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Juha Saarinen

@juha.bsky.social
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Vulnerability chronicler pursuivant.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h
Oasis take legal action to stop sale of unheard recordings valued at more than £1m
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Oasis take legal action to stop sale of unheard recordings valued at more than £1m
Tapes made in the 90s, including candid conversations between Noel and Liam Gallagher, which were expected to sell for up to £1.6m A collection of unheard Oasis recordings, including 63 live shows, hours of rehearsals and candid conversations between Noel and Liam Gallagher, has been pulled from auction after legal action taken by the band. In September Littleton Auctions in Worcestershire, England, listed the collection made by the band’s former sound engineer, Huw Richards, with a guide price of between £1.2m and £1.6m. Continue reading...
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 8h
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r... Yes, yet another way AI makes everything suck.
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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FilmPhonic @filmphonic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#TriviaTuesday: Contrary to popular belief, 1971's 'A Clockwork Orange' was never banned in the UK, Stanley Kubrick pulled the film from all distribution after a series of copycat crimes inspired by the film, and death threats to his family, remaining unavailable until after his death in 1999.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Uh oh... this sounds familiar.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Terry Pratchett quote on ncsc.nz . What next, I ask you?
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Oh the vast emptiness!
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So... wait. It was Five Go Diesel Filching in Fairford?
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧏‍♀️🗯💢🧕
a fake screenshot from the game Final Fantasy Tactics with Rapha saying "why is a woman's future never as promising as her abusers?"
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Might need to have another go with the messy Aeropress thingy... not good being this uncaffeinated.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/how-to... Coming soon: the joys of AI powered surveillance pricing.
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How to Beat Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026
I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.
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First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization
One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Being a visually minded person, I'd have positioned the coloured dots for the smaller parties differently.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/nicoti... Ah yes; Make Nicotine Great Again because why not.
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Nicotine Is Mounting a Comeback in the Wellness Movement
Improving mood and increasing longevity are just some of the unfounded claims about this substance circling around the “natural” medicine corners of the internet.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐
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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.
At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Classic Victoria Line A lovely nostalgic visit of a 1967 Victoria line train at the Transport Museum Depot in Acton. Queen Elizabeth II rode on this when the line opened to Victoria in March 1969. These trains remained in service until October 2010.
The interior carriage on the classic Victoria line
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/09/2026
New Zealand police came to the rescue of a seal crossing a busy road, helping the perplexed pinniped pup back safely into the water. "When I joined police 15 months ago they said to be ready for anything, so I guess this demonstrates that's true!" said Constable Taylor u.afp.com/S9QJ
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why far-right protesters target non-political groups like lifeboat volunteers theconversation.com/why-far-righ... And InternetNZ.
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Why far-right protesters target non-political groups like lifeboat volunteers
It goes further than just briefly disrupting services.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve got to say, Auckland public transport works super well now
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Need a new backpack or something similar. Recommendations? A larger model. I’m not going to regret asking this.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... The Enid Blyton jokes write themselves. Err.. we all remember who Enid was, right kids? Right?
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Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after ‘major incident’ near RAF Fairford
Men held also suspected of explosives offences as homes evacuated near British airbase used in US attacks on Iran
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Due to heavy autumn and winter rains across central Australia, I predicted that it would be a bumper spring/summer season for budgies and cockatiels. Well, I wasn't wrong! There were 1000s of budgies and cockatiels at Gluepot. That's not an exaggeration. It was incredible.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 27/09/2026
It literally kills people time.com/3549442/dayl... public health researchers and officials have trying to do away with it for ages, but... It benefits retail.
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Daylight Saving Time Deaths Accidents: Is the Time Change Dangerous?
The disruption associated with Day Light Saving Time is an accomplice in hundreds of traffic deaths each year.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Almost forgot my annual anti-DST rant. Just stop that madness already.
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web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 27/09/2026
Bitget crypto exchange hacked for $388 million, pauses withdrawals September 24, 2026 www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=bitget…
Bitget crypto exchange hacked for $388 million, pauses withdrawals
Attackers stole $387.5 million in crypto assets from Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange originally founded in Singapore and headquartered out of the Seychelles. Centralized stablecoin issuers Circle and Tether (issuers of USDC and USDT) froze $318,000 in stolen assets, but the vast majority were swapped to decentralized cryptocurrencies and have not been frozen.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen has said the company believes that a North Korean cybercrime group may be behind the theft. Bitget halted withdrawals shortly after the theft was noticed, citing the need to prevent attackers from stealing more assets. Bitget has said they have sufficient assets to cover the stolen funds.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
George Callaghan (b.N.Ireland, 1941) Autumn Road through the Glens. oil and acrylic on canvas.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 26/09/2026
🇹🇭 ⚠️ Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across the Thai capital on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain left canals full, roads submerged and residents wading through deep water ➡️ u.afp.com/S9N8
People walk past abandoned vehicles on a flooded Petchaburi road in Bangkok on September 26, 2026People push their motorcycles through floodwaters in the Bang Bua district of Bangkok on September 26, 2026
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
CUHK gives top economist warning over talk on women ‘marrying for money’ sc.mp/59f5b Said "top economist" received the mildest of gently phrased reprimands for the highly offensive and bigoted things he said.
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CUHK gives top economist warning over talk on women ‘marrying for money’
University’s New Asia College tells Terence Chong to be mindful of speech and others’ feelings after talk on women marrying for money.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why oh why do Fullers ferry trips in the app passes expire a year after they're bought? Couldn't there be a "do not expire" setting to tap?
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stewart Lee: At this rate, we'll be staging public drownings of migrants, to address 'legitimate concerns' www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Stewart Lee: Why don’t we stage public drownings of migrants, to address people’s legitimate concerns?
The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles.  The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s...
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@ianbetteridge.com's law does not apply.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her." - Marc Chagall
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026
President Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. wapo.st/4ycPvNA
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A world without nation-states and borders does in fact exist, but only for about 0.00004% of the global population.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/09/2026
🚕 Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are turning on the tunes in their cars, defying a ban imposed by the Taliban government despite the fear of getting caught by morality police.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/09/2026
‘It is essential to the image of the English as a mild, unobtrusive race that the British Empire should be thought of as a kind of accident.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 25/09/2026
They should know.
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Matthew Holloway @hollowaynz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Water Bear In Space #gamedev #solodev #indiegamedev
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/... Poor cyclist.
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Herne Bay vehicle v cyclist serious crash: One person has critical injuries
Emergency services were called to West End Rd at 6.25am.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
afp.gov.au/news-centre/... "Police and law enforcement agencies across Australia and New Zealand have charged 1203 people with 3339 offences and seized significant quantities of illicit drugs, firearms and cash..." mysteriously unreported in AU/NZ.
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More than 1200 charged in Trans-Tasman illicit drug trafficking and organised crime operation | Australian Federal Police
Police and law enforcement agencies across Australia and New Zealand have charged 1203 people with 3339 offences and seized significant quantities of illicit drugs, firearms and cash during a national...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Useful chart, you'll find NZ a few places below Japan. Next time you hear the '$10bn a year on debt servicing costs' 😱 😱 😱 , remember that the number being quoted is gross, like in accounting terms. My main beef with govt interest payments is that they are a transfer of govt $ money to rich people.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hong Kong workforce to shrink by 20,000 yearly as key sectors face shortages sc.mp/9gyfi I suspect competition for labour is coming up sooner rather than later.
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Hong Kong workforce to shrink by 20,000 yearly as key sectors face shortages
Predicted 2028 shortfall will narrow to 130,000, but key sectors such as aviation, tech, healthcare and construction still face crunch.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/09/2026
Andy Burnham fails to rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
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Andy Burnham fails to rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM skirts question and says his focus is on rebuilding bridges before first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen Andy Burnham has opened the door to fighting the next election on the UK rejoining the EU, but said his immediate priority was continuing to rebuild bridges with European allies. The prime minister, who will hold his first meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on Tuesday, did not rule out including reversing Brexit in Labour’s next manifesto – but suggested the country should focus on securing closer trading ties first. Continue reading...
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lithuania has evacuation plans in face of Russia threats, PM says www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Lithuania has evacuation plans in face of Russia threats, PM says
Sinkevičius told BBC Newsnight Lithuanians feel "constantly threatened" by Moscow, but the nation was prepared to "fight back" if attacked.
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Leilani Münter @leilanimunter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think New Zealand has the most beautiful money — both aesthetically & because each note honors a native bird: Hoiho/Yellow-eyed Penguin ($5) Whio/Blue Duck ($10) Kārearea/NZ Falcon ($20) Kōkako ($50) & Mohua/Yellowhead ($100). Are there any other beautiful currencies you think can compete with NZ?
Colorful $5 $10 $20 $50 and $100 notes with paintings of birds on them sit on a wooden table.
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“I think the people behind this dirty work are deeply lacking in integrity and have far more influence than they deserve.”
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌊 Ocean acidification has now joined the list of exceeded planetary boundaries. That makes 7 of 9. These are interconnected Earth-system pressures, collectively eroding resilience and shrinking humanity’s safe operating space. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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