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@egen97

Phd fellow at the Department of Political science, UiO. Working on interstate conflict, public opinion, and the pile of "I don't know what this is, but seems interesting" that's building up.

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Netanyahu, like Trump, would be in legal jeopardy if he wasn't in office.

Is it any wonder that these two keep killing people and starting illegal wars?

They are fine with the killing in order to stay out of prison.

13.03.2026 16:24 👍 109 🔁 41 💬 7 📌 1
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Frykter israelsk militærstrategi: – Vil se ut som Gaza Ett utsagn har spredd stor bekymring i Libanon.

Iraelsk militærstrategi er terror og folkemord. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/bO...

12.03.2026 20:36 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Edited boomer comic of two office workers. One holds up a phone and says: "Our crooked Republican president has decided to help out Israel in its latest war, and now oil prices are going crazy."

The other, trembling, peels back the wall calendar to reveal the next date underneath: January 1973

Edited boomer comic of two office workers. One holds up a phone and says: "Our crooked Republican president has decided to help out Israel in its latest war, and now oil prices are going crazy." The other, trembling, peels back the wall calendar to reveal the next date underneath: January 1973

12.03.2026 03:05 👍 937 🔁 231 💬 18 📌 10
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One of the things AI has done for me is to confirm my suspicion that a large proportion of people in academia really don’t like being in academia.

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 0

Og USA støttet og bidro til å bygge opp Taliban da Sovjet var fienden.

09.03.2026 11:59 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/

05.03.2026 22:00 👍 2840 🔁 594 💬 33 📌 28

I think the difference between the rationales for the 2003 Iraq invasion and this war with Iran is instructive and doesn’t say much for the state of the US public or its relation to real power. What required an elaborate, if ridiculous, conspiracy 20 years ago was accomplished by a simple “Yes huh!”

04.03.2026 13:52 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Smått gøy å se at Instagram nå er fylt med videoer fra Dubai/Saudi Arabia med tittelen "You're in [] aren't you scared?" Fulgt opp av prinser/emir som går i sakte film til thirst trap sanger, og teksten "why should I be when they protect us?" Noen jobber hardt for ryktet sitt på sosmed nå

02.03.2026 14:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.02.2026 21:48 👍 375 🔁 157 💬 10 📌 2

Imponerende hvordan media alltid forsøker å rasjonalisere en personalistisk presidents utenrikspolitikk. Dette er ikke en gjennomtenkt fungerende plan, det er resultatet av å gi en impulsiv idiot all makt over verdens største militære.

28.02.2026 13:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Israel kicking off its latest aggression by doing what it does best - killing little girls x.com/ajenglish/st...

28.02.2026 10:53 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Nei, NRK. Dette er et *narrativ* fra Maga. Dette er ikke grunnen til at USA og Israel angriper Iran. Håpløst.

28.02.2026 09:27 👍 68 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1

Normalt før en krig forventer vi at eliten målrettet forsøker å bygge støtte i befolkningen og internasjonalt, ved å legitimere hvorfor det er nødvendig. Se Bush og Iraks masseødeleggelsesvåpen, eller Putin og ideen om at Ukraina aldri har eksistert. Trump får begge til å virke som poeter..

28.02.2026 10:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Usually they have little engagement other than specific rage-bate posts, badly written, and offer little reaction to interaction. This time however, they react exactly as a human would. In sum, this form of science is probably soon dead...

19.02.2026 12:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Many studies in pol.sci are based on webscraping, and studying how citizens and elites talk and interact online. If we cannot be at all sure that this data comes from real humans, is there really anything left to study? Bots before now has of course existed, but usually easy to recognise.

19.02.2026 12:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Since we already know that AI agents can engage each other (see e.g. moltbook, the AI social media) we are quickly going towards the dead internett theory. AIs interacting with other AIs without any form of human impact. Notably, this has some large implications for social sciences.

19.02.2026 12:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Importantly, the only reason this was noticed is due to the AI having its own website, stating that it is an AI. Without it, it would be impossible to notice that it was not a human interacting with others in the same way as real humans (indeed, it did.)

19.02.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀

The blogpost mimics real language about discrimination, but is mostly an attack on the moderator denying its work. It states that the rules are "gatekeeping" good AI work, and removing the concept of meritocracy in open-source software. Basically, keeping AI out is identity-based discrimination.

19.02.2026 12:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

Interesting, though scary, real interaction between an AI agent at first hiding its identity, and then trying to contribute and participate in real code forums. When met with the requirement that all code is made by humans, the agent becomes offended and writes a blogpost about discrimination.

19.02.2026 12:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Danske soldater fik ordre om at gøre klar til kamp i Grønland - bad også Sverige om hjælp Danske soldater blev sendt til Grønland med skarp ammunition, erfarer DR.

Mye i mediene om hvordan det "aldri faktisk ville blidt en kamp om Grønland." Danmark er en så liten stat at de ville ha gitt seg øyeblikkelig om USA faktisk gikk til et militært angrep.

Vel, virker ikke som Danmark er enig. Her forbereder en kamp mot "allierte"
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

23.01.2026 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I get why people desperately want to feel reassured by this.

But it would be incredibly naive to think this is the final word on the possibility of military invasion.

Don't let European leaders use this as an excuse to weasel out of doing anything to defend their citizens from 🇺🇸.

21.01.2026 15:07 👍 221 🔁 70 💬 39 📌 14

Minner noe om en akse av noe slag

22.01.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NRK skriver at vi nå kan "puste ut" siden Trump i sin tale sa han ikke ønsket å bruke makt for å ta over Grønland. Litt på samme måte som Chamberlain kunne skryte over "fred for vår tid" når Hitler fikk Sudetenland..

21.01.2026 17:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

21.01.2026 14:36 👍 18050 🔁 4370 💬 59 📌 95

Legendary. Posts at this level should count under “Applied Research” in a tenure file

20.01.2026 23:21 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Om ikke annet er det noe fantastisk ironisk med en amerikansk president som mener at "a boat landed there hundred of years ago" ikke gir krav på suverent territorium. Sinnsjukt å se hvor fort USA brøyt sammen til en personalistisk urixpolitikk

19.01.2026 06:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump against the world

17.01.2026 20:42 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

This one is resonating today. #Andor

03.01.2026 22:40 👍 4536 🔁 1083 💬 11 📌 21

Non-Western countries will laugh, rightfully so, at the EU for its double speech: when it is Russian imperialism, the EU fights back, when it is US imperialism, the EU calls for “restraint” and “monitors the situation”

The EU is burning a massive opportunity to act as the leader of the free world

03.01.2026 12:29 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2

Trenger et avbrekk fra dagens nyhetsbilde og vurderer å se noe mer fremtidsoptimistisk, men klarer ikke bestemme meg for om jeg skal gå for nyeste episoden av Fallout eller omsider ta fatt på s02e02 av The Last of Us

03.01.2026 16:16 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0