Pekka Torvinen
@torvinenp.bsky.social
Long Playn kulttuuritoimituksen tuottaja, vapaa toimittaja ja elokuvakriitikko.
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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People often talk about the "loss of trust" in institutions, but that's like a doctor telling you you're sick because you lack wellness. It says nothing of the underlying condition, just a vague definition of the symptoms.
January 23, 2026 at 9:13 AM
People often talk about the "loss of trust" in institutions, but that's like a doctor telling you you're sick because you lack wellness. It says nothing of the underlying condition, just a vague definition of the symptoms.
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But here’s where the debate usually gets stuck, people mistake the weather report for the mechanic’s diagnosis. Economic stagnation explains the climate, but it doesn’t explain the machine. I've spent the last couple of years thinking about the systems behind the collapse.
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 AM
But here’s where the debate usually gets stuck, people mistake the weather report for the mechanic’s diagnosis. Economic stagnation explains the climate, but it doesn’t explain the machine. I've spent the last couple of years thinking about the systems behind the collapse.
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🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?
The old system worked under a set of conditions that are no longer present
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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Mikä yhdistää Taylor Swiftiä ja Sylvia Plathia? Maggie Nelson! Anu Silfverberg haastatteli Nelsonia omaelämäkerrallisen kirjoittamisen sudenkuopista ja henkilökohtaisia asioitaan käsittelevien naisten herättämästä raivosta.
www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/on...
www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/on...
Onko tekstiä, joka ei ole henkilökohtainen, Maggie Nelson?
www.longplay.fi
January 21, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Mikä yhdistää Taylor Swiftiä ja Sylvia Plathia? Maggie Nelson! Anu Silfverberg haastatteli Nelsonia omaelämäkerrallisen kirjoittamisen sudenkuopista ja henkilökohtaisia asioitaan käsittelevien naisten herättämästä raivosta.
www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/on...
www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/on...
Fuck around and find out
9.10. Tutkijat: Murtajakaupalla "valtava" vaikutus Suomen maineeseen
21.1. Jäänmurtajien myynti oli virhe, sanoo asiantuntija
9.10. Tutkijat: Murtajakaupalla "valtava" vaikutus Suomen maineeseen
21.1. Jäänmurtajien myynti oli virhe, sanoo asiantuntija
January 21, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Fuck around and find out
9.10. Tutkijat: Murtajakaupalla "valtava" vaikutus Suomen maineeseen
21.1. Jäänmurtajien myynti oli virhe, sanoo asiantuntija
9.10. Tutkijat: Murtajakaupalla "valtava" vaikutus Suomen maineeseen
21.1. Jäänmurtajien myynti oli virhe, sanoo asiantuntija
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going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines
January 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM
going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines
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Trump amplifies post that says NATO — not China or Russia — is part of the “real threat” to America.
January 20, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Trump amplifies post that says NATO — not China or Russia — is part of the “real threat” to America.
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CARNEY: “.. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” 🔥
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM
CARNEY: “.. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” 🔥
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"Any disgruntled Marxist who’s ever used the phrase 'capitalist bloodsuckers' will feel seen by this film, in which bloodsucking is both metaphorical and literal."
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nigh...
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nigh...
Night Patrol review: All cops attack bloodsuckers
Life isn't sugarcoated here, only drenched in blood.
www.rogerebert.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"Any disgruntled Marxist who’s ever used the phrase 'capitalist bloodsuckers' will feel seen by this film, in which bloodsucking is both metaphorical and literal."
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nigh...
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nigh...
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"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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It's interesting to watch analysts and officials shaped by a world in the 90s and 00s that assumed an inevitable onward march of free trade and benevolent US hegemony struggle to adapt to a US president willing to destroy its foundations
Even though signs of these risks were already visible by 2003
Even though signs of these risks were already visible by 2003
January 18, 2026 at 2:35 PM
It's interesting to watch analysts and officials shaped by a world in the 90s and 00s that assumed an inevitable onward march of free trade and benevolent US hegemony struggle to adapt to a US president willing to destroy its foundations
Even though signs of these risks were already visible by 2003
Even though signs of these risks were already visible by 2003
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A barely altered play on "Which Way Western Man?" a foundational white nationalist text arguing Jews, racial mixing & equality are destroying society. DHS prev tweeted in August. It required no interpretation, but the media's role was to pretend it was a Rorschach test and help surface WH denials.
January 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
A barely altered play on "Which Way Western Man?" a foundational white nationalist text arguing Jews, racial mixing & equality are destroying society. DHS prev tweeted in August. It required no interpretation, but the media's role was to pretend it was a Rorschach test and help surface WH denials.
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i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed
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If you've got this far, thank you.
It was a wild time, and a big lesson in how media uses social media, and the 'immediacy' of news, without fact-checking.
I'm rather fond of the whole episode now, and it's certainly influenced how I use, and protect, my own social media use.
One final thing...
It was a wild time, and a big lesson in how media uses social media, and the 'immediacy' of news, without fact-checking.
I'm rather fond of the whole episode now, and it's certainly influenced how I use, and protect, my own social media use.
One final thing...
January 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
If you've got this far, thank you.
It was a wild time, and a big lesson in how media uses social media, and the 'immediacy' of news, without fact-checking.
I'm rather fond of the whole episode now, and it's certainly influenced how I use, and protect, my own social media use.
One final thing...
It was a wild time, and a big lesson in how media uses social media, and the 'immediacy' of news, without fact-checking.
I'm rather fond of the whole episode now, and it's certainly influenced how I use, and protect, my own social media use.
One final thing...
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So, today marks 10 years since the passing of Bowie.
It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.
It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.
January 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
So, today marks 10 years since the passing of Bowie.
It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.
It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.
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not sure it non-NBA fans (?) understand how devastating this is. living legends are speaking out.
Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good:
"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
January 10, 2026 at 7:07 AM
not sure it non-NBA fans (?) understand how devastating this is. living legends are speaking out.
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"Tällä viikolla Helsingin Sanomissa aloitettiin ”AI-uutisvuoro”, jossa toimittajat tuottavat verkkoon pikauutisia tekoälyllä. Jutuissa asiaa ei mainita ja tekijäksi on merkitty toimittaja."
Long Playn kirje: Meidän on pakko puhua tekoälyjournalismista
Yleisön pitää tietää, jos sisältö on automaattisesti tuotettua.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
"Tällä viikolla Helsingin Sanomissa aloitettiin ”AI-uutisvuoro”, jossa toimittajat tuottavat verkkoon pikauutisia tekoälyllä. Jutuissa asiaa ei mainita ja tekijäksi on merkitty toimittaja."
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Kirjoitin perjantaikirjeen tekoälyjournalismista. Suunta on huolestuttava ja myös koko alalle aika nolostuttava. Eettinen keskustelu alkakoon!
mailchi.mp/longplay.fi/...
mailchi.mp/longplay.fi/...
Long Playn kirje: Meidän on pakko puhua tekoälyjournalismista
Yleisön pitää tietää, jos sisältö on automaattisesti tuotettua.
mailchi.mp
January 9, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Kirjoitin perjantaikirjeen tekoälyjournalismista. Suunta on huolestuttava ja myös koko alalle aika nolostuttava. Eettinen keskustelu alkakoon!
mailchi.mp/longplay.fi/...
mailchi.mp/longplay.fi/...
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British media and political elite just utterly degraded, unbelievable. It's not even like he's an interesting thinker, his only claim to fame is just that he's an edgelord fascist for irony poisoned chuds. Of course they're too cowardly to uphold quality filters that'd keep him out, of course.
Just the BBC, the national broadcaster, mainstreaming a fascist blogger. I guess this is normal now.
January 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
British media and political elite just utterly degraded, unbelievable. It's not even like he's an interesting thinker, his only claim to fame is just that he's an edgelord fascist for irony poisoned chuds. Of course they're too cowardly to uphold quality filters that'd keep him out, of course.
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Here's a statement from Venezuelan opposition leader and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, in it's original Spanish and with an English translation (machine translation).
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Here's a statement from Venezuelan opposition leader and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, in it's original Spanish and with an English translation (machine translation).
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine