Stefanie Sirén-Heikel

Ooo … yeah! Sorry missed that. Not okay. Why and how does this kind of stuff get published?

I don’t know who wrote this, but the sociology I’ve learned focuses on how everything is *complicated* and complex and very much NOT black and white. And what is this “audience”? Some agency theory would be appropriate here.

Child Marriage in the United States: A Synthesis of Evidence on the Prevalence & Impact - ICRW

Well I mean, child marriage is still legal in many parts of the US. These are kids, but the standards are so muddy that it’s not surprising really. www.icrw.org/publications...

It’s also a bit interesting, from a European perspective, pain killers have been marketed and used in the US in order to be able to go to work instead of taking sick days. Which obviously is due to structural issues. So if you wake up with a sore back, can you stay home instead?

Jotenkin tässä tulee olo ettei ihan ymmärretä että pilvi on myös ihan fyysisiä konesaleja.

Masentavaa että loppuu siihen että ”ollaan mietitty”. Rasti ruutuun ja sillä selvä. On kyllä harmillista, ettei haluta panostaa paikalliseen tietoturva-osaamiseen, onhan se kuitenkin ollut iso osa Suomen profiilia.

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Yet you still can’t use OpenDrive with too long filenames …

New paper on the fatal consequences of job loss using 🇫🇮 administrative data: "For every 100,000 displaced men, there are 1,100 additional deaths. 60% accrue to the displaced worker, 40% are due to excess spousal mortality.. no such dire consequences are observed after a woman’s job loss"

Personal average tax rates in Europe: Increases and cuts in 2024 The tax burden on workers, composed of income tax and social security contributions, varies widely across Europe. In 2024, this burden changed significantly in some countries, with notable rises and f...

Today is the annual tax day in Finland when media indulge in stories about who paid the most taxes. Commentators will go on saying that Finland has one of the highest tax rates globally, often without any explanation needed. It’s a bit more complicated than that. www.euronews.com/business/202...

Kuuntelin tuossa aamulla taas sitä, miten ajatellaan että on hyvä asia että tehdään ylitöitä. Tuli vaan mieleen, että kenen mielestä? Onko oikeasti hyvä juttu esim perheellisille tehdä ylitöitä ja että sitä ylistetään positiivisena asiana?

I never thought Soviet style would make a comeback this fast.

It’s a continuation I feel of the condescending “but don’t you want to know what happens in your friends lives?” when you explain that you’re not on Instagram. It’s a very odd collective abdication to corporations, maybe some form of defence mechanism?

Jep. Ja kamala pelko jäädä junasta, välittämättä oikein siitä, mihin se juna oikeastaan on menossa.

Ilmeisesti, tai sitten ei olla ihan loppuun asti ajateltu.

Lisäksi d) yleisesti hieman huono osaaminen teknologiajäteistä ja niihin liittyvistä ongelmista e) yhteiskunnallinen luotto teknologiaan f) rahat loppu-narratiivi on erittäin vahva, joten kaikennäköinen säästö hyväksytään.

Ehkä osittain liittyy siihen, että meillä on a) vankka luotto viranomaisten osaamiseen b) medioissa heikohko into tarkastella viranomaispäätöksiä kriittisesti c) viranomaisten taipumus uskoa omaan osaamiseen — myös asioissa, jossa selkeästi olisi hyvä kuulla ulkopuolisia asiantuntijoita.

Audiences doubt the benefits of AI-generated imagery in news are worth the risks, new study finds What do readers really think of AI-generated images in their news? There has been substantial research on how audiences respond to AI-generated text, but far less dedicated research on image generator...

✨ Audiences doubt the benefits of AI-generated imagery in news are worth the risks, new study finds.

@andrewdeck.bsky.social wrote an article on our latest study in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 🙏

w Dina Strikovic

www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/audi... @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

Oh my, Finland is choosing AWS for parliamentary election data. Because it’s cheaper. Love to hear thoughts from @evgenymorozov.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @eff.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social etc etc. I mean we do like to trust things.

Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

Tänään oli @yle.naamio.social aamussa keskustelua tekoälyn hyödyistä elinsiirroissa. Jos sellaiseen lähdetään, on opittava miten ei pidä tehdä. Esimerkkinä Iso-Britannian karut kokemukset. www.normaltech.ai/p/does-the-u...

And then there was the freelance writer in the US as well … have to dig up the link. Extra work for editors in any case.

Read this thread today 👇🏼
If you use any form of automation, verify verify verify. You can’t not do your job.

Lyhyellä aikavälillä se varmasti on tuottavaa. Pitää myös toivoa, että tekoäly/kvantti/[insert tech]-huuma osataan lähestyä realistisesti ja pohtivasti, mitä sillä oikeasti halutaan ja ketä se hyödyntää. bsky.app/profile/tech...

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Some context on Will’s post: Mitchell and Pistilli were being mass blocked not because they were “pro-AI” (they are fairly critical) but because they were falsely *labeled* as pro-AI by lazy blocklist creators. Opt out all you want — I do! But be careful about who/what you trust to filter for you.

Itseäni huolestuttaa, että puolustusteollisuus nähdään realistisesti ongelmattomana avaimena talouskasvulle. Historiallisesti se ei ole ollut mukava tie kenellekään.

AI turns news into a conversation "The future of news is moving beyond the written word. With AI at its core, it's conversational, spoken, interactive, responsive, and deeply personal — the very essence of meaningful human communicati...

Skimming @niemanlab.org predictions for 2025, and what strikes me is the idea that people want to be active. We see this in pedagogy too, that we should activate. Students often hate it, bc it’s cognitively heavy! Sometimes we just want to sit by the 🔥and listen. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-t...

More books for the wicked! This one flew under my radar for too long.

Yeah I mean these are likely showcase “look we can do this”-developments, which in themselves can be quite useful. But it’s the premise I’m more worried about. The hard things are usually the more useful things.

Again it’s the famous, we can, but should we? Or maybe these efforts would be better directed elsewhere? That requires grass root studies of work, organisation, and participation. So often these end up as “wow” things that function merely as 🩹for resources bound up by bad technical systems.