@hesselbom Christofer Brugges resa är inspirerande:
https://www.nvp.se/2025-09-25/mysig-miljo-lockar-lasarna-till-nya-bokhandeln-enormt-gensvar/
@silhelm Klokt. Det skulle intressera mig mycket, och jag tror jag skulle kunna göra en hel del nytta på det sättet. Men jag har inte tidigare sett mentorskap som roll i upphandlingar. Hur vanligt är det?
At a crossroads. I feel so very done with decades of working in large IT projects.
Considering pursuing employment, or going all in on becoming more independent selling digital products (templates, worksheets, courses, ebooks and more).
I think I really would like to give the latter a go, but it also feels incredibly daunting. I need to set up a plan, but obviously should also do market research, likely by doing some proof of concepts and MVPs…
Or start a physical bookshop, wouldn't that be something.
I'll continue sharing how this all goes.
Jane Goodall April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025 ❤️
"Goodall revolutionized primatology long before she obtained any formal scientific training. After she had spent several months watching the reserve’s chimpanzees from a distance, a chimp she dubbed David Graybeard began to allow her to approach him. She saw him push a grass stem into a termite mound to fish out his meal, clearly using the stem as a tool. Then she saw him strip leaves from a twig before using the twig for the same purpose. The chimp had demonstrated both tool use and toolmaking, behaviors widely believed exclusive to humans. When Goodall reported these observations to Leakey, he responded by telegram with three now-legendary lines:
NOW WE MUST REDEFINE TOOL STOP
REDEFINE MAN STOP
OR ACCEPT CHIMPANZEES AS HUMAN
The breakthrough led to Goodall’s first National Geographic story, and after that, the publicity never really stopped. Sometimes, it led to unwelcome attention: Older male colleagues questioned her abilities as a scientist and criticized her for naming the chimps she studied instead of identifying them by number."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/10/jane-goodall-fame-research-conservation/684433/
❤️
@theatlantic.com: Jane Goodall, who died Wednesday at 91, was not just a pioneering scientist, but also an expert at wielding the power of fame, Michelle Nijhuis writes.
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Writer’s block. It’s been a while. I may need to pivot a bit and explore new topics.
Selling the idea that we need to build enormous, noisy, thirsty, fossil-fueled datacenters to reach information that is available in just so many already printed books.
www.thedrum.com/opinion/2025...
Mark Ritson: ChatGPT’s new ads show even AI can’t deny the brand-building power of TV
Google ads transparency just became significantly less transparent.
”Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone.
We had been told that Google would try to stop people placing political ads, a "ban" that was to come into effect this week. I did not read anywhere that this would mean the erasure of this archive of our political history.”
Reported by Liz Carolan.
https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/
Fascismens tidiga varningstecken. Längst ner kan du läsa min översättning av punkterna på en affisch baserad på en essä skriven 2003 av affärsmannen och författaren Laurence Britt.
Essän publicerades i magasinet "Free Inquiry" med titeln ”Fascism Anyone?”. Den innehåller 14 gemensamma egenskaper hos de sju regimer Britt analyserade: Hitlers Nazi-Tyskland, Mussolinis Italien, Francos Spanien, Salazars Portugal, Papadopoulos Grekland, Pinochets Chile och Suhartos Indonesien.
I affischens ’fotnot’ står ”Dessa tecken stämmer överens med den politiska och ekonomiska riktningen i USA under Bush/Cheney. Engagera dig i att vända denna antidemokratiska riktning medan du fortfarande kan!”
På sociala medier beskrivs det ofta som att affischen hänger på Holocaust Museum i Washington D.C. men det är inte helt korrekt. Affischen har aldrig varit en del av utställningarna där, men däremot såldes den i deras souvenir-butik under en period (inte längre), vilket avslöjats av faktakollar-sajten Snopes.com. Kvinnan som tog den ursprungliga bilden 2017, Sarah Rose, har bekräftat att den är från butiken. I den ursprungliga bildens nedre högra hörn syns också en prislapp.
Ibland citeras det som att Laurence Britt är doktor och historiker, men inget av det stämmer faktiskt heller. Och han har själv aldrig påstått det. Däremot skrev han boken ”June, 2004” som publicerades 1998 och förutsåg mycket av det vi ser i USA idag.
Affischen har i sig skapats av Syracuse Cultural Workers med tillstånd av Britt. Det är också hos Syracuse Cultural Workers du kan köpa affischen. Den finns även som vykort och bokmärke ❤️. Tyvärr är dock frakten till Sverige väldigt dyr och jag ska se om det går att få tillstånd att göra något av den svenska översättningen.
Fascismens tidiga varningstecken
- Kraftfull och fortlöpande nationalism
- Förakt för mänskliga rättigheter
- Utpekande av fiender som en enande kraft
- Militär dominans
- Ohämmad sexism
- Kontrollerad massmedia
- Besatthet av nationell säkerhet
- Religion och regering sammanflätade
- Skyddad företagsmakt
- Förtryckt arbetarmakt
- Förakt för intellektuella och kultur
- Besatthet av brott och straff
- Ohämmad nepotism och korruption
- Valfusk
@iamdavidobrien Thank you David!
@Gupperduck Exactly right. This is the type of impact I often write about on my blog and in my newsletter.
https://axbom.com/data-shadows/
@seawall What app are you using, if any?
@vnikolov Yes, he was educated as a software engineer at the Higher Engineering Radio-Technical College of the Soviet Air Force in Kiev. The point about him not being a military man are actually his own words. "my colleagues were all professional soldiers, they were taught to give and obey order" - he was the only one among his colleagues with a civilian education (Aksenov 2013) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24280831
@the5thColumnist In 1979 a technician inserted a training tape into a NORAD computer (by mistake) that simulated a Soviet attack on the US. It could be that or the 1980 incident you're thinking of: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2020-03-16/false-warnings-soviet-missile-attacks-during-1979-80-led-alert-actions-us-strategic-forces
@8r3n7 Yes, I would argue that is October 27, so in a month's time.
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Haha, someone on the fediverse just told me this. Love the show, haven't seen this week's episode yet.
toolsforthought.social/@billseitz/1...
@billseitz Cool, I love High Potential! Haven't seen the episode yet.
"AI will take over the world."
This can mean two things:
1. "AI" will become self-aware and decide to control humans.
2. Gen-slop and deepfakes will dominate available content, leading to deskilling, human abuse and eco-harm.
The first idea has no basis, but it's fair to worry about the second.
"AI will take over the world."
This can mean two things:
1. "AI" will become self-aware and decide to control humans.
2. Gen-slop and deepfakes will dominate available content, leading to deskilling, human abuse and eco-harm.
The first idea has no basis, but it's fair to worry about the second.
Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.
The early warning system at command center Serpukhov-15, loudly alerting of a nuclear attack from the United States, was of course modern and up-to-date. Stanislav Petrov was in charge, working his second shift in place of a colleague who was ill.
Many officers facing the same situation would have called their superiors to alert them of the need for a counter-attack. Especially as fellow officers were shouting at him to retaliate quickly before it was too late. Petrov did not succumb.
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
The computer was indeed wrong about the imminent attack and Petrov likely saved the world from nuclear disaster in those impossibly stressful minutes, by daring to wait for ground confirmation. For context one must also be aware that this was at a time when US-Soviet relations were extremely tense.
I've previously written about three lessons to take away from Petrov's actions:
1. Embrace multiple perspectives
The fact that it was not Stanislov Petrov's own choice to pursue an army career speaks to me of how important it is to welcome a broad range of experiences and perspectives. Petrov received an education as an engineer rather than a military man. He knew the unpredictability of machine behavior.
2. Look for multiple confirmation points
Stanislav Petrov understood what he was looking for. While he has admitted he could not be 100% sure the attack wasn't real, there were several factors he has mentioned that played into his decision:
- He had been told a US attack would be all-out. An attack with only 5 missiles did not make sense to him.
- Ground radar failed to pick up supporting evidence of an attack, even after minutes of waiting.
- The message passed too quickly through the 30 layers of verification he himself had devised.
On top of this: The launch detection system was new (and hence he did not fully trust it).
3. Reward exposure of faulty systems
If we keep praising our tools for their excellence and efficiency it's hard to later accept their defects. When shortcomings are found, this needs to be communicated just as clearly and widely as successes. Maintaining an illusion of perfect, neutral and flawless systems will keep people from questioning the systems when the systems need to be questioned.
We need to stop punishing when failure helps us understand something that can be improved.
My original blog post about Stanislav Petrov:
https://axbom.com/lessons-from-stanislav-petrov/