Hormone nerds may add Oxytocin in the list of internal cohesion factors

I didn’t mention the esoteric relations (mainly for not being of primary interest) but here’s the top list: 1. Taijitu (Yin–Yang) The mark of distinction that divides and simultaneously relates, mirrors the Yin–Yang polarity, where opposites define one another and cyclically transform. 🧵

Since I started my nomadic life, the only sad thing was leaving my band. It was just an amateur cover band of late bloomers, but there I felt 16 without the troubles of actually being 16. Here's our take of Bésame Mucho: soundcloud.com/bartek-lessa...

Inference rules are underutilized in knowledge graphs. When they do appear, they are in the application layer rather than in the graph itself. Placing rules inside the graph combines the benefits of query speed with those of data-centricity. 1/2

UK Formally Recognizes Crypto as Property with New Digital Assets Law cryptonews.com/news/uk-form...

D: Why is Sofia so shabby? Me: Oh, simple: low taxes and high tax evasion result in small funds, most of which is stolen, and the rest is badly managed.

Stability-Diversity was always the most difficult to explain among essential balances (essentialbalances.com). First, because it's three balances in one: one for stability itself (stability-instability), one for diversity (diversity-homogeneity), and one between stability and diversity. 🧵

"The article conceptualizes conflictualization as a threefold process of (1) forming social relationships, (2) displacing the focus toward “winning” the conflict, and (3) making an increasing number of issues into objects of contestation. "

Louis Kauffman proposed an algebra of containers (C) and extainers (E), where extainers represent an opening for interaction with its outside. Iteration of C produces E, and iteration of E produces C: CC = <><> = <E> EE = ><>< = <C> 👇

Norms make social life possible. They resemble rules, yet work in different ways and influence how rules function in practice. The 10th essay in the Autonomy&Cohesion series explores why the most familiar cohesion mechanisms turns out to be a species of its own. www.linkandth.ink/p/the-four-p...

Meanwhile in Sofia the audacity of the mafia government brought the people on the streets.

And here are the slides kvistgaard.github.io/slides/query...

SPARQL queries talk a pattern language. The patterns are at three zoom levels: - Function - Structure - Ontology SPARQL querying can be experienced as assembling LEGO blocks. And it is equally fun. I'll talk about that today at the TED Together event, organised by the EU Publications Office

We regard adolescence in the 10-19 age bracket, but a new research with a data from 4,216 brains of people between 0 and 90 years confirms what some of us (esp. among those having grown-up children) already suspected: the bracket is 9-32. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

But things have evolved a bit recently

This is EXACTLY how I imagined Franz Liszt's smile. Like Mephisto about to offer Faust a bargain he can't refuse.

It was inspired by something I found in a 6th-century book, and this sketch I made in my notebook

Working on the 10th post in the Autonomy and Cohesion series. It will be about norms, one of the cohesion mechanisms listed in Cohesion Forces and Tools.

his review more or less fine www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

The 10th post in the Autonomy and Cohesion series will be about norms, following up on one of the cohesion mechanism mentioned in 👇

At Donmar Theatre, London, waiting to watch "Maids". This didn't go through since there was no connection, so I'm posting it after, and I can recommend this production highly enough.

I finally had the chance to visit the renovated Battersea Power Station in London. Well done. (I guess that Pink Floyd album cover made so famous.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batters...

Recent essays on Link & Think www.linkandth.ink/p/the-claims... and 👇 the containment series.

Tired of the LLM noise? Let’s shift attention to something fully deterministic – rules running over a knowledge graph. (now on the plane to London) #SHACL #SPARQL 2025.connected-data.london/talks/rules-...

#SPARQL query patterns can be seen at 3 zoom levels: function, structure, ontology. Within the function level, there are 3 categories of patterns: selectors, extractors, and aggregators. So every query can be assembled from LEGO blocks snapping at the same variables. More on that in a week.

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I have reviewed many #SHACL shape graphs over the last few years. There are some error patterns as well as exotic errors. And recently, I've noticed some very different patterns of LLM-generated errors. 🧵

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Every piece of non-fiction makes three claims: main, supporting, and meta. Each is shaped by bias — self-serving, confirmation, appeal-to-authority. But there are quieter ones too: the elegance bias and the God’s-eye-view bias. And then there are the meta-claims… www.linkandth.ink/p/the-claims...

Viability as a Temporal Process link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Infinité #NowPlaying open.spotify.com/track/7h8dN0...

Atlas Press (@atlaspress) substack.com/@atlaspress/...

Link&Think has a new look. 💄 www.linkandth.ink

Circular economy, redefined.

In Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating. It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media. Very excited to see this!

massshootingtracker.site Mass Shootings Tracker Three today

Cybernetics is not the Banana (Part 1) with @antlerboy.com is now on YouTube! Link: youtu.be/qi7neufVcEc

Systemic.

"To me, ping pong just looks like two perverts spanking a ghost." —Aisling Bea #Halloween

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

The endless Rory book signing loop 🔁 We watched him sign 400 books this way...

Discuss.

Frédéric Forest Paris - 1 January 2024

Do you dream of a work-life balance? Don't. www.linkandth.ink/p/work-life-...

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After CSV, JSON, and XML, the 2nd part shows how the same containment principles allows to view HTML, XLSX, MS Word, and PowerPoint as #RDF knowledge graph. And also how to query REST API's with #SPARQL so that one query gets data from different sources. www.linkandth.ink/p/universal-...