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Joonas S. Martikainen
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Political phenomenologist. Post-doc researcher with https://sites.utu.fi/agencyproject/, funded by Kone Foundation. My book _Political Poverty: Losing Faith in Democracy_ is available from Palgrave Macmillan! https://link.springer.com/book/9783031982682
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jsmartikainen.bsky.social
Erinomainen! Tää itsekin sadattelemani mittaamisen ja arvojen suhde tulee sanotuksi hienosti. Itse tietty kysyisin oheen myös niitä "marxilaisempia" kysymyksiä siitä, että mikä näitä aina yksityiskohtaisemmaksi käyviä dystooppisia metriikoita levittää ja pitää yllä. Pitää kattoa tää The Score!
January 30, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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samthielman.com
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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aeon.co
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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politiikasta.fi
Kirja-arvio: Nykylukijan kannalta John Stuart Millin teoksessaan esiin nostamat teemat eivät ole menettäneet merkitystään.
Pekka Väisänen arvioi John Stuart Millin uudelleen suomennetun teoksen Sosialismin hyödyt ja haitat.
#politiikasta #tiedetaivas #kirja-arvio
Kirja-arvio: John Stuart Mill ja sosialismin haaste – Politiikasta
Klassikon uuden suomennoksen ja artikkelin ajankohtaisessa kokonaisuudessa kohtaavat teollisen ajan ilmiöt ja nykyajan ongelmat.
politiikasta.fi
January 21, 2026 at 8:08 AM
jsmartikainen.bsky.social
Viime aikoina on ollut taas puhetta "osallistavasta demokratiasta", mutta konkretia jää usein uupumaan. Osuustoiminnan kehittämisen mahdollisuuksista julkisen ja yksityisen sektorin välissä puhutaan vähän, vaikka tässähän sille välimallin demokraattiselle vaikuttamiselle on konkreettinen sija.
January 15, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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theguardian.com
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered
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January 15, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
We present a typology of traps to avoid:

1. Believing that AI systems are minds

2. Believing that AI systems are theories

3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.

Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.

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Table 1: Typology of traps, what goes wrong if not avoided, and how the traps can be avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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jufopeltomaa.bsky.social
Hyvin jäsennelty!

www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
Vieraskynä | Kaunasta kumpuavat tunteet uhkaavat demokratiaa
Yhdysvallat on varoittava esimerkki siitä, miten autoritaarinen johtaja hyödyntää kaunaa tunnepitoisessa retoriikassaan.
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January 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.
26 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”
December 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Dec 10
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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fintanmallory.com
This is from a satirical magazine written by Anthony Kenny and Julius Kovesi in Oxford, 1958-59. I have reviewed so many papers in the last 5 years that are basically just this.
If A Machine Tells You: 'l Shall Come Back To Finish Those Calculations For You', Then Goes Away And Does Not Return, Did It Break A Promise Or Did It Break Down? Report on Why? Competition-Problem No. 3 There were two entries to this competition. One, from Oxford, declared in verse Your alternatives offered are not An at all contradictory lot Nor are they contrary- \We urge you be wary: Your faithless machine just forgot! But does a machine really tell you anything?! Or, if a machine makes an utterance, is it an utterance or to be regarded as speech? If speech, is it supposed to be made directly by the machine or indirectly by its maker? If it is made indirectly by the maker (by pushing buttons, etc.) then it is not the speech (or utterance) of the machine bur the speech (not only utterance) of the maker. If so, he can't say the sentence in question( a) because he is not going anywhere, b) because if you promise yourself something, you can't use the second person ('l shall finish those calculations for you'), therefore the sentence should either be rephrased or abandoned as twice meaningless. Otherwise the problem depends on the relation between the above utterance and the Cogito. For only if the machine utters this proposition after declaring 'Sum ergo cogito' can it be meaningful speech. If the machine neglected first to establish its resemblance to the maker (see Gen. i.26 and other metaphysicians) then it is not an independent actor, ergo non cogitat et quod sequitur non loquitur either. These fundamentals established, the rest should be worked our by those concerned with moral technology. (Remark. If you are a philosopher, you had better nor mess about with machines any-how.)
December 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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teemutoppinen.bsky.social
Kiinnostava juttu. Haastatellut tutkijat nostavat esiin, että ”herkkyys” erilaisten aiheiden käsittelyn suhteen on kasvanut ns. monella suunnalla. Mutta tässä on minusta tärkeää erottaa pari juttua (kyseiset tutkijat eivät varmaan olisi eri mieltä). 1/
Opetuksen vaikeat aiheet: Mitä opettaja saa sanoa? - Acatiimi
Yliopiston ilmapiiri määrittelee, mitä opettaja voi opetuksessaan sanoa, mistä taas vaietaan. Myös poliittinen paine voi tulla miltä suunnalta vain.
acatiimi.fi
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
An extremely short horror story I wrote, set in the future.
The year is 2034. 98% of the population of the planet is employed as a life coach. All the life coaches have life coaches. Life coaches decide to redouble their efforts, going in hard to all the last remaining outposts where people exist simply as people rather than life coaches or people striving to live their best life via life coaches. “Can I be your companion on your journey to yourself and give you the life advice that will make you a proper person?” ask the life coaches. “Can you get out of my kitchen, please?” say the people. “I’ve already had six of you in here this morning, trying to tell me how I can be the ultimate version of me and unlock my true potential. I never asked for this. I just want to be able to live my most average, flawed life in peace and finish cleaning the oven.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
The birth of the author
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."

haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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punctajournal.bsky.social
How do you like your phenomenology: classical; critical; dialectical? Read Gayle Salamon, drawing upon archival SPEP material, in our inaugural edition (open-acess). Taste the differences.. puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...
View of What's Critical about Critical Phenomenology?
puncta.journals.villanova.edu
September 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
jsmartikainen.bsky.social
Tiedoksi! www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...
Uutuuskirja nostaa esiin poliittisen osattomuuden kasvavan uhan
Juuri julkaistu kirja havainnollistaa, miten poliittinen köyhyys voi rapauttaa demokratiaa huomaamatta sisältäpäin.
www.utu.fi
September 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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anssibwalya.bsky.social
Yhteiskunnallisesti vaikuttava tiede vaatii sananvapautta. Suomessa tutkijoiden sananva­paut­ta uhkaa etenkin häirintä.

TJNK:n hanke laati kansalliset suositukset asiantuntijoiden sananvapauden turvaamiseksi.

Kirjoitin aiheesta👇🏼 Kiitos haastattelusta @oula.bsky.social!

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Tutkija ei saa jäädä häirintätilanteessa yksin - Acatiimi
Häirintä ja painostus uhkaavat tutkijoiden ja muiden asiantuntijoiden työtä. Heidän sananvapautensa turvaaminen vaatii tutkimusyhteisöltä koordinoitua yhteistoimintaa, kansallisesti ja kansainvälisest...
acatiimi.fi
September 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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samisyrjamaki.bsky.social
Inkeri Koskinen muotoilee Tieteessä Tapahtuu -lehden uudessa numerossa hienosti pointi, jota olen itsekin toistellut. www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/numerot/4-20...
Jos ihmistieteellinen tutkimus on turhaa, niin miksi sitä sensuroidaan?
Tieteessä tapahtuu -lehti kokoaa yhteen eri tieteenalat. Se on foorumi ajankohtaisille ja yleistajuisille tiedeartikkeleille sekä keskustelulle tieteestä ja tiedepolitiikasta.
www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi
September 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
jsmartikainen.bsky.social
Got some great news to start the week with! My book "Political Poverty: Losing Faith in Democracy" is finally out from Palgrave Macmillan: link.springer.com/book/9783031982682 If you're at all interested in theories of democracy and/or political participation and freedom, please check it out!
Political Poverty
This book presents a substantial contribution in critical phenomenological methods to study contemporary political apathy.
link.springer.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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liberalcurrents.com
“She understands what many critics have failed to grasp—namely why such a superficially boring theory provoked electric attention. At the same time Forrester is keenly aware of the limitations of Rawlsianism to ask certain kinds of questions, and its dangerous remove from everyday politics.”
Rawls In The Streets
Katrine Forrester's In The Shadow Of Justice shows the radical potential—and political limitations—of John Rawls' philosophy.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM