Trygve Kalland

Filter er en redaktør og noen få journalister og leverer mer viktig journalistikk enn digre mediehus.

Ja, mediebransjen er i krise. Men det går faktisk an å levere på samfunnsoppdraget hvis man vil. Abonnér!

I think this is hugely important. I have done a lot of research on religion and politics for my book (about 🇬🇧) and I cannot overstate the difference between the pundits and politicians who talk aggressively
about "cultural Christianity“ and the people you meet when you actually go to church.

Yes, the way we treat what is ultimately just a company’s product as some inevitable force of nature is absolutely bizarre.

Given the problem is prevalent across all of society, through all age groups, I think it would make more sense to target how social media actually works for everyone - namely algorithmic feeds and who controls them - rather than targeted user bans like this

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

Consumer-facing "A.i." is controlled by rightwing billionaires with an interest in spreading disinfo. Excise it from your lives, friends. It's trash.

Enig, dette gir mye mer mening enn å legge ansvaret for å håndheve aldersgrenser på tek-gigantene.

Frps Erlend Wiborg og NRK villeder om ukrainske flyktninger ...skal det aldri ta slutt?

Det er uheldig når Frps Erlend Wiborg blander sammen to helt ulike forhold om ukrainske mannlige flyktninger, og det blir ikke bedre av at NRK feilinformerer om antall ukrainske flyktninger. Men Russland er nok fornøyd. Det har jeg skrevet om på Substack:

bjornjberger.substack.com/p/frps-erlen...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Helt sjukt

It’s the Internet, Stupid What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

I disagree with parts of this (Fukuyama hugely underplays "cause #1") but agree best explanation for populism's 2010s-20s surge is social media.

There's an optimism for Europe in his thesis: we're the continent that sets democratic limits on digital giants.

www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...

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‘The appeal to the mystical image of the “warfighter” is that it avoids having to discuss war in concrete terms. It sells the attractive myth that by doing more of the parts of war that look cool and really make you feel like a man, you can actually win wars.‘

www.deadcarl.com/p/clausewitz...

How satisfied are Europeans with the EU? EU citizens remain satisfied with belonging to the bloc, but there is space for improvement, particularly regarding tackling the cost of living. #EuropeInMotion

‘Europeans still see the European Union as a force for stability in a turbulent world, with nearly three-quarters (73%) saying their country benefits from membership. This is one of the highest levels ever recorded’ 🇪🇺👍
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Much of the public, and apparently White House, doesn't know that many of the US military's general and flag officers are intellectuals. Study history and theory, get that war, politics, economics, and culture intertwine, etc.

Or maybe the White House does, and that's what they're trying to change.

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

Trumpland is full of idiots who believe that economic & military capabilities fall from coconut trees. They're ignorant & arrogant people who obsess over branding & aesthetics. They think they're about hard power & machtpolitik, but they're actually doing the dumbest possible version of soft power.

And I will add that no socks can ever help Pete Hegseth

Må innrømme at jeg ikke hadde fascistisk maktovertagelse i verdens mektigste land på bingokortet mitt for 2025– jo, vent der var det, visst. I hver eneste rute, faktisk.

Diktatoren samlet alle alle imperiets generaler og krevet av dem at de skulle vende seg mot folket selv.

Norsk presse: Hæhæ, de vil ikke ha feite soldater

Indeed.

«Mindre fokus på mangfold»? Det syntes de var essensen i talen? Er dette en parodi?

Yep

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

How? 1/

Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump do not see the military as a tool to win wars, but as a way to express cruelty.

Jeg sier dette som tidligere offiser: dette er like avskyelig som det er dumt.

Mediene er fullstendig ute å kjøre og svikter i sin samfunnsoppdrag. Vi blir servert sak etter sak om unge konservative menn og tradwives mens andre og mye mer relevant grupper hører vi ingenting om. Førstegangvelgere med minoritetsbakgrunn for eksempel skulle jeg gjerne lest mer om & forstått bedre

Prime Minister Tusk at the Warsaw Security Forum:

This [Russia-Ukraine] war is also our war. It is not a question of simple, obvious,&necessary solidarity with a country that has been attacked by an aggressor. This is a question of the security and the survival of the entire Western civilization

I kjølvannet av drapet på Charlie Kirk ser vi en ny norsk offentlighet Les kronikken.

– De er en del av en ytringsberedskap som kan bidra til en livsviktig samtale mellom folk som i utgangspunktet kanskje hverken deler holdninger, virkelighetsoppfatninger eller medieplattformer.

Et innlegg som vil godt men som bommer på noe viktig.

Vi bør ikke godta ulike «virkeligheter».

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