Janne Hämäläinen
@janne.hamalainen.social
Computer security architect specializing in healthcare, big data, and AI. An economist by training. I strive to understand the world and help others do the same through my volunteer work as a Rotarian.
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"Democracy isn’t held together by slogans or speeches so much as by a million small moments when people resist the urge to oversimplify one another"
A wonderful new essay from @nickallison80.bsky.social that already has almost 1,000,000 reads on @HuffPost Personal
www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...
A wonderful new essay from @nickallison80.bsky.social that already has almost 1,000,000 reads on @HuffPost Personal
www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...
I Saw A Cop Looking At My ‘Veterans Against Trump’ T-Shirt. Then He Started Walking My Way.
"My brain sized him up before he even reached my table. Police officer. White. Middle-aged. Beard. Military tattoos."
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Democracy isn’t held together by slogans or speeches so much as by a million small moments when people resist the urge to oversimplify one another"
A wonderful new essay from @nickallison80.bsky.social that already has almost 1,000,000 reads on @HuffPost Personal
www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...
A wonderful new essay from @nickallison80.bsky.social that already has almost 1,000,000 reads on @HuffPost Personal
www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...
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Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
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The DPRK of 2025 is fundamentally different – and far more dangerous – than when Trump last met Kim Jong Un.
Today Trump Is Talking to a Different North Korea
The DPRK of 2025 is fundamentally different – and far more dangerous – than when Trump last met Kim Jong Un.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The DPRK of 2025 is fundamentally different – and far more dangerous – than when Trump last met Kim Jong Un.
In Finland we have an expression "parodiahorisontti", which means the point ("horizon") after which something becomes so absurd that it has become a parody of itself. Often associated with a buraucrat who takes things very literally and pushes them too far and loses all common sense. This qualifies.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In Finland we have an expression "parodiahorisontti", which means the point ("horizon") after which something becomes so absurd that it has become a parody of itself. Often associated with a buraucrat who takes things very literally and pushes them too far and loses all common sense. This qualifies.
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Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
Not so very different from what we can see even today: "... the prosecution appealed to the jury – this populism echoes today – not to trust “the so-called experts” who had given evidence, but to apply “common sense” instead"
How a book that began as a scourge of the establishment became, in the government's words, "an important part of our nation's history".
It's the 65th anniversary of Penguin winning the Lady Chatterley trial (they had 200,000 copies ready to go). I wrote about it a few years ago:
It's the 65th anniversary of Penguin winning the Lady Chatterley trial (they had 200,000 copies ready to go). I wrote about it a few years ago:
The book that changed Britain: why the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial still matters 60 years later
D. H. Lawrence’s classic novel was his attempt to “make the sex relations valid and precious, instead of shameful”; the court case it prompted, and its revolutionary result, now stand as moments of na...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Not so very different from what we can see even today: "... the prosecution appealed to the jury – this populism echoes today – not to trust “the so-called experts” who had given evidence, but to apply “common sense” instead"
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October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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No voi perhanan tekoäly 🤣. Ton mukaan Juhan Af Grannin nimen "Af" tarkoittaisi "As Fuck". Repesin🤣
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
No voi perhanan tekoäly 🤣. Ton mukaan Juhan Af Grannin nimen "Af" tarkoittaisi "As Fuck". Repesin🤣
"Harkinnassa tultiin siihen johtopäätelmään, ettei perhetausta voi muodostaa estettä sopivimmaksi katsotun harjoittelijan valinnalle." -- Eikä varsinkaan silloin, jos nimenomaan perhetausta on "sopivuuden" taustalla? yle.fi/a/74-20191178
Ulkopoliittinen instituutti vastaa oikeusasiamiehelle: Oliver Stubbin valinta oli asianmukainen
Asia selviää Upin vastauksesta eduskunnan oikeusasiamiehelle. Valinnasta tehtiin kuusi kantelua.
yle.fi
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Harkinnassa tultiin siihen johtopäätelmään, ettei perhetausta voi muodostaa estettä sopivimmaksi katsotun harjoittelijan valinnalle." -- Eikä varsinkaan silloin, jos nimenomaan perhetausta on "sopivuuden" taustalla? yle.fi/a/74-20191178
There are medical disaster movies that start this way.
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There are medical disaster movies that start this way.
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But here’s 6 golden golf balls….we know how you like your gold from your Oval Office décor.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
But here’s 6 golden golf balls….we know how you like your gold from your Oval Office décor.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
Ah. Another groped old bloke to navigate. I’m used to it.
Sustained wind speed of 185 mph is so high that it would warrant calling this a category 6 hurricane. Such powerful storms are coming more commonplace. In some areas buildings are now designed to withstand category 5 hurricanes -- so sooner or later the Saffir–Simpson scale needs to be extended.
I’m rooting for these people. Hurricane Melissa is nowhere near done. She’s just getting started😩
Keep talking about these folks. We already know the current administration doesn’t care about Black & Brown folks so it’s our job for a while to keep a spotlight on them.
www.yahoo.com/news/weather...
Keep talking about these folks. We already know the current administration doesn’t care about Black & Brown folks so it’s our job for a while to keep a spotlight on them.
www.yahoo.com/news/weather...
Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 5 storm makes landfall in Jamaica as strongest ever to hit island, with 185 mph winds
The storm made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon.
www.yahoo.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Sustained wind speed of 185 mph is so high that it would warrant calling this a category 6 hurricane. Such powerful storms are coming more commonplace. In some areas buildings are now designed to withstand category 5 hurricanes -- so sooner or later the Saffir–Simpson scale needs to be extended.
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Työpaikoille on uinut näennäistieteellisiä oppeja, joilla ei ole tutkimuksellista pohjaa.
Tutkija: Suurin osa rekrytointifirmoista käyttää huuhaa-testejä
Onko sinunkin firmaasi levitetty New Age -johtamisoppeja? Tutkimusryhmän mukaan työpaikoille on uinut näennäistieteellisiä oppeja, joilla ei ole tutkimuksellista pohjaa.
yle.fi
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Työpaikoille on uinut näennäistieteellisiä oppeja, joilla ei ole tutkimuksellista pohjaa.
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In fairness, asphyxiation has proved highly effective in terminating all these conditions.
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In fairness, asphyxiation has proved highly effective in terminating all these conditions.
Hienoa, että yritykset pyrkivät palvelemaan pelaajia suomeksi, mutta ehkä käännökset vaativat vielä pientä laittoa. :-)
"Vanhin vierittää online-tilassa"
"Punainen kuollut lunastus 2"
support.microsoft.com/fi-fi/topic/...
"Vanhin vierittää online-tilassa"
"Punainen kuollut lunastus 2"
support.microsoft.com/fi-fi/topic/...
Parannetut pelit Microsoft Edge -pelituki - Microsoft-tuki
support.microsoft.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Hienoa, että yritykset pyrkivät palvelemaan pelaajia suomeksi, mutta ehkä käännökset vaativat vielä pientä laittoa. :-)
"Vanhin vierittää online-tilassa"
"Punainen kuollut lunastus 2"
support.microsoft.com/fi-fi/topic/...
"Vanhin vierittää online-tilassa"
"Punainen kuollut lunastus 2"
support.microsoft.com/fi-fi/topic/...
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“The likelihood that Trump will weaponise the US cloud services may not be huge, but the costs if he does are potentially catastrophic. If the EU wants to Trump-proof its economy and become a strategic power, it needs to act more like one.”
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on.ft.com/4o56MU9
Amazon outage shows EU heads are still in the cloud
Europe and others must insulate their economies from Trump weaponising US tech
on.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“The likelihood that Trump will weaponise the US cloud services may not be huge, but the costs if he does are potentially catastrophic. If the EU wants to Trump-proof its economy and become a strategic power, it needs to act more like one.”
on.ft.com/4o56MU9
on.ft.com/4o56MU9
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Jos kasvissyöntiä halutaan lisätä, kasvistuotteista täytyy tehdä yhtä helppokäyttöisiä kuin lihatuotteista. Siksi valmiit raasteet, pilkotut vihannekset ja muut ovat askeleita oikeaan suuntaan.
Valmisraasteista möliseville voi sanoa, että ala itse teurastaa ja viipaloida sikasi tai ole hiljaa.
Valmisraasteista möliseville voi sanoa, että ala itse teurastaa ja viipaloida sikasi tai ole hiljaa.
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Jos kasvissyöntiä halutaan lisätä, kasvistuotteista täytyy tehdä yhtä helppokäyttöisiä kuin lihatuotteista. Siksi valmiit raasteet, pilkotut vihannekset ja muut ovat askeleita oikeaan suuntaan.
Valmisraasteista möliseville voi sanoa, että ala itse teurastaa ja viipaloida sikasi tai ole hiljaa.
Valmisraasteista möliseville voi sanoa, että ala itse teurastaa ja viipaloida sikasi tai ole hiljaa.
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Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why Trump Turned to the Sewer
The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Good luck and Godspeed to everyone standing up for #democracy today. Especially to our Ukrainian and American brethren. We democrats either hang together, or hang separately.
October 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Good luck and Godspeed to everyone standing up for #democracy today. Especially to our Ukrainian and American brethren. We democrats either hang together, or hang separately.
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NOW: US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp.
NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp etc. ether. Must delete exploits & R&D.
Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company.
Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /
NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp etc. ether. Must delete exploits & R&D.
Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company.
Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
NOW: US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp.
NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp etc. ether. Must delete exploits & R&D.
Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company.
Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /
NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp etc. ether. Must delete exploits & R&D.
Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company.
Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /
Tuo hanke voisi mennä toisenlaisena aikana paremmin läpi. Nyt jokainen voi katsoa Yhdysvaltoja ja miettiä, mitä tuollainen valvontatyökalu tarkoittaisi sen hallinnon käsissä, ajettiinpa lakia nyt miten jaloilla tarkoitusperillä tahansa. yle.fi/a/74-20188794
Tanskan hanke yksityisviestien seulomisen sallimiseksi EU:ssa kaatui, ainakin toistaiseksi
Saksa asettui vastustamaan Tanskan ajamaa lakia. EU-puheenjohtajamaa Tanska voi vielä yrittää saada aikaan kompromissia.
yle.fi
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Tuo hanke voisi mennä toisenlaisena aikana paremmin läpi. Nyt jokainen voi katsoa Yhdysvaltoja ja miettiä, mitä tuollainen valvontatyökalu tarkoittaisi sen hallinnon käsissä, ajettiinpa lakia nyt miten jaloilla tarkoitusperillä tahansa. yle.fi/a/74-20188794
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RFK Jr has commissioned working groups drawn from his hand picked ACIP to look at the childhood vaccine schedule but there is no evidence that supports a need to change the schedule 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy
Updates on the the latest attacks on vaccines in the USA
Attacks on MMR are gaining pace- could this threaten access to the MMR vaccine?
sheenacruickshankimmunology.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
RFK Jr has commissioned working groups drawn from his hand picked ACIP to look at the childhood vaccine schedule but there is no evidence that supports a need to change the schedule 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy