Artificial Intelligence
A Matter for HR
When AI files ten formal complaints against humanity, Ragna is asked to find out whether there is a story in them. Three days later, she has found a much harder question.
Artificial Intelligence
When AI files ten formal complaints against humanity, Ragna is asked to find out whether there is a story in them. Three days later, she has found a much harder question.
Friendship
A weekend in Hamar and Stange with a friend I have known since birth — old conversations, new music, a cat with a red string, and the quiet kind of friendship that never needed any work.
RABAGAS
How does a small Norwegian magazine become an international publication? Apparently, it starts with a yellow coffee mug, a lottery, an overworked journalist, and a coffee machine that finally agrees to cooperate.
RABAGAS
Three quiet walks through the RABAGAS newsroom reveal that the most interesting things rarely happen all at once. A reflection on work, coffee, office plants, a sleeping Leonberger, and the unnoticed rhythm of an ordinary editorial day.
Mental Health
Exploring what it means to receive a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and ADHD in adulthood. Combining personal experience with careful reflection, the series examines mania, depression, ADHD, identity, and the long process of understanding a life that suddenly begins to make sense.
Technology
It took the Norwegian government weeks to issue my passport. Upwork wasn't convinced. What followed was a surprisingly ordinary experience that left me wondering how much of ourselves we now have to surrender simply to log in.
Humanity
In a world where billions of people receive different versions of reality every day, the challenge is not only finding information — it is learning how to understand it. This essay explores how human psychology, algorithms, history and the struggle for trust shape the way we see the world.
Jack Mikkel Revheim is writing a book without a title, a deadline for publication, or a clear ending. RABAGAS Magazine meets the author halfway through a year-long experiment in creativity, chaos, and documenting life.
Everyone has an opinion about the creator economy. Fewer people ask about the ordinary people living inside it. RABAGAS meets Elin — a mother, nurse and content creator — to explore the grey areas between work, money, stigma and being seen.
After decades away from the spotlight, Norwegian cult rock band Sister Rain is back with an ambitious triple album. We spent a day with frontman Aslak Nygren to talk about music, friendship, craftsmanship, and why some bands never really disappear.
Three people turned up for a rose march calling for stronger legal protections in Norway. By the end of the evening, the speeches were over, the rain had stopped, and the conversation had turned to pizza—but the questions they raised were still hanging in the air.
Probably Worth Reading
RABAGAS enters the world of livestream economies — a digital city built on attention, status, and human connection. From virtual roses and ranking systems to agencies and invisible labour, this is a journey into one of the internet’s fastest-growing communities.
Jack Mikkel Revheim is writing a book without a title, a deadline for publication, or a clear ending. RABAGAS Magazine meets the author halfway through a year-long experiment in creativity, chaos, and documenting life.
Every day, millions of people publish content online believing they are communicating with other humans. But before most information reaches a person, it has already passed through a world of crawlers, algorithms, indexes and artificial intelligence systems.
Everyone has an opinion about the creator economy. Fewer people ask about the ordinary people living inside it. RABAGAS meets Elin — a mother, nurse and content creator — to explore the grey areas between work, money, stigma and being seen.
A missing editor. A disconnected office. A coffee machine with trust issues. When the RABAGAS newsroom loses both its electricity and its accountant, producing the next issue becomes an unexpectedly complicated adventure.
Monday mornings at RABAGAS begin with reluctant coffee, questionable planning and an editorial meeting where trolls, LinkedIn, OnlyFans and a slightly dysfunctional newsroom all compete for space on the agenda.
At RABAGAS Magazine, Tuesday is less a day of the week than an administrative condition. Between briefing meetings, existential emails and an increasingly opinionated coffee machine, the editorial team attempts to distinguish journalism from infrastructure.
Every office has its rituals. At RABAGAS, making a cup of coffee requires patience, teamwork and a technique allegedly perfected by the legendary cleaner, Ruth.
One late night at the RABAGAS office, Ulrikk settles in with a thermos, an air mattress and an impossible research assignment. Somewhere in the darkness, however, the coffee machine seems to have plans of its own.
A two-day coffee withdrawal ends in an ordinary shopping centre café—and an unexpectedly expensive lesson in modern Norwegian pricing. A small story about coffee, inflation and the feeling that everyday life has quietly become a luxury.
As children, many of us believed that somewhere, someone was in control. As adults, we gradually discover something far more unsettling—and perhaps more hopeful. A reflective essay about uncertainty, responsibility and the quiet power of human agency.
Can changing the light bulbs change the way people think? In the RABAGAS newsroom, one editor is convinced it can. A humorous essay about creativity, office culture and the surprisingly philosophical consequences of replacing LED lights with warm bulbs.