Staffan Höstman

Not Stephan ffs. Very funny. This is my happy face.
Anesthetist/Intensivist/PhD. Father of 4.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Vaccine Anti vaccine
research research

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I'll tell you why so many people upset about the "no hallucinated citations" ban on the arxiv: because they've all been copying citation lists from each other without checking them since the beginning of time.

And why did they do this? Because half of the citations in scientific papers are politics and not to the benefit of the reader. If you don't list the right papers, your paper doesn't look 'right' and reviewers will complain that you didn't cite this-and-that other unrelated work.

For what I am concerned, these are all bullshit citations that shouldn't be in the papers in the first place. They can easily be automated by "related papers" links, that are (wait for it) provided by... AI...

[Staffan Höstman @Stenapan]

@oplatsen Tror vi kallade det upprullning av stridsgrav då jag gjorde lumpen i Finland -98.

[Staffan Höstman @Stenapan]

@NVIDIAGeForce #007FirstLightRTX for the win!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is comical. In The Villages, Dr. Phil really just claimed that:

"What the president is doing here is really something you have to think about differently. He’s restoring trust between Americans and the government."

After the Epstein file coverup?
After making $3-6 billion while in office?
After telling us he would lower prices?

Really? Restoring trust? Is he crazy?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The Epstein thing is rapidly becoming #MeToo 2.0.

Some people have been exposed for participating in absolute evil. One or two examples will be made but most of them seem on course to get away with it.

And at the same time, a large number of people who haven't done anything criminal are having their names dragged through the mud because there's a feeding frenzy.

Why can we never focus on going after the actual perpetrators? Where are the criminal prosecutions of people who were on the island? Of whom we have photos with the young women and girls? Why are we obsessing about people who exchanged a few emails with Epstein instead?

It doesn't make any sense.

[Henri Heikkinen @henrihei]

Tänään opin, että hallituksen esitysluonnoksen mukaan passikuvaa ei jatkossa saisi pääsääntöisesti ottaa itse, vaan kuvan ottajan pitäisi olla valokuvaustoimintaa harjoittava taho.

Ja heti tuli mieleen Frédéric Bastiat.

Bastiat oli 1800-luvun ranskalainen talousajattelija, joka kirjoitti satiirin Kynttiläntekijöiden vetoomus. Siinä kynttiläteollisuus pyysi valtiota kieltämään auringon, koska aurinko “kilpaili epäreilusti” heidän tuotteensa kanssa.

Sama logiikka päti silloin ja pätee edelleen lobbareiden toiveisiin. Vuonna 2025 aurinko on vain korvattu älypuhelimella.

Tietääkseni yhtäkään väärää passikuvaa ei ole päätynyt passiin. Eli mitään ratkaistavaa ongelmaa ei ole.

Silti sääntelyä lisätään. Turvallisuuden nimissä, tietenkin.

Ihmisten arki ei kallistu yhdestä suuresta päätöksestä, vaan tuhannesta pienestä:
pakollisesta palvelusta, ylimääräisestä käynnistä, pienestä maksusta ja ajan hukasta. Yksittäin mitätöntä. Yhdessä kallista, hidasta ja jäykkää. Sieltä se paljon kuulutettu talouden näkymätön jarru löytyy.

Kun sääntelyä tehdään ilman todellista ongelmaa, selityksiä on lopulta vain kaksi.
Joko päätöksentekijät eivät ymmärrä, mitä ovat tekemässä ja ovat täysin lobbareiden vietävänä.

Tai sitten ymmärtävät oikein hyvin, ja kyse on tietoisesta eturyhmien suosimisesta.

Ensimmäinen on tyhmyyttä.
Toinen on korruptiota.

Kumpi näistä lienee kyseessä?

ps. en kyllä kertaakaan ole ominpäin passikuvaa edes ottanut.

https://t.co/xHkiyvzd3S

[Staffan Höstman @Stenapan]

@iyoushetwt Probably the MS-DOS editor (https://t.co/Qu8tNR9s9x). Changed some batch scripts as a kid.

[Staffan Höstman @Stenapan]

@simonmaechling hi

[Staffan Höstman @Stenapan]

🤣

[Titania McGrath @TitaniaMcGrath]

My friends and I have been out all day protesting against this ceasefire.

We demand a ceasefire that wasn’t arranged by Donald Trump.

We will never give up the struggle for peace. ✊

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Hot take: open source is not more secure.

Open source can give you a million eyeballs, but what matters most are (a) the diligence with which the code is originally written, and (b) the expertise of those who later review it.

Having 50,000 people fork the kernel doesn't mean they're all able to scrutinize the code for obscure exploits.

I'd rather have one code review from @marklucovsky than 500 comp sci students looking at it.

[Staffan Höstman @Stenapan]

@drogginmtl @RyanJC2009 @RealEmirHan Yes but 30 secs is still nothing. Read up. If she didn't even black out she was FAAAR from getting any brain damage.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

No, Greta, you were not tortured.

Israelis being held in terror tunnels for two years without light, food, touch, life, and freedom are being tortured.

Iranians forced to confess for their death sentences by having their teeth pulled, being lashed, and subjected to sensory deprivation are being tortured.

Yemenis sentenced to death by stoning for criticizing the Houthis are being tortured.

Lebanese held in Hezbollah’s captivity for challenging its rule are being tortured.

As someone from a country of people who are tortured daily and left forgotten by the world while pampered westerners role play their persecution for media attention, I can tell you that this isn’t the “right side of history.” It’s the theater of the moral narcissists.

[Joo @JoosyJew]

Why are they celebrating so wildly? They went on holiday for weeks, with a handful of aid spread across 44 boats, got arrested, detained, deported and made zero difference to anyone in Gaza. A narcissistic pilgrimage to nowhere, for self-gratification.

[IréneAX @62Sunliner]

Om det här är vad ni anser vara ”EXTRA” på löpsedeln så vete fan hur ni tänker.
Idag är det 7 oktober, dagen då världen borde minnas och hedra offren för massakern mot civila, barn, kvinnor och män.
Att istället väljer ni att lyfta detta (skämt) som huvudnyhet är respektlöst mot alla drabbade.
Fakta, balans och perspektiv borde vara minimikrav för en tidning som kallar sig seriös.

[Lars Adaktusson @Ladaktusson]

”Kidnappad och torterad”… Är det inte dags att allmänhet och medier lämnar denna aktivist ifred med sina föreställningar och sin fientlighet mot Israel. Varför inte ha överseende, sluta uppröras över naiviteten/okunskapen och bara önska henne allt gott?

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

October 7, 2023 Was the End of Palestinianism, Not the Beginning.

For 25 years, I fought to steer Palestinians from victimhood to peace, working relentlessly to halt suicide bombings and revive the peace process. I pleaded with my father, a Hamas co-founder, to choose reconciliation, but my calls were drowned out by cries for revenge. With my life in danger, I fled to the United States, writing Son of Hamas, From Hamas to America, and The Last Prophet. I stood before parliaments, UN halls, and universities, urging: the Palestinian pursuit to erase Israel is a dead end; stop weaponizing civilians; end the victim narrative. I raised critical questions about their illegitimate mission to delegitimize Israel. No one listened.

They barreled toward October 7—a day I foresaw, with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority banking on every Gazan death to vilify Israel on social media. Hours after their barbaric, unforgivable attack, the Palestinian cause lost any shred of legitimacy. Realizing this, I had no choice but to reappear in the media, my first public words in years: evacuate civilians now. Egypt, UN—move. Silence followed. The radical left and hateful factions labeled me a traitor, genocidal, for calling out the Palestinians’ self-inflicted catastrophe—a failure rooted in their obsession with destroying Israel. October 7 wasn’t the start; it was the final chapter of a long, violent saga.

Emotionally swayed Westerners, duped by hateful propaganda, took Hamas’s bait, blind to 77 years of exploiting civilians for political and financial gain, never questioning their leaders’ twisted game. They misread my plea for humanitarian evacuation as ethnic cleansing and my efforts to challenge Palestinian barbarism as treason, all while denying Israel’s right to exist and cheering global intifadas over saving civilians trapped as human shields by those who reject peace.

Evacuate—save the children, dismantle the terror hub, rebuild on ground free of victimhood. Those who ignored my decades of warnings, who glorified “resistance,” now accuse me of hate, parroting the Muslim Brotherhood’s venom against Jews: demonize Israel, embrace the propaganda, abandon the kids. I don’t need validation—just know this: I warned you before Hamas rose to power, before the first rocket, before the livestreamed horrors, leaving Gaza’s children at the mercy of self-proclaimed leaders who gambled away an entire generation’s future.

Hateful hypocrites shout me down to keep their martyr tally high and the terror breeding ground alive. Without evacuation, Palestinian terrorism will persist. If they can’t destroy Israel, they’ll turn their guns on each other, fueled by the world’s endless rewards, and another century of bloodshed looms. With evacuation, tomorrow’s terrorists lose their breeding ground and victim factory. The Palestinian false identity, false narrative, and false cause must end. Arabs who choose to stay have no choice but to live peacefully with Israel, building and prospering together. Betting on Palestinian statehood at the expense of Israel’s existence won’t bring peace—it will fuel endless wars.

You’ve been warned—choose the next century wisely.

[Noa Tishby @noatishby]

Where are all the Hollywood actors and the “ceasefire now” crowd?

A Gaza peace plan is on the table. It ends the war, returns the hostages, and builds a future for Palestinians. Backed by the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.

If you really care about peace, demand Hamas accepts the deal now.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

russian forces shot and killed civilians, including a child’s parents, and abducted a young  girl. russia then continued their assault while holding the child hostage to prevent retaliatory fire. Radio interceptions indicate that these actions were premeditated 👇1/5

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

He beheaded Christians, Yazidis, Druze, Alawites, and Kurds.

Why did no one performatively walk out during his speech at the UN?