RE: https://social.ahlroos.me/@yle_fi_bot/115687745379599872 Yes, Finns please cut this out (it's very Anglo-centric) "TTL:n Barbara Bergbom esittää suomalaisille yleisen toiveen, että myyttiä suomen kielen erityisestä vaikeudesta lakattaisiin hellimästä. – Tieteellinen tutkimus vahvistaa […]

EMAIL WRAPPED 2025 This year, you received too fucking much email! Number of emails that found you well: zero Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]

this is only tangentially related but it reminded me how I once saw this blog post claiming that the psychological concept of paying attention was developed in the 1700s because that's when "attention" became a commonly attested English word. And I wanted to shake the author through the monitor […]

via Hackernews. It really is comical the lengths to which companies will go to avoid being contacted by their customers. What the fuck is a ‘fuck off contact page?’ "A “fuck off contact page” is what a company throws together when they actually don’t want anyone to contact them at all. They […]

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned." (Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?) […]

#uk Girlguiding volunteer troop leaders refusing to enforce 'horrific' #trans ban https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/05/girlguiding-leaders-trans-ban/

We have repeatedly demonstrated our willingness to deploy technologies whose socioeconomic impact we do not understand and cannot forecast, in order to obtain a profit. The AI apocalypse looks much more like an accelerated runaway-IT problem: replacing components of complex socioeconomic […]

https://www.404media.co/scientists-are-increasingly-worried-ai-will-sway-elections/ (also, finnish ballot box pic!! torille!!)

🐀 Dad's what's information 🦝 It's like misinformation but there's less of it and it's true

I gotta do like a Big Thread about this sometime on my blog that I don't have, but for now I've gotta say, Actually Making The Effort to use the e-reader rather than my phone for reading books has paid me dividends in Chill

My bank’s phone app just forced me to swipe through a “2025 wrapped” nonsense and then crashed. In hindsight, that feels about right for 2025.

«The moment was absurd but revealing; the university wasn’t resisting bullshit education, it was onboarding it. Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own […]

Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they […]

Okay, I only wrote about this one 'cos the concept made me laugh: a 3D-printed sundial that works at night. https://www.hackster.io/news/this-24-hour-sundial-brings-its-own-sun-so-you-can-tell-the-time-at-night-020bdc51d69d #technology #3dprinting #clocks #makers #news #hackster

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Kishka/115636314920628095 okay this is actually important, please boost @Kishka just did a whole breakdown on the "Tor VPN" app on google play and the red flags are wild no source code available for what's supposedly a tor project app, which is already a massive red […]

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/115646642010144982 Stellar #investigative #journalism from RollingStone on the #environmental & human cost of mega #datacentres. "It never occurred to Doherty that his effort to fix the #water problem would provoke the ire of a group of local […]

RE: https://social.ahlroos.me/@yle_fi_bot/115648639919034951 and they only noticed this now???

heard your mom has a big game today

What is the quintessential Finnish company holiday party activity and why is it bowling

[AI, mental health, awful] "Meet the group helping break people out of AI delusions," another one of those headlines like "Girl scout troop raises thirty grand for cancer treatment" in the horror-disguised-as-hope genre […]

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Lunch time walk about laying bare the secrets of our new town.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Does "chorf" have a hard or soft "ch"? The latest #Warhammer miniature of the month. The WH store says they do a little popularity contest with them, so I'm bringing this in tomorrow. Went festive for lack of better ideas. The green armor is done by mixing Aztec […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Ok, oddly specific ask, but if ANYONE has one of these laying around doing nothing, can I buy it from you? Early 2000s Lucent wifi yagi. It's a nostalgia item, but it will be used. Throw me a message or something if you have one and don't want $250 for it.

Randall Monroe's #xkcd comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons. * Posted in Nov 2012: Two Years * Posted in Dec 2017: Seven Years * Posted in Nov 2020: Ten Years * Posted yesterday (Nov 2025): Fifteen Years […]

Another photography I took last week. I really like doing this, it's really fun and satisfying. I should do it more often honestly. #SpaceWolves #primaris #warhammer #warhammer40k #spacemarines #PaintingWarhammer #paintingminiatures #wargammerCommunity #warhammercommunity #nerdlings #modelpainting

[llm misuse] https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1 gholy fuck

The irony of these two articles coming up next to each other in my feed reader...

Look at this gem of the past I just watched from CBC, 1995! This was in my YouTube Recommended algorithm today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EXga2hEIs It features a young @pluralistic extolling the virtues of the Internet. Among other things, he warned people about not getting sucked into […]

It's pretty nice inside Finlandia Hall Vesterinen performed there last Saturday so here are my pictures and blab from that. This post has some bonus content from my clackity piano for everyone to enjoy and also some interesting turns of phrase for @erikcats […]

One of my favorite D&D isms is from Jeremy Crawford "A diverse group is a strong group." He's talking about party composition in a game where cooperation is key. But he's also talking about life.

the winter darkness up here does suck. as much as you tell yourself you're okay with it and used to it, you're not okay with it and not used to it. (no, native finns aren't used to it either.)

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯 https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface

This is (probably) a metaphor for me vis-à-vis Vesterinen (to explain: me, a Canadian, pressed up against the metaphorical glass that separates fans from their idols) #fangirlproblems

Overheard at the Kauan (post-metal) gig tonight: "I've never been to a gig where it's two hours long and there's only two songs" Let me introduce you to the symphony lol (It was the premiere thing for the new "Wayhome" album, which IMO works better as separate […] [Original post on dice.camp]

It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron. Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into […]

I’m #Hobby butterflying again. Good bit of the way there on this Liche Priest. I really like this kit (well, bar the bloody fiddly horse). It’s the same approach I used on #PrinceApophas. My attempt at #Blanchsitu. Red base, mustardy yellow heavy drybrush, and a […] [Original post on dice.camp]

the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless. police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.

Holy Shit, #valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" I'm not very good with CSS...

Okay, but hear me out, what if we produce an entire generation of students who are *all* the ones who did nothing in the group project?

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

A good friend just got laid off, so if you know of any hidden opportunities for a Finnish to Swedish translator, please let me pass them on to her

Does anybody know who has a license to print these? I just desperately want prints of the damsels for my Bretonnian damsel proxies collection https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tartessosminiatures/3d-printing-army-of-the-old-age-2-stl-files-only #warhammer #warhammertheoldworld #3dprinting

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.