Nikolaj Kornbech
PhD Fellow at Roskilde University. Capitalist science, capitalist nature and nature in capitalism. Interests in geoengineering, carbon removal and industrial agriculture. He/him.
- Imagine writing this while the world hegemon traditionally underpinning global liberalism is doing fascist attempts at ethnic cleansing in its major cities www.ft.com/content/4c16...
- Reposted by Nikolaj Kornbech"I found it reliable in a specific sense: it was always available" everything is gender
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechYES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- This was the inspiration I needed today
- Wrote this in 2024 (src: doi.org/10.1177/0010...), with some suddenly very quaint optimism about terrorrial issues in the Arctic. How one gets overtaken by events...
- Reposted by Nikolaj Kornbecheven as denmark puts out statements asking the US to back off greenland, it won’t come out and directly criticize the US for violating international law in venezuela. it’s the typical western response: “maduro was bad and international law should be respected” but never stating who violated it.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechI wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechProfessional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
- This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechIf we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
- Am I the only one noticing that content *about* AI seems much more prone to AI-generated slop? Especially uncritical social sciences and humanities writing
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechThis is a real European Commission document, obtained via the right of access to documents. It instructs staff with management responsibilities to use AI to draft documents and formulate speaking points. Whatever you think of technocracy, soon there'll be little 𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘯𝘦 (skill) left in Brussels.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechI’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just… In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechWhat’s the opposite of a peace dividend? A war deficit?
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechSharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
- I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people." www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechEvery "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
- Incredible
- Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion. Click here to read more: cnb.cx/49LCIs8
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechDanmark er blevet storeksportør af sprøjtegifte, som er ulovlige i DK og resten af EU. Med en aktindsigt afslører vi for første gang omfanget af eksporten: Sidste år var der planlagte eksporter af 2.650 tons forbudte sprøjtegifte - EU's ottende største eksportør. ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/poli...
- Reposted by Nikolaj Kornbech“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechNow that election season is over, Norway again shows its true imperial face: Ethical guidelines for the Sovereign Wealth Fund to be loosened because of fear that they'll *actually* safeguard against investment in genocide. www.ft.com/content/12a5...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechAs an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechThis will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechI can think of at least seven ways fossil fuel producers could wiggle out of this, but still: holy shit this is huge.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechEurocentrism - the Acemoglu version
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechA first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechFour photos from the Cor Vos agency. This first one is Joop Zoetemelk doing some motor-pacing in a time when road safety and childcare was a bit different...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechOne confusing thing about the liberal media is that it's extremely right-wing
- My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...
- My colleague Louison wrote a brilliant thread on the situation: bsky.app/profile/loui...
- Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026. 🧶 1/20
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechHostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026. 🧶 1/20
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechNo diga comunicado, diga tunda.
- Just a major sports publication manipulating a leading cyclist's (Jonas Vingegaard) quote to obscure his sympathy with protests against Israel. Cowardice in the face of genocide
- For Danish-speakers, I have co-written an op-ed in @politiken.dk about Israels ecocide in Gaza and the necessity of thinking rising militarialism, imperialism and ecological crisis together. politiken.dk/del/Rg8Jg_AE...
- w/ @frederikappelolsen.bsky.social @fridahviid.bsky.social id.bsky.social @lauralohorn.bsky.social @madsejsing.bsky.social & Julia Suárez-Krabbe
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechIf you ask such a system to explain a previous 'decision' it won't explain its process, it will generate words that read as a statically plausible sentence(s) which describe that sort of process.
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- Great piece on LLMs codepoetics.substack.com/p/the-tain-o...
- Reposted by Nikolaj Kornbech🔥 Thrilled to host the 3rd Annual Socio-Economic Research Networking Day @roskildeuni.bsky.social —with 20+ brilliant minds and 12 sharp presenters from across Scandinavia 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 from #Economics, #Sociology, #Anthropology, #Political #Ecology & #Development #Studies. 💡Join us next year at RUC!
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechSo I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU. Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸 politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
- Blatant attack on freedom on speech in Denmark - the Parliament forbids schoolchildren (!!) and youth party activists from discussing Palestine in schools. 'Orwellian' is usually hyperbole, but it applies straightforwardly here. Shame on Danish politicians politiken.dk/danmark/poli...
- Reposted by Nikolaj Kornbech2/2 As a reminder, the abstract of the workshop is: Why is it that certain forms of environmental knowledge are held in higher regard than others? How can this be reconciled? How can both forms of knowledge be treated on equal par? In other words, how can decision-making processes be democratised?
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechCome hear @kmunro-econ.bsky.social talk about her exciting research in Copenhagen✨ The talk is free and open to everyone!
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechA bunch of fossil fuel companies that were already planning to shut down their coal plants anyway are going to be happy about this carbon-pulse.com/394149/
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechAn aid ship heading to Gaza has sent out a distress signal after crew members say it was hit in a drone attack and has caught fire. There are 30 aid workers on board the Freedom Flotilla ship, which was attempting to break Israel’s 2-month aid blockade.
- Pretty wild to see net zero, which was a way to bring carbon removal into mainstream policy, now being contrasted with carbon capture www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechYes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechSporting hypocrisy and double standards @bdsmovement.bsky.social bdsmovement.net/news/giro-d%...
- I am just looking up a quote in a book I read a while ago, and getting pushed this useless AI 'research assistant' slop (using completely unnecessary computational energy). This is in software tailor-made for research and higher education. When will the madness end?
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechHelt vanvittigt take fra industrilandbruget på det her: Pattegrisene dør ikke, fordi soen ikke producerer nok mælk - de dør, fordi vi har skamavlet søerne så meget ud af en rådden tangent, at de får flere unger end hvad der er naturligt. Lav nogle regler for det, i stedet for at lade det eskalere.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechLet's not mince words: Mahmoud Khalil was abducted and disappeared, without consideration of rule of law, by an authoritarian regime intent on crushing dissent and criticism. Free Mahmoud Khalil.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechCar obesity, Danish edition. #dktrp www.dst.dk/da/Statistik...
- Det rene vanvid fra politiet - det her ligner mere smålig hævn end proportionel magtanvendelse. Fuldstændig uacceptabelt arrogance fra en person i en meget magtfuld position
- @oliverstilling.bsky.social rammer hovedet på sømmet. @foljeton.dk
- Voldsparate idioter i uniform www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...
- Voldsparate idioter i uniform www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechToday is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170... Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechI am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.
- Not my field at all but this sounds kind of amazing
- Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
- I wrote a thing for @srm360.bsky.social about solar geoengineering in the Arctic and how it's not particularly feasible in an increasingly securitised region. I also reflect on the dangers of it becoming a colonial and extractivist project. srm360.org/perspective/....
- Good opportunity to communicate some of the findings from the articles I've published with @olafcorry.bsky.social and @duncanmclaren.bsky.social about the security politics of solar geoengineering.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechSam Altman is just blurting out words now www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Der har været meget dum snak for nyligt om aktivister som 'antidemokratiske'. Vi tager til genmæle her: demokratiet kan ikke bestå uden civil ulydighed og politisk aktivisme.
- sikke en dejlig dag: jeg har fået slettet min Twitter-konto, og vores indlæg til forsvar for civil ulydighed er kommet ud: www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...
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- Har skrevet om @madsejsing.bsky.social's nye bog 'Verden er ikke længere den samme' for Eftertryk. Hvor krydser klingerne egentlig mellem nymaterialister og økomarxister? Og er der et fælles projekt? Læs mit bud her: www.eftertrykket.dk/2025/01/12/k...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechThe capitalist state is compelled to support capital accumulation but no one is compelling these guys to be this stupid about how they try to do it.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechImperialmagten vil nu overveje at bekrige sin vasalstat, den noget mindre imperialmagt, der dog stadig vil være imperialmagt, og derfor nu er gerådet i vildrede over, at den store imperialmagt ikke længere respekterer den lille vasalstat som lille imperialmagt.
- Really insightful and clear materialist analysis of the stupefying "AI" craze. It's about creating a demand for computation that is unnecessary and counterproductive for human (and nonhuman) wellbeing
- AI is an invasive species, embedding computation in wildly unnecessary spaces, to their degradation, if not destruction. If we're going to contain the many costs of consumptive computation, we have to invest in ecosystems' capacity for self-defense. www.digitalpublic.io/ai-invasive-...
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechDet fejlslagne udbud på havvindmølleparker afslører en dybere krise i de grønne energiinvesteringer. Verdens kapitalmarkederhar set på klodens fremtid og konkluderet, at den er en dårliginvestering Jeg har en analyse i @politiken.dk (teksten kommer nedenfor)
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- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechWow. These are powerful remarks by Indermit Gill in his Foreword to the World Bank’s International Debt Report 2024, which has just come out. They are both timely and necessary as we approach the 4th FfD Conference, where discussions on an international solvency insolvency framework are critical.
- Reposted by Nikolaj KornbechI’m not expressly implying anything with this graph but
