When your hackathon project kinda escalates

Who Do I Call When I Want to Call Europe? - The European sanctions data service has crashed, and the result is me realizing once again how hard it is to contact anyone...

Just got a phone recording of the words "The European Union is currently closed."

You know you’re getting old when you miss the basic decorum of Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

amen!! #Mozfest

I might drop in!

Heading to Mordor for the week

I’d love to join soon but I’m being fed airplane food today….

Love this!

The most cruel thing apple has ever done is show me these when I come home.

Friday in Kubernetestan

Announcing FollowTheMoney 4.0 This week, we are releasing version 4.0 of the FollowTheMoney (FtM) toolchain.

We’ve published an updated, improved and more deeply documented version of the data model and core data validation stack that drives OpenSanctions. Read more on our blog: www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

Current US foreign policy fever level: Designating a UN human rights rapporteur

More than a Technical Problem: Name Matching in Sanctions Screening In many fields, a name is just one of many clues you can lean on to pin down an identity. But in sanctions screening, a name might be all you’ve got. This is one of the core parts of our work: matchin...

Recommended article by @pudo.org @ @opensanctions.org
www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

What makes the handling of names in entity resolution so hard? Cultural complexity.

Ballmer Peak is a hell of a thing.

Recent hobby: building up extensive reference data for name matching, including a database of company type filler words, and all human names from Wikidata. Check the open data assets here: opensanctions.github.io/rigour/data/

I love this Native woman’s spunk! However this should NEVER have happened.

America threw a hell of a parade yesterday.

Except the banana republic cosplay in DC - that was weird.

In that meeting where the US federal government decided to introduce a thing called the "Unique Entity ID", did no-one mention the notion of "tempting fate"?

Government needs more data superstitionists.

Considering a new career as transshipment facilitator

Yo American friends - just let me know if anyone needs that MacBook you left at my house mailed back to the US, ok?

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

Contested territories in Europe, 2025: Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and Mallorca.

I get why you’d want to dismantle the rule of law.

We must stand together in this difficult time.

Reuters has a live stream where you can watch Rome at night and wait for the pope to die: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsGP... - it's oddly calming, would recommend.

I appreciate the response! But the caching thing is my example: the existing solution is marked “depreciated”, the new one “not ready for production”. This makes sense for Vercel but leaves all of the Next users without a good way to cache.

Trump claimed that Ukraine has no strong cards on their hands.

Zelensky replied, "I did not come here to play cards."

A European response should include abandoning the F35 program.

Updated RDF vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) from @openownership.bsky.social

This is super useful, I've got two projects underway in which to leverage these updates.