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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Pseudonymitet

Är det okej att jag helt skiter i Banksy?

Uppdrag i Katanga

Credit: Aftonbladet

En närmast surrealistisk rubrik. Men det är faktiskt sant. OK, men hur var det med den där flygkraschen då? Ni vet, Dag Hammarskjöld...

Fuck around, find out

Look what happened when I asked Gemini to generate a picture of Aghora Ganapati, the most terrible form of Ganesha. The only thing missing is the corpse he is supposed to sit on! Dude.

Ishta-devata lost and found?

Maybe I blogged about this before, but in case I never did...

In Hinduism, each individual is ideally supposed to have an "ishta-devata". That is, a deity the individual in question is particularly devoted to. One way of finding the ishta-devata is to let an astrologer cast your Vedic birth chart. It´s a rather complex process which I won´t describe here.

As a little experiment, last summer I asked both ChatGPT and Gemini to analyze my Vedic chart (they couldn´t cast it) and tell me my ishta (that is: my ishta had I been a Hindu). The results were...interesting.

Gemini - which back then was boring and predictable - reached the conclusion that my ishta is either Lakshmi or Gauri (i.e. Parvati), two very safe Hindu goddesses. ChatGPT, by contrast, was the edgy AI and proposed the decidedly less safe Tripura Sundari, a Tantric goddess often associated with the Sri Vidya tradition in southern India. Weirdly, ChatGPT then refused to give me the "secret" mantras for her worship?! Was the system really leading me on?

Astrologically, all these goddesses seem to be associated with Venus, which apparently occupies a central role in my Vedic chart (less so in my Western one). Obviously, I have no idea if an actual Indian astrologer would come to the same conclusion.

Make of these factoids whatever you wish.

Monday, March 16, 2026

Boundary work

A "pro-UFO" article published at a popular science website. Here is an interesting excerpt:

>>>Across 14 disciplines at 144 major U.S. research universities, 1,460 faculty responded to their 2023 national survey. Most surveyed believed UAP research was important. Curiosity outweighed skepticism in every discipline that was part of the study. Nearly one-fifth had personally observed something aerial they could not identify. Yet fewer than 1% had ever conducted UAP-related research.

>>>The gap was not explained by intellectual dismissal, but it was in part explained by fear. Researchers were not primarily deterred by intellectual skepticism because they doubted the topic's merits. Instead, they feared they might lose funding, face ridicule from colleagues or find their careers quietly derailed. Faculty reported being told to "be careful."

>>>A 2024 follow-up study found that roughly 28% said they might vote against a colleague's tenure case for conducting UAP research, even when they personally believed the topic warranted study.

Obviously, this has consequences for other areas of research, too...

The government is very serious about UFO´s

Aktiv dödshjälp

Ungdomsförbunden stretar på med sina tokfrågor och pseudo-frågor. I detta fall CUF. Fast med tanke på vad som hänt i Kanada är detta kanske inte så roligt. Notera förresten att en av undertecknarna kallar sig "HBTQIA+-politisk talesperson"...

Down and out at Kulturvetarlinjen?

Aktiv dödshjälp måste prioriteras av nästa regering

Lovecraft´s Lucia

- You *do* know that we are evolutionary cousins, right?
- Nah, I´m a special creation. God loves beetles!

Just watched a rather boring French docu about the evolution (or is it EVIL-ution) of insects. Apparently, Lucia (or LUCIA = Last Universal Common Insect Ancestor) was a crustacean which crawled out of the ocean...and the rest is history. Hundreds of millions of years of history, to be exact.

No surprise there. I mean, the idea that fleas, locusts and termites (or the praying mantis!) are ultimately derived from a primordial cousin to crayfish and crabs does make a certain intuitive sense. They are equally eerie and unsettling. Like some stuff straight out of Lovecraft.

Although I have to say that arachnids are even worse. Where did *they* come from, I wonder? Color out of space?