Morten Rand-Hendriksen
@mor10.com
Tech is political. Hope is a catalyst. The future blooms from a healthy disrespect for the sanctity of technology.
AI contextualizer, tech ethics thinker, TEDx speaker, TikTok unfluencer, Vancouverite, neurodivergent Norwegian.
AI contextualizer, tech ethics thinker, TEDx speaker, TikTok unfluencer, Vancouverite, neurodivergent Norwegian.
Violently stupid, violently dangerous; Trump's Kakistocratic government and their supporters are Vibe Governing based on far-right conspiracy theories and anti-science idiocy. Autism isn't caused by Tylenol. This incompetence should be cause for immediate disbarment. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Tylenol makers over autism claims
He accuses them of hiding alleged dangers from the drug, following the Trump administration's unproven claim it is linked to autism.
www.bbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Violently stupid, violently dangerous; Trump's Kakistocratic government and their supporters are Vibe Governing based on far-right conspiracy theories and anti-science idiocy. Autism isn't caused by Tylenol. This incompetence should be cause for immediate disbarment. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why are some people entrenched in ideas you find puzzling? Why do they think your ideas are bizarre? Information bubbles! And algorithms! My new book for kids--and adults!--explains it all, with humour. It drops Nov 11. Pre-order today!
@jandolby.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social @mor10.com
@jandolby.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social @mor10.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Why are some people entrenched in ideas you find puzzling? Why do they think your ideas are bizarre? Information bubbles! And algorithms! My new book for kids--and adults!--explains it all, with humour. It drops Nov 11. Pre-order today!
@jandolby.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social @mor10.com
@jandolby.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social @mor10.com
Technology is a choice. So is how we talk about it. Let's choose language that describes AI as assistive technology we use (or don't use) to help us flourish.
Welcome to my #TEDxSurrey talk:
youtu.be/yjLsHD9IzIA?...
Welcome to my #TEDxSurrey talk:
youtu.be/yjLsHD9IzIA?...
Why we're giving AI too much credit | Morten Rand-Hendriksen | TEDxSurrey
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Technology is a choice. So is how we talk about it. Let's choose language that describes AI as assistive technology we use (or don't use) to help us flourish.
Welcome to my #TEDxSurrey talk:
youtu.be/yjLsHD9IzIA?...
Welcome to my #TEDxSurrey talk:
youtu.be/yjLsHD9IzIA?...
Is anyone running year-over-year stats on international attendance at big US tech conferences? I'm curious to see what the dropoff looks like. People I talk to in Europe and Canada are either not buying tickets or cancelling their tickets to major events.
October 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Is anyone running year-over-year stats on international attendance at big US tech conferences? I'm curious to see what the dropoff looks like. People I talk to in Europe and Canada are either not buying tickets or cancelling their tickets to major events.
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What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
September 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
Boarded, masked, and ready to go on leg one to Copenhagen and Future Product Days!
YVR 🛫👨💻🛬YUL 🛫🍿🛬 CPH
If you see me in the next 5 days, come say "Hi" and let's have a conversation about the future!
#futureproductdays #linkedinlife #linkedinlearning #unboxingmcp #keynotespeaker #braggyhashtags
YVR 🛫👨💻🛬YUL 🛫🍿🛬 CPH
If you see me in the next 5 days, come say "Hi" and let's have a conversation about the future!
#futureproductdays #linkedinlife #linkedinlearning #unboxingmcp #keynotespeaker #braggyhashtags
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Boarded, masked, and ready to go on leg one to Copenhagen and Future Product Days!
YVR 🛫👨💻🛬YUL 🛫🍿🛬 CPH
If you see me in the next 5 days, come say "Hi" and let's have a conversation about the future!
#futureproductdays #linkedinlife #linkedinlearning #unboxingmcp #keynotespeaker #braggyhashtags
YVR 🛫👨💻🛬YUL 🛫🍿🛬 CPH
If you see me in the next 5 days, come say "Hi" and let's have a conversation about the future!
#futureproductdays #linkedinlife #linkedinlearning #unboxingmcp #keynotespeaker #braggyhashtags
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Our backyard weather station in Burnaby, BC measured 76 mm of rain in 24 hours on August 15, 2025. The rain event started at midnight and this reading was at 11:30pm the same day. #bcstorm #metrotown #burnaby
August 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Our backyard weather station in Burnaby, BC measured 76 mm of rain in 24 hours on August 15, 2025. The rain event started at midnight and this reading was at 11:30pm the same day. #bcstorm #metrotown #burnaby
Anyone being surprised by this has not been paying attention for the past decade. Putin's Man in the White House does Putin's bidding. Always has.
FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”
August 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Anyone being surprised by this has not been paying attention for the past decade. Putin's Man in the White House does Putin's bidding. Always has.
The heat of Republican fury if Biden met with Putin in Alaska would have created its own weather system.
Instead we watch the abdication of a nation to a tyrant, delivered by the weakest man who ever lived.
Instead we watch the abdication of a nation to a tyrant, delivered by the weakest man who ever lived.
August 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The heat of Republican fury if Biden met with Putin in Alaska would have created its own weather system.
Instead we watch the abdication of a nation to a tyrant, delivered by the weakest man who ever lived.
Instead we watch the abdication of a nation to a tyrant, delivered by the weakest man who ever lived.
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tangentially related, but one argument I have been trying to put together for a while is how the far right's embrace of AI kitsch is something which differentiates it from classical fascism, and not a clear-cut case of continuity.
rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism
August 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
tangentially related, but one argument I have been trying to put together for a while is how the far right's embrace of AI kitsch is something which differentiates it from classical fascism, and not a clear-cut case of continuity.
The reason you feel like it's all coming apart even though everything seems normal is because it's all coming apart and everything we consider normal is the reason.
August 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The reason you feel like it's all coming apart even though everything seems normal is because it's all coming apart and everything we consider normal is the reason.
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The only thing in the way of everything Trump 🇺🇸 and Putin 🇷🇺 want is Canada 🇨🇦 😬.
August 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The only thing in the way of everything Trump 🇺🇸 and Putin 🇷🇺 want is Canada 🇨🇦 😬.
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"The world is a white Bronco and the highway never ends." -- THEY KNEW (2022)
August 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"The world is a white Bronco and the highway never ends." -- THEY KNEW (2022)
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"There is no crueler task than to have to document one’s own demise and there is no more selfless act than to leave a record. That is what Palestinian journalists gave as their lives were stolen. Anas Al-Sharif was 28 years old."
New article! On the murder of Palestinian journalists and the genocide in Gaza: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/on-palestine
On Palestine
My articles on the Gaza genocide.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"There is no crueler task than to have to document one’s own demise and there is no more selfless act than to leave a record. That is what Palestinian journalists gave as their lives were stolen. Anas Al-Sharif was 28 years old."
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How to sound tough but do nothing: Impose tariffs on a country where we already impose sanctions.
A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.
A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.
July 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
How to sound tough but do nothing: Impose tariffs on a country where we already impose sanctions.
A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.
A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.
This is what fascist propaganda looks like. We learned about how to spot it in 7th grade history class in Norway.
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is what fascist propaganda looks like. We learned about how to spot it in 7th grade history class in Norway.
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This is 100% correct. NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks.
July 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is 100% correct. NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks.
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I don’t want to say I immediately had a visceral reaction when I saw the DHS post but … yeah… I did …
Right on cue with the fascism.
Right on cue with the fascism.
July 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I don’t want to say I immediately had a visceral reaction when I saw the DHS post but … yeah… I did …
Right on cue with the fascism.
Right on cue with the fascism.
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Grok refusing to answer questions unless X users upload blood tests to prove the purity of their DNA
Grok refusing to answer questions unless X users upload blood tests to prove the purity of their DNA
Since so many of the kind of people X does not want Grok interacting with have stayed on the site despite all of X’s efforts to drive them away, they’ve settled on blood tests.
www.thebeaverton.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Grok refusing to answer questions unless X users upload blood tests to prove the purity of their DNA
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One-Trick-President who promised to end the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in 24 hours (it's been 194 days) claims zero percent success rate tariff ploy will end the Russian war of aggression in the Ukraine in 50 days:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
Trump sets 50-day tariff deadline for Russia to end war in Ukraine | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States will impose "very severe tariffs" on Russia in 50 days if there is no deal to stop the war in Ukraine.
www.cbc.ca
July 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
One-Trick-President who promised to end the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in 24 hours (it's been 194 days) claims zero percent success rate tariff ploy will end the Russian war of aggression in the Ukraine in 50 days:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
I love how the team just casually move around him so he disappears in the background.
Trump was shown to leave the stage but wasn’t visibly willing to go as Chelsea lifted the trophy
July 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I love how the team just casually move around him so he disappears in the background.
My friends and I walked 2km to school by ourselves in 3rd grade. We discovered a path through the woods that would get us there faster. It went over a marsh and two small creeks. When our parents found out, they went into the woods and built some bridges to make the creeks easier to cross.
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My friends and I walked 2km to school by ourselves in 3rd grade. We discovered a path through the woods that would get us there faster. It went over a marsh and two small creeks. When our parents found out, they went into the woods and built some bridges to make the creeks easier to cross.
Have you read the book "Your Face Belongs to Us" by @kashhill.bsky.social? If not, this is your sign to read it
I've been tracking local stories about Clearview AI, and have noticed a steady uptick in its use by police departments. It's a worrying trend, esp with no federal laws on the use of facial recognition.
Here's one story on its use in Dallas w/ 94 searches over 6 months: www.wfaa.com/article/news...
Here's one story on its use in Dallas w/ 94 searches over 6 months: www.wfaa.com/article/news...
July 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Have you read the book "Your Face Belongs to Us" by @kashhill.bsky.social? If not, this is your sign to read it