Fredrik Graver

Why is Donald Trump building a Jeffry Epstein Memorial Ballroom at the White House?

Gotta admit — Trump throws a hissy fit with all the aplomb of a toddler denied the opportunity to play with a coveted, shiny knife. Even the most unreasonable toddler has more impulse controll.

The Canada advert revealed Trump's biggest insecurity - that's why he hates it The response says far more about Trump than it says about anything else

“Trump’s retaliation here is the Canadian equivalent of Trump retaliating against Keir Starmer’s UK government because of a political advert run by the SNP. Once again, national leaders are having to respond to a US president who doesn’t even bother to wait for basic facts before he acts.”

I’m told the Trump admin. has come here. So I think it’s time for the reminder that not only is Trump vicious and petty; he‘s also stupid and inept. Not to mention an international laughing stock.

Good luck, Americans. You need it.

Oh, that’s a good one.

More #ThinkingOutLoud about #ArtsPedagogy, as my research inches it's way forward. There’s a structure emerging in what I’m doing in my attempt to connect the practically oriented nature of film schools with educational theory and philosophy.

Baby steps…

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Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’

Ok, then. So, the super-rich think it’s a bad idea to have a tax that ensures they contribute a *tiny fraction* of their worth to the public purse, thus ensuring governments can provide services for all. How very surprising. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow

A historic opportunity for the British left is being thrown away. This very public Your Party row must stop now | Yanis Varoufakis and Ken Loach People desperately want and need a party with socialist values. Future generations will be damning if this fails, say economist Yanis Varoufakis and film director Ken Loach

A historic opportunity for the British left is being thrown away. This very public Your Party row must stop now! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We DO NOT CARE"

More #ThinkingOutLoud about #ArtsPedagogy. I feel like I'm starting to get somewhere and am starting to see the contours of where this can end up. Still lots of work to go, however...

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I once attended a talk by Ernesto Laclau. He was pretty difficult to follow. Surely that‘s the kind of thing he means, right?

Right?

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I anledning Den Store Evalueringsuka: En god del av de som oppgir innvandringspolitikk som viktigste sak for sin stemmegivning snakker ikke om faktisk innvandringspolitikk, men om noe mye mørkere. Drikk kaffen og lær deg hva «Stem FrP» har vært kode for ganske lenge.

…I could go on, but I’ve already spent 5 minutes on this, and that’s more time than JD and the MAGAs warrent…

Leftists seem to think it’s our responsibility to preserve the environment for future generations.

Leftists think wealth should be more equally distributed throughout society.

Unnatural freaks.

Leftists insist on things like universal human rights. Even for MAGAs.

Leftists organise protests. With placards. And no firearms!

Leftists are for universal welfare and health care. Even for MAGAs.

Monsters.

Leftists do scary things like provide food and water for people in voting lines.

Leftists make jokes about MAGAs. Some of them are even funny.

Leftist write protest songs.

‘nuff said.

Leftists can say mean things about MAGAs, hurting their feelings.

I see JD Vance is declaring open season on US leftists. That seems reasonable, and let‘s look at some of the reasons why:

Political Violence Is Wrong. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So. The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.

Political Violence Is Wrong. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So. jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk...

So, it seems the reprehensible, right-wing extremist was shot by an even more reprehensible, right-wing extremist. And yet, somehow Trump will find a way to blame progressives…

Kommentar: Charlie Kirk fortjener et redelig forsvar av ytringsfriheten – ikke helgengjøring - Filter Nyheter Det er skadelig å etterlate wt inntrykk av at Kirk var en staut tilhenger av de verdiene vi andre nå tar i forsvar, skriver redaktør Harald S. Klungveit.

Kommentar: Charlie Kirk fortjener et redelig forsvar av ytringsfriheten – ikke helgengjøring - Filter Nyheter filternyheter.no/kommentar-ch...

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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