Orpon hallituksen otettua vallan Suomen työttömyysaste on noussut selvästi korkeammalle tasolle kuin koko EU:n työttömyysaste. Lähde: Eurostat
Kuvassa näkyy Suomen työttömyysasteen ja koko EU:n työttömyysasteen erotus. On todella hassua, kuinka Suomen työttömyys alkoi kiivetä korkealle EU:n keskiarvon yläpuolelle heti, kun kansanrintamahallitus korvattiin oikeistohallituksella.
The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.
And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.
They're slavers.
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
Does anyone know of projects which have encoded a linguistic grammar in TEI format? I have been able to find documentation about and various examples of dictionaries and corpora, but so far no grammars. #TEI
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link
We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.
0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/lecture...
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Cover of new Finnish anthology of Old English literature
This just out: a Finnish-language collection of Old English literature. 'When the Swords Sang' includes two chapters I co-authored, and I also tried my hand at translating bits of the A-S Chronicle. Publisher: Gaudeamus.
Eilen (torstaina, 5. maaliskuuta 2026) Unkarin viranomaiset vangitsivat 7 ukrainalaisen, valtio-omisteisen, Oštšadbankin työntekijää ja 2 ajoneuvoa, jotka olivat siirtämässä rahavaroja ja arvotavaraa Itävallan ja Ukrainan välillä. >
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Publishing WTF moment:
I get a pitch for a book that's pro-AI pedagogy, asking me which proposal guidelines to use, as we have 2 files on our website.
We only have 1 file on our website.
The second file is 8 years old and not publicly available.
I ask where they got it. /1
Proton Mail is not secure 👇👇
I'm compiling a handout with paleography advice for my students. I'll post it as a thread below. What am I missing?
- Your goal is to transcribe what is written on the page as fully as possible.
- Read it out aloud if it doesn't appear to make sense. Try a faux dialect accent if the vowels don't look right.
- Scribes make mistakes! The minims may not add up 'correctly'.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social
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Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.
So, one question I often get is why I decided to write a book about guns, and the answer goes back more than two decades to the beginning of this millennium when I was doing my MA.
Suomessa koko OECD:n korkein työttömyysaste (10,3 %)! Tietääkseni koskaan aiemmin ei ole ollut näin. Nyt pitäisi hälytyskellojen soida ja tunnustaa talouspolitiikan epäonnistuminen. Toisin kuin luvattiin, rikkaiden ja elinkeinoelämän nuoleskelu ei tuonut kasvua ja työllisyyttä.
Gerard Mercator, Flemish, cartography and globe-maker, was born 5 March 1512 #histsci
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Yritykset haluavat koulutettua työvoimaa ja Kokoomus on se puolue, joka koulutuksesta eniten leikkaa.
Selkeä ristiriita, kun vasemmistopuolueet ovatkin ne puolueet, jotka haluavat voimakkaimmin tukea yritysten tärkeintä pääomaa, eli osaavaa työvoimaa.
Yritysten olisi hyvä herätä tässä asiassa.
Johtajien palkat erkaantuvat muista, vaikka Suomen talouskehitys surkeaa. Ei ihme, ettei Suomi lähde nousuun, kun epäonnistumisesta palkitaan. Sama tapahtunut elinkeinoelämän etujen kanssa.
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This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
This was so good, thanks for sharing it.
"Having preserved the knowledge held by these communities, it was no longer necessary, or even convenient, to preserve the people themselves."
This is about indigenous NAm peoples and their linguistic record, but it applies to all imperialists and robber barons alike.
Nihil novi sub sole:
"Many people disappear from the telling when a machine is treated as a historical actor."
This is a great article to read and reflect on the current preoccupation with technology.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
