Jussi Pasanen
A designer who would like to ensure that there remains a liveable world for our kids to enjoy
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- ❌ Payment instrument ❌ Store of value ❌ Inflation hedge ❌ Digital gold ❌ Diversifier ✅ Digital collectible ✅ Speculative toy www.ft.com/content/f018...
- Heated: 'The Washington Post’s climate team has been one of the most important forces in American climate journalism over the last several years. And now, Jeff Bezos has decimated it.' www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/cp/186917380
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenFinland's jobless rate was slightly higher than Spain's last month, with Sweden third with a considerably lower rate.
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenIt's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenPeter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenI know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Here's iguanas on climate breakdown
- Reposted by Jussi Pasanen“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenGive it up for your trillion dollar hype bubble, ladies & gentlemen!
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- ‘Collapse is coming. Driven by AI, data centers, bitcoin, greed. All the devouring mining, the relentless toxic waste. And ‘great’ men’s fragile egos and insatiable need to dominate. What will we leave those who must come after us?’ gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-d...
- Your infrastructure under climate breakdown– 'An aerial view shows houses perched along the edge of a cliff after a landslide in Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, on January 27, 2026.' by Danilo Arnone / Reuters
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- 'Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection.'
- The entire industrial civilisation is planned,built and run on statistics and averages.But statistics and averages do not hold well when the proportion of tail events explodes– 'The nature of discontinuity,though,is that what was true before becomes a poor guide for making decisions in the present'
- NEW: When it comes to climate foresight, the small stuff really adds up. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/things-fal...
- 'None of this is evenly (much less fairly¹) distributed. The risks of huge disasters differ from place to place, but so to does exposure to brittleness. Even in a world tumbling over planetary thresholds, some places and systems will do better than others.' "Better" meaning "less worse"
- NEW: When it comes to climate foresight, the small stuff really adds up. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/things-fal...
- 'Climate chaos is already making us poorer. We're just pretending it's not.'
- People who never paid attention to climate before are now suddenly telling us "no place is safe" from climate chaos. What they really mean is "don't compare the risks facing different places — because our brittle investments will lose value if you do." alexsteffen.substack.com/p/why-do-som...
- ‘So what, right? Of course, Australian summers can be brutal. We’ve been here many times over. Rinse and repeat. Well, no. We know there is something bigger going on here.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jussi Pasanen"Our goal should not be to make fascist or Nazi apply to Trump’s movement..." But please read the whole text. A very good argument from @gruber.foo, and as always very well written (I've been a happy Daring Fireball reader since – shameless brag – at least 2004).
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenThe Doomsday Clock is now 85 seconds to midnight. In our response to the @thebulletin.org announcement, we reflect how new forms of global cooperation are essential for navigating today’s risks and how meaningful progress is still possible. Read the full response below ⬇️ bit.ly/49KSNOC
- ‘The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists … statement cited expiring nuclear treaties, climate change,and AI and disinformation as among the major threats which have worsened in the past year.’ news.uchicago.edu/story/doomsd...
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- Reposted by Jussi Pasanennow hold on just one minute. when I signed on to work for a creepy right-wing surveillance company named after seeing stones used by the dark lord Sauron to manipulate and control others in an attempt to enslave the free people of middle earth I had no idea we might do some evil.
- More: “I’ve read stories of folks rounded up who were seeking asylum with no order to leave the country, no criminal record, and consistently check in with authorities. Literally no reason to be rounded up. Surely we aren’t helping do that?” www.wired.com/story/palant...
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- Good. But never trust pledges.
- Reposted by Jussi Pasaneni have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
- ‘It tells us that “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” This presents a threat to “UK national security and prosperity”.’
- This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by Jussi PasanenThis photo, passed on by a friend, was taken in Denmark. It prompts me to resurrect the #extremecivilisation hashtag, used to describe the manufacture of things no one needs. What are these? Snowball makers.
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenPeter Broelman Canberra Times
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenIgnorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Yes, Rupert www.wsj.com/opinion/than...
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenEverything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.
- 'A term to know in this world with AI: Cultural stagnation. It’s the slow flattening of creativity into polished sameness. AI … mostly remembers the ones it sees the most. So when it makes new things, it keeps making very similar stuff again and again.' theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
- Never trust pledges 'The Trump administration said it’s canceling almost $30 billion of financing from the Energy Department’s green bank after reviewing transactions approved under former President Biden.' www.latimes.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenBoard of Peace - Season 1
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- Reposted by Jussi PasanenMore than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science go.nature.com/4sTPWdp
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- "Would you have a moment to discuss Foucault's Boomerang?"
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenJust staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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- Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses 'More than 500 people reported being injured–including 17 seriously–in crashes while riding or being hit by a hired e-scooter during Melbourne’s controversial 2.5 year experiment with…Lime & Neuron.' www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
- Reposted by Jussi Pasanenin case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
- The water will come & The water will run out www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jussi Pasanen1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
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- The long tail of the pyrocene
- It’s always been more about what we must stop doing, rather than yet more things to start doing
- For every $1 spent protecting nature, $30 goes to destroying it - @unep.org report calls for major shift towards solutions that help the natural world – and support the economy at the same time news.un.org/en/story/202...
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenMasterpiece of a headline
- Creating a ‘pipeline of future users’ is what drug pushers do
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- Reposted by Jussi PasanenWe’ve spent years trying to fact-check our way out of this, and it failed. Democratic decay isn’t about bad information versus good information, it’s about the collapse of the systems that turn information into reality. If every bot and Russian troll vanished tomorrow, the rot would still be there.
- This is wild www.threads.com/@jeushua_/po...
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenImagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenThis is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenDelicious to me
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- Reposted by Jussi PasanenWe set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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- Rage against the systems behind the collapse
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenPeople often talk about the "loss of trust" in institutions, but that's like a doctor telling you you're sick because you lack wellness. It says nothing of the underlying condition, just a vague definition of the symptoms.
- Apple "Proactive Intelligence": ✅ Proactive ❌ Intelligent (This is a spam SMS from an unknown number)
- A sad episode: ‘There are already funerals for them [glaciers]. A new study finds peak glacial extinction is coming in the next few decades, depending on how hot and how fast we force the climate.’ podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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- We were promised a bicycle for the mind Instead, we got a pogo stick
- Product innovation a century ago vs now
- Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jussi PasanenYou cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
- Plus, apparently ‘data harvesting’ is to be called ‘human fracking’ henceforth – quite the image www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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