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Mikkel Stein Knudsen

@mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social
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Researcher | Futures | Foresight. Danmark | Turku | Finland.

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Kenneth Nørgaard @kennethnrgaard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Historiker har fundet et ord for vores tid. Nu forstår jeg min indre uro Krigen kommer måske aldrig. Alligevel er idéen om en kommende krig allerede ved at forandre os."
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Historiker har fundet et ord for vores tid. Nu forstår jeg min indre uro
Historiker Frederik Forrai Ørskov beskriver i en ny bog, hvordan forestillingen om en fremtidig krig påvirker os.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some short snapshots from a couple of days with Eye of Europe/Futures4europe in Rome.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh no, won't somebody think of the bitcoin bros
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sensommer-zen. ❤️ Syksy.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Imponerende og bemærkelsesværdigt (og nedenunder så en personlig kæphest):
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
472 Mt CO2 saved ~ 13x 🇩🇰 annual emissions. At least that's something.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(Trying to become a LinkedIn-fluencer) Don’t get fixated on your pronouns—think about your tenses: are you a were/was or a will/becoming?
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 19/09/2026
The idea that China would rise from being a buyer of obsolete technology to a leading developer was beyond the imagination of German decision-makers
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Business Tinder is wild. Never look at analytics and try to guess what it means.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I saw Cameron Crowe's Aloha (2015) on a plane just two days ago, and while it wasn't a good movie, this ⬇️ was the entire plot (or at least, the backdrop for the romantic comedy) and thus it feels timely. Except, of course, in the movie the US military is against this. For good reasons.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
yle.fi/a/7-10105095...
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Vattenbristen i Europa blir värre men det är svårt att få Norden och Finland att bry sig
Vatten måste få större vikt när nya industrier och datacenter planeras, säger svenska EU-kommissionären Jessika Roswall.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 09/09/2026
Google announced the largest ever investment in Finnish history. At 13 bn €, its #datacenter expansion overshadows even the troubled Olkiluoto 3 #nuclear power project (11 bn €). #Finland is great for data centers: lots of potential for clean #electricity and a cool climate. yle.fi/a/74-20245301
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Google announces €13bn additional investment in Finland
The money will be used to develop data centres as well as supporting infrastructure, and represents the search engine giant's largest single investment in Europe to date.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well, €13bn is also a bit of money. yle.fi/a/7-10104938...
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Google investerar 13 miljarder euro i datacenter i Finland och köper kärnkraft i Lovisa
Investeringen är bolagets största i Europa och gäller bland annat AI och teknikutveckling.
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What, and I mean *what*, TF??? Let the memes ensue. (Hopefully everyone is OK. www.latimes.com/california/s...
LA Times push alert:
Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Indvandrere, det er de andre.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/varlden/bor-i-pattaya-rostar-for-farre-invandrare-i-sverige/
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Jacquelantyrn Rhys 🍂 @fuliginflipflops.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Liz Lemon saying “What a struggle to be born into the new world, huh?” and Jack Donaghy replying “Lemon, it's the time of monsters.”
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The longest known Viking ship was discovered by chance while digging up ground to build an extension to the Viking Ship Museum.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The people who built the Pyramids also had a North Star, but it was a different one (Thuban) to the one we know today (Polaris).
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bluetooth is named after a Viking King, and the logo is his initials
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Så förändras migranters värderingar i mötet med Sverige." Interessant rapport fra det nyeste nyhedsbrev (altid anbefalelsesværdigt!) fra 🇸🇪 Institutet för Framtidsstudier 🧵 Baseret på 7300 surveysvar og 120 personlige interviews! www.iffs.se/nyheter/sa-f...
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Så förändras migranters värderingar i mötet med Sverige
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kim Larsen (Vissenbjerg) Johnny Madsen (Skanderborg) Coldplay (Ringe) Björk (Verona) Love Shop (Christianshavn) White Stripes (Lokomotiværkstedet) Radiohead (Barcelona) Arcade Fire (Ballerup) Chris Cornell (Carnegie Hall) 22 Pistepirkko (Turku)
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slyngel.eurosky.social @slyngel.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
Med nervøst hjerte, tror jeg dette er ekstremt vigtigt for dig, mig og os alle.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This should probably be the biggest and most-talked about story at the moment. Or maybe we will just look back a few years from now thinking, "so, *this* happened and people just kept yabbing on about race science science post-docs in Belgium and hydronyms in Canada? Really?"
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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
OK, this is creepy as hell. The OpenAI HuggingFace breakout involved very complicated high-level communication, collaboration and altruism between agents, intentional attempts to cheat and to cover up the cheating.
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The Hugging Face attack surprised me
It’s a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stikord fra en tur på nettet 20.45: Prøvede at koble op. 20.50: Koblet op. #ForgangneFremtider, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, Futuriblerne, 1997, Tema-nummer om Internettet.
Fra artiklen "Hverdag på nettet", her: https://artikelbibliotek.fremtidsforskning.dk/?page_id=2963
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
he knows what he did
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Nogle mener endog, at vi ikke har nogen reelle vanskeligheder, men søger os at skabe nogle ved at gøre Christiania, politikeres sexliv eller nedskydning af hunde til interessante emner." #ForgangneFremtider, "Danmark til 1990", Futuriblerne, udgivet årgang 1975-1976.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"En bro derimod, den hvælver sig så højt, at selv de største russiske skibe må sejle neden under den." #ForgangneFremtider, Futuriblerne, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, Optryk af "Høring om Storebæltsbroens virkninger 14. Maj 1977".
Futuriblerne, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, Optryk af Høring om Storebæltsbroens virkninger, 14. Maj 1977. Link: https://artikelbibliotek.fremtidsforskning.dk/wp-content/uploads/fut.1977.3.a.114.pdfFuturiblerne, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, Optryk af Høring om Storebæltsbroens virkninger, 14. Maj 1977. Link: https://artikelbibliotek.fremtidsforskning.dk/wp-content/uploads/fut.1977.3.a.114.pdf
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
HOW TO GET THINGS DONE #PastFutures, Futuriblerne, Institut for Fremtidsforskning, 1. årgang 1969/1970.
https://artikelbibliotek.fremtidsforskning.dk/wp-content/uploads/fut.1969.1970.5a.pdf
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Peter Brodersen @brodersen.dk · 18/08/2026
Hvilke danske udtryk signalerer størst sandsynlighed for, at noget sker? Jeg er muligvis sandsynligvis sikker på, at du vil hjælpe min gamle statistiker-ven @clausekstrom.bsky.social med hurtigt at besvare et spørgeskema for, hvor sandsynligt noget er. ekstroem.com:3838/sandsynligt/
Skærmbillede med spørgeskema om sproglige udtryk for sandsynligheder
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Past futures: "A couple of decades into the next century, a room full of books will mark you as highly pretentious - the sort of person owning a wood-burning stove, except that owning books will be ecologically indefensible." The New Scientist, 15 October 1994.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Tænk fremad.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Past futures: New Scientist, 15 October 1994.
Trends that are transforming the world, New Scientist supplement, 15 October 1994.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
København, the Vegas of Europe.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"– Det är galet att binda beslut hårt till prognoser som alltid slår fel." yle.fi/a/7-10103249...
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Politiker fattar miljardbeslut utifrån vaga gissningar, uppger socialdemokratisk tankesmedja
En ny rapport riktar vass kritik mot ekonomiska prognoser i Finland. Skribenterna intygar att syftet inte är att undergräva skuldbromsen.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 10/08/2026
I am announcing all this today as this morning Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮 finally re-opened, connecting Finland to the EU passenger rail network again The last passenger trains ran here in 1988, before either Sweden or Finland joined the EU Yle about the launch: yle.fi/a/74-20240125
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New rail link reconnects Finland and Sweden
Passenger rail service between Kemi, Tornio and Haparanda was discontinued in 1988, leaving the border region without a direct rail link for decades.
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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026
Danes.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I would absolutely have said no before learning Finnish, where there's confusingly only one word for foot/leg. Now I don't know what to trust anymore.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Når man har fulgt AGF i mange år, så føles det som svar på tre forskellige tøhø-jokes at se (i) AGF vinde på en europæisk udebane, (ii) i en CL-kvalkamp, (iii) med en 17-, 18-, 2x 19- og 20-årig af egen avl på banen. Briste eller bære, så er det sateme med støvlerne på. #ksdh
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Odyssey: From 🇫🇮 Toija to 🇩🇰 Lyø. Yep yep.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fire and floods. Two of the four horsemen of the Anthropocene.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The New Possible"
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Suomen Kuvalehti @suomenkuvalehti.fi · 27/07/2026
Vuonna 1991 suomalaiset olivat OECD-maiden koulutetuimpia – vuonna 2022 nuoret aikuiset olivat sijalla 28
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Vuonna 1991 suomalaiset olivat OECD-maiden koulutetuimpia – vuonna 2022 nuoret aikuiset olivat sijalla 28
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tveskov @tveskov.com · 26/07/2026
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oh, but it is. The New Normal. For years, people have talked about the 21st Century as being a "Century of Fire". Update your priors, recalibrate your expectations, this is the world we are living in. In North America, Europe, and elsewhere.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Politikens leder 11. juli 2026: Der er ikke brug for mere air condition i Europa. vs. Politiken 13. juli 2026: Over 10,000 ekstra døde i Europa pga to ugers hedebølge.
Politiken-leder: Aircondition er ikke løsningen på hedebølgerne. Online 10. juli 2026, kl 21.10.Politiken: Der var i EU-landene en overdødelighed på mere end 10.000 under hedebølge i slutningen af juni, viser data. Poltiiken 13. juli 2006, kl. 06.10.
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dagens overraskende historie, hvor storpolitik møder hverdagen: Iranerne kører Ali Khameinis lig rundt i gaderne i en finsk supermarkedslastbil angiveligt købt i Irak.
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