Bearded software guy at @knowitnorge. Agilist. @boosterconf alumni.
Bergen, Norway
Joined April 2008
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” -André Gide
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Reading posts by foreigners about Brazil, I get the impression that you're not aware of the full extent of the accusations against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, or of the available evidence of his corruption.
So I'd like to kindly invite you to really get to know Flávio. A thread 🧵🇧🇷
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Lula was only 33 when he led the strike alongside the metalworkers’ union that challenged Brazil’s military dictatorship. He secured wage increases and was imprisoned.
His rival, the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro, on the other hand, has had only one occupation since the age of 21: spending his wealthy family’s money and engaging in far-right thuggery.
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One month ago, I sat down with President Lula to discuss how government serving poor and working people. Weeks later, Brazil took a historic step: a 40-hour workweek, at least two days off and no cuts to pay for more than 30 million workers.
Workers fought for decades to win the five-day workweek in America. Brazilian workers have fought for this victory, too. I congratulate them on this achievement.
Working people deserve time to live, not just work. Building a better future means giving people more of their lives back. And we’ll keep fighting for it.
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"The world can’t afford to lose Brazil, because the country has the rare combination of conditions needed to help build a democratic response to digital transformation." Available in EN and PT-BR. buff.ly/SyhHAe1
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Thirty-one Democratic members of the U.S. Congress accused the Trump administration of a “sustained, multifaceted” effort to interfere in Brazil’s election, citing tariffs and pressure linked to Jair Bolsonaro’s prosecution theguardian.com/world/2026/s…
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During this extremely important Brazilian election, The Economist's coverage has been, to be polite, quite off the mark. And it's relevant b/c Brazilian neolib media makes headlines out of it, trying to bestow foreign credibility on their own right-wing biases.
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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.
airesistlist.org
ALT The AI Resist List homepage
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The last month, Anthropic:
- Quietly nerfed their flagship model harness (Claude Code) without telling anyone
- Banned corporate customers of Claude
- Silently changed plans for customers with certain files in their repo
All evidence that closed models are *massive* risks.
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Dario demonstrating that he doesn't understand software engineering. The human side of what we do has always been the heart. I can empathize with *wanting* to never talk to an engineer ever again, but engineering becomes more important with better tools.
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This piece on Palantir death-tech and the kill chain is breathtakingly good theguardian.com/news/2026/ma…
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I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.
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Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.
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I reject your assertion.
The entire field of software engineering evolved under the fundamental constraint of the human ability to manage complexity.
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– Høyres Eirik Lae Solberg sier han tror Oslo får mer igjen for pengene ved at Origo fokuserer på innkjøp fremfor utvikling. Basert på erfaringer fra IT-bransjen kan vi trygt si at det er helt feil, skriver ti medlemmer av Smidigalliansen. digi.no/artikler/debatt-effe…
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Getting ready to do a keynote at an Agile conference in Norway. Why doing Agile doesn't create agility; how changing the system does. Sold out. (And I offer to do the same for free to UK Agile events.)
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Hva får man egentlig for under tusenlappen i disse dager? Jo #SmidigDig23!
Konferansen Smidig Digitalisering 2023 blir 25. april på Oslo Kongressenter, og mange av foredragsholderne er allerede klare!
Vi har nettopp lagt ut billettene for salg, med «earlybird»-pris fram til 30. januar: smidig.no
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