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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20h

No one expected the American Inquisition

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Long Play @longplay.fi · 23/09/2026

Minä ja Ville Ahonen julkaisi kaksi kehuttua levyä 2010-luvun alkupuolella. Sitten Ville Ahonen katosi, kunnes palasi uudella levyllä tässä kuussa. Missä olet ollut, Ville Ahonen? www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/ol...

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Oletko nähnyt tätä miestä?

Mikä on Long Play ja miten se toimii?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For some reason this sort of thing puts me in a more apocalyptic mood than warnings of the next killer AI www.ft.com/content/7f11...

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak.

A copy of the book "Hyperpolitics" by Anton Jäger on a pub table next to a pint of lager.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Commemoration is a chance to reflect. Americans in power will try to use this anniversary to say that everything happened exactly as it had to, and that we should bow our heads rather than use them. We went along twenty-five years ago. We should not do so again. snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th...

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Helping the Terrorists to Win

A Quarter Century after 9/11

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/09/2026

one recurring theme in the coverage of this AI Anthropic doomsday newscycle is nobody actually has any REAL ideas of what to do just a lot of ambiguous hand-waving in a country that's too corrupt to have working regulators, by a press that doesn't realize that's a central pillar of the conversation

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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/09/2026

let's have a productive conversation about tech bros who spooked themselves with their own card tricks over at the right wing propaganda website it's embarrassing how many people still use X. you should feel filthy and ashamed and be pelted with rotten eggs in the town square.

Screen shot of Techmeme showing all the discussion on X about the Anthropic researchers warning about an AI doomsday

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ysiluokkalaisista on tullut muutamassa vuodessa aiemmin keskimääräisiä kasiluokkalaisia, tai ehkä 7,5-luokkalaisia. Järkyttävän nopeaa yhteiskunnallista degeneraatiota, joka tapahtuu ympäri maailmaa. Kiitos Piilaakso ym. www.ft.com/content/0b38...

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ok but two things: 1. the bar isn't "helpful", its "truthful"; offering a bunch of lies with a smile isn't actually the goal here 2. people are pissed because the WH press insists on defending an ally of American fascism, not because they think you were lying about her being helpful

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Long Play @longplay.fi · 12/08/2026

Oletko kuullut, että juuri nyt on meneillään ”kaikkien aikojen suurin tieteen kriisi”? Luultavasti et, mutta sillä tavoin luonnehtivat tiedejulkaisemisen nykytilaa Tukholman julistuksen allekirjoittaneet tutkijat. www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/me...

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Meneillään on kaikkien aikojen suurin tieteen kriisi

Tekoäly räjäytti huijausten määrän käsiin, mutta juurisyyt ovat akateemisessa järjestelmässä itsessään.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Emily Wilson Writing reviews of a film that she's sad to have seen Yells at the screen Picks up her laptop Nolan's pastiche of the epic she worked to translate How does it rate? All the shallow film tropes Where do they all come from? All of Homer's richness Where did it all go wrong?

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

this is actually crazy, who is he imagining this would be a gotcha question for?

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

SOK boikottiin välittömästi. Järkyttävää AI sloppia / tekoälytauhkaa

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The far-right reactions are not the real problem. They do what they believe in. The big problem is the similar reactions from liberal democratic parties from left to right. And thát, more than anything, is the problem of the 21st century!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Google’s response to the outcry about this very dangerous new AI function is to claim “We take misinformation seriously”:

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We take misinformation seriously - every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital watermark, so if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was Al-generated. In addition, we prevent image creation on harmful topics and are continually updating our protections >
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kuinka äärioikeiston retoriikka normalisoidaan 101

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I grew up in a proper country, in which Gore Vidal had beef w everyone & Lillian Hellman sued Mary McCarthy for something MM said on the Dick Cavett Show ("every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' & 'the'"--honestly an all-timer of a burn). Srsly critics fighting is a sign of cultural health!

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

1 point I emphasize in my classes is that the ancient city of Rome for centuries had 6 aqueducts. Only 4 were necessary to supply enough drinking water for the ~1 mill pop. In rotation, 1 would be under repair & 1 was extra (used for other water purposes) in case of breakage. Redundancy saves lives!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The number of films these days that feel like they should be a joke in the set dressing of another movie.

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Jussin perusteltu mielipide vastaa hyvin pitkälle omaa mielipidettäni. Nolanin Odysseiassa Matt Damonin Odysseus katsoo kameraan erilaisissa hengettömissä maisemissa, jumalat on unohdettu ja loppumäihintä Batmania. Loppuratkaisu on Oppenheimer 2.0, mutta jää perustelematta lähes täysin.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/07/2026

"why are so many parts of the electorate voting against their best self interests," highly paid polling and political journalists will openly ponder without once looking at media propaganda

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/07/2026

any random day you could pluck any number of political and polling journalism pieces off the newswires and not find a SINGLE ONE that points out the U.S. electorate's news and information diet predominately now consists of right wing agitprop, infotainment, and raw sewage

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disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's pretty easy to get around disaster like this if you just don't use AI

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Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A useful rule of thumb when it comes to political discourse is that American media will always be 18 months behind the curve over trends in Europe while European media will always be 18 months behind the curve of trends in America

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

That with the partial exception of Huang the Silicon Valley elite seems unable to make a case for AI that tackles inequality and visibly improves everyday life is fueling levels of local rejection in America and Europe that risk disrupting the US tech sector more than anything Beijing comes up with

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Tein tauon jälkeen taas haastattelun. Vincenzo Latronicon mukaan ”ruoho on aina ollut vihreämpää aidan toisella puolella, mutta nyt kaikki on ruohoa”. Elämän optimointi on siis edennyt kaikille osa-alueille.

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Sukupolviromaanin kirjoittanut Vincenzo Latronico puhuisi mieluummin luokista

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Long Play @longplay.fi · 17/06/2026

”Tässä elokuva-alan taloudellisessa tilanteessa on kansalaisvelvollisuus tehdä niin omaa ja omituista kuin vain voi. Hävettävimmät ideat ovat omimpia”, sanoo käsikirjoittaja Ilja Rautsi. www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/il...

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Ilja Rautsi kirjoittaa elokuvia, jollaisia ei Suomessa aiemmin ole tehty

Mikä on Long Play ja miten se toimii?

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Things are going on in New York right that people may not understand for thousands of years

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"

As Bilton started to say he would "defer," Pelley interrupted: "This is not the crowd to dodge."

Bilton insisted he was not dodging.

"Nobody talked to you about that?" Pelley continued, pressing him on the firing. "They're taking one of your correspondents away and nobody mentioned to you what was wrong with Sharyn?"

Bilton acknowledged that he "had conversations with people."

"And what came out of those conversations?" Pelley asked. "They are private conversations?"

Bilton reiterated that he "did not fire" Alfonsi or Vega. Pelley pointed out that Bilton had nonetheless discussed the matter with others. Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being "rude."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," Pelley replied.

"Anybody came into our house—this is '60 Minutes,'" Pelley added. "I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Pelley then asked Bilton "what was wrong with" Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of "60 Minutes" who was fired on Thursday.

Bilton again said that he did not fire Mihailovich. Forelle one more told Pelley that he was being "rude."

Pelley did not let up, however. The veteran newsman told Bilton and Forelle that the way management handled the firings was "cruel." Forelle—yet again—responded by calling Pelley "rude."

"I'm not being rude," Pelley shot back. "I have some pretty—you know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock. Sending Draggan Mihailovich to HR to get fired, because nobody could look him in the eye. Not talking about Tanya's contract. Not talking about Sharyn Alfonsi's contract. Not talking about Cecilia Vega's contract. Just calling them up and telling they were fired. That's rude. This is a conversation. That is rude, and you were part of that."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/06/2026

this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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Long Play @longplay.fi · 28/05/2026

Mitä tekoäly tarkoittaa riippumattomalle, toimittajien omistamalle medialle, jonka menestys nojaa yleisön luottamukseen? Julkaisimme tänään tekoälyperiaatteemme. www.longplay.fi/lyhyet/long-...

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Long Playn tekoälyperiaatteet

Mikä on Long Play ja miten se toimii?

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of the things that makes me the most fearful for the health of our democracy is this bizarre behavior by the press in twisting stories to make Trump's activities fit within normal frameworks that are completely inappropriate for the circumstances.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17/05/2026

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/05/2026

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Oli harhadrooni Uudellamaalla todellinen tahi ei, pelkkä uhka on itse asiassa hyvä uutinen: se kertoo, miten hyvin Ukrainalla sodassa menee ja että Venäjä on häviämässä

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Long Play @longplay.fi · 11/05/2026

Long Playn automaattisesti uusiutuvat tilaukset voi maksaa nyt myös MobilePaylla. Vain 5,90 € kuukaudessa eli hieman enemmän kuin kuppi kahvia. Tee tilaus osoitteessa longplay.fi/tilaa ja tuet riippumatonta laatujournalismia.

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

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Current AI custom prompt:

You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can.

Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 05/05/2026

Every journalist on earth is just a foot soldier in a weird psychosexual argument between six rich people at an orgy.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/04/2026

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

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Pekka Torvinen @torvinenp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

USA:ssa julkinen mielipide on jo kääntynyt datakeskuksia vastaan, ja useassa osavaltiossa aiotaan kieltää keskusten rakentaminen kokonaan (Maine ensimmäisenä). Jos rakentaminen alkaa Suomessa rikkoa sähkömarkkinoita, näen jo, miten datakeskuksia aletaan vandalisoimaan ja tuikkaamaan tuleen

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Sähkö | Onko Suomi tehnyt ison virheen? Orpo väistää Siilasmaan datakeskussyytöksen

Pääministeri sanoo olevansa edelleen sitä mieltä, että datakeskukset ovat investointeja, joita Suomen kannattaa edistää.

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