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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

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Tech and systems, Europe and Ukraine, democracy and defense, energy and science. And whatever else I find interesting, I don't discriminate. Mostly English, occasionally Finnish 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@osma, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 25/09/2026
Meta ei tule "saamaan tätä kuriin", koska Metan bisnesmalli on myydä jakelua moderoimattomille, hypertargetoiduille mainoksille. Tämä saadaan loppumaan tekemällä käyttäjädatan kerääminen, jälleenmyynti ja hyödyntäminen mainoslevitystarkoituksiin yksiselitteisesti […] [Original post on mas.to]
Silti DR löysi Metan alustoilta liki 30 000 sovellusmainosta. Nämä olivat vain tanskalaiselle yleisölle kohdistettuja, joten mainosten todellinen määrä oli todennäköisesti paljon suurempi.

Ylen verifiointitiimi ei ole tehnyt yhtä kattavaa selvitystä suomalaisille kohdistetuista mainoksista. Etsin näitä kuitenkin itse ennen DR:n jutun julkaisua Metan mainoskirjastosta, joka listaa yhtiön alustoilla näkyvät mainokset.

Löysin parissa työpäivässä tuhansia riisumissovellusmainoksia, jotka oli kohdistettu suomalaisille. Niiden kohderyhmäksi oli tyypillisesti valittu 18–65-vuotiaat miehet.

Mainoksia oli helppo löytää tiettyjen hakutermien avulla, koska samat lauseenpätkät toistuivat kymmenissä tai sadoissa mainoksissa.

Osa mainoksista käyttää varsin roisia pornografista kuvastoa, kuten suuseksiä. Se lävähtää katsojan silmille vasta videon käynnistyessä. Mainoksen pysäytyskuvissa voi sen sijaan näkyä tekoälykuvia lumisista vuoristoista tai loisteliaista auringonlaskuista.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 21/09/2026
The current situation on the energy market is not nearly at the 1973 Oil Crisis level, but it has already exceeded the 1990 shock in length, and forecasts point at +25% cost increase. Might be a good thing for direction of technology if the 70s repeated, though.
Inflation adjusted price of crude oil per barrel, 1960s to today. Source: macrotrends.net
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 18/09/2026
Honestly, I'm disappointed by Martin Fowler's take, comparing an LLM to a "real human". He should be informed enough to understand that there is no "calling out" a text extrusion robot. The robot will just extrude more text as a prompt response […] [Original post on mas.to]
But as I mull on this more, I realize that among this mix of contrasting feelings, there is one emotion that dominates - one that comes from my direct interactions with LLMs. I don’t like them. They talk to me in this grating LLM-voice, an uncanny valley of talking to a real human. They confidently bullshit me - often giving me useful, helpful answers. But also just making stuff up with the same assurance - and with only a veneer of fake remorse when I call them out on it.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 16/09/2026
Oh, that'll buff out, no problem www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-dam…
E-3 Sentry AWACS with minor section of mid fuselage damaged. Never mind the missing radome. Slight disarray at the Prince Sultan AFB.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 13/09/2026
A new feature in Firefox apparently "breaks paywall" by sloparizing the page behind the wall. Does it actually work? Hard to say. It does produce bullet points which appear related to the headline.
A screenshot of Firefox Mobile menu with a NEW function labeled "Summarise page"
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 13/09/2026
This is what they always trot out when they feel threatened of running out of money. So far, it has always worked to get them more money. The grifters gonna grift.
NYT headline, Sunday, Sep 13

Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slower Development as Fears Mount Over Risks

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, lid out A.I.’s rapidly advancing capabilities and said greater safety controls were needed.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 18/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221… UI design can’t fix conceptual design problems. Mastodon 5.0 preview discusses compose UI using several screenshots highlighting Followers-only posts. Those are a primary harassment vector - griefing people […] [Original post on mas.to]
Cropped screenshot of planned future Mastodon “new post” UI, prominently featuring Followers-only posts.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 12/08/2026
Uusi lukuvuosi, uusi koulu, uusi vaihe opinnoissa. Sama vanha Wilma.
Ke 12.8. työjärjestys, ekan päivän oppitunnit.
8: let01.1f
2: lps01.2f
1: lku01.1f
5: lfy01+02.1f
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 10/08/2026
“Poliisin mukaan alaikäinen poika loukkaantui lievästi” yle.fi/a/74-20240286
Poliisin kiilaama mopoilija kertoo voimistaan HS:lle: Jalkapöytä murtui, kädestä katkesi viisi luuta.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 04/08/2026
Today's outfit in honor of Sigrid Haugser, Norwegian road race champion who yesterday surprised herself by taking hold of #MaillotJaune with a heroic 80 km solo breakaway. In #TDFF2026
T-shirt presenting the Tour de France leader colors: yellow, white, green and polka dots
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 31/07/2026
If Ukraine Air Force and NATO forces operated on unified command and deconfliction protocol to safeguard air space, the russian cruise missile which struck ground in Poland could have been intercepted […] [Original post on mas.to]
The deputy defense minister said a Ukrainian fighter pilot pursued the missile that ultimately landed on Polish territory until just before it crossed the border. According to Tomczyk, the pilot turned back about 20 seconds before the missile entered Poland because crossing into Polish airspace carried the risk of being engaged by Polish F-16 fighter jets.

The Polish Air Force scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to intercept an unidentified object that entered its airspace at 3:40 a.m. local time, but it disappeared from radar six minutes later, according to the Operational Command of the Armed Forces.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 30/07/2026
RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaV… The Commissioner is getting ratioed hard. I had a quick scan of the replies and found none that were in support.
Snapshot of quoted status 2h 50min after posting:
131 replies
13 + 21 boosts
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 24/07/2026
Today's highlight (so far) has been the hour at Jardim Botânico de Lisboa
Garden, don't ask me to describe the plants. It's pretty though
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 21/07/2026
Today was an easier day with just 2:45 on the pedals, and only two shortish 15% rocky inclines I had to push the bike up. Someone more trained on MTB might have been able to traverse those, but it would have taken a lot of power. Otherwise, nice smaller roads in the […] [Original post on mas.to]
Map of a bicycling route
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 20/07/2026
Today's plan was to go to the westernmost point of continental Europe at Cabo do Roca, but Garmin sent me on utterly impossible paths that forced so many loopbacks, I had to give up at hour 5 and limp back home on the main road. #cycling
A chaotic cycle route nominally towards Cabo do Roca, but looping around many times due to non-traversable pathsNon-traversable: by foot, maybe, but certainly not on a bikeThis one I still could cycle upThat's Cabo in the distance, but also where I gave up and turned around before I expired
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 19/07/2026
At home I'm a road/gravel guy, but here in Ericeira I decided to try a rental MTB instead. Sure is heavier on the roads, but some of the paths today would have been impossible with a gravel bike.
Obligatory bike / seafront scene. Bike is leaning on the stone fence at Freguesia da Carvoeira scenic stop, blue ocean and even bluer sky behind.One of the narrower, but not nearly most overgrown sand paths of today. No pix of the rockiest climbs or descents.Hilltop view into one of the more popular local surfing spots. The surf isn't big, theres almost no wind, but several dozen people are floating waiting for a wave of any measure.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 15/07/2026
SpaceX listed at $135 and is now trading below that. Still massively overvalued for at least the launch business (which could be profitable, but is smaller) and the AI business (which will lose money for the foreseeable future), quite likely also for the telecom business.
SPCX share price history, trending downwards, $132 and -17% since start of trading a little over a month ago.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 15/07/2026
Lapsuudessani tää tiilitehtaan maanottopaikka tunnettiin perheessäni "Saharana" ja nykyään se on isompi kuin silloin oli. Harjumaiden kirouksia ovat valtavat hiekkakuopat, mutta kiva, että ennallistetaan joksikin muuksi kuin puupelloksi. yle.fi/a/74-20235047
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Lupa- ja valvontaviraston erikoisluvalla kasvatetut hietaneilikan taimet vahvistuvat ulkona taimitarhassa ennen kuin ne matkaavat "kotiseudulleen" Salon Kiikalaan.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 14/07/2026
The social media companies have been shown in court to seek to addict their users. Step away from the social casino. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/…
Internal documents showed the companies had deliberately sought out “casino science” to turn their products into what Lanier calls “addiction machines”. Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok all use intermittent variable rewards, giving their users little unpredictable dopamine hits, just like slot machines with their micro-payouts that keep you sticking around for a big jackpot that may never arrive, endlessly scrolling on your phone instead of pulling a handle. A 2012 Google memo about YouTube said its “goal is not viewership; it’s viewer addiction”. Another document from Google referred to its products as “slot machines”. “These are attention casinos,” it read. “The house always wins.”
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 09/07/2026
Kesän ensimmäinen, ehkä ainoa #siltadontti kontribuutioni. Reittiähän ei voi kehua, mutta keliennusteesta johtuen valitsin suorimman vaihtoehdon. Vielä en ole kastunut.
Polkupyörä, 110, Hiidenvesi
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 07/07/2026
Ha, SpaceX life as a NASDAQ 100 company isn’t off to a great start
SPCX jump off a cliff, -5.16% today
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 07/07/2026
Usernames are coming to WhatsApp, so I reserved one for myself.
WhatsApp screenshot

You reserved @switch2signalapp

Soon you can share your username instead of your phone number when connecting with someone for the first time.

We'll let you know when your username is ready to use.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 06/07/2026
I could do with a bit of that heat wave you know. Finnish summer is short but only a little snowy.
Table of temperature and wind forecast, feels like 10°C
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 05/07/2026
Just this morning I was wondering whether the next stage of Mad Max behavior, hijacking fuel trucks on the move would be starting soon. fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof…
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 20/06/2026
Pesästä heitetty
Pöllämystynyt käpytikan poikanen mökkiterassilla
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 07/06/2026
Aikamoinen armeija aikakauslehdelle. Mihin he sitä käyttävät? yle.fi/a/74-20230152 yle.fi/a/74-20230152?utm_source=soc…
Saksalaislehti: ilmahyökkäyskykyä, sukellusveneitä ja merivalvontakoneita vähennetään

Saksalainen Die Welt -lehti julkisti keskiviikkona listan, mitä kriisiajoiksi lupaamiaan joukkoja ja asejärjestelmiä se suunnittelee vähentävänsä Euroopalta.

Listalla on esimerkiksi kaksi sukellusvenettä, joista voidaan laukaista Tomahawk-risteilyohjuksia, lentotukialuksilla liikuteltavaa ilmahyökkäyskykyä, sukellusveneiden jäljitykseen tarkoitettavia merivalvontakoneita ja ilmatankkauskoneita. Nämä ovat strategisia kykyjä, joissa Eurooppa on
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 06/06/2026
Tässä viranomaiset ja julkisrahoitteinen media demonstroivat julkisen viestinnän periaatteita. #yle #merivartiosto
Venäjälle Pietariin matkalla ollut kone joutui aikaisin lauantaina laskeutumaan Helsinki-Vantaan lentokentälle. 

Suomenlahden merivartiosto kirjoitti asiasta viestipalvelu X:ssä.

Sisältöä ei voida näyttää
Katso sisältö X-viestipalvelussa.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 27/05/2026
No. No fucking way. Never. And why don't you take that for an answer?
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 23/05/2026
Yle julkaisi artikkelin, jonka ainoa pointti, otsikosta lähtien on, että siinä on kuvia. Oheisessa kuvakaappauksessa yksi kuvista.
Sisältöä ei voida näyttää

Ylen palveluissa voidaan näyttää sosiaalisessa mediassa julkaistuja sisältöjä. Tarkista evästeasetuksesi, jos haluat säätää sisältöjen näkymistä Ylen palveluissa.

Katso sisältö Instagramissa
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 15/05/2026
Private jets should be paying double, nay, 10x carbon tax. They can afford it. www.euronews.com/2026/05/11/private…
Former pilots and a group of millionaires are now demanding that private jets to the A-list-studded event are grounded, and that the EU close the “glaring loopholes” that allow many of the wealthiest to dodge fuel taxes.

The bloc’s carbon tax system (ETS) exempts two-thirds of private jets and all international flights from paying the carbon tax that every commercial passenger flying within the EU pays.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 01/05/2026
That was a-ok. #vappusatanen #cycling #pyoraily
113 km, 17°C, 4:24 total timeRoadside shade for a quick break, bike leaning on a big pine, very bright blue sky. Someone on horseback in a city park
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 01/05/2026
Today's Freeday and particularly nice weather for one. I'm gonna spend mine cycling 100km in the afternoon. #friday #may1st #cycling
Approximate route Helsinki/Porvoo/back
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 17/04/2026
What. The. Fuck. ?? It's bad enough that EU is reneging on major parts of the European Green Deal and buying big tech bullshit about AI wholesale, but this is another level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.

The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit. It leaves researchers with just national-level summaries of their energy footprints.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 12/04/2026
Tässä vielä reitti kartalla, jos kiinnostelee. Siitä on helppo lyhentää 10 km pois vaihtamalla Laajalahden kierros eli Villa Elfvik ja Tarvonsillat Kuusisaaren läpiajoon. www.viewgpx.com/route/dxtsmTDW #helsinki #pyöräily #kruunusillat #kruunuvuorensilta
Kartta Helsingin siltakierroksesta
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 12/04/2026
Viikon päästä 18.4. #Kruunuvuorensilta avajaisten kunniaksi, 55km kierros siltoja. Aloita kierros n. 14.30 Kalasatamanpuistosta Merihaansilta Hakaniemensilta Linnunlaulu Lauttasaarensilta Laukkaniemensalmi Kaskisaarensalmi Kuusisaarentie Tarvonsillat Meilahdenpuisto […] [Original post on mas.to]
Kruunuvuorensilta Kulosaaren suunnasta katsottuna. Kuva: WSP, Knight Architects
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 08/04/2026
Timothy Snyder, expressing my feelings with the depth of a studied historian. The back-off changes nothing. snyder.substack.com/p/the-president…
Whatever happens tonight, the president, by saying such things, has already changed the world for the worse, and made acts of mass violence more likely. If we are Americans, he has also changed our country. He has changed us, because he represents us; we voted for him, or we didn’t vote and allowed him to come to power, or we didn’t do enough to stop him. These words are America’s words, until and unless Americans reject them.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 03/04/2026
It looks like everything's going great over at decentraland. Remember what I just couple of days ago wrote about sovereignty? trezy.com/blog/proof-of-work
The tension is that Bluesky holds the keys. No matter how good a community proposal is, it doesn't become real on AT Protocol without Bluesky's buy-in at the protocol level. That's a problem. You can't claim to be building an open protocol while one company retains veto power over what gets adopted. The recent establishment of an IETF working group for AT Protocol is a meaningful step toward changing that, and some in the community have called for protocol governance to be handed off to a completely separate organization.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 03/04/2026
In 2023, EU nations put over 100 billion € into fossil fuel subsidies. This year, that figure will be much higher due to the misguided Iran war related measures. That money could demand-shift 1500 TWh of electricity in the European grid, approximately half of total European generation capacity.
Figure 2. Fossil fuel subsidies in EU Member States, 2015 and 2023 (in 2023 prices)
Source: European Environment AgencyEU power generation by source technology, 2023-2024
Source: Emberinfographic: "$125/kWh capital cost outside China and the US translates into levelized cost of storage (LCOS) of $65/MWh"
Source: Emberinfographic: "It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar"
Source: Ember
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 30/03/2026
I have been part of a team negotiating a license agreement with Disney. I don't recall that Disney would have been okay with a sentence like the one here in a PR announcement, if it hadn't actually been a hard agreement. But it seems no such investment was ever made […] [Original post on mas.to]
As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 29/03/2026
So yeah I wrote that a UAV flying into Finnish airspace would be WAY off course from its presumed target of Primorsk or Ust-Luga. Well, one has fallen in south-eastern Finland near Kouvola. That is way off. yle.fi/a/74-20217938
Map of eastern Baltic Sea and south-eastern Finland. Blue marker at approximate location of reported drone crash site.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 29/03/2026
Still smoking, both terminals. The trails are clearer today, less wind dispersal. #BalticSea #Primorsk #UstLuga
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 28/03/2026
If oil remains over $100 per barrel, an important factor will be that battery storage installations have dropped below that cost level at end of last year. It is literally cheaper to build and operate a 100MWh battery facility than to buy oil at this price.
Brent (North Sea) crude May contract, $112.57 per barrelWTI (Bay of Mexico) crude, $99.64 per barrel
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 28/03/2026
Today on the eastern Gulf of Finland. Primorsk on on the peninsula south of Vyborg, Ust-Luga in the bay north of Narva. #balticsea #primorsk #UstLuga
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 24/03/2026
That black smudge at the right bottom quarter of the satellite image? A line of smoke reaching 400 km east from stricken Primorsk oil and gas terminal at the end of Baltic Sea. If the wind was in another direction, the smell would reach Helsinki.
Satellite image showing Baltic Sea, southern Finland, Estonia and the St Petersburg region.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 09/03/2026
Tämä Kaarlo Hildénin mielipide arvonluonnin ja korkeakoulutuksen suhteesta ansaitsee tulla luetuksi ajatuksella. www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-20000…
POLIITTISESSA retoriikassa tapahtuu jotain outoa, kun ihminen aikuistuu. Kunnianhimon taso laskee ja ihmiskuva välineellistyy: ajatus merkityksellistä elämää tavoittelevasta moraalisesta toimijasta kapenee ihanteeksi osaajasta, jonka arvo mitataan tuottavuudella. Korkeakoulutuksessa ylin päämäärä on nyt kilpailukyky ja osaaminen on sille alisteinen väline.

Liiaksi talouden realiteeteista kumpuava korkeakoulupolitiikka saattaa epäonnistua juuri siinä, mihin se tähtää: talouskasvun synnyttämisessä. Jos osaaminen nähdään liian kapeasti ja teknologialähtöisesti, Suomen krooninen alisuoriutuminen aineettomassa arvonluonnissa ei korjaudu.

Myymme raaka-ainetta ja tavaraa, kun pitäisi tarjota palvelua, merkitystä ja ratkaisuja. Suuri osa viennistämme perustuu edelleen alhaisen jalostusasteen prosessiteollisuuteen, vaikka yhä suurempi osa taloudellisesta arvosta syntyy kyvystä yhdistää teknologinen osaaminen syvälliseen ymmärrykseen ihmisestä, kulttuurista ja merkityksellisyydestä.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 26/02/2026
Four years ago, the russian invasion forces first entered Bucha, overtaking the town mid-March but getting driven out of it by April 2nd. When Ukrainian forces and Western observers were able to enter the town, several hundred civilians were found killed in a series […] [Original post on mas.to]
A destroyed civilian vehicle with a victim inside. Documentation of a war crime.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 24/02/2026
Four years ago, the Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov stationed on Snake Island sent a legendary radio communication to the russian cruiser Moskva. "Russian warship, go fuck yourself"
The commemorative stamp issued by Ukrposhta picturing a Ukrainian border guard showing the middle finger to warship Moskva.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 24/02/2026
Four years ago, russian airborne troops attacked Hostomel airport in attempt to prepare it for larger transport craft landing for takeover of Kyiv. If not for the quickly organized defense, this force might have succeeded in executing putin's "three day special […] [Original post on mas.to]
Destroyed An-225 Mriya transport aircraft in Antonov colors at the Hostomel airport.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 14/02/2026
Stuck in the boonies of middle Sweden with a locomotive problem. Yay! It's very pretty but also cold outside. At least the rest of the train still has power.
View from a train cabin to a very white track, blinding sun and blue skies. The train is not moving.
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 05/02/2026
Bropocalypse
Tesla, Palantir, Bitcoin 1M collapse
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