Ever come across Etymology Nerd's videos on YouTube or TikTok? Well, he joined Kate Willett and I to discuss his fascinating and brilliant new book, Algospeak. It was an incredibly fun conversation, which you can listen to here: www.patreon.com/posts/algosp...

Never believe that a perfect society is impossible

Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Here’s your tl;dr of this week’s graph tech news: 👹 A new #Gremlin joins the TinkerPop gang: YouTrackDB eschews #GQL 💡 The @kgconference.bsky.social Call for Speakers is open 🐞 #LadybugDB makes its first post- #Kuzu debut 🧵...

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

New article on Sam Altman's long history of abusive, toxic, manipulative, duplicitous behavior (those aren't my words, but the words of people who have directly interacted with him). The guy is a complete conman, worthy of the derogatory moniker "Scam Altman." Read more:

Who owns/controls the news media across the European Union? 🇪🇺 📱 📰 📻 📺 media-ownership.eu Search, visualise and analyse data on the most influential news-producing organisations from every EU member state, thanks to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/how-the-euro...

Oh, FBI.. you’re this close to getting it right

If you’re wondering what the future of the Democratic Party looks like, watch the young, brown democratic socialist on the TV right now.

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

Can I get an eta on this

And while you’re at it, maybe an ETA on this.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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Governor-Elect Spanberger's daughter crying because she is so proud of her mother, and her sister holding her hand to comfort her, shows that Abigail Spanberger is not just a great politician, but also a wonderful mother.

Goodness, how did Republicans have time to vote today between calling in bomb threats to Democratic precincts?

Highly recommended: Layoff-proofing your tech career, by Dr. Clair Sullivan free course www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-cla... (one of the best instructors I've ever met, grateful to get to work with her!)

This week's headlines from the world of #graphdatabases and graph tech: * Meet #RyuGraph * #Dgraph finds a new patron * Dave Bechberger from #AWS talks AI memory * Ontology design 101 * Gephi Lite v1.0 is here (ICYMI) More here: gdotv.com/blog/weekly-... #Kuzu #Ontologies #AmazonNeptune #Graphviz

My notes for an upcoming guest lecture/discussion in a friend's media studies course, about "positive future of AI" outlooks: blog.derwen.ai/future-of-ai...

Sorcery in Caerphilly: @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate. Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve

How can culture fight back in a turbulent world? The Nerve roundtable, featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolvorders.bsky.social @ellenejones.bsky.social & Stewart Lee

"NIEMOpen for Information Exchange: complex system modeling with knowledge graphs" w/ guest Bradley Bolliger from EY Tue Oct 28, 09:00-10:00 PT watch.getcontrast.io/register/sen... 🎧 Tune in to see how machine-to-machine clarity helps return complex systems to human scale. #Senzing #ERKG #NIEMOpen

We're pleased to announce that Christian Miles has joined the G.V() team as our new Head of Sales! Christian has been working with graph tech since 2012 & he holds a MSci in Maths & CompSci, so he's not like one of those regular sales guys, he’s a nerdy sales guy. Welcome to the team, Christian!

Three post published in the Containment series: Containers All the Way Down www.linkandth.ink/p/containers... Perfect Continence www.linkandth.ink/p/perfect-co... Boundary Logic www.linkandth.ink/p/boundary-l... 🗓️Next up: Universal Data Façade www.linkandth.ink/p/universal-...

Oof, this edition of the Weekly Edge hits different. Here’s the news the last week delivered to our door, including not just the hits 🎶 but also the obits 🪦 of the #graphdatabases world: 🧵👇

Either we’ve given up on solving the Riemann hypothesis or the critical strip is about to cross an undefined boundary condition.

Remember: When you take the `Fur` out of `Failure`, all you have left is `A Lie`

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult | By C Thi Nguyen aeon.co/essays/why-i... #echochamber #philsky

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

NEW: We need to talk about Russia. So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage. My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

William Blake and Werner Heisenberg, radical poet and pioneering quantum physicist, shared the same fear: that science, while enabling us to intervene in the world ever more powerfully, was at the same time cutting us off from reality itself. iai.tv/articles/hei... #Blake #Heisenberg #philsky

Anti-Christ Data Collective? 😈 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

United Lounge television monitors tend to show: - Fox News ... in the US Midwest or US South - sportsball ... just about everywhere else - Cartoon Network ... in Los Angeles

[Catch-Up/ICYMI:] Updates on Microsoft Graph in Fabric After last month's @microsoftfabcon.bsky.social announcements, more details have emerged about Graphs in Fabric video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrA... blog post: blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/t... #MicrosoftFabric #GraphAnalytics

"Questionable Life Choices" Think: Aperol spritz meets energy cocktail. Ingredients: 1½ oz vodka ¾ oz Aperol 2 oz Red Bull Top with prosecco or dry sparkling wine Garnish: Maraschino cherries!

I really enjoyed the 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit in Austin, Texas this week... Here's a link to my full slide deck: derwen.ai/s/khj9#0 #Senzing #ERKG

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist? Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours! So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

You should be spending 10+minutes on slides per minute of your talk. Doing too many talks makes it so you don't have time for top quality.

It was a super interesting conversation from a fascinating book - listen to Gastropod and then go read the whole thing!

My new book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET (about the intersections between magical thinking and tech innovation) is officially available for pre-order via @mitpress.bsky.social! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

From Aristotle's laws of thought to Russell's Theory of Types, self-reference has been banned. But is it a mistake, or is it essential to reality? The second essay in the Containment series recalls the Calculus of Indications of George Spencer-Brown. linkandthink.substack.com/p/perfect-co... #LoF

Impressive. 5 more days straight with 100% WindWaterSolar on California ISO grid, making it 193 of 280 days in 2025 Gas down 18% v '24 & 37% v '23, replaced largely by solar & batteries 54.7% of all demand met by WWS Demand down 1.7% v '24 & 1.1% v '23 due largely to growth of roof PV

"Friend ads have not yielded significant sales, Schiffman confirmed, telling the NYT that only 3,100 have sold"

well, they thought going w/Kaplan was going to save $3.8M + it cost them "upwards of $6M" + this

Pursuing its simplification agenda, the European Commission has deprioritised and paused some Level 2 AML/CFT legislation including plans for a delegated act on high-risk corporate categories and lower beneficial ownership thresholds finance.ec.europa.eu/publications...

From data to insights: Entity-resolved knowledge graphs with Kuzu & Senzing Blog post: blog.kuzudb.com/post/entity-... Github repository: github.com/kuzudb/entit... #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #sanctions #knowledgegraphs #entityresolution #UBO #AML #EntityResolvedKnowledgeGraphs

"In an increasingly interconnected global economy, the ability for organisations to trust and use data effectively is the foundation for innovation, growth, and competitiveness" www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/... #LEI #openstandards #opendata #GODIN #interoperability #datastandards

Great to see @pacoid.bsky.social and Prashanth Rao will be at Connected Data London next month doing a masterclass on high-quality knowledge graphs leveraging @openownership.bsky.social and @opensanctions.org data and Senzing / Kuzu technology Event page: 2025.connected-data.london/talks/combin...

Alarming piece from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Blair + Murdoch + Ellison + Ellison Jr + a touch of Musk and the new world order. www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...