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.
JTV
Friendship
Since Zero Years Old
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
A Lottery with International Consequences
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
Walking the Newsroom
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
Inside Bipolar Disorder
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
The Smile Test
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
Everyone Has a Different Weather Forecast
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.
Digital Culture
The Invisible Cities: The City of Gifts
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.
Interview
One Year of Words
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.
Technology
The Machines Reading Between Us
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.
RABAGAS
ONLYFANS – No Headlines
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.
RABAGAS
Behind the Scenes at the RABAGAS Newsroom
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.