Mika Meskanen
@Mesq
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London via Berlin via Helsinki
Joined April 2008
Leviathan Falls dropped at midnight! What a treat to tune into zeitgeist and unfold the conclusion to #TheExpanse in sync with thousands of #ScreamingFirehawks 🙏 @jamessacorey 🚀
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🔴 BREAKING Sauna culture in #Finland🇫🇮 has been inscribed on the #IntangibleHeritage list. Congratulations! 👏 ℹ️ https://t.co/jOwPtEQcfW
#LivingHeritage
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The AI expected humans to always use pedestrian crossings 😢 As someone said at Joint Futures, when you design a car, you design the car crash as well
theregister.com
The last thing we need right now is a rise in ignorant cyber-Judge Dredds
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Totally enjoying the Joint Futures conference in Helsinki. Thanks to YLE, It’s also streamed live worldwide https://t.co/tCYhG6R3uL
#jointfutures #holisticdesign
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There’s been a lot of talk about trust in AI, so I asked an AI what it associates trust with. #morethanhuman
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“The two big parties wanted these elections to be about bins, not Brexit. Fat chance.”
news.sky.com
The big parties wanted the elections to be about bins, not Brexit - but Brexit has dominated UK politics for three years.
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@SadiqKhan Wow. “Business as usual” is what’s killing our planet. Sorry but an existential threat to the human race outweighs the inconvenience of driving around a protest. If anything, we need more civil disobedience ✊
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I wrote a piece about traveling to Finland & taking sixteen saunas in four days. The Hot Room will learn you.
gq.com
Sweating it out in a sauna is really good for you, yes. But that's not the only appeal. There's some deep human need that it satisfies. What is that exactly? We sent the novelist Reif Larsen to...
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Great collection of all those (cynical?) psychological hooks that make you buy things (that you may or may not need)
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Too bad Newton Mail is shutting down. Tried it, but it just wasn't worth $9.99/month to me
theverge.com
How many good third-party email apps must this cruel world take?
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I had already dropped the Kindle app in favour of iBooks because the latter offered vertical scrolling, which I feel is more natural than page flipping on a phone
teleread.org
Update: Vertical scrolling is now available on the Kindle app for Android. iPad and iPhone owners using recent versions of iOS can now scroll through Kindle books, not just turn pages. Props to Ama…
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If physical immortality were commercially available, would that change attitudes towards sustainability, climate apocalypse etc.
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Political roadmap of Star Trek or Culture style techno-utopia?
versobooks.com
Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism...
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Refreshingly honest account of (of failure and) when shoehorning a conversational UI didn’t work out
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“It's surprisingly difficult to find somebody to run over a hard drive with a steamroller” #discworld
bbc.co.uk
It is thought up to 10 incomplete novels were destroyed, as per the author's final wishes.
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You could move the time of the eclipse if you changed the calendar, which unlike the eclipse is a collectively imagined construct.
LMFAO the physics professor at CofC just DRAGGED parents for asking the school to move the time of the eclipse so they can move in 😭😭😭
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I find the most useful aspect of an audiobook is the occasional mode-switch to listening when cycling etc.
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