Jaakko Kangasharju
@asharov.bsky.social
Software developer, mostly Swift but I like Python too. They/them
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Israel says Merry Christmas to all of you, by beating up and arresting a Palestinian Christian dressed up as Santa to celebrate Christmas. That's in-between Israel's continued genocide, illegal invasions, apartheid, and ceasefire violations, of course. Happy holidays!
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Israel says Merry Christmas to all of you, by beating up and arresting a Palestinian Christian dressed up as Santa to celebrate Christmas. That's in-between Israel's continued genocide, illegal invasions, apartheid, and ceasefire violations, of course. Happy holidays!
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Israel has bombed Lebanon once every 4 hours on average since a “ceasefire” took effect in late November 2024, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.
Israel attacking Lebanon every 4 hours on average: Research
LONDON: Israel is attacking Lebanon at a rate equal to one strike every four hours despite the reaching of a ceasefire more than a year ago, new data has shown. ACLED, the independent conflict monitor...
www.arabnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Israel has bombed Lebanon once every 4 hours on average since a “ceasefire” took effect in late November 2024, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.
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I mean, I'm on edge because I'm also trans and in academia. However, the cis instructor who gave the same grade was not removed. I think that's a fairly critical discussion point in this.
This was less about "because I think it's on the Bible" and much more about targeting a trans person.
This was less about "because I think it's on the Bible" and much more about targeting a trans person.
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I mean, I'm on edge because I'm also trans and in academia. However, the cis instructor who gave the same grade was not removed. I think that's a fairly critical discussion point in this.
This was less about "because I think it's on the Bible" and much more about targeting a trans person.
This was less about "because I think it's on the Bible" and much more about targeting a trans person.
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With the latest attacks, Gaza officials say Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered October 10 ceasefire at least 875 times.
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
With the latest attacks, Gaza officials say Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered October 10 ceasefire at least 875 times.
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All I can think of this Christmas is that last Christmas, between 70,000 and 120,000 Palestinians were alive that have since been murdered by Israel's genocide. Over half of them were children. That's 500 to 1,000 children murdered per week. Or 82 during a four hour Christmas evening.
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
All I can think of this Christmas is that last Christmas, between 70,000 and 120,000 Palestinians were alive that have since been murdered by Israel's genocide. Over half of them were children. That's 500 to 1,000 children murdered per week. Or 82 during a four hour Christmas evening.
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Five children died from hypothermia in makeshift tents.
Cold is not a natural disaster when shelter is denied. Israel prevented the entry of mobile homes and shelters.
Gaza is suffering from an Israeli-made crisis. This suffering is being manufactured by policy, not weather.
Cold is not a natural disaster when shelter is denied. Israel prevented the entry of mobile homes and shelters.
Gaza is suffering from an Israeli-made crisis. This suffering is being manufactured by policy, not weather.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Five children died from hypothermia in makeshift tents.
Cold is not a natural disaster when shelter is denied. Israel prevented the entry of mobile homes and shelters.
Gaza is suffering from an Israeli-made crisis. This suffering is being manufactured by policy, not weather.
Cold is not a natural disaster when shelter is denied. Israel prevented the entry of mobile homes and shelters.
Gaza is suffering from an Israeli-made crisis. This suffering is being manufactured by policy, not weather.
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LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK
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The utility of genAI—whether it can actually perform the task at hand—is irrelevant and OSS ultimately a trap to bother talking about it.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
December 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The utility of genAI—whether it can actually perform the task at hand—is irrelevant and OSS ultimately a trap to bother talking about it.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
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chants against the most evil military institution provokes legal investigation while Israel kills Palestinians everyday
UK police end investigation into Bob Vylan’s IDF chants at Glastonbury
UK police end investigation into Bob Vylan’s IDF chants at Glastonbury
Rap-duo member led crowds in chants of ‘death, death to the IDF’
www.irishtimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
chants against the most evil military institution provokes legal investigation while Israel kills Palestinians everyday
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Gaza is the greatest legal test of our time. If war crimes against Palestinians go unpunished, it signals not only genocide but the collapse of international law. Your support helps us act where governments will not. Your support defies impunity.
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Gaza is the greatest legal test of our time. If war crimes against Palestinians go unpunished, it signals not only genocide but the collapse of international law. Your support helps us act where governments will not. Your support defies impunity.
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
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The only consistent, guiding principle with conservatism is that rich white men get to control everybody else. Any other principle conservatives claim to espouse is easily discarded when it doesn't suit their one true aim.
conservatism was never just a different political opinion, it was always racism, sexism, and a need to control others
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The only consistent, guiding principle with conservatism is that rich white men get to control everybody else. Any other principle conservatives claim to espouse is easily discarded when it doesn't suit their one true aim.
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15 people murdered. Days of rolling media coverage of the Bondi Beach terror attack massacre.
400 Palestinians murdered by Israel during the "ceasefire". Zero Australian media coverage.
Israel is a terrorist state. Our politicians and media are complicit. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
400 Palestinians murdered by Israel during the "ceasefire". Zero Australian media coverage.
Israel is a terrorist state. Our politicians and media are complicit. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
December 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
15 people murdered. Days of rolling media coverage of the Bondi Beach terror attack massacre.
400 Palestinians murdered by Israel during the "ceasefire". Zero Australian media coverage.
Israel is a terrorist state. Our politicians and media are complicit. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
400 Palestinians murdered by Israel during the "ceasefire". Zero Australian media coverage.
Israel is a terrorist state. Our politicians and media are complicit. #auspol #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
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Rejecting two genocidal Israel-first warmongers who happen to be women doesn’t mean the country isn’t ready for a woman president. It means that we’re done with Judeofascist neoliberal corporatist warmongers.
Run a populist socialist woman and get back to us.
Run a populist socialist woman and get back to us.
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Rejecting two genocidal Israel-first warmongers who happen to be women doesn’t mean the country isn’t ready for a woman president. It means that we’re done with Judeofascist neoliberal corporatist warmongers.
Run a populist socialist woman and get back to us.
Run a populist socialist woman and get back to us.
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What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What’s happening at Heritage:
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
Right-wing Jews at Heritage are leaving because they have realized that the Christians at Heritage are antisemitic—despite the rightwing Heritage support for Israel, and the nominal stop antisemitism efforts like Project Esther.
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A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
www.bbc.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Building on this: by 'techno-optimism' I'm referring to a belief anything proposed is possible. This is hand in glove with techno-determinism, the belief that what's proposed is inevitable. This fuels 'AI' propaganda and helps explain why sweaty hucksters such as Sam Altman are taken seriously
Pop science fiction has much to answer for; it has served techno/optimist ideology. People who should know better think the use of statistics via algorithm = 'AI' cures because this is an old trope they've seen countless times,
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Building on this: by 'techno-optimism' I'm referring to a belief anything proposed is possible. This is hand in glove with techno-determinism, the belief that what's proposed is inevitable. This fuels 'AI' propaganda and helps explain why sweaty hucksters such as Sam Altman are taken seriously
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this is a deliberate outcome that is preferred by #Israel in the pursuit of their ethnic cleansing of #Gaza which became #Genocide
#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
WHO projects 100,000 children in Gaza will suffer acute malnutrition through April - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/who-projects-100000-children-gaza-will-suffer-acute-malnutrition-through
WHO projects 100,000 children in Gaza will suffer acute malnutrition through April
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="453" data-start="160">World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said conditions in Gaza have improved since an October ceasefire, but warned that “progress remains extremely fragile” and acute malnutrition continues to threaten thousands of people.</p>
<p data-end="453" data-start="160">"Over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year,"</p>
<p data-end="627" data-start="455">Only about half of Gaza’s health facilities are partially functioning and face shortages because of Israeli restrictions, he said, calling for the urgent and expedited approval and entry of essential supplies, equipment and prefabricated hospital structures.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The latest <a href="https://twitter.com/theIPCinfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theIPCinfo</a> analysis for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> confirms that no areas of the Strip are currently classified as being in famine following the recent October ceasefire and improved humanitarian and commercial access.<br>
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December 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this is a deliberate outcome that is preferred by #Israel in the pursuit of their ethnic cleansing of #Gaza which became #Genocide
#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
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My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.
So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My standard response is "tell me, in specific detail, how exactly I'll be 'left behind,'" and to date not a single techbro has ever answered the question. "You'll be left behind" is a statement of religious faith, not business fact, and should be treated as such.
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1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not.
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not.
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc
All different from GenAi!
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It's become completely acceptable to be openly racist towards Arabs/Muslims/Latinx with no repercussions. Tech and VC companies and their partners have amassed so much power that they do not believe there are any consequences to their actions or the systems they provide which bolster this racism.
In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital.
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's become completely acceptable to be openly racist towards Arabs/Muslims/Latinx with no repercussions. Tech and VC companies and their partners have amassed so much power that they do not believe there are any consequences to their actions or the systems they provide which bolster this racism.
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genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
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there are already like 200 different physical Game Boy emulators out there, but when you have the opportunity to buy one whose components were once used to blow up a hospital in Syria, why not jump at the chance bsky.app/profile/retr...
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
there are already like 200 different physical Game Boy emulators out there, but when you have the opportunity to buy one whose components were once used to blow up a hospital in Syria, why not jump at the chance bsky.app/profile/retr...