not to let these assholes get to me, but I can't shake JD Vance smirking and chuckling as Harris swore him in to the Senate.
Not out of affection for Harris. It's the spectacle of these white supremacists laughing at a Black woman exercising her final ceremonial powers.
Not out of affection for Harris. It's the spectacle of these white supremacists laughing at a Black woman exercising her final ceremonial powers.
January 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I am trying very hard not to let these assholes get to me, but I can't shake JD Vance smirking and chuckling as Harris swore him in to the Senate.
Not out of affection for Harris. It's the spectacle of these white supremacists laughing at a Black woman exercising her final ceremonial powers.
Not out of affection for Harris. It's the spectacle of these white supremacists laughing at a Black woman exercising her final ceremonial powers.
As a user of Android and lots of Google's services, I find it useful to visit the Activity Controls once in a while.
It's scary to see the extent of Google's surveillance, but it's also a good to be able turn off services you don't need.
myactivity.google.com/activitycont...
It's scary to see the extent of Google's surveillance, but it's also a good to be able turn off services you don't need.
myactivity.google.com/activitycont...
Welcome to My Activity
myactivity.google.com
December 30, 2024 at 2:51 PM
As a user of Android and lots of Google's services, I find it useful to visit the Activity Controls once in a while.
It's scary to see the extent of Google's surveillance, but it's also a good to be able turn off services you don't need.
myactivity.google.com/activitycont...
It's scary to see the extent of Google's surveillance, but it's also a good to be able turn off services you don't need.
myactivity.google.com/activitycont...
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One of the most popular types content on Facebook is "Elon Musk will fix America with this absurd invention" AI content that have millions of views and endless people commenting about how he and Donald Trump will save America thinking it's real
www.404media.co/absurd-ai-sl...
www.404media.co/absurd-ai-sl...
Absurd AI Slop About How Elon Musk Will Fix America Is Megaviral on Facebook
Some of the most popular content on Facebook leading up to the election was AI-generated Elon Musk inspiration porn made by people in other countries that went viral in the US.
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November 13, 2024 at 3:45 PM
One of the most popular types content on Facebook is "Elon Musk will fix America with this absurd invention" AI content that have millions of views and endless people commenting about how he and Donald Trump will save America thinking it's real
www.404media.co/absurd-ai-sl...
www.404media.co/absurd-ai-sl...
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May I make a suggestion please??
If your bksky handle doesn't match your prior Xitter handle, can you put the old one in your bio here? I think it'll help on the reconnect front for the mass migration. 💚
If your bksky handle doesn't match your prior Xitter handle, can you put the old one in your bio here? I think it'll help on the reconnect front for the mass migration. 💚
November 12, 2024 at 10:33 PM
May I make a suggestion please??
If your bksky handle doesn't match your prior Xitter handle, can you put the old one in your bio here? I think it'll help on the reconnect front for the mass migration. 💚
If your bksky handle doesn't match your prior Xitter handle, can you put the old one in your bio here? I think it'll help on the reconnect front for the mass migration. 💚
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Saw these two eras of pickup truck parked next to one another and it almost looks like an optical illusion
October 25, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Saw these two eras of pickup truck parked next to one another and it almost looks like an optical illusion