Höveliä maahanmuuttojärjestelmäämme tervehdytetään. Kansalaisuuden ei pidä olla Tokmannin ämpärin kaltainen jakotavara, sen saajalta sopii odottaa tietoutta yhteiskunnastamme. Vastaava käytössä jo Tanskassa ja Norjassa. Oikeaan suuntaan jälkijunassa.
Uuteen järjestelmään siirryttiin, jotta katkaistaisiin ongelmallinen kytkös, jossa rahoitettavien toimintojen olemassaolo riippui pelihaitoista.
Tämä onnistuikin. Enää eivät ole Veikkauksen edunsaajat lobbaamassa suomalaisia häviämään rahapeleihin vuosi vuodelta lisää. 1/2
@SavelaJussi Mä en ole persu.
Eikä minua kiinnosta sun tai kenenkään kulttuurisota.
Mut mua kiinnostaa ihan helvetisti, mihin maata rakentavien ja työssäkäyvien, varsinkin nuoremman polven, rahat nyysitään nyt ja tulevaisuudessa. Myös korruption karsiminen kiinnostaa.
If Britain starts restricting VPNs, we'll be joining an exclusive club that includes China, Russia and Iran.
How did the country that gave the world the magna carta end up aligning our internet controls with authoritarian states?
Kannattaisi median käydä läpi miten ja mitkä järjestöt saivat 2019-2023 lisää Stea-rahaa ja muita valtion tukia. Ei ne Rinne-Marin hallituksen päätökset olleet politiikasta vapaita. #stea#okm#ykkösaamu
🇬🇧 The UK is banning social media for under-16s
To actually enforce it, EVERYONE will have to prove their age using IDs or face scans.
Naturally, people are freaking out. This is a total hit to free speech and a sneaky way for the government to kill online anonymity. @ElonMusk even called it a "wolf in sheep’s clothing," claiming the real goal is just mass surveillance.
Governments say they're just trying to protect kids from online harms, but in practice a "ban for kids" really just means a "papers, please" digital ID check for adults..
Protection or surveillance? One's just the excuse for the other.
Source: NBC News / Writer: Daniyal, Oliver
Elon Musk explains why Starlink is basically unbreakable
“There are over 10,225 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit right now, moving at 25 times the speed of sound, Zipping around the Earth at ~550 km altitude
Because they’re so close, latency is extremely low unlike old-school geostationary satellites at 36,000 km.
They’re all interconnected with laser links, forming a giant laser mesh network in space
Even if fiber cables get cut on the ground, Starlink keeps working perfectly
High-speed internet anywhere on Earth no matter what happens below”
Lienee lähes ennenkuulumatonta, että perustuslakivaliokunta antaa näin vakavan palautteen. Lainaus:
”Yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutetun "itsenäinen ja riippumaton" asema ei merkitse sitä, että yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutettu ei olisi sidottu perustuslakiin ja muuhun oikeusjärjestykseen.”
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”[Perustuslaki] edellyttää, että yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutettu pysyy toiminnassaan sille laissa säädettyjen tehtävien ja toimivaltuuksien rajojen sisällä. Perustuslakivaliokunta kiinnittää hyvin vakavaa huomiota myös tähän seikkaan.”
Asian vakavuuteen nähden ihmettelen, että toistaiseksi vain Iltalehti näyttää uutisoineen lausunnosta. Eikö oikeusvaltioperiaate kiinnostakaan mediaa?
Koko lausunto: https://t.co/8gjKyoLYZS
Pirkanmaan jätehuollon uusi nimi Renyy aiheuttaa pulinaa keskustelupalstoilla. Pohditaan eikö voitu keksiä toiminta-aluetta ja toimintaa paremmin kuvaavaa nimeä.
@AlankoTuulia Miten ihmeessä paikallisjärjestöjen vapaaehtoiset voi tehdä kohtaavaa työtä vähäosaisten parissa, jos kattojärjestön hallitus ei saa verorahoista maksettua kunnonllista korvausta?
Hyvinvointivaltio on vaakalaudalla!
Hienoa! Suunnat oikeat! Kärkitaistelussa jokaisessa gallupissa ero kaventunut! @Demarit ja @Kokoomus käynee tiukan pääministerivaalin? Ja takana @persut ja @keskusta tasoissa. Sielläkin kisasta tiukka ja kampanja ja näkyvyys ratkaisee? @vasemmisto liiton nousu jatkuu. #hsgallup
Costco is one of the only companies in the world that will lower prices on an item if inflation goes down on that item.
The vast majority of companies will just keep prices the same and pocket the savings.
In 1899, an American psychologist predicted that if schools kept training children to memorize instead of think, an entire civilization could grow up unable to make a single original judgment, and he wrote that sentence 75 years before the smartphone existed.
His name was William James. The book is called Talks to Teachers on Psychology.
He is the father of American psychology. He invented pragmatism, the only major philosophical movement America has ever produced. He wrote the most comprehensive study of human consciousness in the 19th century. His name appears almost nowhere in popular culture.
That gap should bother you.
Here is what he actually figured out, and why it still matters more than most things published this year.
James had earned his medical degree from Harvard by 1869, but could not practice. He spent three years barely leaving his bed, paralyzed by depression and panic attacks so severe he considered suicide. The question breaking him was not clinical. It was philosophical. He believed, from everything science had shown him, that free will did not exist. That every choice a person made was just a mechanical outcome of prior causes. That trying was an illusion.
In April 1870, he read a single essay by a French philosopher named Charles Renouvier. He wrote in his journal that same night: "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."
He got out of bed. He went to Harvard. He built the field.
By 1890, after twelve years of work, he published The Principles of Psychology. All 1,400 pages of it. It introduced the stream of consciousness the idea that thought is not a series of snapshots but a continuous flowing river, always moving, never repeating itself exactly. It introduced the modern scientific understanding of habit. It introduced the concept of attention as a moral act, something you chose to direct rather than something that simply happened to you.
The habit chapter is the one that should have ended the self-help industry before it started.
James argued that the brain is physically reshaped by repeated action. Every time you run a behaviour, the neural pathway behind it gets carved a little deeper. Eventually it runs automatically, without conscious effort. This is not a metaphor. He was describing what neuroscientists now confirm with brain imaging: behaviour rewires structure. He wrote this without a single fMRI machine, using only clinical observation and his own mind.
His line on habit is the one nobody quotes correctly: "Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent." He meant that most of what people do in a day, a year, a life, runs on autopilot. The question is whether you set the autopilot deliberately or let it get set by accident.
Then came the part that cost him the most to say.
In 1892, he started traveling the country giving lectures to schoolteachers. He had watched what schools were doing to children and could not stay quiet. They were training kids to receive information, repeat it back, and call that learning. No discussion of ideas. No friction. No genuine thinking. Just reception and reproduction.
He said this would produce a generation capable of holding facts and incapable of using them.
He was describing our current moment. In 1899.
His two maxims for teachers were the opposite of everything schools practiced: "No reception without reaction. No impression without expression." His argument was simple. An idea that passes through a student's mind without being applied, argued, or connected to something real does not become knowledge. It becomes noise that fades within days.
Every study on learning retention published in the last forty years has confirmed this. He had the principle correct a century earlier and nobody listened.
James died in 1910. He never owned a car. He never used a telephone regularly. He had no idea what a feed algorithm was.
But the civilization he warned about is the one you are looking at right now.
The most important things he wrote are free on Project Gutenberg. Most people will never read them. Most people prefer the summary.
Which is, as James would have pointed out, precisely the problem.
Jos/kun julkisesti rahoitetut järjestöt ovat oleellinen osa hyvinvointiyhteiskunnan toimintaa, miten ihmeessä ne toiminnot eivät ole viranomaisten hallinnassa, vaan omissa läpinäkymättömissä "siiloissaan" suojautumassa kriittiseltä tarkastelulta ja poliittiselta päätöksenteolta?