Finland starts work on national segregation prevention programme

According to the economic affairs and employment ministry, segregation refers to "growing differences in the population structure of neighbourhoods, where deprivation and advantage increasingly cluster in specific areas".

It said that segregation in Finland has deepened in recent years, particularly in larger urban areas.

"The aim of the programme is to reduce segregation and its negative impacts. It emphasises a comprehensive, knowledge‑based and strategic approach, as well as wide‑ranging cooperation between the central government, cities and other partners," the ministry's release read.

Diversity is good. Without interaction with different people we tend to perpetuate the prejudices.

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor

Like many people who strap on an Apple Watch every day, I’ve long wondered what a decade of that data might reveal about me. So I joined a brief wait list and gave ChatGPT access to the 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements stored in my Apple Health app. Then I asked the bot to grade my cardiac health.

It gave me an F.

Two things here:

1. The Apple Watch data itself is not accurate
2. And then the bots running the analysis fixate on one or two metrics to provide the analysis.

12 Distractions to Leave Behind in 2026 by No Sidebar

After a long day, your brain wants relief. Culture offers the fastest version: endless content.
But relief and restoration are not the same thing. Scrolling often leaves you more restless than when you started—because it never resolves anything. It just fills space.
Try a different question this year: “What restores me?” Then do that instead.

Wonderful list of things to get rid of, like shutting off push notifications, avoiding multitasking, etc.

Seeing it as a list, helps imagine how wonderful it would be to leave these things behind.

Can you chart a murder? How to build an interactive novel

You see, a love of gamebooks introduced me to early role-playing games and fantasy board games, which in turn led to an interest in game design… which ultimately led to me working in videogames as a writer and narrative designer. That career has run in parallel with my fiction writing for the past twenty years1, and more recently I’ve also established myself as an award-winning crime author.

Obsidian has a similar feature for mind-maps. I tried but couldn’t get it to stick. I did not have a use case for it.

Seems like a theme today?

🌻 claude code psychosis by Jasmine Sun

It will soon cost near-nothing to have whatever app you want. Vibecoding is already shifting the build vs. buy calculus: maybe we’ll all spend less money on SaaS (and more on Claude credits instead). And because it’s economical to build custom tools for narrow personal, small business, and community use cases, exiting enshittification is easier than ever before.

And then this.

The second-order effect of Claude Code was realizing how many of my problems are not software-shaped. Having these new tools did not make me more productive; on the contrary, Claudecrastination probably delayed this post by a week.

If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you’re a software developer everything looks like a software problem.

It’s not.