Is Finland a model for Canada to counter disinformation? But how practical is the hope that Finland can be a beacon for other democracies? www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... According to @lageneralista.ca from the Carnegie Endowment Information Environment Project, "Ecologically speaking, not very."

Nothing to worry about, just the president openly threatening the left with extrajudicial violence from his allies www.axios.com/2025/09/25/t...

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We are ruled by absolute fucking morons.

Rutte: Lavrov has been Foreign Minister of Russia since the birth of Jesus Christ, and nothing useful ever came out of his mouth. Let's not pay too much attention to Lavrov. 😁Fair point.

"9. Vallila, Helsinki, Finland" 🙂

That escalated quickly.

The US is rapidly on the way to becoming the new Turkey, and not because the food is going to get really good.

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, called President Trump racist, sexist and Islamophobic after Trump attacked him in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

Zephyr Teachout has spent her career studying corruption. More often, it appears as a set of habits that spread throughout a society, she writes. She shares her reading list of books that dive into how corruption really works:

Näin laitaoikeisto toimii. Jos riippumattomat tutkijat tai viranomaiset esittävät laitaoikeiston valtaapitävien mielipiteistä poikkeavia näkemyksiä, poliitikot vaativat rahoituksen lopettamista. Tämä on nähty Trumpin USA:ssa, ja se on vaara laitaoikeiston linjalla myös Suomessa.

Hesarin otsikkoalgoritmi käynyt aamulla kierroksilla. Vasemmistolaiset soluttautujat muuten Vesa Vihriälä ja Mika Maliranta. Siellä on ollut Etlassa kova ajo käynnissä! #yhteiskunta #media

Our Wednesday afternoon selection is a midweek mix of mostly autumnal landscape shots taken around Finland. Photos shared on IG by valotomi, jadilicous, pavlo.nevinchanyi, and TerhiVanha: www.instagram.com/p/DO-vfevjKxp/

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everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Yeah, Kimmel is back. And Trump made him much stronger. This was excellent. 410K views on YouTube in the first 30 minutes. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY

The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, experienced a frustration that many New Yorkers know all too well. He got stuck on a Manhattan street corner. It had been closed off for President Trump’s motorcade during the UN General Assembly. nyti.ms/46F5esx

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

Katsoin, mitä VM ennusti keväällä 2023 ennen Orpon hallituksen aloittamista Suomen talouden tulevien vuosien kehitykseksi. Hämmentävää on se, että rahapolitiikan (lyhyt korko) ura on ennustettu lähes kohdalleen, samoin inflaatioura. Kaikki muu on mennyt vihkoon, pahiten työmarkkinaennuste. #talous

"Your countries are going to hell." — US President Donald Trump at the United Nations, 2025.

Minulla on ongelma ministerin kanssa, jonka kommunikaatio on tällaista.

Kuvitelkaa, että meillä on niin tiede- ja tutkimusvastainen hallituspuolue, että Suomen Akatemia joutuu varoittelemaan yliopistoja ja tutkijoita tulevasta häirinnästä ja maalittamisesta Ja kukaan ei kysy muilta hallituspuolueilta, että minkä takia tällaisen sallitaan jatkua

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

HY:n tiedote tuoreesta tutkimuksestamme.

@helsinki.fi uutisoi tuoreesta tutkimuksestamme, jossa selvitettiin sitä, vähensikö Venäjän hyökkäys Ukrainaan ilmastonmuutosta ja maahanmuuttoa koskevien keskustelujen poliittista polarisaatiota somessa. (Vähensi, mutta rajallisesti; motivoitu päättely esti polarisaation kunnollisen vähenemisen.)

Vähän muistettu perustuslain 93§: Suomen ulkopolitiikkaa johtaa maa- ja metsätalousministeri yhteistoiminnassa valtiovarainministerin kanssa.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader. Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Satellite images of Marinka 2020 vs 2024 show a city erased. Russia talks peace while leveling Ukrainian towns and rejecting President Trump’s calls to the peace table.

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

The reaction of people when russian Shahed drone got intercepted 🫠 Dnipro, Ukraine, this morning.

"Security guarantees for #Ukraine require readiness to fight #Russia, says #Finland ’s president" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

What will Donald say about the latest violation of NATO airspace? -It was an accident -Lets see in 2 weeks -This is on Biden -Nothing

Before last week, NATO's art. 4 had been activated seven times. Now it has been activated twice in less than ten days, by Poland over the drone incursions and Estonia over the air space by violation by Russian fighter jets.

Hallituksen riittämättömät tai jopa haitalliset ilmastotoimet tulevat kalliiksi julkiselle taloudelle ja ilmastolle. Lisäisin, että meidän kilpailukyky myös heikkenee, kun yritysten intressit kehittää teknologiaa heikkenevät. Ei näin. 🫤 yle.fi/a/74-2018217...

Klein was a dubious source of insight before, but the speed of his descent into the garbage pile is breathtaking to behold.

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

What kind of political ideology would a person need to hold to declare all anti-fascists as terrorists? Fuck me, that's a tough one.

@variety.com writes about funding cuts to the Finnish film industry. "Only a moron would cut the funding of an industry that actually brings revenue into the government’s pocket. Our ruling parties show, again, that they do not understand the value of culture for a nation."

In this new paper with @fisherdanar.bsky.social in Politics and Governance, we distinguish intrinsic and instrumental polarisation and analyse polarisation curves and phases in US climate politics. We also present new methods for discourse networks. doi.org/10.17645/pag... @cogitatiopag.bsky.social

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.