Timo Kauppinen

@timok.bsky.social

Sociologist working as chief researcher at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Research themes include residential segregation and inequalities in housing conditions etc. https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=ugpYXZ4AAAAJ&hl

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

New evidence that landlords have pricing power. Using building-specific tax shocks, this paper shows that when a building’s costs rise, its rents rise too, even if overall market rents don’t, i.e. landlords aren’t just price takers.

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Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

Tietoon perustuvan päätöksenteon kannalta huono uutinen. Tilastokeskuksen määrärahoihin kohdistuu lähes kuuden miljoonan euron leikkaukset hallituskaudella, minkä seurauksena Tilastokeskus tarkastelee yli 40 tilaston lakkauttamista tai supistamista. #tilastot www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Säästöt | Yli 40 tilaston kohtalo on vaakalaudalla, kun Tilastokeskus säästää

Muun muassa tilastot asuntojen vuokrista, vaaleista ja yritystuista ovat vaarassa loppua, kun Tilastokeskus säästää.

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