I'm really looking forward to our panel at OIDA Symposium on May 13!

If Trump intends to attempt a coup, here are five ways he could do it Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian

You need to read this.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.

V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.

www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

WE CAN ALWAYS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE FUTURE The future is not a force of nature. It is a design project – and that means someone is always setting the brief. What are its unquestioned assumptions?

A fantastic article by my friend Monika Bielskyte (@monikabielskyte.bsky.social). I'd highly recommend subscribing to her newsletter, which is brand new. :-) XO

monikabielskyte.substack.com/p/we-can-alw...

@brianmannadk.bsky.social, annezinkmd.bsky.social, @nabarund.bsky.social, Chris Prom, Luciana Duranti, @pacoid.bsky.social, clairedclark.bsky.social, tmarieg.bsky.social, Coryn Mayer

huh.

www.emarketer.com/content/most...

Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now the reckoning has begun. By Zamaan Qureshi, pictured against a black background

Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now we’re fighting back, writes campaigner @zamaan.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/big-tech-c...

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sometimes life throws a few loops

NEW: Up to one in three people with workplace pensions may be unwitting investors in the controversial tech surveillance company, Palantir.

A @thenerve.news investigation led by @ftm.nl reveals UK financial services companies hold more than £5bn in Palantir shares
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scallop crudo (gravlax method in red cabbage), fresh oysters, black cod baked in pesto, radish butter, fresh carrots and peas in a velvet sauce, and a miner's lettuce salad 🥗 springtime on a table, here in the seaside forest

#FoodSky

Card with image of Starmer and Louis Mosley ‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security By Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

NEW

MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security.

One said: "Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology"

Investigation by Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social
Report by Charlie Young and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

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The graph itself serves as an evidentiary chain from structure back to language. This is important for using entity resolution with graphs, where some resolutions must be scoped based on data, while others require judgement by users after they’ve been working with the graph visualization.

... letting a team work together to interpret the data and figure out its structure over time, rather than locking everything into rigid definitions upfront.

Instead of working to extract “facts” from unstructured content, Kineviz promotes a practice called knowledge maps for developing evidence-linked structure and context within a graph. One might think of this as a kind of “late-binding” to build context and meaning gradually ...

How about visually comparing results from different graph algorithms side by side? How about leveraging generative AI tools to augment what you’re seeing in a graph?

Many people are familiar with the basics of graph visualization, such as using pre-set layouts, though Kineviz goes much further. consider other ways in which visualizations could be augmented…

What happens when you combine graph technology, interactive visualization, and generative AI? Kineviz builds a visual platform used for collecting and exploring complex connections in data, uncovering hidden patterns, and ultimately helping people make better-informed decisions.

In this episode we’re delighted to host Weidong Yang, CEO @ Kineviz @kineviz.bsky.social as our guest to explore how advanced graph visualizations and AI tools work together. We'll also talk about related communities and projects — including Kinetic Arts, the project from which Kineviz grew.

Graph Power Hour! podcast V2E5:
"Knowledge Maps: Exploring the connections where interactive graph visualization meets generative AI"
watch.getcontrast.io/register/sen...

Join us for live Q&A during recording on Tue Mar 17 09:00-10:00 US Pacific.

#Senzing

How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform An autonomous AI agent found a SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform. What it extracted was worse than we expected.

I <3 this **so much**, sort of.
codewall.ai/blog/how-we-...

treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"

As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute

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These Strange New Opportunities (And Challenges) “AI risk” isn’t just about what’s inside the model. It’s about systems: how models are connected to tools, to each other, and to the social and economic infrastructures that coordinate modern life.

How can we look beyond the AI models themselves to anticipate what’s about to happen? See my notes on my recent @brighthink.bsky.social discussion with Christopher Summerfield: www.linkedin.com/pulse/strang...

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Très sus.

I'm in Germany, listing to talks at a tech conference, people warning about the US Dept of War exercising control over Silicon Valley AI companies. Over the weekend, there were so many young people in German army uniforms in the train stations: ready to defend democracy against American fascism.

The official term for this behavior is "CYA"

My translation into the California dialect for this behavior is "GFY"

OH: CEOs now initiating large layoffs "due to AI" are often hiding the deets, such as how their sales have dropped, how their planning and policies for growth have been poorly executed, how much projections represented to their Board had been wildly overstated, and so on.

I hope the NYC version is better though.

In some locations, Marriott drips with irony: one travels long distances to find the restaurants in the hotel have restricted hours, one must have a reservation. All info is printed in dark ink on dark backgrounds, impossible to read in their mood lighting.

marriott hotels are soooo horrible