Fyrfältare som beskriver aspekterna demokratisk-auktoritär på ena axeln och fokus på gruppen/staten kontra individen på den andra. Modellen ska ses som ett analysverktyg när man försöker förstå hur olika stater och organisationer förhåller sig till varandra sett till makt och individens rättigheter.

Var i diagrammet tycker du att Sverige borde vara, och vart tycker du att vi är på väg?
Var skulle länder som USA, Kina, Kanada, Ryssland, Tyskland eller Finland, hamna? Pågår en förskjutning? Vem vinner på det?
Plotta ut och diskutera konsekvenserna för de som bor i respektive land.

Busch: Rennäringen bör inte vara ett riksintresse Kristdemokraterna vill ompröva rennäringens ställning. Antalet renar bör minska och rennäringen inte längre vara ett riksintresse. – Det är en näring som berör väldigt stora ytor men har en begränsad ...

Man måste verkligen slå knut för sig själv för att inte se att detta ytterst handlar om att bara det mycket lönsamma och ekonomiskt starka ska få finnas annat än på nåder, och att statens överhöghet är viktigare än individerna.
Ett steg närmre den totalitära staten…

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Paradigmskifte: under stora delar av min livstid gick de politiska skiljelinjerna i den ekonomiska politiken. Ska pengarna gå till barnomsorg eller vägar, skattesänkningar eller sjukvård? Nu är skiljelinjen för eller emot demokrati, och jag befinner mig plötsligt på samma sida som gamla motståndare.

(En reflektion: språket har alltid lånat sig till förvrängning. Språket kodifierar en grupps moraletiska värderingar, synsätt, och påverkar vår förmåga att uttrycka saker och därmed vår förmåga att tänka. Makten över språket är därmed makten över tanken. Ergo förvrängning som medveten maktmetod.)

Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.

Onwards toward the greigification of journalism, making critical examination of power too expensive to be worth it.

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Ledare: Det är något väldigt konstigt med Alice Teodorescu Måwes hemliga donator Ingen begär att EU-parlamentarikern Alice Teodorescu Måwe (KD) ska berätta hur säkerheten kring henne ser ut.

Jag antar att det är detta: att @dagensnyheter.bsky.social tar sin journalistiska uppgift på allvar och granskar makten istället för att släta över och dölja, oavsett vem som styr, som gör att ytterhögern med flera numera stämplar tidningen som ’vänsterradikal’.

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"For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out nex... "For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out next ste...

This is just one more story in a line of many. Amazon makes money from treating it’s employees as meat machines.
Read the comments.
You make your own choices: mine is to not shop with Amazon.

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Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

De evangeliska kristna äger tillsammans med etno-nationalisterna svensk politik idag, och får de fortsätta med det är risken stor för att det som beskrivs i artikeln blir verklighet här också: rätt sorts kristen, annars får du smyga med dina åsikter och din tro.
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Germany's AfD party adopts 'radical' manifesto ahead of polls The far-right party is riding high in the opinion polls in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Contrary to popular belief stoked by the fall of Orban and his pro-Russian policies THIS is the current trend in much of Europe at the moment: ultra-conservative, ethno-nationalistic, and pro-Russian.
Don’t be blinded into passivity. You can make a difference.
Vote!

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I’m glad that Orban’s gone. But. Peter Magyar is decribed as a conservative nationalist.
A lot of people would benefit from checking both definitions, not to mention the track record of parties that are conservative nationalists (eg racist and misogynistic).
Happy to be wrong, though.

Night time, trees silouetted against a night sky lit by aurora borealis

The aurora’s up.

A screen shot of Apple’s iOS Notes app, with boxes added to highlight wasteful use of screen space.u

The Liquid Glass UI is such a brilliant study in screen real estate waste, and the lack of balanced proportions makes me seasick. Apple should know better.
(Boxes in pic marks space burnt by mismanagement in the iOS Notes app.)

Picture of th walk by Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm, Sweden, looking west. Against the sun, so harsh contrasts, and in spring, so no leaves on the trees yet.

Against the sun at Norr Mälarstrand. Stockholm, Sweden.

<🧵 Meanwhile, all they want is to obliterate all regulation which protects ordinary people from the theft, exploitation, and state-sponsored violence of the corporate state.

You can do the sums yourself in regards to how those two pieces fit together.

The Overton window have shifted so far sideways that ’caring for each other’ has turned into a political statement weaponised by the authoritarians to mean ’illogical weakness’, flung as an insult and branding social liberals (center right) and social democrats (center left) alike as ’crazy left’.🧵>

Are you and your life of lesser value than theirs? Who benefits from us not talking to each other, not challenging each other, not building new insights or new knowledge, new understanding?

And the most important question: who benefits from this? 🧵5/5

In this you need to ask yourself: whose cause are you a tool for? Is the best world one where everyone think the same, dress the same, eat and live the same? Will the ruling class be and live the same way as you? 🧵4/5

All the while the world is burning, from dependence on coal and oil, from all the bombing and breaking, and from rampant extraction economics at scale. 🧵3/5

The chatbots don't want us to speak clearly with each other anyway, so let's not use too big words, yeah? 🧵2/5

In 2026 humankind has truly stepped on the accelerator and is now hurtling itself straight into a nivellated hell of sameness, where the Oxford English Dictionary can tell me that words such as 'nivellate' are obsolete: let's all descend into kindergarten level language of imprecision. 🧵1/5

Say No to Palantir in Europe A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...

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Demokratin skulle må mycket bättre av det.
Nu är allt bara iscensatt mediamanipulation. Och det vinner de auktoritära, antidemokratiska, skamlösa och penningstarka krafterna på.

Opinionsundersökningar, politisk reklam, streamade debatter samt event av Almedalen-typ borde förbjudas från 12 månader innan ett val. Genom det skulle partierna tvingas ha en politik, istället för som nu slänga ogenomförbart sistastundenvalfläsk till människor vars liv de uppenbart struntar i.

When you encounter a crappy piece of software your first reaction should not be ”bad usability, bad design, I can remedy this” but rather ”this software has another purpose than to serve my needs” and then ask ”who is the real benefactor”.
For health records it’s almost always about invoicing.

Which concepts a lanugauge has specific words for is telling on it’s culture and norms.

I prefer not to use the English ’natural sciences’ as that choice of wordings implies natural also is meant to mean obvious or self-evident.

I find it endlessly fascinating that in English the ’science’ in STEM means the sciences about the physical nature, and yet they have to qualify it with tech AND engineering, AND mathematics.
Like, they might not be included otherwise, so just add them to be sure.

Screen shot from LinkedIn post: ”Technology scales faster than ethics. The real question isn’t what companies can build, but what they should.”

LinkedIn, today.
Somehow ’scaling ethics’ gives ’one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic’.
But yeah, right: ethics needs to scale, ethics on an individual level - fx autonomy, integrity - can’t apply on, say, consumer segments?

The context is Meta’s glasses. If anyone wondered.

Screen shot of excerpt of LinkedIn post made by an AI influencer, text as follows: — start excerpt — My take: We are watching intelligence turn into infrastructure. The old assumption was: build a great model, then find customers. The new reality is: secure power, compute, financing, and distribution then scale intelligence like a utility. That shift changes everything. — end of excerpt —

What is even ”We are watching intelligence turn into infrastructure” supposed to mean?!

No matter the growth/extraction-ideology underpinning the text the disdain of humans and humanity should be off-putting. But I guess enough LinkedIn-users are just that insecure to walk into the trap.

More squares, faster.
For whom, and what for? Who cares? 🙄