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Left without counter-action, coordination control concentrates. It is driven by forces and technologies that gain and keep. Counter-action can disperse, but when withdrawn, the concentration resumes. @gordon.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.linkandth.ink/p/second-law...

I was wondering how the Italian "si figuri," the equivalent of the English "don't mention it," came to mean what it does, and today it dawned on me: shapes itself, in other words, no need to validate it. #SHACL jokes #ISWC cc @giorgialodi.bsky.social

Second day of ISWC in Bari. My session yesterday was part of the Façade-X tutorial. I talked about the use of Façade-X for automatic data catalog generation and for solving duplication issues (unavoidable with RML) The slides: kvistgaard.github.io/slides/ppds/...

Ian Horrocks giving now a keynote at the workshop for AI-assisted knowledge engineering, #ISWC 2026, Bari

Ian Horrocks giving now a keynote at the workshop for AI-assisted knowledge engineering, #ISWC 2026, Bari

Ian Horrocks giving now a keynote at the workshop for AI-assisted knowledge engineering, #ISWC 2026, Bari

Ian Horrocks giving now a keynote at the workshop for AI-assisted knowledge engineering, #ISWC 2026, Bari

At the ISWC in Bari, watching a paper presented at the 3rd workshop on KG and Neurosymbolic AI. A slide showing the number of errors across different approaches, and, not surprisingly, the SPARQL-based one wins.

Bobinet: text-to-RDF knowledge graph generator following the recipes of Anthropic's graph cookbook, adapted for linked data. – a named graph and a checked quote per statement – terms from published ontologies – links to Wikidata and DBpedia if descriptions agree github.com/kvistgaard/bobinet #RDF

Reform UK and Greens no longer considered main parties, stark new poll shows www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A high-backed chair designed 1900/01 for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/8311814...

[[Sofia]] has reliable and affordable public transport, better than in many other EU capitals. Yet people prefer to sit in traffic jams, pollute, and fight for a parking spot rather than use it. Bizarre!

The first version of grep was written 52 years ago. Reading my Claude Code logs, it seems that it is among the most frequently used utility. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

I've been dreaming about such a restriction for over a decade. EU countries take note. But why only music and videos? Outlaw also talking with a speaker on in public places. It's disgusting!

A clear signal from Albania www.aljazeera.com/amp/video/ne...

discuss.systems/@ricci/11747...

Quawake auto-resumes Claude Code work across usage-limit resets. It's 3.5 months old now, so it's time for the first release. I thought it wouldn't be needed anymore after Anthropic released their auto-resume feature in Claude Code on 17th of August, but I was wrong. github.com/kvistgaard/q...

Now TextFold is integrated into my local library, so the 5 zoom levels are a click away for any doc

Studying my decision graph, I see two strange circles, looking like alien footprints. (well, "foot" is an anthropocentric assumption, but you know what I mean)

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

An increasing amount of code is written by coding agents today. But they don't just write code. They refactor the social order. Coding used to be like literacy. Once acquired, nobody can take it away. Now it is available on lease. www.linkandth.ink/p/the-new-co...

The Pledge to End Panels — An international accord

Sally Rooney says her books will be removed from sale in UK over Palestine Action support

ANON: Towards a consolidated formal ontology for anonymity, unlinkability, and unobservability

I'm not sure what they are queuing for, but I hope it's worth the wait.

When I publish a new essay, I announce it using Buffer. The same post goes to several social media. On X-Twitter, I have almost 5 times as many followers as on Bluesky but get twice as little traffic, for 2y now. The short explanation is the enshittification of X-Twitter. What is the long one?

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

I'm looking for an example of a well-documented Linked Open Data publication. The best one I'm aware of is semopenalex.org/resource/?ur... Do you know of one that is as good or better?

The fastest way to put down the dirty virtual is, well, physical.

The cloud isn't there for the rain; it's more for drama and to enhance contrast, brother-in-vanity.

The Netherlands now views Russia as an enemy, not an aggressor, says Defense Min. nltimes.nl/2026/10/08/n...

Now Claude skills are also part of my local #RDF graph and browsable via Opsis

Higher than usual interest in my latest Substack article.

any sufficiently advanced OS will increasingly lock down its APIs until it becomes indistinguishable from a browser

When the tourists are mostly gone, there are plenty of good spots available.

Fair offer for a boat trip. I wish LLM services could offer something similar: "100% correct answer or your money back." In fact, it should be "money back doubled". With the boat, it's still a boat trip even without dolphins.

[[Stafford Beer]] 100 Festschrift book is out. I contributed a chapter on Autonomy & Cohesion, for which you can use my Metaphorum slidedeck as a TL;DR : kvistgaard.github.io/slides/ac/me... The electronic version of the book is free to download: staffordbeer100.com/festschrift

We lost Luc Hoebeke. An incredible person. I'll miss him. www.linkandth.ink/p/conversati...

A wife-generated alla-prima oil portrait of @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

cybernews.com/privacy/floc...

Programming used to be like literacy. Once you learned it, nobody could take it away. Now the craft comes on lease, metered, and on terms that can change overnight. This essay looks at seven orders of software makers, defined by what the lease did to them. www.linkandth.ink/p/the-new-co...

Recent essays on Link & Think: www.linkandth.ink/p/air-rights www.linkandth.ink/p/second-law... Next up: The New Coding Orders

Now you can also pin classes on top.

Netanyahu after the UNGA emptied out ahead of his speech: "If there any other moral cowards who have not left the hall, please do so now."

Opsis is a one-file faceted browser for [[RDF]] graphs. Every click is a SPARQL query. Fully data-centric. Even its settings are part of the graph. I'm using it daily to browse my local personal knowledge graph. Now it's available for everyone to use. #SPARQL #PKG github.com/kvistgaard/o...

While the research and analysis tracks have been progressing modestly but steadily for a year, the situation with software is different: an SOS (summer of software).

Happy to be flying back home after a tiring conference limbo in the UK.