Matias Koivurova reposted
Matias Koivurova
Matias Koivurova
@mkoivurova.bsky.social
Husband, father of two, and a smashing cat servant from 🇫🇮 PhD, Docent, Asst. Prof., working on light, relativity and quantum 🧪💡 Climate change is real Vaccines work Earth is not flat Trump is a dangerous dumbass Elon too
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Microsoft saying the quiet part out loud
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
Well damn. I wonder where that earlier graph came from?
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
This is what everybody with half a brain cell knew already knew, but proof is always nice: the rise of the far-right is entirely driven by Russians operating massive bot farms in Yandex data centers. Ukraine can go head and blow them all up!
Cloudflare Data Explorer shows the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center.
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🍂 As autumn arrives and flu season approaches, vaccines need to stay protected from the moment they are made to the moment they are used. Vincenzo Cerullo of @helsinki.fi developed a wood-based coating that keeps vaccines stable for months at temperatures up to 40°C. 🔗 buff.ly/TqmicTX
Comet in Moomiland. It is unexpectedly inetense, there are giant carnivorous plants, a fierce monster, and a perilous journey to confirm that a comet is going to crash into Moominland, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Real end of the world vibes 😅
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
Google made a deal for land in a small municipality called Muhos. There was a forest, which had to be cut down. They applied for a permit to cut it (as the law requires) and didn't get it. They cut the forest down *anyway*. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
Now people are turning against Google. Google is showing the world that they don't care about rules, since they have so much money that they can just pay the fines and do whatever they want. Btw, Google still has the phrase "don't be evil" in their code of conduct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t...
Context: Google is investing 13 billion "in Finland" by building LLM data centers. 10 billion of that will go to hardware, whicj is not made in Finland. About 3 billion will go to construction. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
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I was IQ tested back in the army to assess my "leadership potential" and I intentionally answered about half of the questions wrong for shits and giggles. My personal file probably still says that I have an IQ equivalent to a sponge
I was IQ tested when I was a kid and rode that high until Briggs-Myers tests came into vogue and then I reveled in being an INTP and now I recognize that both are basically the nerd equivalents of zodiac signs, but then that's a very Taurus thing to say, isn't it
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Physicist: Assume a cup placed in a gaseous atmosphere, which contains a liquid held down by gravity. The fluid content of the glass is always 100%, since gases expand to fill their entire container and from a wave mechanical perspec-
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Excel: The cup is January 2nd.
Matias Koivurova reposted
chapter 0 of my comic MISERI MACHINA is now available to read for free on my site! it's been a labour of love that i've worked on for some time, so please check it out! // #MISERIMACHINA read it here!>> koyorin.com/miseri
Let me get this straight: *Finland* has no official stance on the border crisis in Ceuta. Just a few reactionary far-right assholes have been yelling from the bushes. en.hespress.com/142942-finla...