Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-loverhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mv2eexnic22zGood night and good luck https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-out-of-control-ai-fears-707b762809 Sep 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2eexnic22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3muztesjsyk2dDette er et sterkt indisium på at PISA-fallet primært handler om pedagogikk og kultur i skolen. Jeg har hatt barn i både norsk og engelsk offentlig grunnskole og forskjellen er veldig stor08 Sep 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3muztesjsyk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3muw6fst4t22mAsahi Linux now officially supports M3 Macs: https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/ Not sure the M2 vs M3 performance difference is huge, but they cost almost the same on the second hand market [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3muw6fst4t22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3muvzxfqlm22z"videos were found among his possessions, along with other crucial evidence. This included a diagram of a plane with a flight descent equation [...] The diagram was also kept from some FBI agents investigating Bayoumi, as well as from the 9/11 Commission" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4vn1e207go07 Sep 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvzxfqlm22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3muuv3arli22rJeg pleier ikke legge meg opp i hvordan andre forskere og tenketanker legger opp sine seminarer, men jeg stusser over at LO velger å markere 25-årsdagen for 9/11-angrepet med det som etter alt å dømme blir et heldagsseminar om høyreekstremisme https://www.lo.no/kalender/hvordan-endrer-terror-samfunnet/06 Sep 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuv3arli22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mukvcc7gw22hOf possible interest: "Organising data-rich projects" (from my new nanoblog) https://pad.hegghammer.net/posts/organising-data-rich-projects/02 Sep 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukvcc7gw22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mujbx6r5fk27Very cool work here by Albrecht Hofheinz on using shelfware OCR in combination with LLMs to triage Arabic manuscripts instead of fully processing them: "Good Enough to Read? Dirty OCR, Large Language Models, and Arabic Manuscript Triage" https://journals.uio.no/JAIS/article/view/1361602 Sep 2026 06:16 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujbx6r5fk27https://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mu5atdxqgc2iMeanwhile, in other quarters, a reluctance to call September 11 a terrorist attack. The T-word just seems to short circuit everybody's brain https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canadian-broadcast-network-tells-staff-not-to-refer-to-9-11-as-a-terrorist-attack/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5atdxqgc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mu5agmrxcc2iVery interesting also for those of us interested in identity mimicry [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5agmrxcc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mu42rvquj224Help @ajaltamimi.bsky.social publish Lucas of Tuy's 'Chronicle of the World'. Aymenn provides so much scientific value through his writings in his free time that this is the least we can do https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pay-licensing-fees-for-my-next-book28 Aug 2026 00:03 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu42rvquj224https://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mtv5niwua22x"The biological component also requires life support. NUS technicians feed the cultures every three days [...]. Cortical Labs says the neurons can remain viable for up to six months." https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-biological-computing-rack-apac-singapore/25 Aug 2026 06:06 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtv5niwua22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mtp2dqqij22sAfter ~9 months of heavy use I stand by this. MacBook M2s with @asahilinux.org make fantastic Linux laptops. The other day I even got external display working (with the Fairydust kernel), so now everything works. And they've dropped a lot in price; you can pick one up for as little as £450 on Ebay [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtp2dqqij22shttps://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mtdymoztcc22Det er oppløftende å se en journalist endelig tilnærme seg @oysteinsjolie.bsky.social argumenter med åpent sinn. "Kjetter" er korrekt begrep, for dette er et område hvor mange ikke tenker selv, men heller repeterer dogma, akkurat som på temaet innvandring før 2015 https://www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/en-plutselig-kjettersk-tanke-har-oystein-sjolie-et-poeng/1048101118 Aug 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtdymoztcc22https://bsky.app/profile/hegghammer.net/post/3mtdofgqr522aTerrific article by David Runciman https://www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/2026/08/a-dream-of-cambridge https://www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/2026/08/a-dream-of-cambridge?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content18 Aug 2026 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:eqkljddu3bvtnd2tmlluct3q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtdofgqr522a