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Tech and systems, Europe and Ukraine, democracy and defense, energy and science. And whatever else I find interesting, I don't discriminate.

Mostly English, occasionally Finnish

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December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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More sunlight today than all of December so far, and it's not mid day yet. 10 more days to the darkest day of the year..
View over the bay to Tervasaari and Pohjoisranta. Blue sky, calm water, sun low in the sky.
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Timothy Snyder informs of Ukrainian history reaching six thousand years past, but also of the crucial role of culture.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukrainian-history-global-initiative
We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed -- of what use are literature, philosophy, and history when we have problems to solve right now? And yet colleagues meeting in wartime Kyiv have a clearer sense of purpose, more esprit de corps, , and a better instinct for the essential. And soldiers on the front (as they tell me) want to talk about history and culture. In traumatic conditions, people think about where they stand amidst larger forces -- and they think about the why as well as the how of life.
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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That is not true.
https://valtioneuvosto.fi/-/kansalaispulssi-yha-useampi-nostaa-tyollisyyden-parantamisen-hallituksen-karkiteemaksi
@mojala
"Venäjän viimeaikainen toiminta huolestuttaa minua" "Hyväksyn EU:n Venäjälle asettamat talouspakotteet, vaikka niistä voi koitua tuntuvaa vahinkoa Suomelle." "Kuinka paljon Ukrainan kriisi ja sen vaikutukset aiheuttavat sinussa huolta tällä hetkellä?"
December 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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This does not sound like someone who is looking to make peace in the near future.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-putin-and-trumps-negotiators-to-hold-key-kremlin-talks-12541713?postid=10632917#liveblog-body
#PutinIsaWarCriminal #russia #Ukraine #Europe
Putin: If Europe wants to fight war, we are ready now Vladimir Putin says that if Europe wants to fight a war, then Russia is ready now. Speaking after an investment forum in Moscow, the Russian president says the Europeans do not have a peaceful agenda and are on the side of war, and seeks demands from the war in Ukraine that are not acceptable to Russia. Europeans are also hindering the US administration and Donald Trump in their efforts to reach a peace agreement through talks, Putin says. He claims the city of Pokrovsk is now fully in the Russian army's control, after Moscow's defence ministry released footage apparently showing Russian soldiers waving flags in the frontline town.
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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4 years and over 4000 missiles, nearly 86000 UAVs. That is very close to 90000 long range aerial strike weapons shot down over 1376 of unprovoked aggression.
24.02.22-30.11.2025 Estimated casualties and losses of the russian army, as reported by UAF.
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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It's not just the Euro diplomats who are losing patience with Belgium.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bart-de-wever-eu-allies-turn-screws-on-belgium-tax-income-russia-frozen-assets/
The money is hard to track, but diplomats questioning the numbers use sources such as the Kiel Institute, which pegs Belgium's total commitment to Ukraine at €3.44 billion between the start of the war and Aug. 31, 2025. To put that in context, the tax from the Russian assets totaled €1.7 billion in 2024 alone.
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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The long con of American putin cronies. But I'm afraid that, unlike what Phillips is writing, it has not yet come to its end.
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-end
Yesterday, Friday 21 November, ended up being one kind of day but it was supposed to be another. 21 November, in case you had forgotten, was supposed to be the day that the Trump Administration levelled crippling secondary sanctions on Chinese, Indian and Turkish companies that buy Russian oil. Indeed, the Treasury Department even hinted earlier this week that those secondary were ready to go. Well, yesterday came and went and, drumroll please….no secondary sanctions have been announced. Now, Chinese, Indian and Turkish oil companies can get back to business buying as much Russian oil as they want/can. Soon Russia will be making more than they were. btw, the Chinese probably never stopped buying Russian oil, but that is a piece for another day.
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Turns out the guy Witkoff vibed the peace-plan which potentially restarts the nuclear arms race with has personal US-set sanctions against him since 2022.
Kirill Dmitriev. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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There's a lot of good stuff as usual in Benedict Evans's trends presentation, but this is the slide I'd like you to pause on. In USA, data center construction is about to overtake other commercial real estate sectors. These are not general purpose data centers. Most […]

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US commercial construction, 1995-2025. Data centres *excluding compute* have passed retail and are about to pass offices and warehouses.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Kiitos Tulli. Jäi sitten tämäkin käsittely kesken.
Tietoja lähetettäessä tapahtui virhe. Pahoittelemme häiriötä. Ole hyvä ja kokeile hetken päästä uudelleen.
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Oh, wow, here we go. For Oracle, Tesla, Palantir, Facebook and Bitcoin, the MAGA-tech's bellweathers, the crash started already three weeks ago.

Amazon, Microsoft and NVIDIA continued to hold up better until today - and Apple is still resisting crash.
NASDAQ 100 Index 3 months
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Among other tidbits, a reminder here to every YouTuber that Sundar Pichai sees Google, not you, owning your videos. And yeah, it's the same on TikTok, too.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
But Mr Pichai said Google's unique model of owning its own "full stack" of technologies - from chips to YouTube data, to models and frontier science - meant it was in a better position to ride out any AI market turbulence.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Wow, PC Mag
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Finland has returned a former #wagner shocktrooper #yevgeny who survived Bakhmut and defected over the Finnish border back to Russia.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20194325
Screen capture from a selfie video of a man wearing russian camo and the Wagner shoulder patch.
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This, btw, is IMO the by far best aspect of quote boosts. Now you can find the quotes - with links it couldn't be done.
Partial screenshot showing end of Matt's toot, it's 47 boosts + 1 quote and the Phanpy details pop-up menu with View Quotes option. The Quotes overlay dialog where my quote is the only one listed.
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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This is from July so not new, but I bumped into it again, and... I mean, never mind the question of how anyone can raise 5 billion $, but to have a CEO actually write something like this down to a memo is something else. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei […]

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Weighing the pros and cons, Amodei acknowledged in his note that accepting money from Middle East leaders would likely enrich “dictators.” “This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I mean, there's something rather deeply wrong with Mastodon quote permissions, but I am not going to research what it is. Much rather will spend that time migrating to Bonfire.
@kallekn
Screenshot of my default quote policy applied to the toot above, as shown by Phanpy.
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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My first quote. Going great, I think I'll go back to links.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Just Bluesky being Bluesky. I wonder if the moderation action is intolerance against fungi or algorithms.
Two skeets, the second labeled for Intolerance @jay.bsky.team 1d I stick to a few safe ones. Use my mushroom identification app for fun on the rest @fathomdeep.bsk... Please don't trust the apps for anything you're going to eat. One of the more obvious ways Al is trying to kill us The explanatory modal for the moderation label Intolerance Discrimination against protected groups. Source: @moderation.bsky.app
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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My partner's formerly trusty Bernina sowing machine let its smoke out a couple of weeks ago. By magic someone had the exact right kind of power supply board for it and was happy to mail it. Got it installed last week - today it said bang again.

These safety caps are […]

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Sowing machine power supply board with an exploded safety capacitor.
November 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Kinda feel like I'm cosplaying 007 at a casino scene. I hope I'm not walking into a gunfight!
Fancy evening suit
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I don't personally use design apps, but I follow them for professional interest. This new "free" Affinity version doesn't seem to be receiving an excited response.
Screenshot promoting Affinity's new AI focus.
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Raid Over Moscow (1984). A game that created a minor calamity in Finland at the time.
It even includes what look like Shahed drones. Episode II is long overdue.
https://youtu.be/33CCXg8B4aM
Screenshot from a C-64 game. A flying vehicle proceeds left-to-right in a sidescrolling arena. On the right, some obstacles and an enemy tank.
October 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Ihan ymmärrettävää, sillä itseajavien autojen koulutusmateriaalissa ei varmastikaan ole ollut riittävää määrää tiellä kulkevia karhuja.
Henkilöauto ja karhu törmäsivät Viinijärvellä Liperissä lauantaiaamuna hieman ennen kello kahdeksaa. Törmäys sattui Kuopiontiellä, Viinijärven kylän kohdilla. Henkilöauto oli matkalla Kuopion suuntaan, kun karhu juoksi tielle kulkusuunnasta katsoen vasemmalta.
October 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM