"Economic change in all periods depends, more than most economists think, on what people believe." (Mokyr, p. 1)

Finnish #intelligence #history keeps having wild plot twists. A retired Finnish spy-catcher with probably a world record in catching Soviet “illegals” (“at least” 25) got the largest lottery jackpot in Europe - and used the millions to do and help counterintelligence. www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-...

Jeg er stadigvæk en lille smule indigneret over hvor hårdt den finske regering girfælger drømmen om at sælge militære isbrydere til USA. Kan nogen mon forestille sig, hvor de skulle anvendes? Så meget for #nordisksolidaritet.

Germany: "...they should be asking critical questions about long-term resilience, rather than sensationalizing scenario planning & crisis exercises." #futuresliteracy #societalresilience

Very cool piece on the importance of strategic foresight and forward-looking strategy by @bressansar.bsky.social for @gppi.bsky.social : gppi.net/2025/10/08/g...

Energy experts want to build thousand wind turbines on the Finnish eastern border as part of the #DroneWall They would provide a platform for airspace monitoring from the height of 200 meters. #Defence yle.fi/a/74-2018462...

Det er præcis det. Der er nogle rystelser på vej, som vi slet ikke er kompetent forberedte på. Et skifte i vores måde at se os selv, hinanden og verden på. Lige dele spændende og skræmmende.

In memoriam...

Finland will deploy a detachment capable of identifying and countering drones such as those sighted over several Nordic airports in recent weeks.

Team Europe trolling Trump after winning The Ryder Cup 🤣💀

The chief paradox of the next few decades is going to be that aging countries around the world need new people, but can't get them because they don't want the "wrong kind" of people

This only happens to you once

Why offer a report on future threats when you don't care about the future?

læs Jonas Algers fremragende analyse afhvordan Kina er milevidt foran vesten, når det handler om den grønne energiomstilling - ikke bare i Kina, men globalt. Deres nuværende investeringer i udlandet overgår nu, når vi kontrollerer for inflation, Marshall-pakken til Europa efter WW2.

I cannot believe we live in this era

Awesome, great can’t imagine this having any negative epistemological effects. Like you would always get what you searched for but now they’ve fully automated the confirmation bias machine.

The article I co-authored with Jason Jabbour and others is now published in its proofed form in Futures journal: ‘Principles for Building a Culture of Organizational Foresight’. It is open access, available to any international civil servant who seeks its ‘practical wisdom’! doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Indeed. Remarkable how quickly batteries went from irrelevant to a major component of the California grid. Has also enabled renewed growth in solar which had tapped out at ~100% of noontime supply.

The EU's strategic foresight report 2025 is out and it rings the bell for a "change in the global order" "We're witnessing the erosion of the rules-based international order & fracturing of the global landscape... a return to the previous status quo seems increasingly unlikely"

My new conspiracy theory that I believe in is that Tarzans happen all the time, we just don’t hear about it because they don’t have phones.

Holdakæft.

Tanska poistaa #kirja n arvonlisäveron torjuakseen #lukutaito heikkenemistä. Suomi on päinvastaisella tiellä, sillä kirjojen alv nousi 10% -> 14% vuoden alussa. Kirjastot eivät maksa ostamistaan kirjoista alvia, mutta epäsuorat vaikutukset ovat mahdollisia. 1/2

"Everything we do is a wager on what comes next". Interesting piece.

They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.

2017 Euroopassa: Eurokriisin aikainen tiukka talouskuri oli virhe. 2025 Suomessa: Nyt tarvitaan tiukkaa talouskuria!

Der burde være mange flere dage i august. AGFs seneste 11 august-kampe: 10 sejre + 0-0 mod FCM i en kamp, der burde være vundet. 19 kampe fra og med 2022: 15 sejre. Målforskel: 44-13. #Ladallemånederværeaugust #ksdh.

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

Thanks to Karen Hao's brilliant book Empire of AI, I learned that potable water is the only type of water that can be used to cool data centers. Saltwater or wastewaster isn't useable.

Do you ever think about the generation we're making of people who talk to their partner like a GPT prompt

Amazing.

I wish there was a casino where I could put down a few bucks with zillion-to-one odds on, like, Algeria or Sudan or Namibia harnessing solar energy and becoming an industrial superpower. On the one hand, unrest, state capacity, corruption, colonial legacies etc. On the other hand:

AI automation of anything important: not even once.

Hvis #ultratwitteragf slår Fredericia hjemme i næste runde, ligger de (midlertidigt) nummer 1 i #sldk. Og det var AGF. Med Jakob Poulsen. Efter syv kampe. Nummer ét i superligaen. I et VM-år. #brændtbarn #ksdh

18p, 14w, 40-12. #Ladallemånederværeaugust #ksdh

This is fucking crazy! The offshore wind farm is almost finished!

17 kampe, 13 sejre. Målscore 39-12. #Ladallemånederværeaugust #ultratwitteragf #ksdh

Arnstad som venstre 10er? Det bliver et ja herfra. #ksdh

One of the signals that I cant help paying attention to after reading #NomadCentury. Necessity will turn public opinion around? bsky.app/profile/econ...

Genuinely fascinated that Reddit just keeps growing. The closest thing to a Public Town Square today? Also, have we seen peak TikTok? That might have implications for pondering societal #futures.

I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

Fra 2022 og frem har AGF spillet 16 betydende kampe i august: - 12 sejre (bl.a. Club Brügge, FCK, BIF) - 3 uafgjorte - 1 nederlag Horsens. Det seneste hold til at slå AGF i august. #Ladallemånederværeaugust #ultratwitteragf #ksdh

Tænk sig, at Jakob Nielsen engang kom i problemer for at antyde, at FCK lægger pres på dommeren i Parken. Det kunne de naturligvis aldrig drømme om. #ksdh

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World. Klimt, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Popper, Freud, Hayek, Morgenstern, Neurath, Asperger, Hedy Lamarr, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder. From art, philosophy, psychology and sexology to feminism, skyskrapers, shopping malls and Some Like It Hot.

'Nobody believes in the future any more'. Ouch. #Futures

Well the current plan for jumpstarting economic growth seems to be 1. Cut taxes 2. ??? 3. A new Nokia appears So basically lottoing?

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (2024). This is a smash hit 6-8 episodes long HBO/Netflix-miniseries waiting to be made. Do yourself a favour and read the book in advance - you're very unlikely to regret it. Intriguing and highly original premise, memorable characters, and full of wit.

Drømmenes Cykelregister by Erlend Loe (2023). Odd, wildly fascinating, classic Loe. I was reading it on nights and mornings I couldn't sleep (so, basically, half-asleep), and I think that was the perfect setting for it. There are parts, I'm still not sure whether I read or simply dreamt up myself.

Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong by Paul Richardson (2024). Some interesting parts ('the myths of continents' especially), but the most remarkable thing was just how dated this *2024*-book felt now. Lots of stuff on Trump I and borders - written in a different world, I guess.

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...