Fredrik Sirén

Digitalist / Entrpreneur / Business Coach @ Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@dukeofbooze @cbcwatcher Yeah, Canada could annex USA, Everyone would be better off. 🤣😇

[Harri Ohra-aho @Ohra_aho]

Republikaanisenaattori Lindsey Graham on esittänyt, että Suomeen tarvittaisiin sotilasliitto Naton osaamiskeskus, jossa keskityttäisiin tekoälyyn ja kvanttilaskentaan. Hänen mielestään Suomi olisi täydellinen isäntäpaikka keskukselle, joka varmistaisi, että Nato on kilpailukykyinen tekoälykilpailussa, minkä lisäksi täällä tehtävä kvanttilaskenta voisi hyödyttää Natoa.

Mitä nämä osaamiskeskukset sitten ovat?
1. Niiden päätehtävä on kehittää ja levittää parhaita käytäntöjä, tehdä tutkimusta ja analyysiä sekä tarjota koulutusta. Ne toimivat siis tiedon ja innovaation keskuksina.
2. Ne ovat monikansallisia ja rahoitus tulee sponsoroivista (osallistuvista) maista. Isäntämaa fasilitoi.
3. Ne toimivat itsenäisesti, eivät siis ole osa NATOn komentorakennetta, mutta niiden työ tukee liittouman strategisia tavoitteita.
4. Tulevaisuudessa niiden merkitys kasvaa uusien turvallisuushaasteiden, kuten kyberuhkien ja ilmastonmuutoksen, myötä. Samalla niiden on kuitenkin pysyttävä mukautuvina ja relevantteina.

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@Yrtithepreaa https://t.co/xeZBtFPk1k

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@mikkikauste Täytyy sanoa että oli paras keikka missä olen ollut vuosiin. Tunnelma oli maaginen. Kiitos!

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@jyri_keranen @Egotrippi_1993 Juu, kiinnostusta on. Voitko laittaa yv:n? En saa laitettua sinulle viestiä.

[Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine @CinC_AFU]

The time has come to take back what belongs to us.

[Iltalehti @iltalehti_fi]

Video alaikäisen pahoinpitelystä leviää sosiaalisessa mediassa – Poliisi: ”Älä jaa videota eteenpäin” https://t.co/mWAp0OP4ti

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

One reminder for last night: when Trump’s audience was giggling and clapping as he joked about sexual assault and threw out his various races tropes, it’s proof that Trump’s real superpower with his base is that he allows them to be their very worst selves without guilt or shame.

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

😆🤣

[Peter Öhman @stakmaskin]

Finska krav för att släppa in Sverige i Nato:
Sverige får aldrig ha ett artilleri mindre än 20 % av finskt.
Alla hockeymatcher spelas 5 mot 4 i första period.
Rackamakkafoner är de enda makkafoner som får säljas i Sverige.
Minttu ska finns som alternativ på midsommar #föpol #NATO

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@teroterotero I respectfully disagree. I do love the style of Wes Anderson. To each his own!

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

Go Sako!

[Försvarsmakten @Forsvarsmakten]

Nu är det klart. Finska tillverkaren Sako får uppdraget att ersätta Försvarsmaktens nuvarande automatkarbiner (AK 4 och AK 5). #svfm https://t.co/TTyCPlbMRS

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

The late great Douglas Adams tells one of the all-time greatest stories

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

New music! (for me) Wow! #maggierogers

[Andrew Machado @machado]

@codybrown @bpoppenheimer Saw her last week in SF.

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@PToveri Lisäksi ihan Infosecin kannalta olisi varmaan parempi että käskyt ovat mahdollisimman lyhyitä. Uskon että meillä Suomessa luottamus molempiin suuntiin on paras tie.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Why are far-right 'influencers' suddenly claiming, against all evidence, that the Ukraine war is a fake? They can't really be that stupid, can they? Indeed, they're not – it's cynical manipulation, not stupidity. Here's what's going on.

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@jojalonen Well written, thank you! Kiitos hyvästä kirjoituksesta, itse olen jonkin verran näitä myös lukenut mutta osasit erinomaisesti pukea, myös omat ajatukseni, sanoiksi. Kiitos!

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@JuliaLehtinen1 Onnea! RUK-210

[Fredrik Sirén @fried1409]

@teroterotero Apparently no link to quote. Fake?