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Egan Richardson
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Posting about Finnish news and hoping for more swfc content here
The Finns Party has a new enemy: the English language. According to vice-chair Teemu Keskisarjan, that is
Voi vain ihailla sitä tarmoa ja päättäväisyyttä, jolla ps tunnistaa ja käy päättäväise ratkomaan yhteiskunnan kaikkein olennaisempia, tähdellisimpiä ja visaisimpia haasteita:

"Keskisarja HBL:lle: Perussuomalaisten "uusi vihollinen" on[kin] englanti"
Politiikka | Keskisarja HBL:lle: Perussuomalaisten "uusi vihollinen" on englanti
Perussuomalaiset on muuttamassa kielipolitiikkaansa. Ruotsin kielen asema muuttuu ja vihollinen on nyt englanti, kertoo HBL.
www.hs.fi
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Weather forecast in Finland: “We may see the sun this week.” Maybe on Thursday.
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Glasgow is lovely, but I'm surprised at how many public bodies are telling people to look at the Nazi hate platform/everything app
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Just chuffin’ brilliant #chansirigetoutofourclub
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows reut.rs/4qkIfvx
AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC.
reut.rs
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Is this the "Nordic model"
”En kommentoi tuohon yhtään mitään”

Poliisi käyttää merkittävää julkista valtaa, joten jo epäilyissä olisi syytä harkita nimen julkaisemista. Uhreja voi olla enemmänkin

Ja johdon kommentoimattomuus on arveluttavaa. Avoimuus ja läpinäkyvyys ovat luottamustekijöitä, joita poliisi ei näytä käyttävän.
Ylen tiedot: Poliisimiehen epäillään raiskanneen tutkinnan kohteena olleen naisen Helsingin poliisilaitoksen tiloissa
Ylen tietojen mukaan rikoksesta epäilty poliisimies otettiin kiinni elokuussa kesken työpäivän työpaikaltaan Helsingin poliisilaitokselta. Mies on irtisanottu.
yle.fi
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just incredible
no excuse for being this bad
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Logically, the author of this Times piece is proposing forced deportation of one million migrants.
The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

archive.ph/TFZY9
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Fun fact: Right now, Finland would massively benefit from an EU short-term unemployment reinsurance scheme, as proposed during the euro crisis (www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-... ) but never implemented due to the reluctance of "frugal" member states like Finland.
Pitääkö Suomessa alkaa puhumaan jo lamasta? Työttömyysasteen trendi rikkoin 10 %:n maagisen raja, joka viimeksi rikottu 1990-luvun laman yhteydessä! Asuntohinnat jo laskeneet selvästi. Euroopassa työttömyys ennätysalhaista, joten Orpon hallitus itse aiheuttanut tämän laman.
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Yes, one of the areas I worry a lot about in the cyber risk space. In many cases the “checking rigorously” stage will end up taking almost as long as the previous approach but that’s not what management have been promised so there’ll be a *lot* of pressure to speed up those checks
My secondary concern about this stuff is that it makes me worry that the various ways generative AI can save time and improve efficiency are in practice quite dangerous, because 'this turns an hour long task to a five minute one you have to check rigorously' really dependents on 'check rigorously'.
Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.

tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I don't want to chuck these very sour apples away, but they seem completely inedible. Any ideas what I could do with them?
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It is pretty bad! But surely Mandelson was appointed not because anyone imagined he was a figure of great probity but because he was connected to Trump’s circle, a group which for a long time included Epstein. And sacking him now might look like a rebuke to Trump. What a pickle!
Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t.

That’s…not a sustainable position.
September 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Nothing to worry about, I'm sure
Breaking news: Pentagon officials last week informed European diplomats that the US would no longer fund programmes that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. on.ft.com/4mNocUo
September 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What is this nonsense, why is she bragging about bunting
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white.

*Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
September 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Biden's WH aided and abetted Stage 1 of Gaza genocide: siege, displacement, killing of at least 50k people (over 80% of them civilians), and obliteration of infrastructure.

The Trump WH has aided and abetted Stage 2: starvation, mass destruction of Palestinian cities, preparation for expulsion.
August 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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A great many more people protested the plight of Sheffield Wednesday this month than have attended any protest against asylum hotels

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sheffield Wednesday fans hold Chansiri protest ahead of home game
Fans want owner Dejphon Chansiri to sell the club following a turbulent time.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Trump calls Alex Stubb (57) "very young".
Which must have been nice for Macron (47) and Meloni (48)
August 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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a portrait of the worst and stupidest people alive today. you are welcome:

on.ft.com/4mtItOd
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
on.ft.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Even if you don't care about human suffering, it is bad strategy to arm yourself against Russia with Israeli weapons. A brief explanation follows in the thread.

Unfortunately, #Finland did so. Which is one reason our government is so shamefully reluctant to criticize Israel's behavior.
August 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Absolutely incredible scenes in Italy over the (formerly BBC) Good Food website's cacio e pepe recipe

British ambassador contacted, Italian journalists seething

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM