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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · 21h

Iso muutos ainakin periaattellisella tasolla. Milloinkohan on Suomessa viimeksi olleet kansalaisoikeudet muodollisesti sidottuja työmarkkina-asemaan ja tulonlähteisiin?

Maahanmuutto | Eduskunta päätti: Tuilla elävä ei saa Suomen kansalaisuutta

Edellytykset kansalaisuuden saamiseksi eivät vastaisuudessa täyty, jos hakija elää toimeentulotuella tai on turvautunut työttömyystukeen tai toimeentulotukeen yli kolmen kuukauden ajan kahden vuoden a...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power to the absolute greatest that my generation had to offer, #DAngelo. Thank you fo your music, your soul, your wisdom, your brilliance, your humanity. I will treasure the memory of hearing you sing.

Also #FuckCancer so very much.

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D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 17d

🚨🚨Excellent and important news: The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured a majority in a pivotal #Moldovan election that is set to keep the country on track to joining the #EU amidst massive Russian interference campaign. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/poll...

Pro-EU party secures majority in high-stakes Moldovan election

The parliamentary election comes amid reports of an “unprecedented” Russian hybrid interference campaign.

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Marko Enqvist @menqvist70.bsky.social · 18d

Yleltä laaja artikkeli Euroopan etsityimmästä miehestä Jan Marsalekista:

”Hehkutetun saksalaisyrityksen johtaja Jan Marsalek paljastui miljardiluokan huijariksi. Uusien mediatietojen mukaan hän asuu Moskovassa ja työskentelee turvallisuuspalvelu FSB:lle”
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Teknologiapomo Jan Marsalek paljastui ensin miljardiluokan huijariksi, sitten Venäjän vakoojaksi

Hehkutetun saksalaisyrityksen johtaja Jan Marsalek paljastui miljardiluokan huijariksi. Uusien mediatietojen mukaan hän asuu Moskovassa ja työskentelee turvallisuuspalvelu FSB:lle.

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Peer Review Congress #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 20d

Presented at PRC10: Using an #AI detection tool, @theaacr.bsky.social detected 36% of abstracts contained at least some #LLM text though authors disclosed use for only 9% of papers studied
www.science.org/cont... by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social
@royperlis.bsky.social @evanko.bsky.social @science.org

Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports

Finding highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 22d

On 8 September, the Supreme Court signalled its support for ICE’s continued use of racial profiling in immigration policing. In the decision, “common sense” does the heavy lifting, at the expense of facts, evidence, and individual rights.

By Jennifer M. Chacón ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Sami Syrjämäki @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social · 23d

Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnan ylläpitämät julkaisuportaalit tieteellisille lehdille ja kirjoille. http://Journal.fi:ssä ilmestyy noin 150 tiedelehteä:journal.fi 3/

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Suomalaiset tiedelehdet verkossa

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22d

In this Working Scientist profile, Kelly Cobey describes to Nature how her early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, which is now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment. #WomeninSTEM #Academicsky 🧪

My career switch from psychologist to open-science advocate

Kelly Cobey’s early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment.

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SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social · 24d

BREAKING | At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety.

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More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters — The Guardian

At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 29d

On Sep 2 and 15, Trump ordered the United States Navy to destroy small speed boats in the Caribbean. In both cases, all on board died.

MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL on the lawlesssness of these targeted killings.

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Qutoe from our published author Mary Ellen O'Connell: "The killings in the Carribean are President Trump's most dangerous assaults on the rule of law to date."

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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · Sep 15

We stand with @picumofficial.bsky.social in calling out the EU's proposed Deportation Regulations.

🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” expands detention - including in offshore sites - fuels racial profiling & strips away rights.

Here’s why civil society is united in rejecting it ⬇️

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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · Sep 12

For this week's #TidyTuesday, a visualization showing how more and more countries allow visa-free travel to most of the world's destinations

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

#RStats #dataviz

A density plot showing the distribution of visa-free destinations accessible by country passports in 2006 versus 2025. The horizontal axis shows the number of visa-free destinations (0 to 200), while the vertical axis shows probability density. Two prominent curves are displayed: a burgundy curve for 2006 data peaks sharply around 25 destinations, indicating most countries' passports provided access to relatively few places without visas. A blue curve for 2025 data shows a much flatter, broader distribution with a peak around 180 destinations, demonstrating that significantly more passports now provide access to most of the world's destinations. Multiple faint gray curves in the background represent the years between 2006 and 2025, showing the gradual transition. Two text annotations explain that in 2006 most countries' passports provided access to only a few destinations, while in 2025 significantly more passports give access to most of the world's destinations.

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Little Simz Fans @littlesimzfans.bsky.social · Sep 12

Little Simz’s new single “Don’t Leave Too Soon” is here!

#HipHopSky #RapSky #MusicSky

Little Simz - Don't Leave Too Soon (Official Video) - Theme from Steve

YouTube video by Little Simz

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Eva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · Sep 12

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · Sep 12

Jos Euroopan rajavalvonnan rahoitus kiinnostaa, niin Statewatch on koonnut tietoja Frontexin jäsenmaille myöntämästä rahoituksesta 2008-2024. Juonipaljastus: rahoitus on ollut kasvamaan päin.

Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social · Sep 12

Frontex pays out hundreds of millions of euros every year to EU and Schengen member states.

We have visualised the data to show the scale and scope of the funding: more than €2 billion between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2024.

Read it here:
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Vague and pixelated, Frontex trucks with officers standing around float behind the text: "Frontex funding for Fortress Europe", referring to Europe's highly militarised borders and policy of exclusion. Around the image and text are the words "where, why, and how much".

Text starts it off, "2008-2024: 2 billion euros spent." Then, a diagram indicates the various amounts that member states have received. Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal are among those who received the most. You can find more data and visualisations at the link above.

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · Sep 11

“We have the largest jail infrastructure in the world, and it’s an easy thing for ICE to fall back on,” said @silkys13.bsky.social, the executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, to @nytimes.com. “The jail is a really central component of the deportation machine.”

Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers

Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.

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Nyyssi.fi @nyyssifi.bsky.social · Sep 11

Enemmistö ei pidä sukupuolten tasa-arvoa saavutettuna Suomessa, kertoo selvitys #nyyssifi

Enemmistö ei pidä sukupuolten tasa-arvoa saavutettuna Suomessa, kertoo selvitys

Uutiset nopeasti ja luotettavasti.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · Sep 9

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Sep 9

A privilege to co-author with the brilliant @alessandrabasso.bsky.social whose mastery of economics of inequality and its philosophy is unparalleled. Our general point: indicators always have more than one ideal to serve, so will have to prioritise and hence sacrifice #philsci #econsky #measurement

Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality

We examine considerations that enter into design and evaluation of measures in social science, categorizing them into four drivers: epistemic, ethical…

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Sep 9

“Controlling for non-independence by default may result in one of 5 outcomes: elimination of bias, improving precision, doing nothing, harming precision, introducing bias. Instead of rolling a 5-sided dice, we encourage a careful evaluation of underlying theoretical assumptions & causal models”

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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paper trail media @papertrailmedia.de · Sep 9

New Research: Our investigation indicates that the Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting mass surveillance and censorship technology to Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia. #GreatFirewallExport (1/5)

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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · Sep 8

The problem here is that it leads to systematic discrimination as the criteria for reasonable suspicion is too wide. In practice, in Finland it has, at least previously, meant that all non-European looking passagers in harbour area are legitimate targets for ID-checks during an immigration raid.

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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interestingly, the reasoning of the US Supreme Court is pretty close to what the Finnish police has used: ethnicity and language can be legitimate grounds for suspicion under some circumstances (additional knowledge about patterns of behaviour or places etc.) during immigration stops. - - >

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Only Justice Kavanaugh even bothers to write anything to justify this horrifying action.

And it is not in any way reassuring.

Second, even if plaintiffs had standing, the Government has a fair prospect of succeeding on the Fourth Amendment issue. See Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U. S. 873; Arvizu, 534 U. S.
266; Application 22-30; Reply 9-14.
To stop an individual for brief questioning about immigration status, the Government must have reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the United States. See Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 880-882;
Arvizu, 534 U.S., at 273; United States v. Sokolow, 490 U.S. 1, 7 (1989). Reasonable suspicion is a lesser requirement than probable cause and "considerably short" of the preponderance of the evidence standard. Arvizu, 534 U.S., at 274. Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion depends on the totality of the circumstances. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 885, n. 10; Arvizu, 534 U. S., at 273.

Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 884-885 (listing "[a]ny number of factors" that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a

"relevant factor" when considered along with other salient factors. Id., at 887.
Under this Court's precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is only one step in a long judicial process. Interesting, and scary, to see where it ends.

In Europe, courts have mostly taken a stance against racial/ethnic profiling during immigration controls, in recent years, in France, in Germany, in regional level, and also in Finland.

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

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Markus Himanen @markushimanen.bsky.social · Sep 7

Venäläisistä tp-hakijoista monet koulutettuja ja aikaisemmin olisivat voineet hakea työlupia, jos pakolaisaseman edellytyset ei täyty. Hallitus kuitenkin kielsi tämän turvapaikkaa Suomesta hakeneilta.

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