Artificial Intelligence
The Audience We Never Invited
We built the internet for people. Now machines are reading it, writing to it, and increasingly reading what other machines have written. The audience we never invited is already here.
JTV
Climate
EIGHT NORWAYS BURNED IN ONE YEAR
In 2025, satellites recorded roughly 265 million hectares of burned land across the planet — an area equivalent to about eight Norways. But the real story isn't simply how much burned. It's what happened inside all those fires: how they started, how they grew, where they went, and what they became.
Consumer Culture
Welcome to the Kingdom of Light and Lies
A field guide to the supermarket as modern ritual, psychological battlefield and existential theme park.
Humanity
Roads Not Taken
History remembers the roads humanity took. Roads Not Taken asks what happened to the ones that disappeared before we even realized they were there.
Technology
Old Components
An eleven-year-old PC is still doing the job. So why does Windows think it has become too old? A small investigation into technology, money, obsolescence and the strange moment when “old” becomes “not good enough.”
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.
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.