Thoughtful Dane

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted"
#nobel-peace-prize

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“It was a choice of ballots over bullets”

It's one big f-finger to the orange toddler & his nannies is what it is. Great choice.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

Good morning from Lake Tullinge, Sweden. #photography

You will know shortly what the best option was

#autumn #morning #photography

The minister a few weeks back shrugged and essentially blamed SD, "what can I do?", and "nobody else is going to meet their targets". Like it is optional to follow the law?

How AI Copyright Law Is Being Guided By Spirits From Atlantis | Defector With scant guidance for how to handle copyright requests for AI-generated works, the law is playing catch-up. As copyright offices around the world have consistently denied protections to AI art, you ...

"The light charging his body made him indestructible, so when he died in December 1939 of heart failure, it came as a shock to the movement."

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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Skidegodt indlæg! Har du dækket forskellen mellem lidt meget og meget lidt?

Et angreb på et moderne atomkraftværk medfører ikke en nedsmeltning som ved Tjernobyl. Tyngdekraften stopper kædereaktionen hvis noget går galt, som en dødemandsknap.

En ødelagt dæmning når reservoiret er fyldt kan derimod lægge hele områder øde.

Sverige vil hellere bygge nye atomkraftværker end havvindmølleparker. Begge er sårbar infrastruktur. Vandkraft har også sine ulemper. Det er svært at bygge effektiv og sikker infrastruktur når der bor bøller på den anden side af hegnet.

Foreign-born also vote SD.

Sätraskogen, Huddinge, Stockholm.

Äventyrstigen, Lida, Botkyrka.

Quite cut-throat! Even if it is a race, it is hard to not get in each others' way! Thanks for playing!

Additional 70 000 000 000 SEK from Sweden to Ukraine over the next three years. Will take the form of Swedish built military equipment.

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:
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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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The lure is so compelling. Just vote once then no more burden of responsibility. Believe the big lie and let go of all your worries and fears.

Five copies of #holmgang ready for playtesting and pitching!

I know a good joke about procrastination. I’ll tell it later.

The USA Republic uses the Imperial system while the empires use the metric system of the French Republic.

Pretend you are a time traveler. Find out what year it is without looking at your phone.

Six copies of #draw-stranger ready for playtesting!

Cards for #holmgang arrived today!

Here's a thread on how to win a Golden Cobra. I've won it twice and judged it once, not that that's any guarantee.

(Golden Cobra is a larp competition, which launched today, and you should totally enter).

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New card design for Gotlandia - Thoughtful Dane I am working on a new card design for my boardgame Gotlandia, a game about the Golden Age of Gotland 1100-1400. I have play tested extensively with the current set of cards and I am happy with how the...

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YouTube video by Christopher Loverro An American Veteran In Ukraine Addresses President Trump. Christopher Loverro

"President Trump, this has become a turning point in American and world history. For while you expect the Ukrainians to cede their land, you have ceded our position as the leader of the free world."

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