Maja Bäckvall

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

We need a Star Trek episode about how the invention of the universal translator caused people to stop valuing actually learning languages, while they fatally overestimated the UT's accuracy and the resulting misunderstandings led to a massive war that tore the quadrant apart

Det är släckt nu, men jag kan hälsa att det luktar mindre gott.

En byggarbetsplats fotograferad genom ett fönster på femte våningen. Det brinner i en av stenhögarna och svart rök bolmar upp.

Om någon i Göteborg undrar varför det är en rökpelare nära Götaplatsen så är det bygget bredvid min svärfars lägenhet som råkat sätta eld på gummimattorna (?) under en sprängning.

Here's how to REALLY offend a paleontologist 🦴🦕

#GameChanger / @GianmarcoSoresi.bsky.social

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector

openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist

it’s not an accident

Hashtag väntar på sjukersättning från FK.

Resultatet är bland annat att vi nog inte kommer kunna bojkotta helt och hållet, eftersom vi redan har ätit upp det mesta vi hade i frys och skafferi.

Jag uppskattar bojkotten mot de stora kedjorna men tycker också det är lite roligt att jag och min sambo av ren pengabrist har fått ha vår egna lilla bojkott den här månaden.

En sak jag hoppas ändå kommer med den amerikanska apokalypsen är att folk i Europa ser och förstår vad radikalhögern faktiskt vill. För ingen tror väl att det skulle bli annorlunda om SD, AfD eller Nationell samling fick total politisk majoritet (med vissa lokala detaljer olika)?

Och tågen skulle gå i tid

Me: "I wouldn't want to go to the US, I can't support that country"
My (trans) partner: "I mean, I straight up can't go"

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

Really can not exaggerate how dire it is that the US flat-out disappeared a foreign student

Lediga jobb - Uppsala universitet

Some fun PhD student positions now available in Visby, both in archaeology and cultural heritage. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Breaking my hiatus just to say that Sweden will finally be sending something really goofy to Eurovision. About time!

I've considered it! And the bestiary bot. Unfortunately, I don't have them saved, so I'll have to make them from scratch.

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

Man skriver, inte vet jag, "förortsspråkbruk" och får förslaget "förorts språkbruk".

Det går förstås åt båda hållen vad stavnings- och grammatikkontroll gör för språket, men det finns till exempel anledning att tro att särskrivningar vunnit mark för att stavningskontrollen inte förstår hur svenskan kan skapa nya sammansättningar.

A sample of the automated index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns: APPENDIX: A COMPUTER-GENERATED INDEX acquaintance, familiar, 148 acrostic form, 30 Acrosticks, 147 acrostics, 30 alphabetic, 29 Active indexes, 254 activity, 12, 58 extra-curricular, 97 Addison, 156–57, 186 hauling, 156 skewering, 157 Addison’s Book, 156 Addison’s Grand Tours, 159 Addison’s words, 156 ad hoc verbal guidepost, 255 Adjective Relative, 156 adjustment, small, 105 Adler, 203 Irene, 203 administrative apparatus, 22 admired Christopher Eccleston, 138 affectations, 30 afoot, 144, 217 Africa, 92 After-Burden, 167 afterthought, 96 Againe, 27 Agatha Christie, 39 age, 2–3, 6–7, 9, 137–38, 169–70, 186, 205, 208, 229, 232–33, 251, 254, 256 industrious, 228 old, 12 twenty-first-century, 233 age finding, 6 agent, 213 estate, 76 age of search, 51, 230, 251 age sticking, 185 aggressive coachmen, 162 Agoa, 243 Agrigento, 142 aid, 28, 30, 62, 67, 117, 191 visual, 66

A sample of the first page of the human indexer's index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns. Index Note to the gentle Reader: Page numbers in italic indicate figures. Page numbers in the form 273n1 indicate endnotes. Entries are sorted in letter-by-letter order, except where noted. This index was created by Paula Clarke Bain, who is a professional indexer and a human being. [PCB] A, a, a 77,78,79 abbreviations 38, 40, 72, 78, 79, 242 ABC Murders, The (Christie) 39 abecedaria 28, 29, 35 Abish, Walter, Alphabetical Africa 39 abstracting 4, 245, 248 accuracy 15, 64, 98, 100, 178, 252 acrostics 29, 30, 147, 311 active indexes 254 Addison, Joseph 30, 156–7, 159, 174, 186 loathes acrostics 30 portrait 154 Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 156–7 Spectator indexes 173–7 addresses to reader see introductory notes ‘Adventures of a Quire of Paper’ 171–2, 174 advertisements 42, 101, 176, 183, 186, 214, 249 Aeneid (Virgil) 39, 242, 243 Aesop's Fables 144, 146 agencies, indexing 260, 296–7n22 Age of Distraction 9, 251 Age of Enlightenment 170 Age of Industry 205-6 Age of Search 51, 233, 251 see also search Agoa, Helen S. 243 AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2, 254 aide-mémoire 66, 126 Aitken, Jonathan, goes to jail 137 Akraiphia stones 36 Aldus Manutius, Dictionarium graecum 110 Alexander of Ashby, De artificioso modo predicandi 49 Alexander the Great 30, 93 Alexandria see Library of Alexandria algorithms 100, 233, 251, 258 Alice stories (Carroll) 177–8, 180, 181 alphabet Cyrillic 45–6 Greek 29, 36, 71, 89 Hebrew 29 history of alphabets 28–30 Latin 29

More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same.
(See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

It took me a couple of episodes before I figured out what was bothering me about The 100, which everyone around me loved. It was that everyone was the exact same flavour.

Jag har blivit purken på Europeanas hantering av metadata.

Jag är också nyfiken!

I loved it! I was raised on a lot of British humour, and I was telling a British friend of mine the other day that I've seen northern English stuff referenced enough to get most of the jokes. :D

Happy Christmas to everyone celebrating old calendar Christmas today!

Gamers: adding a difficulty slider compromises the artistic vision of the game devs

Also gamers, apparently: I need an AI filter over every face in my game

some things on the internet get old and cringy but I do not think I will ever get tired of watching Tom Holland's Umbrella performance for the rest of my life

instant smile on my face, every single time

folks, when you ask a chatbot about how it's programmed, it doesn't actually give you accurate answers - it gives you a series of predictive guesses drawn from a corpus of what other people have said about AI and the way you asked it. Meta's 'AI' personalities are not spilling secrets to you.

So very tired of an acquaintance of mine who keeps posting "funny" memes about gaining weight ("The more you weigh, the harder you are too kidnap" etc). As you might have guessed, she's your average person who weighs 5-10 kg more than she did at 20 and now has to be self deprecating about it.