Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse

Professor ved Høgskolen i Molde. Opptatt av bærekraft, innovasjon, klynger, teknologi og friluft. Med andre ord mainstream.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

US “democracy”, where billionaires openly brag about buying elections and demand obeisance from political leaders.

[Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse @lillelambda]

Gode poeng i debatten om bruk av generativ kunstig intelligens på hjemmeeksamen #NOKUT @HiMolde⁩ ⁦@Kunnskapsdep⁩ https://t.co/2vf5jyYyLx

[Don Lewis @DonLew87]

Be Like Harvard 👊🏽

[Simen Sætre @SimenSaetre]

DER SPIEGEL har undersøkt norsk lakseindustri og er sjokkert.
https://t.co/9lklHDsEgk

[Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse @lillelambda]

Treffende av Agnes Ravatn ⁦@Aftenposten⁩ https://t.co/euo8MieibK

[Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse @lillelambda]

Bare jeg som får assosiasjoner til Handmaid’s Tale?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay."

[Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse @lillelambda]

Vi slår hardt ned på plagiat i høyere utdanning, samtidig som bruk av KI på eksamen tydeligvis er helt innafor ved enkelte institusjoner. ⁦@Kunnskapsdep⁩ https://t.co/UcSH7u3AC5

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

In August 2024, Joseph Stiglitz predicted that neoliberal capitalism in the US would lead to fascism.

His theory: neoliberal capitalism is enabling a wealthy, fascist-leaning elite to buy political power, eroding democratic institutions.

His prediction came true.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

I just finished reading this degrowth hit piece everyone's tweeting about. It's a hugely problematic paper.

Degrowth is not without flaws. But the problem with this hit piece is that it essentially labels the entire degrowth paradigm as 'unscientific' without much evidence.

First, as many degrowth scholars have already pointed out on this platform (e.g. @JKSteinberger and @g_kallis), tons of important degrowth papers are neglected. The methodology of this hit piece for selecting degrowth literature is deeply flawed. If you are going to claim that an entire academic paradigm is based on opinions rather than analysis — which this degrowth hit piece does — you better have bulletproof backing, because that's a loaded and potentially harmful statement.

I'm not even a 'degrowther' myself, and I've read a wealth of articles from degrowth scholars in respected climate journals, like Nature and Lancet Planetary Health, that are highly analytical and data driven. Most of these are not included by this degrowth hit piece.

Second, if you are going to take a massive dump on degrowth, you better tackle its arguments and evidence head on. This degrowth hit piece barely does that. There is a sliver of critical discussion on the policy feasibility of degrowth, but even this discussion lacks depth.

Why am I coming so strongly to the defence of degrowth when I'm not even a degrowther? It's because this degrowth hit piece is potentially harmful to advancing knowledge. Degrowth is a polemic term and challenges conventional wisdom, so the movement understandably meets resistance. But I now see many people endorsing this degrowth hit piece on X/Twitter without engaging much with degrowth arguments. In effect, people who endorse this degrowth hit piece are endorsing a view that degrowth is not analytically rigorous, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

Spreading false claims about degrowth is not going to advance knowledge about ecological economics or political ecology.

[Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse @lillelambda]

The evil at your door - by Timothy Snyder https://t.co/fp3zAlrulB

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

There is a young man in jail today for protesting at his college. No charges. No criminal conduct. In dictatorships, they call this “a disappearance”.

I want to tell you why this case should matter to you, even if you strongly disagree with what he said or did.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

“Illegal protests?” He’s not a king. He doesn’t have the authority to stop protests. Or expel students. Or tell protestors not to wear masks. He’s not a king.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
https://t.co/rMiUit9y0U

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

All of this 👇🏼

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Zelenskyy’s White House meeting with Trump and Vance

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This graphic is from @friendsofusaid:

[Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse @lillelambda]

«J.D. Vance og hans sjef Donald Trump forsvarer ikke demokratiet. De river det i stykker.» https://t.co/sC6jznJI4i

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Democracy runs on trust. Dictatorship runs on fear. The moment trust erodes – whether in institutions, elections, or truth itself – democracy crumbles.

A quote from a conversation on @RealTimers with @billmaher about the fragile foundations of democracy in the age of AI and misinformation.

#BillMaher #RealTime #Democracy #Trust #Dictatorship #Politics