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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 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mas.to/@osma, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
A blackboard outside a shop on a sidewalk paved with brick. On the blackboard someone has written "I was told there would ba a handbasket." For anyone unfamiliar with the idiom, there's a common expression about things "Going to hell in a handbasket," meaning that they're turning bad very quickly.
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“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.”
We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth
Last boosts examples of the WW3 precursors instigated by the Cabinet of Idiots assembled by the Orange One.
Americans, you have a very limited window to show you don't co-own the Trump War. Russians failed theirs, when it could still have been the Putin War.
Donald has killed a geriatric mass murdering fundamentalist & replaced him with a younger and more extreme version, all while saving the Russian war machine by spiking the oil price.
Nice not to be the only master strategist.
Refreshingly honest article indeed, and a good overview for future historians. Here's the Google translation for your & US embassy's convenience. Spotted only minor errors. Had to condense the alt texts a bit though!
I hope the U.S. embassy in Helsinki will include this in their clippings of what the local press is saying about the United States, because it summarizes Finnish thoughts quite perfectly. Well, aside from a far right minority perhaps.
www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/2...
I use my phone in dark mode not for my eyes but for emissions reduction goals.
POLIITTISESSA retoriikassa tapahtuu jotain outoa, kun ihminen aikuistuu. Kunnianhimon taso laskee ja ihmiskuva välineellistyy: ajatus merkityksellistä elämää tavoittelevasta moraalisesta toimijasta kapenee ihanteeksi osaajasta, jonka arvo mitataan tuottavuudella. Korkeakoulutuksessa ylin päämäärä on nyt kilpailukyky ja osaaminen on sille alisteinen väline. Liiaksi talouden realiteeteista kumpuava korkeakoulupolitiikka saattaa epäonnistua juuri siinä, mihin se tähtää: talouskasvun synnyttämisessä. Jos osaaminen nähdään liian kapeasti ja teknologialähtöisesti, Suomen krooninen alisuoriutuminen aineettomassa arvonluonnissa ei korjaudu. Myymme raaka-ainetta ja tavaraa, kun pitäisi tarjota palvelua, merkitystä ja ratkaisuja. Suuri osa viennistämme perustuu edelleen alhaisen jalostusasteen prosessiteollisuuteen, vaikka yhä suurempi osa taloudellisesta arvosta syntyy kyvystä yhdistää teknologinen osaaminen syvälliseen ymmärrykseen ihmisestä, kulttuurista ja merkityksellisyydestä.
Tämä Kaarlo Hildénin mielipide arvonluonnin ja korkeakoulutuksen suhteesta ansaitsee tulla luetuksi ajatuksella.
https://www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000011856579.html
Suo-mi
A map showing where Europe’s peatlands are located. Many bogs, fens and mires are concentrated around NATO’s borders with Russia and Belarus. Map colours show percentage of peat cover per soil mapping unit. From https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-defense-kyiv-ukraine-nato-eu-bogs-poland-war-germany/
And oh boy do we have peatlands to rewild!
Four years ago, first satellite images from Bucha indicated that dark objects the size of human bodies were scattered on the streets. The actual horror would be revealed three weeks later.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-bodies.html
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116196968738130945
Just one more: ban border exit, and russia's transformation back to an open air prison is complete. #backtotheussr
To be clear: 1) human physiology is unable to measure oxygen in breathing air, 2) an oxygen molecule is several orders of magnitude smaller than the pores of any class of respirator. Letting air through while blocking aerosol particles is part of the spec.
RE: https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/116195010314020803
"it restricts my oxygen"
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
How do I know what?
@skyglowberlin
A COMPUTER CAN NOT MAINTAIN HUMAN IDENTITY
THEREFORE, A COMPUTER MUST NOT BE REFERRED TO AS I, YOU, HE OR SHE
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116185232602660836
In case y'all aren't aware, new data center projects are being struck down or paused all over the US & Canada now, because stories like this are breaking through the national consciousness. As soon as anyone gets wind that their community is targeted […]
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try reddwarf.app for a while but good to know about alternatives.
Speaking as a taxpayer of one of the nations bordering an oligarch authoritarian regime (they seem to be becoming more numerous), I'm happy we have invested into deterring an invasion from them.
@skyglowberlin
Hyvää kansainvälistä naistenpäivää!
Tämä juttu muistuttaa, että naisten tasa-arvoisiin oikeuksiin, vapauteen ja turvaan on vielä valtavasti matkaa.
Ja työtä on tietysti täällä Suomessakin, muun muassa aivan liian yleisen lähisuhdeväkivallan kitkemisessä.
www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sHu0zc...
I was aware of the speculation that Anthropic's Claude (the so-called "ethical" AI) was used to target the Iranian girls' school. I did not know it was a double-tap attack. #warcrimes
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school
Hyvää naistenpäivää!
Pysykää aina yhtä hurjina, sillä tämä maailma paranee jos jotenkin.
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Thanks, reddwarf seems to work fine. Do you know anything about its background you could share?
@ikuturso
"For four years, both Ukraine and Russia have employed simple and widely available geolocation from social media posts (and images / videos in those posts) to prime their targeting process. How had they not learned this? As a result, it is highly likely the Russians will target this location […]
"Just in case we are led to believe that the drone interceptors are the only example of a lack of learning, there was another good example of this systemic learning deficit during the week. A British politician visiting Ukraine tweeted from a previously undeclared maintenance site for British […]
"This week revealed fully just how poor western and Middle East military institutions have been at learning from the war in Ukraine. I have written several times about how western military organisations have shown a lack of humility in learning from Ukraine, but the past week has provided the […]
Also in that 5% defense spending: road and rail infrastructure, underground shelters which double as sports facilities, hardened electric grids and networks, hospitals, disaster preparedness and emergency supply. The final 1.5% wouldn't have been agreed to without.
@skyglowberlin
