Espen Hauglid
@espenhauglid.bsky.social
Mildly curious. Art critic at Morgenbladet.no
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I appreciate this might seem like a novel idea rn but enshittification isn’t some inevitable outcome of human endeavour
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I appreciate this might seem like a novel idea rn but enshittification isn’t some inevitable outcome of human endeavour
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make me ready, Lord, for whatever
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
make me ready, Lord, for whatever
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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This is I think an underrated truth: being intelligent is I think primarily a matter of habit. Do you actually listen and try and take on board what you've heard or read before responding? Do you go 'okay, is that true?' about your own thoughts and prejudices? These are learnt, not innate.
and ultimately I think if you’re constantly saying stupid stuff then it just makes you stupid.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is I think an underrated truth: being intelligent is I think primarily a matter of habit. Do you actually listen and try and take on board what you've heard or read before responding? Do you go 'okay, is that true?' about your own thoughts and prejudices? These are learnt, not innate.
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It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly
🚨OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually allows more harm.
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
We tested GPT-5 and GPT-4o to see if GPT-5 was safer & found that actually GPT-5 gave MORE harmful responses.
Read our new report ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3JgW9OP
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly
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[googling] how do you write a book how book get written what is a chapter how write facts good
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
[googling] how do you write a book how book get written what is a chapter how write facts good
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Forskningsjournalist Hanne Østli Jakobsen tar alltid for seg de viktigste spørsmålene: www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/alien...
(+) Alien versus øyeblekksprut: en vitenskapelig betraktning
Tv-serien Alien: Earth introduserer en rekke nye (og spektakulært morderiske) utenomjordiske skapninger. Men gir Alien-faunaen biologisk og evolusjonær mening? Et dypdykk, med åh, så mange plottblotte...
www.morgenbladet.no
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Forskningsjournalist Hanne Østli Jakobsen tar alltid for seg de viktigste spørsmålene: www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/alien...
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‘One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats’
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
December 23, 2023 at 9:56 AM
‘One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats’
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
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The two phases of writing:
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The two phases of writing:
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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Chaos on Amsterdam’s A10 ring motorway yesterday when a young labradoodle escaped in heavy traffic. He was eventually caught when a police dog was brought to the site and he came over to say hello.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Chaos on Amsterdam’s A10 ring motorway yesterday when a young labradoodle escaped in heavy traffic. He was eventually caught when a police dog was brought to the site and he came over to say hello.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
The two phases of writing:
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The two phases of writing:
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
Day 1: [Groaning, cursing]: This is hopeless, I should simply give up!
Day 2: Oh, this is super easy, why didn't I just do this yesterday?
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The real monster is Guillermo Del Toro's writing
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The real monster is Guillermo Del Toro's writing
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Don't know if anyone has noticed but the age gap in this is hella problematic
#fridayreads by Vladimir Nabokov 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Don't know if anyone has noticed but the age gap in this is hella problematic
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Cup of water and a rose: mundane, yet almost visionary. Useful too if you just need something calming, from Francisco de Zurbarán.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Cup of water and a rose: mundane, yet almost visionary. Useful too if you just need something calming, from Francisco de Zurbarán.
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Wishing only continued excellent health to inspirational 94 year old artist Bridget Riley on.ft.com/43ZrQTM
Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’
[FREE TO READ] The 94-year-old doyenne of British abstract art on influences from Seurat to Mondrian, her wartime childhood in Cornwall — and ‘the healing power of looking’
on.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Wishing only continued excellent health to inspirational 94 year old artist Bridget Riley on.ft.com/43ZrQTM
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IMO the *lack* of a widespread moral panic around this is genuinely very weird and the outlier in terms of social reactions in modern history
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
IMO the *lack* of a widespread moral panic around this is genuinely very weird and the outlier in terms of social reactions in modern history
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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Selveste Johan Harstad skriver om selveste Pynchon i Morrabladet denne uken. Vent gjerne til papirutgaven og helgefrokosten, men ta med dagens forslag til manifest:
Vi har jo hjernen og tiden til dette.
Vi har jo hjernen og tiden til dette.
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Selveste Johan Harstad skriver om selveste Pynchon i Morrabladet denne uken. Vent gjerne til papirutgaven og helgefrokosten, men ta med dagens forslag til manifest:
Vi har jo hjernen og tiden til dette.
Vi har jo hjernen og tiden til dette.
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Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime
Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime
Godchaux sang on classics by Elvis and Otis Redding and had a long solo career, but it’s as a member of the Dead’s classic, acid-drenched 70s lineup – and as the band’s only female member – that she will be remembered
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime
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Is there a crossword person in your life? Would you like to get them a unique gift? PERHAPS FOR CHRISTMAS?
Well maybe a bespoke quiz or cryptic crossword would fit the bill, on any theme, of any size, by the author of [counts on fingers] more than 900 published crosswords, i.e. Me. Give me a shout!
Well maybe a bespoke quiz or cryptic crossword would fit the bill, on any theme, of any size, by the author of [counts on fingers] more than 900 published crosswords, i.e. Me. Give me a shout!
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Is there a crossword person in your life? Would you like to get them a unique gift? PERHAPS FOR CHRISTMAS?
Well maybe a bespoke quiz or cryptic crossword would fit the bill, on any theme, of any size, by the author of [counts on fingers] more than 900 published crosswords, i.e. Me. Give me a shout!
Well maybe a bespoke quiz or cryptic crossword would fit the bill, on any theme, of any size, by the author of [counts on fingers] more than 900 published crosswords, i.e. Me. Give me a shout!