Janne M. Korhonen

Janne M. Korhonen

Researcher, among other things

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What is Good in Life? On feedback loops possibly leading to a collapse

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In early 2002, I had an epiphany. I had been depressed for months and queried whether there is even any point in living any more: in the long run, we are all dead, and whatever we achieve will crumble in the sands of time. In a century, barely anyone will even know that you ever existed. Read more

On the Kremlin’s Imperialism

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Greetings from a Finnish leftist! The international situation has apparently left many people in the English-speaking countries confused. I originally wrote this thread in Twitter in the hopes of sharing a perspective I believe is widely although certainly not universally shared in Finland, most leftists included. This is a slightly edited version, for clarity. Read more

Book review: McAfee (2019), More from Less

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This is an interesting book which could be a good book if its key message – that technology and capitalism will decouple economic growth from resource use in time to prevent serious ecological disruption – were supported by research. This, unfortunately, is not the case. Read more

Finland is the land of personal freedom, and that’s why I love it

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On December 6th 2017, Finland celebrates her centennial as an independent nation. Exactly one hundred years ago, the Finnish Parliament finally voted for the motion to sever all ties to the revolutionary Russian government and assume the highest legislative power in the country. (As an aside, the motion for independence had been introduced on November 30th, but the speaker of the parliament did not want to extend the last parliamentary session before parliamentary break for 30 minutes the vote would’ve taken, instead letting the MPs go to their homes on schedule.) Read more

Space system “Shuttle,” part of USA’s nuclear attack arsenal?

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The story of a white elephant colloquially known as the Space Shuttle is familiar to most students of the history of technology. The shuttle was originally touted as a cheap way to access space: being mostly reusable, it would have done for space travel the same what DC-3 did for air travel, i.e. open up the space for large-scale exploration and exploitation.  Read more

The Ten Commandments for publishing in A-list journals, by Janne Tienari

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How to get your publications to the A-list journals? Here’s the Ten Commandments to follow. Today’s Aalto School of Economics Organizations & Management research seminar had something that’s well worth blogging about: professor Janne Tienari and Nina Granqvist presented some extremely good pointers about what to do and what not to do if you want to aim for those impact factors. (Whether you should do is another, interesting discussion in itself.) Read more

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2022-05-19 On Bitcoin, Tether, and Beanstalk

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Jessica McKenzie wrote in Twitter about the less known trend in Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin miners and fossil fuel firms, which increasingly tend to be the one and the same thing, are buying gas-fired generators and use them right next to gas wellheads. End result: to solve the crypto sudokus, fossil gas that would otherwise not be extracted and burned, is extracted and burned. Read more

2024-11-25 Mon

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  • Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn’t it fighting back? – POLITICO
  • Tulsi Gabbard’s Ties to Russia Are Far More Dangerous Than You Realize, Experts Say
  • Europe Needs More Conventional Forces, Not Its Own Nukes
  • Evolving Norway’s Role in the NATO Alliance - Luftled
  • Stafford Beer once said he had stopped doing simulation games with management consulting clients because they were too powerful; he didn’t like the thought of factories being built and closed based on what worked in a rule set he’d come up with over a coffee break.

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2025-11-09 Sun

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  • Read The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. Very good!
  • “Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.”
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2025-11-14 Fri

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  • Trump’s national security strategy “reads like openly fascist rantings”
  • ICC to ditch MS Office for European open source alternative
  • “The large-scale conversion of Norse societies between the tenth and twelfth centuries is best understood not as a sudden attraction to Christian doctrine, but as part of a long transformation tied to state formation, economic integration, and sustained contact with Christian Europe. “
  • “Man with a machine can be a slave or a free man.” (Henry Ford)
  • “Technology affects society by affordances, constraints, preconditions, and unintended consequences.” (Baym, N. K, 2010).
  • “In the late 1800s alien ‘engineers’ altered our world forever.”
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2025-11-20 Thu

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  • Finnish report greatly exaggerated how much Sanna Marin’s social democratic government (2019-2023) increased government expenses
  • Techno-optimism hinders climate action: research
  • China’s battery exports charge to new highs (Reuters)
  • Research estimates that 25 % of public social science funding in Austria flows directly to a few academic publishers
  • Researchers measured greenwashing in 1 million Facebook ads by LLM-enabled system, found vast networks sharing pro-fossil fuel messages and targeted ads
  • A much-talked-about London AI artwork is being torn down, because people believe it depicts migrants
  • There are good reasons why nuclear power is regulated
  • A fishing attack: Black neon tetra committed a credit card fraud
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2025-11-26 Wed

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  • LLM image recognition is already cracking one of the hardest problems in digital humanities - handwriting recognition
  • Research: A European way of war: Towards doctrine to defend against Russia, without the US
  • Luxury surveillance: People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others
  • Bluesky thread: Learning how to live with already weak-God-like and increasingly powerful technologies
  • “Enough!”: Great 1947 Social Democratic posters from Finland
  • “Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
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2025-12-01 Mon

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  • Read Krister Wahlbäck’s magnificent overview of the “Finnish Question” in Swedish politics since 1809
  • U.S. Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegseth tried to meme on Twitter
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Theories of design - is design problem-solving?

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The field of design theory is separated to two warring camps. On the one side are people following Donald Schön’s (1983) “Reflective Practitioner;” an epistemology of practice based on a close examination of what different practicioners actually do. On the other side, sometimes angrily denounced by Schön and his followers, is Herbert Simon’s “Sciences of the Artificial” (1969, 1996). Read more

On extinction risk, commons risk, and “natural” disasters

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Extinction risks or X-risks are an interesting research topic that, however, has its own share of problems. I have one article in the works about some of its blind spots, and will be getting back to the topic later. Meanwhile, here’s something on classifying extinction risks, based on the following paper: Read more

Circular Economy: indicators and measurements

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Measuring circular economy in the EU

The current (2025) backbone is the revised EU Circular Economy Monitoring Framework (2023), which uses 11 indicators in 5 dimensions (production/consumption, waste management, secondary raw materials, competitiveness & innovation, and global sustainability). Read more

Example of research dialogue with Claude Opus

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This is a part of a longer conversation between me and Claude Opus 4.6 Extended; we’re working on a method/conceptual paper draft discussing how to use LLMs to simulate human decision-makers in agent-based models meant to analyse circular economy markets. My inputs are in italics and in Read more

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