New account of NoLeftLeftWhereILive.
Finnish national news is doing its wholesome “would you look at our great defensive alliance”-posting in the English section of the news.
But they don’t forget to add a bit of ominous scare mongering:
According to the Commander of the Lapland Air Wing, Colonel Saku Joukas, the jets and their crews are prepared for anything — even though the mission is a routine one for Nato.
Some Finland news:
Incidents involving unauthorised access and damage at water towers in Finland received a lot of publicity last summer. According to Hakala, it is now quite certain that Russia was not behind these.
“Some of them are under preliminary investigation by the police, but our view is clear that there were no sabotage attempts by Russian proxies,” Hakala says.
It is likely that the water tower incidents were cases of ordinary vandalism, says USU.-
There has been frantic consent manufacturing going on to fuel the fires of war and when a garden chair gets blown over by the wind, there is wide news coverage on how Russia did it. Far smaller are these follow up stories a year later where they have to admit that Russia definitely did not do it.
I have many, because I am bad at reacting. Here is two of them.
Not sure if it counts as a self-help book, but Unmasking Autism. Also Laziness does not exist by the same author.
Solidarity
For nation building creating borders and myths about a coherent one nation within clear borders has been essential for states of all kinds during modernization. In Finland for example the area that is now called Finland was a loosely defined area of land with various peoples, cultures and languages. To start hegemonizing all these into some seemingly homogenous whole that can be rallied to fight wars or propagandized againts some dangerous Others, you need to draw a border thay defines the Other and those who belong.
Similar borders exist between most things, marginalized groups within a culture exist behind an internal border, but there is always a privileged center that is defined by what is outside it.
This is imo one reason why conservatives so hate postmodern open definitions of things, when you cannot draw a clear line in the sand between your (typically supremacist) side of a border and borders become loosely defined, the systems themselves reveal their constructed nature.
Capitalism itself could not function in its neoliberal global form without borders and they are essential to imperialism. Not to mention how they are used in dividing the working class and pitting workers against each other.
I’m not arguing for anything and did not suggest that putting things in boxes is good or bad, but that it just is what we do.
And that these models just do the same, but with more abstraction.
As a sidenote “putting things in boxes” is the very thing that itself upholds bourgeois democracies and national boundaries as well.
I think this distinction is interesting because if the product of AI is classification it is just a more abstract method of continuing to do the very thing we have been doing for a long time with other statistical methods that fragment data into sets of whatever we wish to draw boundaries to. Essentially it sounds like intensified and far more depersonalized categorizing.
Thank you for the input, I agree that they at least seem closely coupled. But on a system level these systems are different and are producing very different results.
Do we then think this could have been developed anywhere in the capitalist West just as well?
Is not the logic of what sort of things labor power is used on and what projects get implemented affected by the system a product is made in? Would this startup get funded in a capitalist country and is it based on profit as much as the ones we have here? Why is the financial grift missing from the final numbers.
Could this be considered a living example of a production difference between a system focused on profit and a system focused on use value?
I know China is participating in profit making, but the cost difference here is so gigantic that one would think this makes people see the forest from the trees so to speak.
“a red-blooded male”. 
Just Firefox here as well.
It is kind of shocking to me how the ruling class pretends it doesn’t understand what a lucrative business disability has always been and how the service sector around it is one of the remaining things keeping capitalism standing in the West.
This reads like the list of what the US advertised to be many decades ago.
I did! It’s my lunch tomorrow.
This post inspired me to make chickpea korma today, it was so good.
I think the carnivore diet grift has something to do with this. Advertisers and the meat industry probably saw an opening and here we are.
I love a tomato based lentil & veggie soup.
Chickpea curry.
And from my local foods pea soup is a favourite.
Yemista/gemista.
Related to news. The national news of Finland has taken the time out of their Russia = bad focus to tell us plebs that Rednote is bad and heavily state controlled and nobody should use it.
Seeing a status quo maintenance piece about the TikTok ban and Rednote is a great example of the vassal state status that we now occupy.
Edit. The source our state media is using on this is China Digital Times.🤡
They have a label plastered all over their newssites that claims them to be “responsible journalism”.
My partner was putting his undies in the laundry basket that is next to the toilet bowl yesterday while really having to pee and in the chaos dropped his undies in the toilet instead, the lids are sort of similar.
I just heard the “oh ffs” from the other room.
We are a neurospicy island. We had a good laugh.