How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler? The malfunctioning xAI chatbot provides some insights into how large language models work.

"How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler? The malfunctioning xAI chatbot provides some insights into how large language models work." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Laundromat cafe, Copenhagen.

From dawn to dusk. Project exams as supervisor at RUC. With students from Mexico, Cameroun, Greece, Ireland/Philipines, Kroatia, France, Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark. Almost around the world in one day.

Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1955) - La Cinémathèque française

Kom til at tænke på Resnais’ Nat og tåge da jeg så det sidste billede. www.cinematheque.fr/film/50890.h...

Selvom den første exodus er ovre, tror jeg heller ikke vi har set den sidste. Novembers “tilflyttere” kom vist primært fra Twitter, nu er folk forsigtigt på vej fra Facebook, i hvert tilfælde i mit eget netværk. Men der mangler stadig et brugervenligt alternativ til FB uden begrænsning på tegn.

The cat and I are pretty hard at work at the moment.

Users Flock to Bluesky After Trump Win YouTube video by Bloomberg Technology

Lots of interesting info in this new interview with the COO of Bluesky. Fi subscriptions coming end of year.”We are two women heading Bluesky who have been on the internet for years. We put safety first”. But does distributed labelling of controversiel content do the trick, I wonder?

[da] det føles lidt som gammel elevfest at hænge ud i samme program som @fohns.dk @tveskov.com @ernstpoulsen.bsky.social @4nd3rs.dk … (altså på den gode måde!)

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research' A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck as Paul Virilio said. Story out that a ML librarian at Hugging Face created an AI training data set based on 1 million complete posts from Bluesky. Bluesky’s open fire hoseAPI allows this, like it, I suppose, allows researchers to crawl the site…

Interesting and thought-provoking findings which to a certain degree also reflect my own experience. Note however that findings are based on self-reported data from countries defined as having low- or medium profiency in English (Bangladesh, Bolivia,Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Spain, and Ukraine).

@snurb.info reminds us that Weinberger pretty much killed the echo chamber discussion 20 years ago. + Often when people talk of echo chambers, they really mean “community”
Communities of interest are now forming on BS but it doesn’t mean the place will turn into a platform of siloed conversations.

Vi har valgt at udvide top-listen over populære danskere på Bluesky.
Er du på listen - og hvem er ellers i toppen?

#bskydk #dkpol #dkmedier

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Today I taught a BA class in Media studies. Out of about 25 students in their early twenties, only two knew about Bluesky (and the X-odus). Obviously anecdotal evidence but I wonder when and if the under 30’s will move in here? Anyone out there with knowledge of f.i US youth and Bluesky use?

Thank for the link love Line :)

Internet studies people unite!

Internet studies starter pack is here - incomplete, skewed etc etc but some fantastic folks, to help us all rebuild our social networks. Happy to add you if I left you out! Please circulate, and here it is:
go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf

(Link to chapter overview plus download via Dropbox)

Research is not always slow! Jackson et al have just published a report on the 2024 US election with 80+ short analyses of various aspects of the election by renowned researchers, including social media use. www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

“The state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.” — @jay.bsky.team in @nytimes.com

gift link:

whiteboard with MUST: - 10k user signups - view post on web - app store - other pds federate - 3p labels/services etc

A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was “10k user signups.”

We’re growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.

November mood.

Udviklingen af antal postsfra danskere på Bluesky, de seneste 90 dage

Full steam ahead på danskere som springer fra X / Twitter og her til Bluesky.
Særligt i de sidste par dage er det gået stærkt med nye brugere og dermed også posts.
På Overskrift.dk monitorerer vi naturligvis også danske Bluesky posts og samtaler. #dkmedier #smdk

Similar trends in DK where an anti-screen evangelist with a renowned psychologist has started a citizen petition to also ban social media (Snapchat, Tiktok and Instagram) for young people under 18. If they get 50.000 supporters Danish parliament will have to discuss it&they are getting there..

Austrian Airlines' farewell to the Twitter.

This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.

Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK 🦋

On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice 🤭

According to Bluesky’s own profile in here, 1 million new users have joined the app in the last week. Is this the final X/Twitter exodus, an effect of the outcome of the US election or what is going on?

Uh, that’s a lovely one!

Tak Torill!

Testing photos with a cat.

My first post, pretty late to the party!