For the first 8 years of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, we did not believe that Russia would launch a full-scale attack. Until they did. Have we learned something from this mistake?

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En ole huomannut tätä kielivalikko Blueskyessä, onko se ollut tässä aina?

Kieliongelmaa koitettiin ratkoa @janipenttinen.bsky.social verkkopalvelussa XIHA Life lähes 20 vuotta sitten.

Olisiko optimaalinen ratkaisu vihdoin löytymässä?

What’s happening with TikTok in the U.S. is communism and oligarchy.

Western, democratic and market-oriented solution would be renew regulation that would tackle the scientifically and technically proven risks and negative effects to the society, which TikTok and everyone else would need to follow.

Protests against the the policies of Robert Fico are taking place in several cities of Slovakia.

Protesters chant "Slovakia is Europe."

Bluesky #1 on the App Store in Finland. I’m still not excited but will take a peek every now and then 🤗

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Got 1M views on Threads in 30 days.

Bluesky on the other hand… nothing seems to be pulling me here.

X is still really really good information and news source for me, also used by the officials and politicians in Finland - posts quoted in the mainstream media.

Maybe Bluesky just isn’t for me? 🤷‍♂️

Posted my #slush2024 highlights on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/juhani...

Proud. Thankful. Loved.

#Slush2024 is here, see you in Helsinki!

Ok I’m going to give Threads a change, don’t really have bandwidth to use Bluesky. I’m guessing this is going to be one of those 100+ social media apps that became popular, but will never reach critical mass.

But if you do like it, don’t mind me - just enjoy it :)

🫡 threads.net/juhani

IOC has approved Russian athletes to compete in Summer Olympics 2024 in Paris. Despicable.

I would like to hear what the sponsors such as @Airbnb @CocaCola @Deloitte @intel @panasonic @Samsung @Visa @CarrefourGroup @LVMH @AirFranceFR @Cisco @PwC @salesforce think about this.

Anybody using Texts.com and could send me an invitation?

juhani@gmail.com

In a major step for open social media, the BBC has set up a Mastodon instance. With verified accounts, just the way it should be done.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Deja vu from 10-15 years ago when I signed up for dozens of social media apps… Let’s see who wins this time.