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Fredrik Graver
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Professor of film school pedagogy at the Norwegian Film School. Fascinated by the intersection of art and technology. Am convinced creative expression and making art is what makes us human. Involved in MishMash – Centre for AI and Creativity as I believe we cannot leave AI to the tech companies.
Reader of science fiction. Lover of dogs. Watcher of sports. Drinker of whisky. Sceptical enthusiast when it comes to gadgets and tech.
My writing is zuzai*
* Characterized by the absence of AI.
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@eivind@fribygda.no @LarsFosdal@mastodon.social Ikke reis på camping in Canada, spesielt indre og nordre Ontario, på våren eller starten av sommeren. Kombinasjonen av black flies og noseeums gjør det til helvete på jord…
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@Remittancegirl Then there’s this, related, issue. Microsoft this time.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116521485454720727
Back to work today after 5 weeks summer holidays. So, of course I’ve been awake since 3am, since my brain apparently needed to run through everything I might need to do this week…
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@eivind@fribygda.no @LarsFosdal@mastodon.social Min erfaring med black flies fra Canada (og Wiki oversetter knott til black fly) er at de biter som bare f. og kommer i enorme svermer. Og ofte er de så små at de kan trenge gjennom myggnetting… Har ikke vært like plaget av knott på Innlandet som av black flies i Canada, men har alltid tenkt at den norske varianten bare er litt snillere… Men Sviknott hadde jeg aldri hørt om; ser de er noe litt annet, ja.
Se https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I’ve already seen it spread—and retracted—on Mastodon. But it does say something about the times we live in when satire becomes indistinguishable from reality.
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Forbidden Planet hit cinemas in 1956. Its warnings about AI should terrify us https://theconversation.com/forbidden-planet-hit-cinemas-in-1956-its-warnings-about-ai-should-terrify-us-288391
«Forbidden Planet suggests an uncomfortable reading of “AI”: amplified id. Not human intelligence sharpened, but human appetite unleashed.
The Krell did not destroy themselves because their machines failed. They destroyed themselves because their machines succeeded.»
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@francis@mastodon.babb.no @hallvors@oslo.town Enig; det var et veldig bra innlegg. Og Amerikansk eierskap at kritisk IT-infrastruktur er en sak som fortjener mye mer kritisk oppmerksomhet enn den har fått hittil.
Kritisk IT-infrastruktur i amerikanske hender https://www.khrono.no/kritisk-it-infrastruktur-i-amerikanske-hender/1069325
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@eivind@fribygda.no @LarsFosdal@mastodon.social Ser at sviknott kan oversettes til «noseeums» eller sand flies—da vet jeg hva de er, ja!
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@eivind@fribygda.no @LarsFosdal@mastodon.social Tror det riktige er gnats. Evt. black flies i Nordamerika.
The AI Resist List https://airesistlist.org/
On LLMs, language, cultural references, and supressing the horrors of war. A worth-while read from @jilltxt@aoir.social.
“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references) – Jill Walker Rettberg https://jilltxt.net/du-ma-ikke-sove-a-floating-motif-detached-from-its-meaning-or-llms-can-write-norwegian-but-miss-cultural-references/
(The original poem in it’s entirety can be found here: https://www.nb.no/items/d7fb96765bfb5f0bef6b1218f5cd7231?page=325)
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@print@theforkiverse.com @bizette@theforkiverse.com Pfft. The one opera I did see as a child — Borodin & Rimsky-Korsakov’s Prince Igor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Igor) – isn’t even on the list. How can a book with such a gap be trusted.
(There was an *opera* of Robin Hood?? Who knew.)
Well. Given how long I lived in Canada, I can appreciate the enormity of this scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/maple-syrup-scam-quebec-canada?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
As it stands right now, the rest of NATO is better off without the US. Trump is too stupid and unpredicable to be an ally for anyone. He does not understand international relations, economics, or the basic principles of what being an ally means. The only thing he is interested in is personal enrichment and stroking his own puffed-up ego.
Stefan Fisher-Høyrem leverer her en lang og meget grundig gjennomgang av den siste salven Aksel Braanen Sterri leverte mot Inga Strümke i den pågående debatten om hvilken trussel KI egentlig utgjør i samfunnet.
For meg er det ingen tvil: her har vi all grunn til å stole mer på Strümke enn Sterri.
Sterri vs. Strümke https://www.stefanfisherhoyrem.com/blogg/sterri-vs-strumke
Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe https://theconversation.com/using-your-ai-chatbot-as-a-search-engine-be-careful-what-you-believe-277616
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@Pepijn You will certainly find some Canadians—especially Quebeckers—who would claim the same for their provinces.
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@Pepijn Wait… If the Welsh Senedd counts then I should be able to count Canadian provincial legislatures, no? That would add 3 to my total, and put me at 7 as well.
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@Pepijn I went with a Synology BeeStation and have not regretted it. Only one disk, however. But super easy—set it up and forget it. I’ve used it to access files remotely.
It seems to me that those who value results are more likely to delve into using AI than those who value process.
I work with fine arts education—filmmaking—and for me, process is *everything*. And so AI becomes marginal, at best. But I can see lots of use cases—also in filmmaking—where AI can help achieve a result more efficiently.
A modest proposal for the use of AI https://crookedtimber.org/2026/02/04/a-modest-proposal-for-the-use-of-ai/
Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing | Whatever https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/another-reason-not-to-use-ai-for-your-writing/
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«By the early 20th century, devising technical-scientific answers to complex political problems had become a standard feature of international politics. What theorists and advocates of European integration, most famously David Mitrany, later conceptualised as ‘functionalism’ – cooperation over technical rather than ideological common ground – has been a remarkably persistent feature and, not least, served as the founding rationale of the EU.»
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@cogdog@cosocial.ca I’m pretty sure that had @pimmthedog used a megabite, that SD card would no longer be in one piece…
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@Downes@mastodon.social Enjoy the next big thing!
I’ve followed your work with MOOCs and connectivism in one way or another since 2008—Enjoy retirement in the knowledge that you’ve made a big impact on educators around the world.
The ‘Sovereignty’ Narratives That Don’t Help Europe | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/the-sovereignty-narratives-that-dont-help-europe
An Outpouring of Love and Esteem for Stephen Lewis | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/01/Outpouring-Love-Esteem-Stephen-Lewis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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«The making of international organisations, then, was not insulated from imperial expansion, multinational business interests or great-power competition. On the contrary, many of the organisations we today praise as great but tragically ailing bulwarks against power politics have historically been the latter’s fellow travellers. Their claim to neutrality did not restrain power; it normalised it, and it often did so by fiat. International organisations invented a technocratic international that was not unlike a gated community: sheltered from its own conditions of existence.»
What It Now Takes to Establish a Fact | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/what-it-now-takes-to-establish-a-fact
Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/02/easter-bunny-movies-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This resonates: «Generative models are fundamentally cliche machines. If you ask AI to write a film script, it will produce an average film script masterfully. If you ask it to write an essay, it will produce an average essay masterfully.
Once upon a time, mastery of the banal was adequate for writers. It was enough to prove that you were capable of writing. But that skill has no purpose any more – it can be automated. Skill will be found in the purpose of the work. What can you alone make happen with language?»
Wallace Shawn’s Road to Socialism https://jacobin.com/2026/04/wallace-shawn-socialism-theater-class/
Slowjamastan: The new 'nation' hiding in the US https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260330-slowjamastan-the-worlds-newest-nation-youve-never-heard-of
Five Sci-Fi Stories About the Dark Side of A.I. - Reactor https://reactormag.com/five-sci-fi-stories-about-the-dark-side-of-a-i/
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«Technocracy, short of literal rule by experts, then constitutes a style or mode of politics that mobilises and thus uses (or abuses) expertise.
Think of the Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF that managed the bailouts of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Ireland after the 2008 financial crisis: all three institutions justified their harsh and controversial interventions across these countries by reference to economic expert advice. This allowed them to sidestep democratic deliberation as well as, most controversially, accountability. The crux is that experts and their technocratic mobilisers are different sets of actors with different motivations: the former translate their credentialed specialist knowledge into advice and recommendations; the latter try to persuade us that they simply follow that advice.»
When Homer envisioned Achilles, did he see a black man? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/when-homer-envisioned-achilles-did-he-see-a-black-man
Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/google-earth-ai-fiasco-underscores-why-tech-firms-must-listen-to-outside-experts