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Selfshittification – The Suppression of Free Speech
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When Donald Trump started throwing foreign students out of their studies, and indeed all the way out of the USA, sometimes with weeks of detention first, just because they had displayed some opinions, it wasn’t really anything new. The USA is in the lead when it comes to restricting free speech, using social media as […]
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Reading With Your Ears
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Many of the great composers of classical music were living from writing notes. They might have been music teachers as well, or even performing as conductors or musicians, but they were hoping to get their notes published, much like today’s musicians are hoping for a record contract. Notes were the way for people to get […]
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Which Instrument Should You Pick Up?
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As I have written elsewhere, I have been a bit around during the last few months, picking up several types of instruments. Apart from being very interested in music and in both listening to and producing it, there could also be an element of continued search for the right instrument hidden somewhere in my behavior. […]
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Danish Writers Protest
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While Israel is converting Gaza to rubble, killing thousands and driving millions away from their homes, while at the same time preventing emergency aid to get to these people, there is no scarcity of condemnations from Western governments. Not all Western governments, it should be said, as the USA, for instance, seemingly enjoys seeing how […]
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Breaking Free of the Dominance
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During a number of years, there have been several initiatives across the European Union to develop alternatives to the American software and services that dominate the use of computers – which means, dominates almost everything we do. Almost every single company, organization, or individual in Europe, like in the rest of the world, is dependent […]
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Hackers in Sweden – Cyberwar
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We would all prefer to not talk about them – to just look the other way, as we always do here in Sweden. Hackers. They are getting more and more insisting, making our digitalized world dysfunctional and counterproductive. Instead of paying easily with “Swish”, a concept that connects a bank account to a phone number […]
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The Panic Age
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Whenever something big happens, Danes tend to just lean back and watch. Preferably on the TV or the mobile phone, so that they can zap around a bit. Someone else will then fix the problem, they think. And usually this is how it goes. Someone else will fix whatever it was. A crime wave will […]
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Danes Fooled by Chinese AI
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Danes are happy, as we know from the yearly happiness reports, always placing Denmark as one of the top countries. Happiness is in that context mostly something about economy, but I could add another dimension to it: they tend to trust others. In some countries, that would make them “happy idiots”, but in Denmark, the […]
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Life in Greater Scandinavia
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I bet you live somewhere in the world – most people do 🙂 I also bet that you hear a lot of news and get a lot of cultural input from some parts of the world, but much less from others. There are some cultural centers that seem to run off with all the attention. […]
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The Sad State of Customer Service
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Recently, I was told, through the tracking information from Poste Italiene, that a package was available for me to pick up at “Swedish Post Office, Sweden (EE)” – and with a link to an empty page that should have shown a map. Well, I am in Sweden, and I was expecting the package from Italy, […]
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