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.
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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.
Welcome to the Kingdom of Light and Lies
A field guide to the supermarket as modern ritual, psychological battlefield and existential theme park.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Monday Briefing
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.
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Tuesday, According to RABAGAS
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.
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Ruth's Method
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.
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Spending the Night at the Office
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.
Everyday Life
The Poor Man
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.
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Nobody Is Driving the Bus
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.
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The Psychology of Office Lighting
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.