Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Captivating protest song by Massive Attack and Tom Waits.

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"Vain vaihtoehtotalouden peilimaailmassa julkisen sektorin ongelmat ratkaistaan kasvattamalla sitä loputtomasti."

Mitään tällaista raportissa ei luonnollisesti ehdotettu, mutta saahan tästä hyvän olkiukon.

Stacked with Trump loyalist leadership, FBI and DNI are now actively campaigning to rewrite history to fit his false narratives and serve his political retribution agenda. Hard to see why allies would share sensitive intelligence with this corrupt gang.

Oh no. The most inept negotiators ever are being sent to strike a deal with Iran. The same guys who haven’t been able to end the Russian war in Ukraine and whose blundering at the negotiating table led to the war with Iran. I’m sure this will go really well.

APNewsAlert: CAIRO (AP) — Iranian gunboats have fired on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, British military says.

Ville Niinistö: ”USA:n politiikka ei ole vain ennakoimatonta, vaan jopa vaarallista Euroopalle” Niinistö varoittaa luottamasta liikaa Yhdysvaltoihin ja sanoo maan pyrkivän heikentämään Euroopan yhtenäisyyttä. EU:n tulisi nyt hyödyntää ”kultainen hetkensä”.

– Tämä on aivan historiallinen käänne, että Yhdysvaltain kansallisen turvallisuuden strategia esimerkiksi tukee eurooppalaista äärioikeistoa. Heidän politiikkansa ei ole vain ennakoimatonta, vaan se on meille jopa vaarallista, Niinistö sanoi.

yle.fi/a/74-20221313

It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more.

75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path.

One of unity over division, of peace over war.

The peace we had was short but dumb.

Watch Canada PM Carney and Finnish President Stubb Show Off Hockey Skills YouTube video by New York Post

Prime minister of Canada Carney and Finnish President Stubb proving one needs more than diplomatic skills in northern international relations :-)

(make Canada a Nordic country already :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXFq...

We should be learning from other countries...

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe

Jaw-dropping account of the 27-year-old tyro who is spearheading the State Department assault on America’s European allies. It’s telling that he and other MAGA warriors denounce restrictions on free speech everywhere but in Hungary or Russia or Belarus. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

Proud Mama. Proud European. 🇪🇺

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structure...

Examine this PSJ article how institutions and shared beliefs shape advocacy coalitions across democracies.

By: Keiichi Satoh, @anttigronow.bsky.social ronow, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, @anadelicado.bsky.social, Luisa Schmidt, Pradip Swarnakar, Paul M. Wagner, Sun-Jin Yun.

Read here: lnk.ua/lyA7zLK5P

We all have days like this

New paper with Alexander Patzina (@patzinaalex.bsky.social) out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social! We investigate the connection between wages and institutional trust in Germany between 2019 and 2023 1/n

Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells AP The head of the International Energy Agency warns Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left. In an interview Thursday, Fatih Birol expressed concerns about possible flight cancellations if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

Europe has about 6 weeks of jet fuel left, the head of the International Energy Agency tells the AP, as he warns of flight cancellations.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Peptides

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions Russian digital rights organization RKS Global told Recorded Future News that Bluesky had been added to the registry of banned websites maintained by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.

Hey, we've hit the big time. therecord.media/russia-crack...

Kirjoituksessa esiintyi käsitteellistä epätarkkuutta tavalla, joka mahdollistaa loputtoman hiustenhalkomisen sen sijasta, että puhuttaisiin kirjoituksen pääpointista - siitä, että oletetut vasemmistolaiset toimittajat eivät todellakaan aseta politiikan agendaa Suomessa.

Vallitseekohan muissakin maissa muuten jääkiekon, panimoteollisuuden ja oikeistopuolueen symbioosi vai onko tämä suomalainen erikoispiirre?

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration.

​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

Minun nähdäkseni VM:n tietoinen valinta mallintaa leikkausten negatiiviset vaikutukset alakanttiin toimi keskeisenä astinlautana hallitukselle valita leikkausten ja kysynnän romahduttamisen tie, vaikka oli nähtävissä, että päädymme siihen suohon, jossa nyt tarvomme.

Kirjoitus käsitteli myös VM:n roolia, joten siinä mielessä ei mene ohi teeman. Se on jo itsessään ongelma demokratian kannalta, että yhdellä ministeriöllä on niin suuri valta asettaa vaalien agenda. (Kyseisen ministeriön track record ja melko selvä poliittinen asenteellisuus ei toki paranna asiaa.)

Keskeinen ongelma on nähdäkseni se, miten VM:stä on tullut superministeriö, joka asettaa mm. vaalien agendan ja tekee sen hyvin suppeasta näkökulmasta käsin, jossa ei esim. ymmärretä juuri mitään sosiaalipolitiikasta. Tätä voidaan kutsua oikeistolaiseksi näkökulmaksi tai voidaan olla kutsumatta.

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

It's no surprise that you can still make sexualized images of real people using Grok.

I don't think Elon ever intended to prevent that, but rather he knew that it would generate him money.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...