"The Commodification of Sensitive Open Data" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/the-commodification-of-sensitive-open-data
"Governments enable corporations to…
Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy detection models to "surface patterns consistent with insider knowledge in prediction markets" and other tools (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Seven Social Sins
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
— Frederick Lewis Donaldson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_So
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116307878290848654
This is an incredibly good decision.
Wikipedia is an incredible authority. It needs to stay that way. that means that the way it produces knowledge need to not be entangled with the LLMs that use that knowledge.
Hey cool, flowers to myself: Starting this week, I will be Acting Professor at Ruhr-University #Bochum holding the chair of Anthropology of Knowledge.
This will be for the summer term and lots of fun, esp. in teaching controversy mapping, reading extraction, and discussing post-socialist economies.
"Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
"Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digit…
#CommonplaceNotes AI fables, knowledge, etc. Well matured, some of these, due to relocating to Greater Liverpool along the way http://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/04/common…
🌊 New study assesses geoengineering marine ecosystem risks, knowledge gaps
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/new-study-assesses-geoengineering-marine-ecosystem-risks-knowledge-gaps/