Mölkky! On the sports pages of The Guardian, just in time for Finnish Midsummer! Torille.

On our foreclosed future…. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

A data centre is usually treated as a grid problem: a large, growing electricity load. In Finland it's becoming a heat asset. Fortum has switched on two industrial heat pump plants that will recover waste heat from neighbouring data centres from next year. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/l...

Fantastisk artikel.

Axios is reporting that a company 'accidentally' spent $500 million in one month on AI after failing to establish usage limits for its employees. www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...

Present today at #Shiftbusinessfestival with colleagues. Some draw bigger crowds than me.

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Your coffee is more likely to come from an Asian country than ever before.

In April, almost twice as many people googled "solar panel" than in any month, ever🤯 If that's not a sign...;)

I really, really, really don't intend to downplay all the very real and, in too many cases, mounting problems in the world today. But I do think it is easy to miss genuine progress, because it usually happens just too slowly for individual humans to easily notice. And that often leads to despair.

Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs.

Humanoide robotter: Hvor langt er udviklingen kommet? #dkvid #dkforsk

doomerism is a crime against the future! if you give a shit about the future it is incumbent on you to push the line that ever so small distance towards the fucking light! you people call yourselves depressed? you are like the little baby

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

#Signalsforchangingworlds 42 yle.fi/a/7-10099016...

But we've reached a remarkable breaking point where AIs are trained more on AI-generated content than on human content. Training AIs to generate content to train AIs to generate content to train AIs to ... #Signalsforchangingworlds 40

we are in the middle of a revolution

Lmao

Here we go again... Massive 5920 gpm upper-level ridge is being forecast to park over western Europe in the weekend. The 500-hPa heights will exceed ERA5 May climatology by several meters, indicating a potential for an intense and locally even record-breaking early-season heatwave.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

The weird thing about AI though is that it's the youngest who are most skeptical. Take a look at this new NYTimes/Siena polling. AI is mostly bad: 18-29: 47% 30-44: 43% 45-64: 32% 65+: 24% Just 17% of Americans 18-29 say AI is mostly good.

“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower" NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social write about what China's tech acceleration means for the world. Subscribe & read here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Uanset hvordan sæsonen ender, så er der noget smukt over at se AGF spille afgørende slutspilskampe med Kevin Yakob og Jacob Andersen. Vi troede, de var døde og borte, og nu står de så her. Kæmpe historier. #ksdh

A view from 🇫🇮: The head of the Finnish tax administration claims that data centres reduce national tax income. So far, the biggest amount of corporate taxes paid related to a data centre was €11m, while the biggest VAT deduction was €240m. Only 7 of 44 Finnish data centres have 20 employees.

De mange nye datacentre kommer til at blokere for andre industrielle investeringer, der ville skabe flere arbejdspladser og større merværdi for samfundet. Hvordan foretager vi den afvejning? Det er en politisk diskussion, der *burde* være på tapetet, men som underligt nok endnu ikke rigtigt er det.

Fantastic piece this on neuroscience, brain development and what this tells us about AI in educational settings:

There's a ton of interesting findings, facts, and figures in the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report which came out a few weeks back. Here's a few of the more remarkable ones 🧵 First of all, the remarkable speed of diffusion of GenAI. #Signalsforchangingworlds 39

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"Netcompany Ineos" with yada-yada about AI. Feels like the partnership between AI and fossil fuels is a rather explicit symbol of our time.

Nye data fra SIPRI som viser at - desværre og ikke overraskende - at miltærudgifterne stiger globalt. Se flere detaljer på på SIPRI's profil eller i de næste opslag

The total Nordic #population continues to grow, but with a growing gap between growing & shrinking regions. 🔵 Strong growth in and around capital regions & urban centres 🟠 Shrinking populations across rural & remote areas 🗺️ Map: nordregio.org/maps/total-p... 📙 More: nordregio.org/publications...

"I Speak For The Trees (and they say: get your act together)". From the presentation of Future Generations Commissioner of Wales Derek Walker at #PolyFutures here today and tomorrow in Brussels.

"A powerful dust storm disrupted the first weekend of the Coachella music festival as blustery winds swept over the sprawling grounds and enveloped concertgoers in a whirlwind of desert sand." The writers are not subtle.

Demand for new data centres in the Nordic countries is not without societal risks: 1) Rising electricity prices for all, 2) More profitable industrial Investments crowded out by the massive Investments in low-margin foreign-owned data centres. Very little political discussion on this topic.

Every Interrail-travel should include a trip to Kemijärvi.

In Sweden, women born to foreign-born parents is now the group most likely to attend tertiary education. Then comes women (born abroad) who immigrated to Sweden as kids. After that, men and women with a Swedish background. #Signalsforchangingworlds 37. www.iffs.se/nyheter/kvin...

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

one of my beliefs is that most people are straight Dengists about politics. Doesn't matter if it's white or black, so long as the cat catches mice

the future is already here it's just unevenly distributed. the USA will have gone from being a leading edge EV maker in the early 2010s to a global laggard by 2030, mostly because we elected Trump twice (and it'll probably kill the US auto industry)

If you think the world is too chaotic today, I would not recommend you to read Anthropic's new report about Claude Mythos, their newest large language model: www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a...

SERRALUTION! #ksdh

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

ESPAS Signals of Change, March 2026: "The question remains: will we prioritise depth and complexity in our culture and education, or continue down the path of simplification?" #Signalsforchangingworlds 36

"How Russia and China are winning the war in Iran." A remarkable analysis: www.piie.com/blogs/realti... #Signalsforchangingworlds 35

Update from today: "Since the war started, the stock market valuation of each of China’s three biggest battery companies has increased by roughly 20 percent, or $70 billion altogether." Maybe betting on electrons ain't that bad an idea.

Good piece here from @jmingle.bsky.social on the effects of Trump's war. The short-term effect on the world's poor & emerging economies: immense suffering. The long-term effect: an acceleration of the turn away from fossil fuels.