Matti Minkkinen @mmin@scholar.social
#Researcher and PhD student interested in futures of #privacy, the digital transformation, #scenarios, #sociology, #philosophy and #anticipation.
Also #music.
Joined Oct 2018
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
RT @tessafyi@twitter.com
I'm obsessed with this animation of human population relative to modern nations since 10000 BCE. India grows steadily, China jumps up and down, Mexico collapses in 1500 after being 3rd largest for millennia... There's so much here! It's wild!
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
I am a sucker for vintage images of what once passed for cutting-edge culture and technology. As someone who lives in that world, these images serve as a *memento mori*, the skull on a poet's desk that signifies, "Someday, you will pass from this world, too."
1/
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
Populism or pragmatism? Two ways of understanding political articulation* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12522
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
There is some fuss about the EU Sustainable Taxonomy. With Scientists4Future (@S4F), we organised this webinar in July:
Daniel Poolen starts with a great introduction for beginners.
The discussion panel consists of 2 other experts, Mathilde Crêpy from ECOS and Andreas Hoepner, professor of operational risk, banking & finance.
NL: Een goede duiding op #Wattisduurzaam over de voorwaardelijke duurzaamheid van gas en nucleaire energie:
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
2013 - Music structure determines heart rate variability of singers - Frontiers in Psychology:
"Singing in unison of regular song structures causes singers’ hearts to simultaneously speed up and slow down... The study suggests that people who sing together tend to synchronize biologically in several respects."
I like to think on that when I play music!
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00334/full
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
"In the US, cable TV channels were found to be speeding reruns of shows like Seinfield up by small amounts to fit more ad breaks into a half hour slot."
- #ShantiMathias, 2021
https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/16-12-2021/when-you-speed-up-content-you-gain-time-but-what-do-you-lose
Here's a question I've been wondering about. Would it be possible to have “peertubers” in the same way we have YouTubers? Or does the concept of a YouTuber require a centralized commercial platform for it to make sense?
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
Technologies of Hope & Fear looks at a curated selection of 100 technologies developed in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This interactive research project allows you to explore the narratives of these pandemic products, the companies behind them https://techpandemic.theglassroom.org/
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
‘It parodies our inaction’: #DontLookUp, an allegory of the climate crisis, lauded by activists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/30/it-parodies-our-inaction-dont-look-up-an-allegory-of-the-climate-crisis-lauded-by-activists rather telling how many film critics refuse to look up...
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
@dustin I was just reminded of this:
The Cure's Disintegration was delayed due to Elite.
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
#JoinFediverseWiki is almost ready for it's official launch in 8 days.
Right now I'm gathering feedback from people who are not deep into the Fediverse yet.
What you can do to help:
* #boost this post.
* show the wiki to your non-fedizen friends and forward me their feedback.
* of course you can give me feedback yourself even if you're a Fediverse veteran.
* help edit the wiki. For now I wrote almost everything myself.
Happy holidays everybody. 🎉
I'm pretty sure that Don't Look Up is an important film about the climate crisis before seeing it. However, when reading about it, I keep reading the title as Don't Look Now, and for a split second, I wonder if someone has remade the Nicolas Roeg horror classic.
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
RIP E. O. Wilson, a giant in evolutionary biology and myrmecology, at 92. 🐜
LAT: https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-12-27/edward-o-wilson-biologist-ant-man-dead
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/science/eo-wilson-dead.html
His 1990 book with Bert Hölldobler, "The Ants", is online for free at AntWiki: https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/The_Ants
"The Trailhead" is his 2010 fiction story about an ant colony: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/01/25/trailhead
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
@rysiek we're in the "radioactive boxer shorts" era of data. By the end of the century, if we survive, they'll make infotainment videos on us like "these wankers really did think an internet-enabled toothbrush with a led screen that smiles at you is not harmful and even pretty, yuuuck".
Is it just me, or are electric scooters looking less tempting every week as winter moves on? They're still around, though, but they don't seem to be much in traffic and more.
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
#2560 Confounding Variables
You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.
https://xkcd.com/2560/
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
'90s: Information wants to be free! Heck yeah I would DOWNLOAD A CAR if I could.
'20s: Information must be monetized. You can buy a hash of this JPEG of a cartoon car, for a price and CO2 emissions of a real car!
Matti Minkkinen
boosted
Apple's postponed their surveillance system for now, but no matter what changes they make, we anticipate it falling short of what their users truly deserve: freedom to control every program running on their iPhones and other devices. https://u.fsf.org/3fy
#Researcher and PhD student interested in futures of #privacy, the digital transformation, #scenarios, #sociology, #philosophy and #anticipation.
Also #music.
Joined Oct 2018
