Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.

Following on from the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) that was announced this week… Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the Europe Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #socialweb and […]

It’s not “do good work and be successful.” It’s doing good work, talking about the work, figuring out how to get your work to the right people, accepting that good work is slower than bad work and finding a path through that anyways

I am not a fan of automatic AI generated text classification approaches, but I am always in for an in depth experimental analysis

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Vol:19 No:6 → Structural Normalization of Property Graphs 👥 Authors: Maximilian Egger, Mehdi Allali, Matteo Lissandrini, Davide Mottin, Panagiotis Karras 📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1400-egger.pdf

Non ho dimenticato la "L". Netflix ha un problema e tanta gente riceverà un rimborso. Però, come spesso accade, la cialtronaggine regna sovrana nel mondo della data protection. Movimento Consumatori APS ha vinto una battaglia, in tanti ne beneficeremo, ma ci sono anche dei problemi da sistemare...

Meteorologists (incl @wmo-global.bsky.social), scientists and media seem to have found consensus on the fact that both Ocean Heat Content and NASA CERES satellite data show more than a doubling in global heat uptake. Those who've been downplaying this for years have been rather quiet the past week.

open letter to stop hacklore: www.hacklore.org/letter

If you’re planning a #VLDB2027 submission, a quick heads-up from @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social and me: Abstracts are now due on the 25th of the previous month. April 1 deadline → abstract due March 25 Also new: yearly cap (12/author) + reproducibility artifacts vldb.org/2027/call-fo...

Just added the 12th chapter to my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide, but it's the first one in the sequence: I figured it was time to try and answer the obvious question, "What is agentic engineering?" simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

A thread so good that I decided to follow! Seriously, LLMs can be useful and even more powerful/efficient without being “intelligent” in the way humans are — which is… well, the same as any tool humans use

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜 I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is. medium.com/@margarmitch...

It's interesting how I used to stress over cleaning up every sentence I wrote, and now I'm like, "eh, if something is a little clunky, at least people will know it's me that wrote it instead of AI"

If you are at #VLDB2025 i London (@vldb) and interested in data management for graphs and knowledge graphs reach out and let's have a chat! See you in London

Vol:18 No:6 → PlanRGCN: Predicting SPARQL Query Performance 👥 Authors: Abiram Mohanaraj, Matteo Lissandrini, Katja Hose 📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1621-mohanaraj.pdf

Looking forward to discussing our work on graph transformation at #SIGMOD2025 📍 Poster Session 2 🗓️ Wednesday, June 25 | 16:00–17:30 Lossless Transformation of Knowledge Graphs to Property Graphs using Standardized Schemas Kashif Rabbani, @kuzeko.bsky.social, Angela Bonifati, @katjahose.bsky.social

Great (and unexpected) honor! Very thankful for this recognition!

Proudly watching Martin Pekar presenting "Fantastic Tables and Where to Find Them: Table Search in Semantic Data Lakes" at #EDBT2025, authors: Martin Pekar Christensen, Aristotelis Leventidis, @kuzeko.bsky.social, Laura Di Rocco, Renée J. Miller, Katja Hose openproceedings.org/2025/conf/ed...

@matteobordone.bsky.social io ho appena ascoltato la prima puntata di quest'anno ....e cosa succede ad un certo punto (in due punti) quando si nomina Simone C.... ? Mi son perso qualcosa?

every git command I use permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/every...

I feel I would need to get some good old Follow friday recs. to get the best out of this platform. #FF anyone?