RABAGAS - RABAGAS Magazine

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.