New article: "But who will protect them from us once they've all retreated to their underground shelters?" F*ck the billionaires. Eat the rich. Down with the oligarchy. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/tech-billi...

The videos of ICE agents in Minneapolis captured by citizens are being seen on social media feeds across the globe John Mulholland compiles the most widely shared videos and examines what effect they are having on US public opinion www.thenerve.news/p/ice-minnea...

Brutal to be reminded of the extent of the USAID staff cuts via the data published in this article from The Upshot on @nytimes.com on how the Trump administrations cuts have affected every US federal agency www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICIJ's #CoinLaundry investigation exposes how cryptocurrency companies empower a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. To learn how the crypto is regulated, whether crypto transactions are anonymous or pseudonymous, and more, visit our FAQs:

Graph Power Hour! V2E3 live podcast with audience Q&A "Opik for Observability and Optimization: Feedback Loops for Better AI Applications" with our guest Claire Longo, Lead AI Researcher at Comet AI working on Opik Thu Jan 22, 09:00-10:00 US Pacific app.getcontrast.io/register/sen...

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

OH: "AI is an abbreviation for URHTG (unreliable rabbit hole tour guide)"

If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

OH: "The comments in my code are full of Rex Stout Nero Wolfe quotes, and oblique references to Norse mythology."

0430Z (27 minutes from now) youtu.be/ZWl5Pb29O-o?... Strwythura release 2.0.x #Senzing

This ~week in graph tech news: - #knowledgegraphs at @netflix.com - Graphs on #Postgres - KGs at @bloomberg.com - Setting up #JanusGraph on #Azure - Using #SPARQL to discover new music All this and more in this edition of the Weekly Edge: gdotv.com/blog/weekly-... #graphdatabases #RDF #backenddev

Following the excellent examples set by Nommo, I am listening for the lost syllables, and the notes which aren't being sung.

NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times. But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

2025 in review: www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

News today: Senzing has acquired Placekey -- a free, open standard for location data. If you're going to connect people data and company data, you might as well connect place data too :) www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Didn’t get a chance to watch all 138 talks from the @neo4j.com NODES 2025 conference? Don’t worry, we've got you covered with the top 5 off-the-beaten track talks you shouldn’t skip, from #healthcare & #cybersecurity to job searches & #graphdatabase error codes: gdotv.com/blog/neo4j-n... #Neo4j

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

Fraud is big business. In this blog, Amber Lennox walks you through a straightforward fraud detection exercise using @aerospikedb.bsky.social Graph and G.V() to analyze #banking data and accurately identify fraudulent transactions in no time: gdotv.com/blog/aerospi... #finserv #graphviz

The Weekly Edge: Discover what’s new this week in graph technology, including a big acquisition, a pre-seed investment, a 360-degree take on Connected Data London, new Gremlin benchmarks, and more. Catch it here: gdotv.com/blog/weekly-... #graphviz #graphdatabases #RDF #AWS

This week's graph tech news tl;dr: • GraphLite becomes the newest embeddable graph database • 2 big Apache TinkerPop / #Gremlin releases • Big PuppyGraph integration announced • RyuGraph & LadybugDB leaders interview with #GraphGeeks Find it all here: gdotv.com/blog/weekly-... #graphdatabases

"Hype, Horseshit & Human Intelligence" on Robots and Red Tape podcast youtu.be/gSibn4aoyuY

Surpassing human capabilities isn’t the biggest threat that AI poses, says activist and author of “Enshittification” Cory Doctorow.

Dear Bluesky, www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners. We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!

Even the tech bros are getting nervous. But it will be the rest of us who feel the pain when the AI bubble bursts. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports. www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

The Weekly Edge: RDF Edition! This week’s edition is all about #RDF triplestores and more: - Hits from #ISWC 202 - A #SPARQL 1.2 tutorial - The @netflix.com knowledge graph - The #LPG vs RDF debate - A hot take on #OWL - and more! Dive in here: gdotv.com/blog/weekly-...

VIDEO: Fast-Tracking Your Graph Creation with Nodestream In this video, Amber Lennox walks you through turning your existing data into a graph database using Nodestream and then analyzing and exploring that data in G.V(). Get started: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsp1... #graphdatabases #neo4j

283: Gobbledygook Explained Gobbledygook sounds like one of those words that somebody just made up — so is it? 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #gobbledygook #gobble #onlanguage #podcast

Gosh. Story has gone from 0 to 60 in the UK. Is leading BBC News this morning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Senzing is now available in the AWS Marketplace, and you can use Amazon Q to develop your ER workflows. Fri Nov 21, 08:00 US Pacific / 16:00 GMT watch.getcontrast.io/register/sen...

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

One for the Brits. Epstein wrote a list of names for Steve Bannon. The first one on it is Mandelson

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!)