Ville Saarinen

Interested in the combination of sociology and technology. Love to learn & build things. Helping people understand their body at @ouraring. Co-founder @lucify_.

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

“It is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us. These processes are meticulously designed to produce ignorance by circumventing individual awareness and thus eliminate any possibility of self-determination.”

https://t.co/jQvZJbT20a

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

@forssto Google Docs, I'm looking at you 🤬

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

@forssto "A direct-to-IRS e-file system is wholly redundant and is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem," said Rick Heineman, a spokesman for Intuit. "That solution will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars and especially harm the most vulnerable Americans."
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[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

RIP 😢 https://t.co/xQrBC9WRXk

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

A fantastic mobile app team at @ouraring is looking for a backend engineer. If you're interested in working on features that reach users of Oura's million+ sold rings, don't hesitate to reach out—I'm happy to tell more!

https://t.co/yz6LgNcOjn

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/wbGqXD89Ja

[♏️ℹ️ⓔⓂ️🅾️ ⏩️ @[email protected] @miemo]

DON'T SAY "BLOG" IF YOU MEAN A "BLOG POST"!!!

[saharan / さはら @shr_id]

Life Universe https://t.co/DLCTLNTqII

Explore the infinitely recursive universe of Game of Life! Works in real-time and is perfectly consistent, never fails to remember where you are and where you came from.

無限に再帰するライフゲームの宇宙を探索できる作品を作りました #indiedev

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

@johanneskoponen That's how the current system works, sure. And it works very well at the moment (and will only get even better!).
But because the facts/"facts" are coming from a black box, what prevents a bad actor from modifying these facts as they see fit once they own mindshare?

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

One scary aspect of replacing Google et al. with something like ChatGPT for answers: there are no references or sources. You just have to trust the answer.

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

@forssto Are those...marshmallows?!

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

Need to try out Mastodon again. I'm @[email protected] over there.

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

@teropa ❤️ Musiikkitalon penkit

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally.

Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind:

[Bartosz Ciechanowski @BCiechanowski]

Sound – https://t.co/PnbEJdYF9L

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

@johanneskoponen 🤌

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/m3iyN1t8Ey

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

"Ask" will never leave these lips as a noun.

https://t.co/j0YAHuwrIy

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

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I had to uninstall TikTok because it was too addictive. I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up being the case.

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

Instagram’s push to clone TikTok and increase monetization has completely destroyed its main feed. Most of the content is now non sequitur TikTok-style videos and irrelevant ads.

How many times do I have to select “NO I’M NOT INTERESTED IN MOTORCYCLE REVVING VIDEOS”? 🤬

[Ville Saarinen @vsaarinen]

Not the prettiest, but the taste was pretttty nice. Round 1 of sourdough pizzas this summer. https://t.co/5LCeRRwSEA