Frank HP

@work: DevOps, System Manager. @home: Family / friends, bike+ running, football, Liverpool FC :)

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@RpsAgainstTrump Maybe possible if 'Europe' had the impression that this was actual negotiations with real intent from Russia on making peace. Then for sure leaders like @kajakallas would be present.

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@CFCforxile Michael Laudrup - the super elegant maestro. And the only player to win El Clasico with 5-0 for both Real and Barca.

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@quitte74 Aftensmad? Luksus!!
Næh da jeg var barn - - -
boede vi i en papkasse ude midt på motorvejen og fik kun levninger fra bilerne der kørte forbi …

[M4X @maximbilan]

If we had Claude in 1998.

I asked it to free up some disk space.

What's the worst thing you ever deleted from C:\WINDOWS?

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@TPPeter12 @tveskov I så fald har du / firmaet et andet problem som ikke løses ved at chefen sidder på lårene af disse 'ingeniører'

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@tveskov ... ikke 'stå op' i 45 min ! Med mindre man er garder på vagt... > max 12 min dagligt i et team og ud med 'managers'. Lugter langt væk af problem solving under mødet >> ud i separate møder.

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@pubity This is exactly why tech super nerds / billionaires should NOT be given more power of a society than ‘normal people’. Take care of your democracy America.

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@KarstenKrogh14 Tak for det gode råd 👌For vi må også gerne sige “tak” i Danmark.
Prøver du at være høflig på udenlandsk, så glider det hele lidt lettere med samtalen og med betjeningen.
Det giver altid respekt med lidt “udenlandske fraser” så Please, Merci beaucoup, Por favor, Bitte

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

There are five of us. Five people, appointed by a parliament most of the planet could not find on a map, who decide, once a year, which human being the world has agreed to call good.

I know. I know. I think about it on the tram.

We meet in a building on Henrik Ibsens gate, a street named after a man who wrote almost exclusively about people discovering they are frauds, which nobody on the committee finds funny except me. There is a room with a long table and the portraits of the dead laureates looking down, Mandela, the Dalai Lama, a great many earnest men in spectacles, and one portrait we do not discuss, which is Kissinger, 1973, awarded while the bombs were still falling, after which two of our predecessors resigned and the satirist Tom Lehrer said political satire was now obsolete. We keep him on the wall. A reminder. Every family has the uncle.

It is October in Oslo, which means the sun gives up around four in the afternoon like a civil servant, and it rains the particular Norwegian rain that isn’t quite falling, just hanging there, judging you. I arrive with wet shoes. I always arrive with wet shoes. There is coffee, because this is Norway and there is always coffee, we drink more of it per person than almost anyone alive, and someone’s wife has sent kanelboller, the cinnamon buns, and we sit, five Norwegians, damp, caffeinated, sugared, and we decide the moral standing of the entire species.

Let me tell you how it actually works, because the world imagines a cathedral and it is, I promise you, a book club with a mandate.

287 nominations this year. 208 people, 79 organizations. Anyone can nominate, that’s the secret nobody understands: a professor, a parliamentarian, a former laureate, so the “nominee” list is meaningless, it’s a suggestion box, and every autumn some congressman nominates his own golden retriever and the press writes “SHORTLISTED.” Nobody is shortlisted. There is no short list the public ever sees. There is us, and the coffee, and the rain, and the portraits, and a Norwegian stubbornness that is older than the prize itself.

We read reports. The institute’s advisers write them, thick dull documents, and we argue. Our chairman told the BBC once that in the final meeting “there is a high temperature.” High temperature, for a Norwegian, means someone slightly raised an eyebrow and then apologized for it. We don’t do high temperature. We do a long silence, and then Kristin says “well,” and everyone knows exactly what “well” meant, and it’s settled. That’s our shouting. “Well.” You’d have to be raised here to hear the violence in it.

Now. This year. I will not say the name, because we never say the name, but you know the name.

A certain head of state wanted this prize the way a child wants a thing in a shop window, which is to say loudly, and in public, and with the full belief that wanting it was itself the argument. He said he deserved it. He said he’d ended eight wars, a number that grew most times he said it, like a fish. He had other heads of state phone us. Israel’s prime minister posted it on the internet, “Give him the Nobel.” The leaders of Cambodia and Pakistan announced they’d nominated him, as though announcing it were part of it, as though we tally mentions. A man flew around the globe collecting endorsements for a Norwegian committee the way you’d collect signatures for a petition to the council about a noisy dog.

And here, uff da, is the detail I treasure, the one that makes me smile into my coffee. The nomination deadline is the 31st of January. He took office on the 20th. So for all the phone calls, all the posts, all the gilded lobbying, the only nominations that could possibly count for this year’s prize were filed in the first eleven days of his term, before he had, by his own arithmetic, ended a single one of the eight wars. He campaigned all year for a prize whose window had shut while he was still hanging up his coat. We didn’t have to reject him. The calendar did. We just watched. Norwegians are very good at watching. We have long winters.

People think we sit there weighing his deeds. We don’t. That’s the thing I can’t make the world understand. We’re not grading his homework. We don’t owe anyone the prize for a ceasefire, however real, however loud the announcement. “He made peace” is not a sentence that ends in a medal, the way he believes it does, the way he believes every good thing ends in his name on it. The will of a dead Swede says the prize goes to whoever did the most for fraternity between nations. A dead Swede, I should add, who made his entire fortune inventing dynamite and selling arms, and spent his last years horrified at his own obituary, which called him a merchant of death, and so bought his way to immortality as a man of peace. The whole prize is one guilty arms dealer’s attempt to launder his name. We are, all of us, administering a dead man’s public relations. I find this clarifying. It keeps me humble. It should keep everyone humble, and it keeps, by my count, no one humble at all.

So who did we give it to?

An eighty-five-year-old woman. A judge. Born in Durban, under apartheid, granddaughter of a Tamil man who came to South Africa as indentured labor, a bus driver’s daughter from the poor Indian quarter, who became the first non-white woman to run a law practice in her province, who defended Mandela’s people when defending them was dangerous, who sat on the Rwanda tribunal and the court at the Hague, and who, at eighty-five, is right now a judge weighing whether a genocide is a genocide. When we told the world, our chairman said the rule of law “underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace,” and that “peace requires justice.” She wasn’t even in Oslo. She was in Nuremberg. In courtroom 600. The actual room where they tried the Nazis. You cannot stage that. God staged that, and God, it turns out, is a better satirist than any of us.

She did not phone us. She did not post. No prime minister demanded it for her on the internet. She had, as far as our deliberations are concerned, the one qualification the loud man could never manufacture, which is that she wanted the work and not the medal. The medal finds those people. It flees the ones who chase it. This is not a rule we wrote. It’s just the only pattern the hundred-odd years of our mistakes has ever shown.

The reaction from across the ocean was immediate. His spokesman posted that we “place politics over peace.” Ja. Perhaps. We’re five damp pensioners in a rainy city; of course it’s political, it was always political, it was political when we gave it to a sitting American president nine months into his first term for the promise of things he had not yet done, and we have been quietly embarrassed about that one for fifteen years, so believe me, we had a particular reason this year to prefer a woman with fifty years of verdicts behind her over a man with eight wars in front of him and a deadline already behind him.

Here is what he will never understand, the thing I’d tell him on the tram if he ever took one. We are the one prize he cannot buy, cannot post his way to, cannot have a friendly dictator phone in for him. Not because we’re incorruptible, nei, we’re as vain and wrong and human as the portraits on our wall. But because the entire point of the thing, the only power a small cold country’s book club has ever held, is that it goes to the person not performing the wanting. The moment you demand it, you’ve proven you don’t understand what it’s for, and proving that is itself the disqualification. He ran the most expensive campaign in the history of the prize and the campaign was the reason. He was never losing to Navi Pillay. He was losing to the concept.

It’s dark now. Four o’clock dark. The buns are gone. Kristin said “well” an hour ago and we all went home. I’m on the tram with my wet shoes, and somewhere across the water a very powerful man is explaining to a camera that the prize is rigged, that we’re corrupt, that he’ll win it next year, and he genuinely might, we’re only five idiots and we’ve been wrong before, Kissinger is still on the wall.

But not this year. This year an old woman in Nuremberg, in the room where the law once stared down the exact kind of man who thinks wanting a thing loudly enough should make it his, got a phone call she didn’t ask for.

That’s the job. We don’t reward the man who ends the war and announces it.

We reward the woman who spent fifty years deciding what a war was.

He’ll never see the difference. That’s rather the whole point of him.

Takk for i dag. I have to change trams.

[Mona Juul @JuulMona]

Det sker ikke tit, at jeg giver ordet til politiske modstandere og kollegaer her på min side.

Men nu er det rigtigt at gøre.

For de siger noget vigtigt:

Min kollega @stinuslindgreen fra Radikale skrev: “Vi kan dagligt se misinformation fra Rusland på sociale medier. […] Jeg kan selvsagt ikke dele alle de informationer, jeg får indsigt i gennem mit folketingsarbejde, men det bekymrer mig virkelig, hvis der er skabt mistillid til myndighederne blandt dele af befolkningen”.

Min kollega @khoenge fra SF skrev: “Løgne og manipulation kværner ud far hovedkvarteret i Kreml for at få opbakning til den udsigtsløse angrebskrig”.

Min kollega @troelslundp fra Venstre skrev: “Jeg bliver oversvømmet af kommentarer fra anonyme profiler, der deler konspirationsteorier. Langt de fleste handler om, at jeg elsker krig, at jeg er i lommen på forsvarsindustrien, at Ukraine selv er skyld i, at Rusland angreb dem, og at krigen i virkeligheden er NATO’s egen skyld. […] Mængden af konspirationsteorier er ærligt talt bekymrende”.

Min kollega @AlexVanopslagh fra Liberal Alliance skrev: “Putins Rusland pumper propaganda ud hver eneste dag, der handler om deres krig mod os i Vesten.”

Min kollega @IdaAuken skrev, at vi skal undgå, at “troldehæren i St. Petersborg bestemmer, hvem der skal vinde det danske valg”.

Det er kloge ord. Og der er mange flere. Fra dem og fra andre.

Jeg ser det samme på mine sociale medier.

Sådan er den nye offentlige samtale, den er inficeret.

Der er konspirationsteorier. Der er overlagt misinformation. Der er AI-løgn.

Der er russiske robotter, der vælter propagande ud på sociale medier.

Det er en udfordring for vores lille danske “vi taler os til rette”-demokrati, hvor vi selvfølgelig tager bestik af, hvad hinanden siger.

Derfor skal vi stå sammen. Det bliver en svær og rodet tid, vi går i møde. Sandheden er under pres.

Vi er heldige, at vi har nyhedsmedier, der har ansvarshavende chefredaktører, og som står til ansvar over for danskerne og Pressenævnet. Og, selvom ingen er fejlfri, gør journalisterne i Danmark meget for oplysningen af vores demokrati.

Hellere dem end en video på X, som ingen kan vide om er sand, og hvor vi allerede har set falske videoer med politikere og nyhedsværter.

Det er en alvorlig tid, vi lever i.

Præcis derfor er der i dag - her på vej ind til Folketingets åbningsdebat - god grund til at sige tak til mine politiske kollegaer.

Tak, fordi I stiller jer frem og fortæller sandheden om den koordinerede misinformation. Tak, fordi I siger fra. Tak, fordi vi sammen kan oplyse om, hvordan det står til i vores demokrati.

Rusland vil have os til at tvivle på hinanden. Vi skal svare med at stå sammen 🇩🇰

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@cityzenken_ Of course we would. Been watching English football since 1978 when Liverpool was dominant. And the likes of Derby, Coventry and ManCity did their best often fighting for the next draw. I will also watch it when City may return from the lower leagues after punishment.

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@Szobo_baller 1978 English football broadcasted in Denmark every Saturday. Always Liverpool #lfc YNWA

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@TheExtremeMusi1 New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Paul Simon - Graceland
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Iron Maiden - The number of the Beast

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@forgebitz been project mgr for decades, also with agile, and then scrum master. Funny role but no power or responsibility. Now back to project mngnt - and found my power again. Good for the projects

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@Chesschick01 Princess Isabella of Denmark is way out of his league. I am quite sure she would reply with her own famous words: "Are you completely out of it??” - in danish "Er du helt væk”

[Frank HP @frankhebo]

@JesperSimo ... og Pascal Gross svingede køllen !!

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@jhoburgh B: Power, Corruption & Lies (New Order)
D: The Unforgettable Fire (U2)
A: Disintegration (The Cure)
C: The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths)

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@chiamakaafc @LuisSuarez9 - free scoring for #lfc

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@ExtremeFootbal4 What a hit. But the ball --- When such a full-leather ball had soaked up on a wet pouring November day, and you'd got to clear the shot with your head --- ohhhh :o

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@JohnCleese Dear @JohnCleese. Sorry about that. Maybe time to be calling "the little man from Fulham"