Jonatan Hildén
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Jonatan Hildén
@jhilden.bsky.social
Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
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
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lol
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Mr. Pinboard isn’t here I guess but this is one for the ages.
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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There had always been a middle position, thst LLMs are pattern matching machines applied to language and do well at pattern matching tasks.

Good to see someone like Mollick realising that earlier claims about them were overdone.

Notably this implies 🧵
The many eulogies for AI capability growth after the release of GPT-5 seem especially short-sighted right now, and it created voluntary blinders for many people.

Models have advanced a lot since summer, but, more importantly, good agentic harnesses seem to lead to capability leaps on their own.
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Reading China Mieville’s ”Embassytown” right now and without spoiling I’d say it has some fun parallels to the current AI debate and reactions to it, with regards to language and reactions to language use making realities.
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
the concise as to ”why don’t Adtech Listen to All Your Conversations”
and most of the data would be garbage anyway. i would bet money it would cost more to do than you could ever conceivably make from it.
February 2, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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most of the value in Internet advertising is purely zero-sum "i see you are buying something; why don't you buy something else."
the Choffnes story is relatively old, but the basic problem is that exfil of audio costs bandwidth and most of the advertising value is just-in-time stuff. this is a case about spurious keyword activation, which is extremely embarrassing and pretty common.
news.northeastern.edu/2018/07/06/i...
Is your smartphone spying on you?
New research by Northeastern faculty and students shows that popular smartphone apps can secretly take screenshots of your phone activity and send it to third parties without your permission.
news.northeastern.edu
February 2, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Adults all over Europe right now
February 2, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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For me, the most interesting element here are the AI images – the moment when a story becomes a visual meme. While memefication works without genAI, it appears to supercharge participatory propaganda, allowing people to visualize their imaginary fears and hopes, making them much more shareable
I'm working on a single graphic that illustrates how participatory propaganda becomes policy in the second Trump administration, particularly around the case of "They're Eating the Pets".

Still hoping we'll get to take that last label away before those ?s resolve.
February 2, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Tämä näissä erityisesti häiritsee:
Suomessa nuoret osallistuu melko laajasti ja itsenäisesti yhteiskuntaan. Aika kevyesti lähdetään ratkomaan ongelmia siitä mistä se on poliittisesti näennäisen helpointa, viis tästä. Miksi 16-vuotias olisi sitten valmis rajoittamattomaan someen?
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Slightly milder -18°C on the route to work, feels like -25°C was ok for biking, a bit chill on the hands despite double gloves though!
Well whatever. -22°C/-7.6°F which feels like-29°C/-22.2°F is no big deal. Not at all. 😭🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊 #weather #winter #Finland
February 2, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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"poliitikot eivät ole kyenneet sääntelemään somejättejä.

Niinpä he alkavat nyt säännellä nuorisoa. "

Näinhän se on. Hyvä kysymys, miksi aikuisten miesten somekäyttäytymistä ei ennemmin rajattaisi.

@adilesev.bsky.social

suomenkuvalehti.fi/mielipide/vo...
Voisiko somen kieltää alle 15-vuotiaiden sijaan aikuisilta miehiltä?
Laajasti kannatettu alle 15-vuotiaiden somekielto voi olla parempi kuin käsien levittely, mutta ei silti aivan yksinkertaista, kirjoittaa Adile Sevimli.
suomenkuvalehti.fi
February 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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I definitely did not know this 🫠
It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?
February 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Sivukirjasto-baarin pöytämainoksen kuolemattomin sanoin:
Herkullinen haaste on heitetty ilmaan!
Päivän annoksen E-vitamiinia saat syömällä 3,3 kg juusto, valkohomejuusto, rasvaa 16 %, camembert/brie.
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Been wondering if Hisashi’s ”Legend of Ashitaka” has a theremin, a person that sings like a theremin, or both. Can’t seem to find any production credits with sufficient detail.

tidal.com/track/355384...
Joe Hisaishi - The Legend of Ashitaka
Listen to The Legend of Ashitaka on TIDAL
tidal.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
For those who don’t know, Hogland/Gogland or Suursaari is perhaps one of the most amazing islands in the North Baltic. It is a Russian border area and military zone now, and very few have visited it since it was became a Soviet possession after the winter war.

www.hagerlund.net/fi/suursaari
February 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Troubleshooting the RC car
💇🏼‍♀️
February 1, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Suomen pisin silta (1,2 km) avataan jalankululle ja pyöräliikenteelle keväällä. Raitiovaunulla sillan yli pääsee arviolta ensi vuoden alusta. #Helsinki #Kruunuvuorensilta #Kruunusillat #raitiotie

yle.fi/a/74-20206122
Suomen pisin silta odottaa enää viimeistelyä – Yle kävi sen kannella, josta avautuvat huikeat näköalat
Ulkomaalaisia vierailijaryhmiä on kiinnostanut muun muassa, miksi Kruunuvuorensillalla ei saa ajaa henkilöautoilla.
yle.fi
February 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
many people out on the ice now
February 1, 2026 at 12:27 PM
someone sufficiently skilled and tough could now ski to or from Suursaari, probably, or Finland to Estonia

cdn.fmi.fi/marine-obser...
February 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
”placate the gnome with a blue wad” remains one of my fave illustrative diagrams
January 31, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Checked up on some Soviet anecdotes:
My father did indeed see an old guy drive a car filled to the brim with apples in Moscow in the 1980s.
His partner told that she had been on a flight from the Southern USSR full of grannies with baskets of tomatoes.
January 31, 2026 at 7:32 PM