Veikko Eeva
@veikkoeeva.bsky.social
🌍 Stories & technologies | Sustainable (water) Systems | 🚀 Freelancing / working | 📖 OSS Decentralized Identity & Verifiable Credentials | 🌟 Contributor: Digital Product Passports (CENELEC)& UN Transparency Protocol. Humane finance with heart and soul.
Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
💚 Jos et ole vielä allekirjoittanut vetoomusta, tee se nyt. Jos olet, jaa se eteenpäin. Jokainen allekirjoitus on viesti eduskunnalle Viiankiaavan ja laajemmin luonnonsuojelun puolesta.
Pelastetaan Viiankiaapa!
Ei voi olla totta! Moninkertaisesti suojeltu, ainutlaatuinen aapasuoalue Viiankiapaa on vaarassa. Alueelle suunnitellaan kaivostoimintaa, joka uhkaa alueen ainutlaatuista luontoa ja lukuisia uhanalais...
actionnetwork.org
Going to do a thread, using some of my own (incl. older) work, to clear up some of these relevant concepts. Hope it helps builds conceptual hygiene and immunity to hyped claims about “AI” capabilities. 1/🧵
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 4d agoIn my work, as in theoretical computer science, we distinguish between (exact) algorithms, heuristics (no guarantees), and approximation algorithm (approx. guarantees) Clear distinctions is relevant in many contexts, for instance this one in cognitive science link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Unusual drone sighting situation at Leipzig airport in Germany: a drone, possibly armed with some kind of explosive, has been found on the ground at Leipzig airport. Later, an aircraft reported a collision with an unknown object. More info certainly to follow. www.bild.de/regional/lei...
Neue Details zur Sperrung am Flughafen Leipzig: Drohne trug ein Päckchen mit Zünder
Drohne mit möglichem Sprengsatz stoppt Flugbetrieb am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle.
bild.de
Palantir is shifting profits from its European operations to the U.S., allowing the Florida-based data analytics giant to pay minimal taxes in Europe, a new report finds.
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
monbiot.com
"It's as if we have to mourn the future."
Repeated heatwaves fuel eco-anxiety and anger among youth: 'It feels like we're living in a dystopia'
In the wake of the third heatwave to hit France since May, frustration and anxiety have gripped part of the younger generations, faced with what some call 'the coolest summer of the rest of their live...
lemonde.fr
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.
Like many Europeans, I felt deep unease, not only at the deaths in Ceuta, but at Europe’s dehumanised response. By embracing this dystopian narrative, they turned desperate people into invaders, abandoned European solidarity and helped create the image Europe’s worst enemies want READ below
this kind of "person" is why people should do an effort to vote! she won her MP seat by 6 votes!
The ultimate disinterested rich guy take on politics, it’s just like sports! Racism, homophobia and transphobia for some and believing in a just and equal society for others and if we can all just support our teams politely it’ll be just fine okay?
Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4
The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1
Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Measuring the impact of #BeneficialOwnership #transparency is not purely an academic exercise—it is an essential accountability mechanism. This month's newsletter dives into the topic: bit.ly/disclosure-31 More 👇
🇫🇮 Viimeinen päivä – allekirjoita nyt! 🆘 Aikaa on enää yksi päivä. Älä jätä allekirjoittamatta! 🆘 Liity kansalaisaloitteeseen ja vaadi, että Suomi panostaa digitaaliseen itsenäisyyteen! #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys 1/
Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift
Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...
arxiv.org
"By restoring the link between where profits are made and where they are taxed, the #UNtaxConvention advances a modern form of taxation with representation and carries forward one of democracy’s oldest principle." - @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
The Case for a Pay-Where-You-Play Tax System
Jayati Ghosh urges global policymakers to back a groundbreaking UN tax treaty that would end profit shifting.
project-syndicate.org
Imagine a bank closing the accounts of the sitting president and the reason listed is money laundering. Just imagine the appropriate level of political scandal that something like that should cause. Now imagine the leading newspaper of the country, @nytimes.com, not writing a word about it
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d agoNEW: Capital One closed hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering. We wouldn’t have known if Trump hadn’t sued. Now he’s got tax immunity. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-capita...
1/ New research @lut.fi delivers high-resolution techno-economic insights into combined PV portfolios in Arctic & sub-Arctic regions doi.org/10.1016/j.se..., highlighting the potential of east-west bifacial vertical systems for low‑cost electricity generation.
Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).
Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
arxiv.org
When the climate shifts faster than our food systems can respond, everyone will feel the impact. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
theguardian.com
