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Jonatan Hildén
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Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
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Going back to my past lives at Platts and as an oil & gas analyst at an investment bank (2014-18ish) - two things always taken as true on EVs:

1) Will be broadly limited to a middle class European rich country trend

2) Will be a small passenger vehicles only trend

Doubly wrong.
I follow this stuff closely. I wrote about it a few months ago. I'm shocked how fast this is happening for big trucks.

"China’s rapid adoption of electric trucks — which overtook gas-powered vehicle sales for the first time last yea"
February 4, 2026 at 10:56 AM
There’s 5.4% of us in Helsinki, or nearly 37,000, so a sizeable town’s worth. Still funny how certain spots are specifically Swedish haunts.
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Having lunch at Amos Café in central Helsinki and the majority of the customers speak Swedish. Again thinking of the loose analogy of Helsinki Swedish-speaking Finns and the Jewish in e.g. New York.
February 4, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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Wild to see a brilliant *economic* historian argue that “in NYC home cooking is a borderline vanity project.“ Brain totally melted by audience capture.
Treatler-Stalinism is a real ideology and an actual, tenured crackpot historian (who used to be a quite good historian) is a true believer in it.

We live in some goddamn interesting times.
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Tietäjät vaikuttavat olevan sitä mieltä, että hänellä ei ole pelimerkkejä tähän, vaikka halua varmasti on.
Näytöt toistaiseksi puoltavat tätä.

bsky.app/profile/gilm...
Now, why are Trump & Rs worried about an election today in Texas of all places? This site assures me that he has a 'steal elections' button he can press whenever he wants. He can just do that there, right?
Trump twice yesterday posted endorsements and a plea to vote for the Republican in the Texas Senate Special today
February 4, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Digitaalinen itsenäisyys – Suomen seuraava kohtalonkysymys 🇫🇮

Suomi on riippuvainen yhdysvaltalaisista teknologiajäteistä. Riippuvuus ei lähitulevaisuudessa vähenny vaan syvenee.

#DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Kansalaisaloite

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February 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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This works pretty well in academia too:

"I had a hungry ghost in a jar write this code" > sure, as long as u checked it works 🤷‍♀️

"I don't remember that paper, I fed it to a hungry ghost in a jar" > why?

"a hungry ghost in a jar did that calculus course for me" > you're paying to educate a ghost?
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Dreamt I was playing some sort of early renaissance city setting fantasy RPG. There was a glass door in the street, I went inside and turned, opened it again and the architecture outside was mostly the same, but it was now clearly 21st C. Italy, with cars and people in contemporary dress.
February 4, 2026 at 6:54 AM
younger kid saw a mechanical typewriter and promptly termed it a ”letter piano”
February 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Hesarin jutussa mainittiin eläkeläiset, jotka polttavat kynttilöitä säästääkseen sähköä.

Jos sähkö maksaisi 2,50 €/kWh eli enemmän kuin Suomessa koskaan, 1 € maksavan kynttilän (palaa 12 h) hinnalla voisi 12 tunnin ajan pitää päällä kymmentä 3.4 watin ledilamppua (vastaa 40 W hehkulamppua).
February 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Svenska dagen- eli Gustav Adolfinleivoksia ei sentään saa muina päivinä kuin varsinaisena päivänä!
February 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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It's become fashionable to talk about how a warming planet will see more cold-air outbreaks because of changes to the "polar vortex".

But here's the thing: It's not actually happening.

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fact-check...
Fact check: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common
Sometimes it just gets cold
www.theclimatebrink.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of an investigation into child porn, deepfakes and more
French prosecutors have launched a search at the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X. This is part of an investigation into alleged offenses, including spreading child pornography and deepfakes.
bit.ly
February 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
also potentially useful as an insult creation toolkit?

”you flabelliform scrobiculate eccentric!”
for any curious this is from a guide by kit scates
February 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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“Easy guide”
for any curious this is from a guide by kit scates
February 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
when you order a Tiwa from Fantastic Planet doll from Temu
February 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Fun fact: countries that have places with more than one official language will have street names in more than one language and they might not even look alike: say Högbergsgatan / Korkeavuorenkatu in Helsinki / Helsingfors.

Took Google a while to catch up to this, not sure if it still works 100%.
February 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Tuo Indonesia on mielenkiintoinen. Voittaa monet Euroopan maat. Kiinalainen BYD ykkönen, toisena Vietnamin (!) VinFast.

theicct.org/publication/...
Electric vehicle market in Indonesia - International Council on Clean Transportation
Indonesia market monitor for electric passenger cars, LCV, HDV and motorcycle from Q1 2020 to Q2 2025
theicct.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Varmaan monelle tuttu jo, mutta @robbieandrew.bsky.social :n koonnit ovat tästä erinomaisen kiinnostavia

robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
Collected vehicle registration data
Frequently updated charts and data for new vehicle registrations across countries.
robbieandrew.github.io
February 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Kokemus vaikka ensimmäisen sukupolven Mokka-e:stä (jossa ei kovin kummoinen kantama kesälläkään) oli, että ihmiset silti tarvitsivat enemmän pausseja kuin auto.
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Tuo huoli kantamasta on erityisen höpö asia, sillä ”kusematta Lappiin” on aivan erityisesti suurituloisten juttu! Pien- ja keskituloiset autoriippuvaiset eivät kuin harvinaisissa poikkeustapauksissa aja satoja kilometrejä päivässä.
February 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Ja vertaisesimerkit! Meillä on ollut erilaisia vuokra/leasing-sähköautoja, ja kyllä maalla asuvat puolison eläkkeellä olevat vanhemmat (jotka juuri kuuluisivat ”ei koskaan sähköautoa” -ryhmään muuten) ovat kiinnostuneina kuunnelleet kokemuksia, on päässyt kumoamaan vääriä mielikuvia.
February 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Alkuperäiseen pointtiin samaa mieltä että tässä on/oli iso menetetty mahdollisuus sääntelyssä: autoteollisuus teki kai pitkälti vain sähköautojen kanssa sen mitä aina tekevät, eli uudet ominaisuudet tuodaan yläpään ajoneuvoluokkaan. Korjausliikkeenä toivoisi akselipainoverotusta tms.
February 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Aika näyttää, mutta luulisin, että lopulta harva maalla asuva, joka on autosta riippuvainen, mutta voi ladata vaivattomasti kotonaan, on valmis maksamaan olennaisesti enemmän siitä, että kulkupeli syö fossiilisia.
February 2, 2026 at 5:19 PM