Sten Løck

Journalist - Technology, Business & Zeitgeist. Danish, English & German.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Thanks to everyone who complained about this trailer and even signed a petition to get #Armageddon removed from Netflix. You helped make it the most watched special in the world 😂

[Alex Vanopslagh @AlexVanopslagh]

Jo, anti-zionisme er anti-semitisme.

Et af budskaberne hos de pro-palæstinensiske demonstranter ved Københavns Universitet er en gammel venstrefløjsklassiker: At "antizionisme ikke er antisemitisme."

Som så ofte før tvivler jeg på, om de propalæstinensiske demonstranter forstår betydningen af de ord, de bruger.

Zionisme handler om, at anerkende jøders ret til en selvstændig stat, hvor de kan leve i fred.

I teorien kan man godt være imod eksistensen af en jødisk stat uden at være fjendtligt indstillet over for jøder – altså uden at være antisemitisk.

Men det er et historieløst blik på tingene.
Zionismen opstod i slutningen af 1800-tallet som en reaktion på blandt andet de såkaldte "pogromer" – altså systematisk, voldelig forfølgelse af jøder.

Antisemitismen blev endnu mere udbredt i de efterfølgende år med nazismens fremvækst, som kulminerede i masseudryddelsen af seks millioner europæiske jøder under Holocaust.

Selv i dag oplever jødiske mindretal i Europa, at de er udsat for trusler, vold og chikane. En tendens, der desværre er i alt for hastig vækst.

Det er på dén baggrund, at zionister ønsker en selvstændig stat for jøder.

Fordi de historisk alt for sjældent har kunnet bo i ikke-jødiske stater uden forfølgelse og undertrykkelse.

Desværre ser vi også i dag alt for mange eksempler på dette også i Danmark, hvor jødiske skolebørn må beskyttes af bevæbnet politi, og mindesmærker for redningen af de danske jøder bliver vandaliseret.

Selvom der er rigeligt med diktaturstater i verden, er det imidlertid kun verdens eneste jødiske stat, som antizionisterne ønsker opløst. Med den konsekvens, at flere jøder i denne verden vil opleve forfølgelse, vold og chikane.

Hvordan dét ikke kan være antisemitisk, er mig en gåde.

I min optik er det derfor både historie- og meningsløst, når venstrefløjen påstår, at deres antizionisme ikke er antisemitisk.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Sam Altman on what you need to do to survive in the age of artificial intelligence.

"You are about to enter the greatest golden age of human possibility..."

To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are:

- Deep familiarity with the tools
- Staying abreast of changes
- Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where things are going, and how to make use of it
- Resilience and the ability to learn things fast and evolve yourself with technology

I know most of this stuff is a pretty big no-brainer for anyone paying attention, but here's the takeaway:

AI upskilling and keeping up with AI are possibly the most important skills in the world right now.

And the most fascinating part is that new AI developments and tools come out so fast that everyone is constantly learning.

I'd be willing to bet that if you're a complete beginner but spend 3 months of dedicated learning, you'd be fully caught up to power users.

In other words:

Spend 3 months learning → work 2-4x faster and future-proof yourself.

There's so much opportunity for anyone who just starts now.

[Martin Buch Thorborg @thorborg]

Så løb de tør for andre folks penge 🤣

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic to regulate. Your car industry is about to be wiped out by the Chinese. Your biggest economy shut down nuclear out of spite and with fraud. Your capital markets have no liquidity and your startups are drowning in bureaucracy. Your border is being attacked by Russia and your defence spending will have to triple just to be where it was with US subsidy given that part of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc is now part of the EU. Your economy has slumped from the world’s largest to way behind the US. Your pensions are paid by three times less people and cost five times as much as people live longer. Your infrastructure is a model for the world but is configured for rail over self drive. Your electricity grid needs half a trillion of investment to cope with planned capacity and replacements, for the switch to renewables, within a decade. There are bright spots such as pharma and your healthcare system is a model for what civilisation looks like it. But to afford it, you need to completely transform from the industrial to digital age, to reform your institutions and rout the sclerotic bureaucratic system.

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

GPT-4 had 1.76 trillion parameters.

GPT-2 will have 100 quadrillion parameters.

Spread the word.

[BlackWolf @FPL_BlackWolf]

🚨 Official statement from Nottingham Forest. Wow!

[Name cannot be blank @baltipiesmugglr]

Laughable tbf

VAR just stole what would have been one of the best moments in FA Cup history.

It's a cancer on the game. #MUNCOV

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[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This picture is from a film I made

That's is to say, it's a character I was playing

It's not me in real life

Can you understand the difference ?

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Thanks for the warning.

What I'll be watching instead of "Meet the Press":

[Garrett Scott 🕳 @thegarrettscott]

Every saturday morning for the last 6 years, I watch this obscure video.
It's Jeff Bezos talking about leadership, but really, it's the most succinct blueprint for how to achieve greatness I have ever found.
You should watch it often, but I summarized it here: (thread, sry)

[Rob Mac @RMcElhenney]

Please please please let me make a docuseries about this I beg you

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Nettet koger- lyder clickbait-overskriften. Det viser at handle om et IG-opslag, der har fået 13.000 likes (!). Måske skulle BT's medarbejdere fokusere på at forbedre produktets kvalitet isf at skælde ud på koncernchefen, når forretningen ikke kører.
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[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Can't think of a more challenging or controversial time than right now. We must find a way to stand together.

#MartinLutherKingDay