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Jill Walker Rettberg

@jilltxt.bsky.social

Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Teknologien truer kunnskapssystemet vårt. Men den norske staten har slukt tekgigantenes PR rått.

Les kronikken.

www.aftenposten.no

November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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Ine Harsten 📎

@iharsten.bsky.social

Bernhard Ellefsen alene er verdt et Morgenbladet-abonnement.

Her om NRKs redaksjonelle fallitt, med fokus på Ville fristelser.

Jeg skjermdumper et utdrag, for ikke abonnenter.

www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/nrk-h...

NRK GPT «Hva er det NRK holder pa med», spurte skribent og skuespiller Johanne Magnus i et leserbrev i Aftenposten med henvisning til blant annet Ville fristelser. Svaret hun fikk fra tv-sjef Jan Egil Adland og eksternredaktor Jostein Olseng var av den typen generisk ledelsesprosa som fär Chat GPT til à fremstà som Georg Johannesen. Og her mä den litterære stilistikkens guder ha meg unnskyldt, men det mà et lengre sitat til for à vise frem hvilken fornærmelse mot bäde Magnus og offentligheten hver av disse setningene er: Vi i NRK jobber huer eneste dag for ä vare hele Norges allmennkringkaster - pa nett, radio og TV. Vi holder folk oppdatert pả et krevende nyhetsbilde bäde lokalt, nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Vi bidrar til debatt og refleksjon, vi skal være det tryggeste fellesskapet for barn, vi tar vare pà norsk og samisk spräk og kultur. Og vi underholder. Hvis KI skal være verdt noe, mà vi snart fa tastaturer med innebygget filter som gir brukeren et hardt stot hver gang ordene «krevende, «debatt» og «refleksjon» kombineres pả sả tanketomt vis. När det kommer til underholdning som Ville fristelser, skriver de at den «gir felles opplevelser og samtaleemner pả tvers av generasjoner, bakgrunn og geografi». At en konkurranse hvor flertallet av deltagerne er utvalgt nettopp for sine manglende evner til à ta enkle, rasjonelle valg, utholde selv en seks kilometer lang tur i skogen, sove i telt pả et helt alminnelig liggeunderlag eller formulere en meningsfylt setning pa norsk, skulle ha noe à gjore med «felles opplevelser og samtaleemner pa tvers av generasjoner», er sà absurd at man er fristet til à gi opp à diskutere med NRK. Men det bor vi ikke, for mulighetene og fellesskapsressursene de skusler bort, er viktigere enn noen gang.

September 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Ole Svarthumle

@svarthumle.bsky.social

"Radioen er en lineær overraskelse, der noen andre har sørget for at jeg alltid opplever noe nytt."

Tid og kunstnerliv: Radiotaushet • ballade.no

– Jeg vil ikke ha radiotaushet. Jeg vil ha radioaktivitet!, skriver dirigent og skribent Cathrine Winnes i denne utgaven av spalten "Tid og kunstnerliv", og hiver seg på radiobølgen av en kulturdebatt...

www.ballade.no

October 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM

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Japan Media Review

@japan-media-review.bsky.social

Why being an English-speaker makes Japan uniquely difficult

Full post on Patreon for unpaid members
www.patreon.com/posts/139931...

As someone fluent in Japanese and assimilated into Japanese culture, I will analyze some core things about Japanese culture that English-speakers have trouble understanding when trying to integrate into Japanese society.

Linguistic diversity

In the English-speaking world, linguistic diversity is the norm and people generally accept others who speak English with different accents and different cultural-linguistic backgrounds. However, this tolerance of linguistic diversity doesn’t exist in Japan, and English-speakers find it hard to adjust to the intolerance. If your Japanese requires Japanese people to pause to process what you just said or ask you to repeat yourself, it will absolutely prevent you from assimilating. Companies will refuse to hire you. People will avoid interacting with you since speaking with you takes extra effort. In the English-speaking world, it’s enough that you speak a version of English. In Japan, you cannot just speak your own version of Japanese; you need to speak the same Japanese as spoken by Japanese people. Many English-speakers don’t understand why they are being rejected and excluded even when they can speak Japanese. They cannot comprehend the fact that they are being rejected because they speak their own versions of Japanese instead of Japanese as spoken by Japanese people. They are looking for a tolerance of linguistic diversity that doesn’t exist in Japan outside very specific niches.

Cross-cultural communication

This is like suffering from success, but English-speakers are too good at cross-cultural communication to understand the difficulties from the Japanese perspective. I have noticed that many English-speakers cannot understand the idea of cross-cultural communication being simply too exhausting and difficult for average Japanese people. It’s like people who grew up using computers not understanding how using PowerPoint is incredibly difficult for those who didn't grow up using computers.

Not only do many Japanese people have a much lower tolerance of linguistic diversity, they also have a much lower tolerance of multicultural ideas and perspectives. I don’t mean that they will hate you for having different ideas and perspectives. What I mean is that since they aren’t regularly exposed to foreign ideas and perspectives, they can’t engage with them in any meaningful way. When Japanese people come into a conversation with someone who presents foreign perspectives and ideas, many of them can’t process the perspectives and ideas into something that’s meaningful in their mind. It’s like if you know nothing about physics, and someone presents to you ideas and perspectives in theoretical physics; you just cannot process the conversation into something meaningful, so you just tune out and don’t engage. It’s not that you hate the person for talking about theoretical physics; it’s just that you cannot engage so you find the person inapproachable and exhausting.

Moreover, if you are raised in a multicultural environment, you have that natural curiosity and motivation to keep engaging in a multicultural conversation even if it's difficult. For example, when you converse with a foreigner, even if you find her language and ideas difficult to understand, you have a natural motivation to keep trying. However, Japanese people aren't raised in an environment where they learn that behavior and mindset, so often times their default reaction is to shut down instead of keep trying. Your way of handling complex multicultural interactions is learned through growing up in a multicultural environment, and you cannot expect that behavior from Japanese people.

Japan’s reluctance to interact with foreigners is not only about racial hatred. It’s also about the fact that many of them just genuinely do not have the ability to process foreigner perspectives even when explained in Japanese or the skills to handle challenging multicultural situations. You need to understand this is what people are like when they are not raised in a multicultural environment. To be accepted in Japan, you need to speak like a real Japanese person about things that Japanese people understand. You also need to discuss things from perspectives that are common in Japan. This requires that you consume enough Japanese media to know what topics and perspectives are common in Japan.

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September 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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Elin L’Estrange 🌹

@elinlestrange.bsky.social

Det er egentlig ingen grunn i verden til at vi skal kartlegge hva en fem-seksåring kan. De er små, og skal først og fremst lære å gå på skolen. Prøver og kartlegginger har også en kostnad. Av og til tjener kartlegginger storsamfunnets kontrollbehov mer enn barnet.