Paul Jonker-Hoffrén

Paul Jonker-Hoffrén

@pjonkerhoffren.bsky.social

Sociologist, circular economy, work, industrial relations. Reality-based citizen. Helsinki University #NodeWork ORCID: 0000-0001-5769-8372

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Replying to @kbneal.bsky.social

Yes, 1898 for asbestos!

> The earliest account of [the hazards of] asbestos was provided by Lucy Deane [in 1898], one of the first Women Inspectors of Factories in the UK. [T]hese laywomen might not have been categorised as [experts] but they were competent observers [& t]heir reports were not refuted but simply ignored.

There is one thing that I don't understand (well, many ofc). Again studies show that there might be a) a tiny black hole or b) a dwarf planet beyond Pluto. I just can't fathom that we CAN observe galaxies from just after the big bang but not Planet X. Why? #astronomy

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MOVIE TRAILER: Crying Baby, Dancing Bee, 12min., Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHp5... Watch the ARTISTS Film Festival: www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-... A spoke hand drawn journey through Fiatlandia with Buzzbee a creature half bee, half human. They call her the African Bitcoin Queen #wildsound

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Can it be really true, as the WSJ wrote, that Viktor Órban could become the next Secretary-General of the UN? That would be extremely weird and it signals that we are maybe at the same point where the League of Nations ended: no respect for international law, only Realpolitik.

And yes, this is also the fault of the EU and the US, who have applied international law only when it is in their interests - anti-China tarriffs, not denouncing Israel (or holding it accountable) etc.

VM alkaa olla vähän out of touch.

Solja Pistol@soljapistol.bsky.social

MItä tuubaa Niemelältä ja VM:ltä, meinaa pää räjähtää! "Todella nerokasta" ajaa Suomi tilaan, jossa oltiin viimeksi joskus WW2:n jälkeen. "Lapsilisän lakkauttaminen vähentäisi kotitalouksien käytettävissä olevia tuloja, mikä taas kasvattaisi työvoiman tarjontaa." www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/a/a8...

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Turning internet into an inferno of billions of AI swarms relentlessly trying to bring down hospitals and banks does seem like the most solid revenue generator these people have come up with.

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Vietnam is suppressing independent trade unions and the right to organize. By enabling artificially low labor costs, Vietnamese companies are allowed unfair trade advantages. As To Lam visits the EU, trading partners need to make one thing clear: broken pledges will carry consequences. Read more:

hrw.orgVietnam: Independent Trade Unions SuppressedThe Vietnamese government is systematically suppressing the rights of workers to organize independent unions.

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Me ihmiset teemme talouden. Jos joku päättää leikata menoista, leikkaa hän jonkun tuloista. Leikkausten takia vähemmän tuloja taloudessa, joka edelleen heikentää taloutta. Yksinkertaistus, toki. Mutta säästämällä ei taloutta voi korjata. #arkikehu austerityn vastustajille

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Eurooppa tarvitsee (aito)keynesiläisyyttä enemmän kuin koskaan, eikä sitä ole tätä BSKY-tiliä enempää saatavilla. #talous #politiikka #yhteiskunta

Given that Nigeria is not a neighbor of DRC, this is worrying. Especially if it somehow gets to the cities (probably it got there by plane).

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

🇳🇬 Nigerians 'alarmed' at first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak Nigerians respond to the news that the country has identified its first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.

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Uusimassa RTP:ssä käydään Ranskan tilannetta läpi ja millaiseen synkkyyteen se saattaa euroalueen viedä. Muina teemoina Suomen uudelleen heikentynyt työllisyystilanne, taloustieteen nobelit sekä viimeisin osa vuosia eri foorumeilla jatkuneessa epämukavassa keskustelussa Markus Sovalan kanssa.

Jussi Ahokas@ahokasjaj.bsky.social

Ei pitänyt tehdä eurokriisijaksoa, mutta sellainen tästä tuli. Ranskan viime aikojen korkokurimuksesta aukesi lopulta niin paljon näkymää. Lisäksi puhuimme taloustieteen "Nobeleista", Suomen työllisyyskehityksestä sekä tilastotrumpista. Viimeinen dialogissa TK:n pääjohtaja Sovalan kanssa. #podcast

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As brilliant as the book itself is, the Preface's exposition of subject position, epistemology and disciplinarity could be a stand-alone guide for aspiring scholars. How did an urban sociologist revolutionize the history of world systems? By writing the book she wanted to read but couldn't find.

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Mitenköhän politiikan toimittajat spinnaavat kiihkomielisen puolueiden välisen leikkauskilvan tyypilliseen "kyllä vaalien alla on mukava lupailla kaikkea kivaa" -muotoon.

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We are lost.

Johannes Spohr@jspohr.bsky.social

Gedenkstätten und Aktive in der historisch-politischen Bildung setzen sich seit einer Weile verstärkt mit den Gefahren von KI auseinander. Und der Spiegel? »Chatten sie doch mal mit der Nazi-Kartei!«

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Replying to @olivia.science

When you start to see it... it's basically everywhere undergirding certain mainstream psychology and cognitive science theories. And it's so insidious and underneath so much methodological and theoretical machinery (pun intended) that we should question it much more.

I've felt for a while that a mainstream method, reverse engineering, in cognitive science & AI is incompatible w computationalism‼️ So I wrote "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering" w the wonderful Natalia S. & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social to elaborate: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/ 1/n

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I'm glad more people are openly posting this because it's so often presented as the opposite. Those who push back against "human = machine" are called dualists, Christians (as an insult), and worse in some weird "no you" attempt. It's not just here, I've seen it at conferences from philosophers!

Romain Brette@romainbrette.bsky.social

Something odd happens if you argue that the concept of machine is not well fit to describe living systems. Often, the response is not just that it's wrong: it's heretic (vitalism!). What this says is that the machine view of life is more a modern crypto-Christian belief than a scientific theory.

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Julkisoikeuden professori Tomi Voutilainen tyrmää kieltäytymisen syyt. ”Ei ole kestävällä pohjalla tämä valtioneuvoston kanslian ajatuksenjuoksu, että pääministerille pääministerin ominaisuudessa tulevat viestit eivät olisi viranomaisen asiakirjoja”, Voutilainen kommentoi.

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Replying to @erkka.bsky.social

Toivottavasti tietosuojavaltuutettu lukee (tai siis yrittää lukea) Hesaria ja ymmärtää näkemänsä.

The deceased husband of Mary Peltola is of Finnish descent. It would be really interesting to learn about his family, and how his father came to be a tribal leader. #finland

Deborah Lynn@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social

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