@FediTips Tak and thank you for all your great tips and for helping people settle in here when they first arrive!

@jimkennedy @wannabemystiker I don't see a conflict - both places are great. Twin Towns, they should be!

@wannabemystiker We'll spell is Låøis though

@wannabemystiker Aarhus. The Laois of Denmark. We should put that on the tourism ads.

Aarhus Gymnastics Association is now the Danish football champions. Because the city’s football club is called AGF. Which stands for Aarhus Gymnastikforening. In English: Aarhus Gymnastics Association. Please don’t ask.

It's the opposite of a Silent Sunday in Aarhus right now. AGF, the city’s football team, famous for breaking its fans hearts again and again, just won the Danish league championship for the first time in 40 years. The city centre is now one gigantic hyggelig boisterous party of car horns and whistles and bicycle bells and singing and dancing and general happy mayhem. Tillykke, AGF og alle jer AGF fans!

@johnnyd_cm They were.

@dm319 I had to look up Enderman - yes, I can see that similarity!

And yes to a space invader too. Like, the last one, the one struggling to keep up, beeping forlornly along behind all the others.

@malte I went with 'scared, nervous' in the Alt Text, but only after switching from Shocked to Scared at the last second. Slightly despaired - yes, I can see that too. I like the idea of it as a Rorschach test.

16th century emoji

#Aarhus
#DenGamleBy

@jeridansky The prioroitising of human connection is nice, amid all of everything right now

@baz That is so lovely and so *human*.

@marcusxms @reynir Things like hospitals holding open-hour sessions for drop-in job interviews on weekend afternoons give me some hope that it's not infinitely inevitable that an AI-saturated society is the only future. That some innovative functional pushback is emerging in places, like tiny wildflowers starting to push up through the cracks in a post-catastrophe barren landscape.

@reynir In the 2010s - I guessed wrongly. I thought it would have happened in the transition to all-digital recruitment. But you were trying a radical approach, turning up in person when online-only applications were the established norm. Nice try!

I didn't know that some companies are now actually telling job candidates that they want them to send AI-generated job applications. Bizarre.

@mlazz @ondekvinde Early mitigators - that fits too. They are rejecting the use of GAI and mitigating the consequences of the use of AI. And innovating, repurposing old practices.

@reynir Not now, though? Not in current times. I assume. What you're describing sounds like late 1990s or early 2000s, at a guess. After personal approaches and print applications were no longer the norm, after email came in and personal contact went out. But before this current period where people AI-generate applications and companies get their AI-machines to 'read' them.

@ondekvinde Early rejectors. Yes. That's it.

@brad Absolutely. The road that led us here has been long. We sleepwalked along most of it, which let us let some people lead us to GAI.

Like 'early adopters', but the opposite. People who introduce things like drop-in job interviews as a way to avoid the problems that generative AI causes. Instead of early adoption of technology, they are the first to find ways to avoid it.

@Koefoed Enig. Smart and efficient and effective.