Pekka Torvinen

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

Excellent critique of the media’s normalization of the far right.

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

Neljä kustannustoimittajaa avautuu alan ongelmista

Hyvä juttu @longplay.fi ltä kustannustoimittajista. Tällaista kulttuuri*journalismia* toivoisin isoilta toimituksilta lisää höttöisten puffien sijaan. www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/ne...

The AI-induced RAMmageddon is taking the established tech we actually want—TVs, PCs, phones—all so the likes of Elon Musk can power their little deepfake porn generators.

Essee: Miksi kiinnostua lantusta?

Lisäksi Arttu Seppänen kirjoittaa hienossa esseessään Pentti Kaskipurosta ja hänen teostensa hiljaisuudesta. Kaskipuro-näyttely nyt esillä Sara Hildénin museossa. Hänen teoksiaan saa myös yhä hyvin edullisesti omalle seinälle!

Sandra Hüller on ylivoimainen

Long Playn kulttuurissa tällä viikolla Sandra Hüllerin haastattelu Berliinin elokuvajuhlilta. Hüller on Euroopan tärkeimpiä näyttelijöitä, Anu Silfverbergin sanoin ylivoimainen uudessa Rose-elokuvassa.

Essee: Haluan misinformaationi ihmisiltä, kiitos!

Lisäksi tällä viikolla myös essee Wikipediasta sen 25-vuotisen taipaleen kunniaksi. Kirjoittaja on Heidi Puomisto, joka on myös itse aktiviinen Wikipedia-editori. Lisäksi esseeseen on haastateltu tutkija Salla-Maaria Laaksosta ja todellista hc-Wikipedia-editoria Zachea eli Kimmo Virtasta.

Tällä viikolla Long Playn kulttuurissa tällaista! Tämä toki vain yhden sarjakuva-asiantuntijan listaus, josta saa ja voi pitää olla eri mieltä.

Absolutely fascinating (and rather concerning): just spoke to some classic educated German middle class boomers - the ones who still read the newspaper and listen to public broadcast radio - and they had NEVER HEARD THAT AI HALLUCINATES!!
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Pörssisähkön kova hinta Suomessa helmikuussa 2026: Epsteinin syytä

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

People often talk about the "loss of trust" in institutions, but that's like a doctor telling you you're sick because you lack wellness. It says nothing of the underlying condition, just a vague definition of the symptoms.

But here’s where the debate usually gets stuck, people mistake the weather report for the mechanic’s diagnosis. Economic stagnation explains the climate, but it doesn’t explain the machine. I've spent the last couple of years thinking about the systems behind the collapse.

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

Onko tekstiä, joka ei ole henkilökohtainen, Maggie Nelson?

Mikä yhdistää Taylor Swiftiä ja Sylvia Plathia? Maggie Nelson! Anu Silfverberg haastatteli Nelsonia omaelämäkerrallisen kirjoittamisen sudenkuopista ja henkilökohtaisia asioitaan käsittelevien naisten herättämästä raivosta.
www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/on...

Fuck around and find out

9.10. Tutkijat: Murtaja­kaupalla "valtava" vaikutus Suomen maineeseen

21.1. Jään­murtajien myynti oli virhe, sanoo asiantuntija

Screenshot from BBC News live text coverage of Trump press conference: 19:27 This news conference could go on for a very long time (byline: Gary O'Donoghue, Chief North America correspondent at the White House) This is the president in his most enigmatic and expansive mood. During the campaign this used to be called "the weave" – meandering from subject to subject, often the connections not immediately obvious.

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

Trump amplifies post that says NATO — not China or Russia — is part of the “real threat” to America.

CARNEY: “.. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” 🔥

Night Patrol review: All cops attack bloodsuckers Life isn't sugarcoated here, only drenched in blood.

"Any disgruntled Marxist who’s ever used the phrase 'capitalist bloodsuckers' will feel seen by this film, in which bloodsucking is both metaphorical and literal."

www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nigh...

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

It's interesting to watch analysts and officials shaped by a world in the 90s and 00s that assumed an inevitable onward march of free trade and benevolent US hegemony struggle to adapt to a US president willing to destroy its foundations

Even though signs of these risks were already visible by 2003

A barely altered play on "Which Way Western Man?" a foundational white nationalist text arguing Jews, racial mixing & equality are destroying society. DHS prev tweeted in August. It required no interpretation, but the media's role was to pretend it was a Rorschach test and help surface WH denials.

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

If you've got this far, thank you.

It was a wild time, and a big lesson in how media uses social media, and the 'immediacy' of news, without fact-checking.

I'm rather fond of the whole episode now, and it's certainly influenced how I use, and protect, my own social media use.

One final thing...

So, today marks 10 years since the passing of Bowie.

It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.

not sure it non-NBA fans (?) understand how devastating this is. living legends are speaking out.