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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

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

Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult

aeon.co

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

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! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 2d

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

Heisenberg meets William Blake: The danger of science's "single vision" | Mark Vernon

iai.tv

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Anti-Corruption Data Collective @acdatacollective.bsky.social · 4d

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

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

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

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G.V() - Graph Database IDE @gdotv.bsky.social · 5d

[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

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

Flavor profile: Bright, bubbly, bittersweet — a brunch-worthy version of your 02:00 self.

Suggested by a chat bot.

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

"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!

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

Many thanks to David Scharbach and crew for producing this outstanding event!

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

I'm grateful to get to meet and talk with many amazing people in the field, and also get to present about Senzing and where entity resolution, graph technologies, and context engineering meet to address enormous challenges in anti-fraud.

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 5d

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 6d

And even if you're repurposing from a base deck, you should still spend the time per talk to make sure you've got a consistent narrative. I introduce hundreds of speakers, and their respective practices (or lack thereof) show :)

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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Cynthia Graber @cagraber.bsky.social · 7d

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

Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 7d

The latest episode of the Gastropod podcast hosted by @cagraber.bsky.social and Nicola Twilley featured @juliabelluz.bsky.social and I discussing topics from our new book "Food Intelligence". gastropod.com/everything-y...

Everything You Know About Metabolism Is Wrong - Gastropod

Does a slow metabolism really lead to weight gain, and can you speed it up, to make it easier to shed pounds. Join us this episode for the science behind metabolism myths.

gastropod.com

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Shira Chess (she/her) @shirachess.bsky.social · 7d

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...

The Unseen Internet

Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a com...

mitpress.mit.edu

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Ivo @velitchkov.eu · 7d

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

Perfect Continence

Recalling the Laws of Form

linkandthink.substack.com

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 7d

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

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annkspencer @annkspencer.bsky.social · 6d

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

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6d

Based on the scale of the vandalism, it's clear that many New Yorkers are not on board with the concept of a wearable AI pendant.

Vandals deface ads for AI necklaces that listen to all your conversations

Critics attacked subway ads to defend human friends and broadly criticize AI.

arstechnica.com

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annkspencer @annkspencer.bsky.social · 6d

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

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 6d

Governor Newsom signed three new pieces of legislation strengthening California bar exam oversight following the botched February test. The State Bar must now give two years' notice before switching to online testing and disclose any use of AI in questions or grading reut.rs/4o5V2A5

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 8d

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...

De-prioritisation of Level 2 acts in financial services legislation

The Commission, in line with its broader simplification agenda, has informed the European Supervisory Authorities and the Anti‑Money laundering Authority (AMLA) of its plan to deprioritise 115 non‑ess...

finance.ec.europa.eu

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 7d

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

From data to insights: Entity-resolved knowledge graphs with Kuzu & Senzing

Walkthrough of using Kuzu with Senzing, an entity resolution engine, to combine data from Open Ownership and OpenSanctions to uncover financial crimes

blog.kuzudb.com

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