Hjalmar Fors

Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration

Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration https://theonion.com/diplomatic-talks-break-down-between-trump-motion-activated-ghost-decoration/

I dont care what ChatGPT told you about literally anything.

Tycker det räcker bra med att konstatera att deras hittepåfack heter förak(t).

A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.

Japp! Låter väldigt gott. stoppa i en bit choklad kanske?

This may been the best climate news I have ever seen.

Chinese greentech manufacturing investments utside of China, that is industrial infrastructure, not sales, now equals Marshal Plan. Investments are ”straightforwardly good for climate” and focuses on Global South.

”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.”

William Morris, How I Became a Socialist (1894).

Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel is allowed to take part Eurovision Song Contest's director Martin Green has said he would "respect" the decision of any country which chooses not to participate in the competition.

BREAKING: Ireland will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year if Israel is allowed to take part, RTE has announced

news.sky.com/story/irelan...

här en intressant bieffekt; om man smörjer sig med hypnol attraherar man mygg 😁

Acetophenone is one of the most exciting players in skin microbiota manipulation by vector-borne parasites from animal-feeding insects.

Inte särskiltfarlig tydligen men sen var det det där med dos då…

Traveling across Life Sciences with Acetophenone—A Simple Ketone That Has Special Multipurpose Missions
by Fedor I. Zubkov 1,*ORCID and Vladimir V. Kouznetsov 2,*ORCID

Nu är jag såld på det här. Borde återskapas! Är det receptbelagt/förbjudet på något vis?

Inte alls. Låter väldigt gott! Men vad gör acetofenon, undrar jag?

YouTube video by Axess Television Alchemy as Science and Art | Per Faxneld & Hjalmar Fors | Academic to Academic

45 mins of deep talk about alchemy with the briliant Per Faxneld. I just wish I hadn’t been hungover.

Note the quote by Mark Twain. Book release by historian Anders Ottosson tonight. An interesting story of how American and English medical actors invisibilized the Swedish origins of chiropractic and osteopathy.

Reading the Swedish National Library’s copy of Jacqueline Van Gent’s marvellous book ’Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden’ and find that a previous reader has made a marginal annotation referencing my work!

ChatGPT-genererad bild med 55 generiska manshuvuden som ser ut som kopparstick. Namnen och årtalen är mestadels oläsliga.

"generera en bild av svenska kungalängden"

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: buff.ly/BsB17aj

It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

You Are Getting... Generous!

Go support LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology (which was just on fire!!) and get deeply odd swag like this levitating lenticular homunculus (?).

Read about the museum and fire here: lawrenceweschler.substack.com/p/july-17-20...

Donate/join here: www.mjtgiftshop.org

My sock got toe teeth!

Yup. Downgrading humans, it has been going on for a while. To me, AI doesn’t look impressive at all compared to well- cultivated pre-IT human intelligence. (Which used to be remarkably common.)

Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social discussed the shift in focus from sensory experience and sensory-derived, embodied knowledge, towards an approach that prioritised the kinds of knowledge derived from analytical chemistry. Embodied knowledge is crucial for Preservare as well. #14ichc

Provat Qwant? Europeisk sökmotor tycker den funkar ok.

Daniel Sabater Salabert, _Eso es progreso humano_. Detail. At the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.

Även i Valencia påminns man om existensen av Borås…

Lukas J. Meier, Our Hagströmer fellow of 2025 lecture on Icepicks, brains and Nobel Prizes: the history of lobotomies in Sweden.

Briliant stuff.

Har använt word sen början av 90-talet. Snart troligen helt oanvändbart pga enshittification med påtvingad värdelös AI-funktion. Som att ha en demon som sitter på axeln och låtsas hjälpa en, men som egentligen försöker lura en till helvetet.

The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories Their erasure wasn’t just historical; it was archival - and that's why we must preserve our stories, because only we can do it justice

The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of-the-khawalat-urges-us-to-rethink-how-we-preserve-trans-histories/

Introducing: the vedge. A lightweight electric car w low profile specifically designed to flip over SUVs that tries to run over it. I offer this idea up for free to any innovators out there. 😊

Statement by the Board of Uppsala University on the situation in Gaza - Uppsala University

The board of Uppsala University has called on the Swedish government to condemn Israel’s actions, to resume funding UNRWA, and take all available measures (including trade sanctions against Israel) to prevent a genocide in Gaza (see: www.uu.se/en/news/2025...). I urge Lund University to do the same.