my second work post of the month. this "officially" out after a fair bit of academic hygiene. soon they are all gone from here and only bots remain. 😂 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

really proud of this article me, Matti Pohjonen and Aleksi Knuutila put together over the past couple of years. If your question is: "how to approach TBs of datasets, n-dimensional vectors and multimodal latent spaces ethnographically?", we might have some ideas journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

In the rest of human existence, no single headline will ever be written that captures the marriage between Capitalism and the USA better than this.

#BrownBagSeminar is starting for 2025! This week Johanna Sumiala & Anton Berg will talk about digital death, research on AI and death. Join us on Wednesday 15.1. at 12.15 to listen & discuss! More info: helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

Addis Ababa this week. Come say hello? I talk about AI.

I just found out from the greatest man on earth that god does not love me as much as other people.

I think I just found out that god does not love me as much as Americans. But, then again, I enjoyed this speech without sound and watched it in sign language so I may have misunderstood a thing or two?

Join two interesting talks with Professor Daniel Miller in February! REPAIR Scholarly talk “The Good Enough Life” on 11.2. at 15:00: repair-research.fi/tapahtumat/112… and Book Talk “Understanding China through Digital Anthropology” 12.2. at 16:30 (link follows).

In our #BrownBagSeminar next week Jaakko Kuorikoski & Samuli Reijula will talk about explanation, prediction, and understanding in computational social science. Join us on Wednesday 5.3. at 12.15 to listen & discuss! More info: helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

I first tried American Intelligence and it did not really work that well 😂

traveling the world again 😅

"AI geographies of famine." 900' images of famine using country prompts with Stable Diffusion. All 197 countries. Clustered by CLIP & T-SNE. Europe is a painting. Africa is a child.

Register now (DL 21.5.) – 2.–4.6.2025 Method and Convergence — International Conference on Methodology of Philosophy, University of Helsinki. helsinki.fi/en/conferences…

Don’t forget – #BrownBagSeminar with Aleksi Knuutila tomorrow!

In our #BrownBagSeminar this week Friederike Lüpke will talk about neural machine translation and language description & language documentation. Join us on Wednesday 2.4. at 12.15 to listen & discuss! Read more here: helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon!🇫🇮 #DHH2025 is an exciting chance to collaborate, innovate & push your own boundaries🤗 Sponsorship & funding for participants is available 👀 🔜 Deadline: April 12 ➡️ Apply: dariah.eu/2025/02/21/hel…

Exciting events & happenings in April, May and June – read our March Newsletter on our website! helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-in…

In #Eritrea you need to buy a CD to watch TikTok videos on your DVD. In 2025

time to attend a talk about going beyond talk?

interrupting vacation for this public service announcement. theguardian.com/technology/202…