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aus der reihe "kompetenzen, über die ich bislang nicht nachgedacht habe" heute:
"Poetry as Knowledge in Librarianship: Inquiry, Identity, and Praxis"
https://bookstore.emerald.com/poetry-as-knowledge-in-librarianship-hb-978183…

I had always admired James’ work and respected his knowledge. I had the pleasure of working with him only briefly, but we hit it off (I christened him “sibling pastry” when making fun of his “brother cake” handle, and it stuck).
I knew about this through Lloydi and Ricky because James had gone dark late last year.
This makes me sad. It’s a loss for all of us.
From Ricky:

Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses
https://www.brusselstimes.com/2166072/women-unknowingly-filmed-in-brussels-with-meta-smart-glasses-raise-concerns

Sources: DeepSeek seeks to raise ~$7.3B in its first-ever funding round at a $50B valuation, with CEO Liang Wenfeng making a personal investment of ~$2.9B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-raise-7-billion-startu…

DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts
Liang Wenfeng, billionaire founder and CEO of DeepSeek, is planning to write the biggest check for the startup’s first-ever funding round, which the company now hopes will raise up to 50 billion yuan ($7.35 billion), according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. That would make it ...

"Hurabiell has a history of making transphobic comments, which was public knowledge when Lurie attended ConnectedSF’s events... Lurie did not distance himself from ConnectedSF, however, and did not say whether he would associate with Hurabiell or the group going forward"
https://

Queer politicos blast S.F. congressional candidate, Lurie ally Marie Hurabiell for homophobia 
Marie Hurabiell said "Children are being raped multiple times a day" thanks to a Scott Wiener law. It's a bridge too far for Mayor Lurie.

It's also important to recognize that tech oligarchs won't let this die. It's too important to them. This is part of the boss fight right here. They will take everything from us to coerce us into making LLMs profitable, to deskilling our labor and selling (skewed) human knowledge back to us at a premium. They will take away every benefit the state has, kill as many people as it takes to funnel every penny of government subsidy into this. They will burn every drop of subsidized oil. Those ICE camps are gonna be used for something. If it takes right wing death squads, they'll do it.
They will kill every last one of us to realize total domination. We have to be ready for that, and prepare accordingly. As many lives as have been taken by people with similar ideologies, those ideologies have always lost. If we know what's coming and prepare for it then they will lose faster, and at a lower cost.

Last month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…

Google will wissen, WER hinter einem Text steht – nicht nur WAS drinsteht. 🔍E-E-A-T ist kein Score, den du irgendwo abliest. Aber es bestimmt, ob dein Content in sensiblen Themenbereichen überhaupt eine Chance hat. Autorenprofile, Über-uns-Seiten, Knowledge-Panel-Einträge – das sind Entity-Signale, die Vertrauen aufbauen. Maschinen und Menschen gleichermaßen.

Grounding Pages? So wird deine Über-uns-Seite zum Entity-Dokument 🏗️
Grounding Pages sind Overengineering. Wie du deine Über-uns-Seite so schreibst, dass Google und KI-Systeme deine Marke als Entität erkennen – ohne Parallelseiten.

A demo based on post about the session. In this case, how AI Agent generated RDF-Turtle notes end up in a public Knowledge Graph that showcases the power of a Semantic Web.

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.