shoutout to northern Eastern Algonquian nasalization of *aᐧ > /ąᐧ/ which is why skunk has an 'n' and Chicago does not

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)@timhenke.bsky.social · 7h ago

I don't know who needs to hear this, but did you know the word "Chicago" is cognate to the word "skunk" via Proto-Algonquian *sekakwa (literally: "piss fox")

Laura Wimanin väitöskirjasta on nyt sanottu hämmentävän paljon. Poliitikot, maamme valtiovarainministeri yhtenä heistä, ja vielä pari ekonomistiakin on ollut äänessä. Seuraavaksi äänessä olen minä. Ketju seuraa.

Tutkimuksen lähtökohta on niukkuuden maailma. Tutkimusta ei siis oikein voi mitätöidä vetoamalla niukkuuteen. Väitöskirjan tähänastinen vastaanotto kertoo aika paljon kommentoijista. Mielipiteeni valtiovarainministeristä ei ollut kovin kaksinen, mutta se huononi kyllä taas.

Tämä on yksi niistä monista kohdista, joissa väitöskirjasta käydyn keskustelun ja väitöskirjan tosiasiallisen sisällön vertaaminen aiheuttavat väkisinkin päänpudistelua. Lukivatko nämä äänessä olevat tahot sitä? Ymmärsivätkö he lukemaansa?

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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I have a plan for reducing Finnish and Estonian government deficits

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Sen sijaan että höpsitään työttömien patistamisesta marjametsään, voitaisiin ottaa oppia Versowoodin tempauksesta: laitetaan työssä olevat konkreettisesti korjaamaan yrityksen aiheuttamaa ympäristötuhoa. Aito mahdollisuus virheistä oppimiseen ja huonojen käytäntöjen korjaamiseen yle.fi/a/74-20237711

Viranomainen käski metsäyhtiötä korjaamaan avohakkuulla rikotun Marinojan – Versowood teki siitä työhyvinvointipäivän

Viranomainen velvoitti metsäyhtiö Versowoodin korjaamaan tuhoja Nastolassa Ruuhijärvellä. Luonnontilaisen noron uoma hajosi maaliskuussa 2025 yhtiön avohakkuussa.

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congratulations to the UX designers at the British Newspaper Archive, who have taken a site that basically worked, and done their best to fix that problem. Look at this sidebar: in the old design it would be sorted by frequency and I could tell at a glance what the shape of the hits were. Now, no.

Opiskelujen viivästymisen yleisimmät syyt ovat taloudelliset vaikeudet ja henkinen uupumus. Mutta selvästikin HS Visiossa on taas funtsittu nämä jutut oikein viimeisen päälle ja päätetty, että tällä ratkeavat molemmat.

Tuore väitöstuykimus: Hyvinvointivaltio on mahdollista ylläpitää talouden nollakasvusta huolimatta. Väite on kiusallinen, koska se vetää pohjan pois koko nykyiseltä talouspolitiikalta, mikä harmittaa nimimerkkiä "riikka". www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a...

Riikka Purra tyrmää tutkijan ”seksikkään” väitöksen

Tutkijan mukaan hyvinvointivaltio voi selvitä ilman talouskasvua. Valtiovarainministeri Riikka Purra lyttää tutkimuksen.

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Mitäs sitten leikataan, jos julkinen sektori ei olekaan paisunut?

This is from 2016 but I hadn’t heard of it until now. WILD story. www.denverpost.com/2016/08/10/l...

Kansas home wound up with 600 million IP addresses and a world of trouble

The little Kansas house in the center of the country became the crossroads of the Internet, with unimaginable consequences.

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Vielä puoli vuotta sitten hallituksen kristallipallo kertoi ”pakollisten rakenneuudistusten”(=shittification) vaikutusten näkyvän vasta 2030-luvulla Nyt 0,9% laskennallisen tilastovirheen vuoksi juhlitaan onnistunutta politiikkaa…vaikka kaikki on samalla myös demarien vika🤷‍♂️ Schrödingerin hallitus

Mikko Tuomi@mustapipa.bsky.social · yesterday

Tulee mieleeni käärmeöljykauppiaat. Hekin sanovat eliksiirinsä tehoavan vaikka mihin vaivaan, ja kun ihminen sitten lopulta, taudin kärsittyään, paranee, he sanovat öljyn olleen paranemisen takana. Vähät siitä, että eliksiiri pahensi vaivoja, aiheutti valtavia sivuoireita, ja hidasti paranemista.

Very first sentence is about the knapped artefacts First Nations people here made with ballast stones. Def of interest to archs!

The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · 2d ago

New article! Matthew Evenden @arts.ubc.ca on 'Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

A long shot: is anyone currently doing research at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú in Lima? I'm trying to track down two seventeenth-century single-sheet printed broadsides. I'd be very grateful to connect. Thanks! #earlymodern

My latest paper "Commercial Networks, Colonialism, and Acculturation: The Genoese Lomellini Family in Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1420s–1550s" was published earlier this year in "Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean" #earlymodern

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

VM:n budjettiehdotuksessa unohdettu työttömät ja hallitus lykkää vastuuttomasti sopeutusvastuun omista menolisäyksistä ja veronkevennyksistä seuraavalle hallitukselle. SAK:n tiedote 👇 www.sak.fi/ajankohtaist...

SAK: Budjettiehdotus unohtaa työttömät

SAK:n pääekonomisti Patrizio Lainàn mukaan valtionvarainministeriön budjettiehdotuksessa olisi pitänyt keskittyä työttömyyden torjuntaan ja kansalaisten luottamuksen vahvistamiseen. – Työttömyysaste o...

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I'd never read this, fuckin haunting piece. first published in 1950 it seems

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

me trying to remember the Swahili word 𝑚𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑖 ("pot"): haha wouldn't it be funny if it was related to Chinese 桶? but wait it actually is

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Further, would we say that, (perhaps BC the great descriptive bibliographers work in this period), the concentration on print has left the field w/o synthetic, general works on codicology? (Even in medieval, Clemens and Graham was quite recent!)

Alrighty book people. I'm stirring the pot a bit here this am. English book history ?s: We know that the 16thc crowd are beginning to look at manuscripts beyond coterie poetry. Would it be fair to say that codicological study of 17th and 18thc manuscripts remains relatively rare (and/or copy-spec)?

Has your research ever been called “too descriptive?” My co-authors & I got so fed up we wrote 10k words on why descriptive research matters, how it differs from critical research, & why it’s no accident that “critique” is being levied in mass comm at this moment. academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

In defense of qualitative description: reclaiming “little t” theory as a site of knowledge advancement

Abstract. This article problematizes post-positivism’s stronghold on the mass communication canon and defends the use of qualitative description as a legit

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Three lions at a Tokyo zoo have died of suspected heatstroke and others are under treatment u.afp.com/SHUy

But! Funnily enough, every piece of kit that really mattered for subarctic outdoors fun was good or great. Often a bit heavier than state of the art civilian kit, but infinitely more robust. A hill I’m willing to defend is that good wool serge is pretty good for those purposes *even today.*

So, the internet is suddenly full of people questioning #LongCOVID, and all I can say is: How lucky you are not to have had understanding forced upon you! I wish you well dealing with disability when it strikes you unawares in future & hope you meet with more compassion than you are showing now. ♥️

a messy post about a very sharp book. i think what I enjoyed most about Sam Knight’s Premonitions Bureau is that it doesn’t sacrifice the challenging ideas for mass appeal. it wraps them in his acute sense for a good story. wish i had half that talent williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/s...

Story Sense

Sam Knight’s Premonitions Bureau is one of those books that so many people recommended to me that I was beginning to dread reading it. Call it a foreboding. Which goes to show how powerful my…

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So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16