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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 5h

slopware will eat the world

Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@sciencespo.bsky.social keeps emailing faculty and staff about our "safety". What about our students who are being beaten up by the French police in the name of this institution? How are you ensuring their safety?

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lol, a journalist from Finland's biggest newspaper showed up at Google's office to ask about the illegal logging the company commissioned in northern Finland. Instead of answering his questions, Google called security. That's all anyone is to these companies: a nuisance. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

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Datakeskukset | Kävimme Googlen pääkonttorilla, mutta yhtiö kieltäytyy vastaamasta kysymyksiin

Yhdysvaltalainen suuryhtiö kieltäytyy antamasta haastatteluja Muhoksen ja Kajaanin työmaidensa hakkuista, vaikka se vaikuttaa rikkoneen lakia.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A company representing Google has cleared 330 hectares of forest in Finland to make way for a data center without conducting the required environmental assessments, basically ignoring the state regulator. "Sovereignty for sale," as @evgenymorozov.bsky.social puts it. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

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Suurhakkuut | Google ei saanut poikkeuslupaa, mutta hakkasi silti datakeskuksille paikan

Googlea edustava Tuike Finland hakkautti Muhokselle jättiaukon ilman ympäristövaikutusten arviointia, vaikka sai viranomaiselta yksiselitteisen kehotuksen tehdä sellainen.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

Slowly picking off the last straggling bits of human interaction

This phone call feature from @Muse is just
ridiculous. Muse: Hi, I'm Hailey, calling on Peter Yang's behalf. I'm transcribing our call for notes. I'd like to
place a cake order for pickup today.
Recipient: Hello?
Muse: Yes, hi, still
Recipient: Hi.
Muse: here. I'd like to place a cake order for pickup today.
Recipient: Yeah. What what kind of cake?
Muse: An eight-inch chestnut cake, please.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Jensen Huang interview with Ezra Klein is a master class in gaslighting

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I read Muskism. It's a fun book, lots of small valuable insights. What bothered me: Muskism is coined with a wink to Fordism, a regime of capitalist accumulation and regulation. To properly define a "Muskism," you would have to do regime-level analysis, which really is not the case in the book.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

RIP Ben Morea, anarcho-surrealist legend who never stopped spreading the good word on what art could do as a form of struggle. open.spotify.com/episode/1qcZ...

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A Life in Rebellion: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Black Mask, and the Surrealist Struggle in 1960-70s New York

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Iran is broadcasting this VHF message: "Attention all ships, regarding the failure ⁠of the U.S. government to fulfil its commitment in the negotiation, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely closed again.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Next Tuesday, I am giving this talk at @medialab-scpo.bsky.social on the speedboat partisans of Hormuz, the Shadow fleet, ships as "geodigital objects" & the ensemble of maritime tracking technologies I discuss under the common rubric of "ship-writing." bsky.app/profile/medi...

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

we are going to wistfully look back at the current "Zero Token Cost Policy" much as we now do at ZIRP. better hog those tokens while you can, in other words.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A fan of my course sent me a 100-sided die. This thing is huge and of course I wonder now: Are there even larger dice?!

a blue 100 sided die sitting on a black felt bag

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Should you want to crush your soul and numb your mind bsky.app/profile/quin...

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

People are getting tumescent about a site that points text engines at each other so they can recursively dredge up parts of their search space that were trained on the entirety of Reddit while also triggering automation subroutines that have access to your API keys and passwords #moltbook

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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 25/01/2026

“Sovereignty is the power to decide what appears to machines — &, through them, to the humans & institutions that depend on their judgments.” — @digitaldang.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

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A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary | NOEMA

What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

the movie wasn't that good, but I think of this scene almost every day now. I wonder why? bsky.app/profile/mika...

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Extrajudicial killings are not the sign of a strong regime but they may be the portent of a bloody one.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This might low-key be one of the most clear signals from the last few days that all bets are off the table. The European Central Bank is stepping up in solidarity with the chair of the US Central Bank, the FED, against the president of that same country. What a time to be alive.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

ICEYE is often cited as a symbol of European tech sovereignty, yet it relies on SpaceX for launch, including this recent mission for the Finnish Defence Forces. Is this by choice, or due to a lack of European alternatives? nordicdefencesector.com/sv/article/i...

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ICEYE bekräftar utplacering av två satelliter efter SpaceX Twilight-uppskjutning

ICEYE har placerat ut två satelliter i rymden efter en uppskjutning med SpaceX Falcon 9-raket, vilket inkluderar en satellit för Finlands försvarsmakt. Detta bekräftades i ett LinkedIn-inlägg efter Tw...

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

finally reading Varoufakis' book on techno-feudalism. besides this critique by Morozov, what's some relevant commentary on the notion of "techno-feudalism"? newleftreview.org/issues/ii133...

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

the idea that honing your political thinking by engaging in real, public debate with your political adversaries is categorically a type of harmful "platforming" must be one of the most stupid and self-destructive ideas to emerge within the left

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

the only comfort is the courage of ordinary people

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Realism in international relations is a self-fulfilling ideology. When enough powerful actors believe in it, it becomes true. And right now, they mostly do.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Keep in mind that Carl Schmitt developed the concept of "Großraum" inspired by the Monroe Doctrine & US hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. Großraum = A large geopolitical space with one leading power, contrasted with the centering of institutions like the UN in liberal universalism. 1/

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I remember when everyone said that "anxiety" was the reigning affect. Then, during the pandemic, it was "boredom." What is it today? Maybe "disgust." At least that's what I'm feeling.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

a very significant part of Schmitt's "Nomos of the Earth" is about the Monroe Doctrine, btw

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Carl Schmitt is fun to read because he engages with his ideological adversaries on the left seriously, in particular Marx & Lenin (anarchists maybe less so). He is not trying to just refute them, but also to learn from them. Compare this to how people on the left & right read each other today.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

“P(doom)” now makes me think of corporate bankruptcy rather than AGI apocalypse

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"Devs" just might be the best example of Laplace's demon in pop culture

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

1999 really was the year of the anti-work movie. Office Space, The Matrix, Fight Club... anything else?

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

it's funny that GPT models are called "decoder-only" when almost all of the computation is actually about encoding the input sequence ("the cat sat on the") into a contextual representation–and only the very last matrix maps that representation into next-token predictions ("mat").

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/11/2025

gather around, kids, and i'm going to tell you about a time when people used to develop models that they understood the inner workings of, and they would use those models to test and evaluate their understanding of complex systems...

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a cartoon of homer simpson with the words which was the style at the time

Alt: abe simpson in union civil war attire with some of his friends saying "which was the style at the time."

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

We recently released OlmoEarth—an open spatio-temporal foundation model for planetary intelligence, trained on multimodal Earth observation, OpenStreetMap, & other open data. It sets a new accuracy/efficiency Pareto frontier and powers our OlmoEarth Platform. Technical report now on arXiv. 👇

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

is there anything interesting written on how LLM alignment techniques implement microeconomic utility theory?

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Anna's Archive is great, but why do half of the downloads consistently fail?

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

the Notes app autocorrects "nomos" into "gnomes"... on the other hand, I guess both concepts are kind of "earthy"?

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy. mikaelbrunila.com/information-...

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From Bits to Embeddings – A Critical Introduction to Information Theory

A comprehensive introduction to classical information theory as conceived by Claude Shannon and its connections to neural networks and large language models today.

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Chapter three from my thesis is finally out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! I explore the parallels between the "bit" and the "embeddings" that are a foundational structure in Large Language Models, showing how the latter endow tech companies with what I call "cosine capital." bsky.app/profile/bigd...

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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Cursor is great for greenfield coding a new project, especially if you're not very fluent in that language, but the autocomplete is surprisingly bad

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

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