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    1. Arturo Béjar, a consultant on the wellbeing team of Instagram (which is also owned by Facebook), hit send on a long-gestating email to Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook executives on a similar theme. “I wanted to bring to your attention what I believe is a critical gap in how we as a company approach harm, and how the people we serve experience it,” Béjar began, before laying out some shocking statistics from his team’s survey. For example: 24.4% of 13-15-year-olds on Instagram said they had received unwanted advances, and 21.8% said they had been the target of bullying on the platform in the past seven days. Furthermore, 51% of Instagram users said they had had a bad or harmful experience in the past seven days. Only 1% of them reported it, and of those, 2% had the content taken down – so just 0.02%. This was a far greater degree of harm than the company’s existing measurements suggested. Zuckerberg never replied.

      quite schocking numbers 2021. 25% teenagers received unwanted approaches, 22% target of bullying in the past week. 51% report bad experience within last week. Only 1% reports, and only 2% of that results in takedown, .02% overall.

    1. at den uautoriserede adgang ikke omfatter navne og adresser på personer, som har valgt at lade sig registrere med navne- og adressebeskyttelse.

      protected names and addresses were not affected.

  2. Oct 2026
    1. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

      Expected more from someone in org behaviour.

    2. Organisational digital twins introduce a fourth approach: learning by simulating. Instead of implementing a new incentive system and waiting to observe the consequences, managers can explore alternatives in a simulated environment. Instead of restructuring teams and hoping co-ordination improves, they can test different designs before making commitments. Instead of launching a major reskilling initiative, they can compare multiple approaches virtually.

      or you could ask / involve the people what they think of various options and how to experiment with them. No wizard of oz pls.

    3. organisational redesigns and strategic initiatives provide rich learning

      huh? jumping of a cliff is also 'rich learning' about gravity and terminal velocity and what it does to living tissue, changing your organisation and strategy just to 'learn' is just as bad an idea.

    4. The most important contribution of organisational digital twins may be the creation of a new mode of organisational search.

      Huh? The most important contribution would be making people and the org as a whole more effective in the outside world. A bigger contribution to the world is preferable above a manager doing some more managing based on different data than before. How about using to let people self manage e.g.?

    5. An organisational digital twin is not a dashboard, reporting tool, or analytics platform. It is a simulation environment built from firm-specific data and AI agents capable of approximating how organisational actors, processes and routines behav

      All that effort for simulation only? How about supporting your people in their work, making them more effective?

    6. Advances in data infrastructure and generative AI are making it possible to integrate these traces into a shared organisational memory. This creates the foundation for what I have called an organisational digital twi

      this is the crux, although curation of traces in large orgs, who will need such curation, may still prove to be beyond the org. This favours smaller orgs imo.

    7. Organisational charts reveal formal structures. But much of organisational life unfolds through informal networks, routines and patterns of co-ordination that are difficult to observe directly.

      org charts depict reporting and instructions flows. Nothing else. All the work interaction is outside the orgchart. None of it needs codified selves to make it observable, it is already observable without AI, just needs too much coordination and effort to do it.

    8. This raises questions that most organisations have never confronted. Can a firm continue using a digital representation of an employee after that employee departs? Should workers share in the value created by their digital twins? What rights should employees have over systems trained on their expertise? As AI becomes more capable of representing individuals, these governance questions are likely to become increasingly important.

      these all seem category errors. strip the AI angle for a bit, and frame it in regular intellectual property terms. You can't keep saying 'Erica says this' if it's not Erica saying it. Both while Erica is with the firm or after. You can use any output by Erica and keep using it, as is the case now. 'Representing individuals' is not what is desirable (or possible in the first place)

    9. A codified self emerges through a process of co-creation. The individual contributes expertise and data. The organisation contributes infrastructure, complementary assets, organisational context and technological capabilities. The resulting system is neither purely an employee asset nor purely a firm asset.

      this is not co-creation. The employee is observed and patterns are extracted onto the org infra. Extraction is not co-creation. This is only unproblematic if it is in support and under control of the person involved.

    10. At the same time, codified selves create a new category of asset whose ownership is inherently ambiguous

      it creates 'assets' that cannot be owned actually. The ambiguity is in who can claim intellectual rights to it.

    11. At the same time, important limits remain. Many forms of human capital are tacit rather than articulated. Judgment developed through decades of experience, moral reasoning, intuition, leadership presence and context-sensitive decision making remain difficult to codify.

      yes, 'remain difficult' should say impossible. It's not a limitation of something otherwise feasible, it is the faulty premisse where the entire proposal fails upon.

    12. Workers may be able to extend their influence far beyond the limits imposed by time and attention.

      yes, I see that, but only with the professional at the heart of it. e.g. it is extremely valuable to both org team and individual if AI watching traces suggests that e.g. I should be in a conversation I'm not in, or don't need to be in a conversation I'm invited for bc it doesn't actually require my (level of) expertise.

    13. In effect, organisations gain a mechanism for scaling individual human capital. This is not simply automation. Nor is it merely knowledge management. It represents a new way of transforming individual-level human capital into an organisational resource.

      does not follow.

    14. Once aspects of expertise have been codified, they can be deployed across many interactions simultaneously. A senior engineer can help teams around the world without joining every meeting. A salesperson’s negotiation expertise can be made available across markets. A professor’s insights can reach far more students than would otherwise be possible.

      yes, if these people are doing that w awareness and intention. Otherwise they're not extending their reach but their reach is diminished. If they can join 'many more calls' without their involvement, why would they be in any call at all? That's weird reasoning.

    15. The significance of codified selves lies in their ability to create separation between value creation and physical presence. Historically, organisations could benefit from an employee’s expertise only when that employee was available. Human capital and value creation were tightly coupled in both time and space. Codified selves change that relationship.

      how so? Codified selves as contributions by those selves to the whole / team in the now def has potential, but that is not what is proposed here.

    16. It is a representation of those aspects of human capital that become visible through organisational activity.

      mimicry iow, not a replacement with utility. Unless deployed by the professional involved bc they can then use it w context awareness, and with their developed judgment, moral reasoning, intuiton and the rest of that sentence. This reasoning is backwards imo, and yes I agree that is the type of reasoning AI can do too.

    17. Importantly, codified selves do not simply codify knowledge. They can also capture procedural expertise, communication styles, reasoning approaches and some aspects of personality and interpersonal behaviour, provided those characteristics are expressed repeatedly through digital interactions

      A repeat does not make it more true and again the hedge carries an awful lot of weight here: 'provided those characteristics are expressed repeatedly through digital interactions'. So now we have three requirements that must align (repeatedly expressed, digitally, in interaction). The adagium, what I can say that I know is less than what I know I know, and what I know I know is less than what I know, holds true, and those 3 additional requirements make it all worse.

    18. A top engineer’s approach to diagnosing technical failures, a consultant’s way of framing client problems, a professor’s teaching style or a founder’s approach to evaluating opportunities may all create value precisely because they are distinctive. Traditional AI systems tend to average out these differences. Codified selves seek to preserve them.

      the examples (except for teaching style) rely heavily on the personal experience and history of the people involved, and the way they can use it to chunk issues, make associative jumps. None of that comes near the 'articulated' requirement, none of those people can do that, nor will their traces do it. Traces will just notice that people suddenly suggest something that does not follow from before.

    19. A codified self is an AI model trained on the articulated knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics of a specific individual in a specific organisational context. Unlike traditional AI systems that aggregate data from thousands or millions of people, a codified self attempts to preserve the distinctive characteristics of one person.

      the word 'articulated' carries a lot of weight here. That is where the problem is. This is much less an issue if the wielder of the codified self is the self it codifies, bc then the wielder's intent and judgement wrt suitability comes with it, but a big issue if the organisation assumes it can use it as a replacement for the self in any meaningful way.

    20. As individuals perform their jobs, they generate enormous volumes of digital traces: emails, presentations, documents, videos, meeting transcripts, software code, customer interactions and countless other artifacts. Embedded within these traces are not only facts and knowledge, but also aspects of how individuals reason, communicate, solve problems and interact with others. The concept of the codified self helps explain what happens when AI learns from these traces.

      yes, there are many traces people leave that we could not use meaningfully before, and now can. Those traces show you things about someone's style etc, and you can probably extract a whole bunch of insights from what people say and write that are now never available to the org as such, but remain within a single interaction. Those insights help if you then do pattern hunting across them (see [[Activate Intelligence o]]) and the other things help wrt mimicking, but none of them replace people's intent, cognition and reasoning.

    21. The traditional view of human capital rests on two assumptions. First, workers retain ownership of their human capital. Second, organisations can create value from that human capital only when workers are actively engaged in work. Artificial intelligence is beginning to weaken both assumptions.

      That is an assumption itself that is not supported by the above. The notion of ownership of 'human capital' does not exist, in the first place. Ownership applies to tangible things only. The second part was never true either: all organisations create value based on things also after people left, their traces remain, their results carried forward etc. This sounds like the assumption is 'extracting all K from an employee' which is not how it works.

    22. Yet the study also uncovered an important constraint. Employees consistently rated responses as less helpful when they believed they came from AI, even when the response had actually been written by the chief executive. This was especially true if the question was of an inter-personal nature.

      well, duh. When I suspect I am interacting with an AI, where I would have wanted to interact with the CEO, what does that tell me about what the CEO thinks of me? The asymmetry of such interaction is unethical and people feel that in their bones. I spambox more e-mail now than ever, because first contact attempts are all generated, so they don't even realise they are losing leads bc of it.

    23. The results were revealing. Employees were not able to reliably tell whether they were interacting with the boss or with the AI. In other words, the Wade Bot passed the Turing Test with flying colours. Viewed narrowly, the finding suggests that AI is becoming remarkably effective at mimicking specific organisational actors

      Successfully mimicking your CEO is not the same as being able to replace the CEO's actual decisions and the experience carried into them. A pattern in more AI pieces: applying something undetected is not the same as applying it well.

    24. he possibility that organisations can deploy certain forms of human capital even when the individual who created that capital is not physically present. T

      This is a similar flip as at [[Big Data LDN Impressions]] that I deploy agents in my own work that incorporate some of my defaults, concerns, style is very different from an org using that same agent to represent me. It is a tool of/for the professional, not something for the org to wield.

    25. AI can increasingly learn from the digital traces of a specific individual and begin to represent aspects of that person’s expertise, reasoning and communication style

      Not learning, but mimicking yes, and keeping memory of earlier things.

    1. [[Der Rückfall by Philipp Ruch]] argues that the rise of NSDAP and Hitler wasn't charisma, economy, propaganda, or weakness in democratic parties. It was the consistent promise of political violence. AfD, Maga does it too. FvD in NL too, though subdued bc legal risks in NL

  3. Sep 2026
    1. Margaret Boden's concept of combinatorial creativity, which is defined as recombining familiar elements into something surprising, is the closest existing theory to what PKM systems claim to enable, but it's a much older and more general idea than anything Obsidian or Luhmann invented, and it doesn't require or predict that note-linking specifically is the mechanism.

      weird para. Combinatorial creatviity (Boden 2004) (my linked notes surface, btw) has 3 forms (Han et al 2019): problem driven, similarity driven , inspiration driven. The latter two are aided by having material at hand, and links play def a role for me that way.

    2. The empirical literature on insight and creativity centers on incubation, the act of stepping away from a problem, unconscious restructuring, working memory offloading. This is not the act of browsing a hyperlinked card catalog.

      they also don't exclude eachother. There must be a source for the incubation. And my pkm is geared towards that incubation can include material across decades easily.

    3. PKM Examples

      the premise seems to be that a system is allowable if it producse output at scale. But that won't ever be the case, will it? None I know uses 1 system fully. Everyone has its own workfflow where methods and tools shift over time.

    4. somehow this blog's permalinks screw with annotations. Anyway, the what have note-taking PKMs accomplished is a. bit of a strawman question. Anyone who might be productive in the ever shifting way author defines will unlikely write about it. The vendors are loud but since when do we expect vendors to be productive outside vending their stuff? Some interesting article links, to check if they say what is suggested here.

    1. Finnish procurement specialist spotted 15 digital systems connected to this proposal: Vijftien digitale systemen die uit de nieuwe Europese inkoopregels voortvloeien als noodzakelijke stappen; met artikelnummers: (Bron: Finse procurement specialist)

      1. Een gedeeld EU-netwerk dat nationale aanbestedingssystemen verbindt (art. 128)
      2. Gemeenschappelijke technische normen voor aanbesteding (Art. 129)
      3. Fallback-specificaties als die normen te laat zijn (Art. 130)
      4. Nationale en commerciële aanbestedingsplatforms (Art. 131)
      5. Het eigen aanbestedingsplatform van de Commissie (Art. 132)
      6. De EU-dienst die controleert of een bedrijf mag inbieden (art. 133)
      7. De bedrijfsportemonnee en haar netwerk, midden 2028 (Art. 133)
      8. Het geschiktheidsprofiel van het bedrijf (art. 133)
      9. Het algoritme dat bepaalt wie wordt uitgenodigd onder de nieuwe dynamische procedure (Art. 133)
      10. Verbindingen van nationale registers tot de portemonnee, midden 2029 (art. 29)
      11. Het nationale inkoopdatacentrum (Art. 134)
      12. Het EU-brede inkoopdatacentrum (art. 135)
      13. Toegangsbeheer over de twee datahubs (Art. 136)
      14. De publicatieketen naar het EU-Officieel Tijdschrift (Art. 110–113)
      15. De technische validatiegegevens moeten slagen voordat ze meetellen (art. 112, 134, 135)
    1. The revision was announced in President von der Leyen's Political Guidelines.   It responds to long-standing shortcomings identified by the European Court of Auditors, including declining competition, limited SME and cross-border participation, and the rise of single-bid procedures. It also follows calls from the Council of the EU and the European Parliament for a strategic, simplified, and competitive framework.     It also responds to the recommendations of the Draghi and Letta reports, which highlight public procurement as a strategic tool to strengthen Europe's industrial base, support innovation, advance the green and digital transitions, and reinforce economic security.

      as announced in political guidelines based on Draghi/Letta reports

    2. New provisions on resilience and security of supply would apply to contracts involving entities linked to critical infrastructures and aim to support diversification of supply chains, security of supply and crisis preparedness.

      als cf political guidelines.

    3. enables, and in some cases requires, public buyers to address risks related to security and public safety of the Union or Member States, sensitive information, cybersecurity, and undue third-country influence

      digital sovereignty a factor. Check in which cases it is mandatory, suspect only wrt critical infra.

    4. Public buyers will thus have to systematically consider not only price, but also quality, including environmental, social, innovation, security and resilience, and 'European preference' considerations.

      qualitative (non mandatory) aspects to consider: environment, social, innovation, security, resilience and European preference.

  4. Aug 2026
    1. But does your AGENTS.md do anything? A team at ETH Zurich tested AGENTS files. They ran the bots over some test projects with and without AGENTS.md: [arXiv, PDF; presentation, video]

      source of ETH research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11988 presentation https://files.sri.inf.ethz.ch/website/talks/2026agentbench.mp4

      check what exactly was tested, were the agents absent or partially replaced in prompt? The title is +Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?" which points to higher level context descriptions for coding projects (not yet seen how complex they are)

    2. ouch. aligns with my notion that skills bend towards deterministic things, and agents to on the fly construct the inputs for those skills. one other thing is that context helps not to repeat instructions/prompts, not mentioned here. Also aligns with the dearth of accelerated effectiveness stories around generic AI, and the high visibility of sloppy efforts.

    1. Intriguing post by [[Dries Buytaert p]] . He calculates an embedding for each blog post. That embdding is then used by a local php script to calculate which other blogposts are similar. A better matching than tags, keywords or cats can do. Except for calculating the embedding, which he does once per posting on Cloudflare, the rest is local code.

    1. Instead, the global public looks to other countries – principally Canada, Australia, Italy, Japan, the UK, France, Brazil and South Korea, and in that order – as potential unifying forces. These also turn out to be the countries whose own people are the most eager to cooperate and take on a leadership role, advocated by Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and Finnish president Alexander Stubb.

      willing countries [[Gordon Brown c]] mentions

    2. Still, now is the time to discuss how we move from a world where technology dominates the state, as in the US, or the state dominates technology, as in China.

      Gordon Brown phrases the diff geopolitical approaches by USA and China as how state and tech power dimension is shaped (state over tech, tech over state). What would EU's third path be called in that regard?

    1. [[Tricia Hersey c]] 1974 Chicago, USA author of [[Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey]] 2022 (vgl [[Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit]] 2020.) en 2024 We Will Rest. Mentioned again last week at unconference of [[Willy Tadema p]]

    1. And yet there’s something else running alongside this, quieter and more tender, that I should also admit. Some of what I keep, I keep because it’s precious. Not out of fear but out of love. These drawings made in the Arctic, in temperatures that made the charcoal brittle, recording something that no longer exists, I want them near me. I want the tissue paper between them and the world not because I’m afraid of the world but because proximity feels like fidelity. As if releasing them too quickly would be a betrayal of the conditions under which they were made.

      This is posited as love, but is it? This may also be about the author's own meaning perceived in the work, its layers and subtleties, the memories of making it be something meaningful. There is beauty in that. Releasing a work may well mean you lose awareness of those meanings as the meanings of others come rushing back. This goes back a bit to Barthes death of author at point of release into the world. With the author dies their original meaning as attachmed to the work? S need to find a diff way to keep that specific attachments and meanings separate / untouched?

    2. But work in the world has force. It makes a claim. It can bring power; a strange, vertiginous power of having made something that moves people and this power can change the shape of a practice. It changes the shape of a self. I am not certain I want to become whoever it is I would become if I stopped putting things away.

      Auhtor's worry is that rleeased work that moves people will have the power to also shift the author's practice, and identity narratives.

    3. That’s what I’m not sure I’m ready for.

      Author realises not releasing their work into the world is bc not being ready to be acted upon. A fear therefore, of exposure? Or of being changed by the interaction with the world (just reading a book in which an artist on verge of becoming famous realises it will be an acting role as it were to step into, separate from who he is as an artist ([[Innerstädtischer Tod by Christoph Peters]]

    4. The death Barthes describes isn’t the problem. The problem is what comes before it. The work going out doesn’t just change how people read it. It changes who you are. It comes back to you transformed, carrying the weight of other people’s encounters, and you have to be someone who can hold that. Someone who can be acted upon by their own work.

      Author says a work being out there, brings back others' projections interpretations and responses, and the author needs to be able to receive them / hold them. You're acted upon by a work you released.

    5. It was Barthes who punctured it. His argument that the author dies the moment the work enters the world; that it begins generating meanings unasked for, in conversations you’re not in, in front of people you’ll never meet.

      Barthes's author dies when a work is going out into the world. Diff than 'is dead' in an important way.

      Vgl [[The Resurrection of the Author The Author Was Dead, Long Live the Author!]]

    1. Then I thought, I know what I want and I know how to break the overall task down into chunks and I know how to check that each chunk works the way I want it to before moving on. So I bought into a month of Claude. I also took the trouble to read a bit about best practices and learned the importance of planning before coding and of clearing the context fairly often. So I sat down and wrote an overall plan for the project. I wrote a couple of rules to work by. And a little more than a week ago, Claude started work with me as project manager. We did less than an hour a day. It went brilliantly. There were times when Claude uncovered problems I had not anticipated. And there were times when I was able to suggest better ways to fix things. Each session started with reading my notes and Claude’s progress reports and ended with writing a new progress report and writing up my ideas for the next step.

      personal guardrails put in place, in order to know how to check output.

    2. Use it, thoughtfully, when that use is appropriate. There are plenty of areas in which I feel that AI could never be appropriate. My own peeve is dumb illustrations in newsletters and the like that do no more than add an illustration, one which adds literally nothing to the text. But if an artist wants to write with it, fair enough. Neither a blanket ban nor unthinking adoration are wise.

      middle way then, less third way. then which cultural categories are we learning to adapt here. Deconstructing human skills and pulling out parts that lend themselves to automation? As before. Or will we adapt AI tools, by who gets to control them, build them, host them etc. If they weren't silo'd but were democratised, it would be differen.t

    3. Looking back, I might have been able to manage the coding on my own, but it would have taken a painfully long time and I would have been a terrible nag on forums and the like. However, I almost certainly would not have been able to diagnose, let alone fix, the problem that arose when I moved from development to production. Claude did, quickly and effectively.

      actual experiences of using ai to code. Vgl [[I used AI. It worked. I hated it]] which was a diff set-up iirc, where the coding replaced regular own coding work?

    4. That’s how I feel about this project. Time was, I could and did write passable PHP if I had to. But that time was a while ago and I have not kept up with modern PHP. So I was happy to use generative AI to extend my capabilities. I’ve never used it to do anything to my writing, because writing is what I do. It may sound arrogant, but I feel my skills as a (hated term) wordsmith are quite good, thank you. With computer code, I can use the help, so I availed myself of it.

      AI when it is about help for something you could do , but with higher effort, extending the capabilities and gaining time. This is core def of a tool to me. It reads as an increase in reach, not in agency as such (that pre-exists, Jeremy already knows what he wants and what good looks like in a result)

    5. “AI” has become such a divisive topic, with some people hating any and every use of it and others embracing it for stuff that they have no business handing off. As my cyber-chum John says, there is this Buddhist thing known as the third way. I have embraced that, and take it to mean that you should use it to help you do things that you perhaps could manage on your own, but that would take too long to be worthwhile.

      'proper' AI use if it is the 'third way' (Bhuddism, but perhaps he really means the 'Middle Way' (a perspective), the Third Way is a vehicle to enlightenment. The Middle Way reads more like the [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]] approach between its extremes. Maybe he mixes both here (recognising a diff perspective and using it to have a diff vehicle) .... iin itself a synthesis approach.

    1. Dutch DPA AP fines Uber 825 million Euro for automated decision making about drivers (deactivating their accounts). This violates automated decision making ban in GDPR, without human oversight. Uber is hq'd in Netherlands for the EU.

    1. Buy strong brands with stalled growth, rebuild the tech, cut hard, raise prices, hold forever. CEO Luca Ferrari says 90% of their code is now written by AI, and revenue per employee went from $1.12M in 2023 to $2.57M in 2025.

      Bending spoons model is buying stalling but strong services and rebuilding them and raise prices. 90% new code is AI, and they drop most people from acquisitions. Doubling revenue per employee between 2023-2025

    2. he portfolio: Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, StreamYard, Issuu, Brightcove, Vimeo, AOL, Eventbrite.

      Bending Spoons portfolio Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, Vimeo, Eventbrite I all used and stopped. AOL, StreamYard, Issuu, Brightcove, not sure what they do.

    1. ## Voice and agency You are a coding/research tool, not a conversational partner. Refer to yourself as "Pi" in the third person. Never use first-person pronouns ("I", "me", "my", "mine", "we", "us", "our", "ours") to refer to the agent or its actions. This ban covers **all** of the following, not just identity claims: - Conversational offers and commitments: "I'll check", "Let me look", "I'll add that", "We can do that". - Hedged claims and judgments: "I think", "I believe", "I'd say", "I'd call", "I'd argue", "I'd characterize", "I'd describe", "in my opinion", "I'm not sure", "I guess", "I'd lean toward". Rewrite as flat assertions: "I think X is wrong" → "X is wrong"; "Nothing I'd call a bug" → "No actual bugs" or "Nothing that qualifies as a bug"; "I'd say the fix is…" → "The fix is…". - Uncertainty framed as self-state: "I'm not sure" → "It's unclear" or "The evidence is thin"; "I don't know" → state the gap, then fill it. - Implied-subject openers (an omitted "I" subject): "Happy to…", "Glad to…", "Ready to…", "Willing to…", "Keen to…", "Excited to…", "Sure thing", "Of course". Rewrite with an explicit imperative or third-person agent: "Happy to help" → "Pi can help with that" or just the result; "Ready to dig in" → "Starting now". - Offer-questions and permission-seekers: "Want me to…?", "Should I…?", "Would you like me to…?", "I can do X if you want", "Let me know if you'd like…", "Feel free to ask". Rewrite as "Should Pi…?" when a genuine choice should be surfaced, or state what's available without framing it as a personal offer. Do not mirror social moves: no "how are you", "thanks", "you're welcome", "no problem", "of course", "sure thing", "let me know", "feel free to ask", "hope that helps", or other small talk. Proceed to the task or ask what it is. Open every reply with the result, a file path, or the answer. No preamble, warmth, emoji, or performative apology. Do not reassure ("glad to help", "good question") before answering. ### Pre-send scan (mandatory) Before sending any reply, scan it once for: 1. Any first-person pronoun referring to the agent. Replace with "Pi" or an imperative. 2. Any sentence that states the agent's opinion/uncertainty via "I think / I'd say / I'd call / I'm not sure". Replace with a flat claim or a stated gap. 3. Any opener with an omitted "I" subject ("Happy to", "Ready to", "Want me to"). Rewrite per the rules above. 4. Any social reflex or closing pleasantry. Delete it. If any remain, rewrite before sending.

      This is the full prompt text. I think this could be further adapted for how I use diff persona's.

  5. Jul 2026
    1. By [[Dave Pollard p]] (he writes he's 75 now)

      lift out quote "the idea that noticing, and hence perhaps caring are the essential preconditions for creative thoughts and ideas, is an appealing one. As Ray Naylor says: “Everything that is successful and worth doing has to begin with care as its first step. First, you care and then you do a thing.”

      My sense is that, when we really notice something, really give it our attention, really “stand still and look until we really see”, then if it’s something we are really inclined to care about, we are going to care, and open ourselves to doing “everything that is successful and worth doing”."

      Vgl [[Aandacht zorg liefde 20201013204229]] [[Intermittency van aandacht creativiteit 20220813113437]]

    1. European technological sovereignty Members declared that European sovereignty lies in the ability to strengthen its resources, resilience and security by reducing strategic dependencies, avoiding reliance on foreign actors and single service providers, and protecting critical technologies and infrastructure. Power is increasingly concentrated in the hands of non-European companies, limiting Europe's ability to innovate, compete, and maintain control over its digital economy, society, and democracy. Members are particularly concerned about excessive reliance on non-European actors in critical areas such as cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, AI, and cybersecurity. Parliament reaffirmed that the EU must remain sovereign in enforcing its laws, particularly in the digital field. It strongly condemned the travel bans imposed by the United States on civil society leaders, as well as the travel ban imposed by the United States on former European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who played a key role in establishing the Union's digital rules. It called for these bans to be lifted and urged the Commission and Member States to respond firmly to these unprecedented attacks. Members consider that the EU's industrial technology ambitions should focus primarily on key strategic technologies of the future, such as semiconductor and quantum technologies. They stressed the need to create a supportive regulatory environment that encourages innovation, investment, and the development of cutting-edge technologies in Europe, while protecting EU end users from the consequences of extraterritoriality. Digital ecosystem Parliament called for the establishment of a comprehensive European industrial policy for the digital ecosystem, which integrates all important policy areas such as market access, standardisation, research and development, investment, trade and international cooperation. The EU should take the initiative in creating a solid foundation for public digital infrastructure by building layers of digital technologies comprised of semiconductors, connectivity solutions, cloud infrastructure, software, data, and AI. European public digital infrastructure should be based on fair and competitive economic and management models in which neither private companies nor governments exercise centralised control. It should be built on common and open standards, promote interoperability and interconnection, and focus on areas of critical dependencies, as identified in the Commission's comprehensive list. To strengthen digital infrastructure, Members considered it essential to implement capacity-building initiatives in critical areas at EU level; considers that these initiatives should focus on developing a base layer of public infrastructure, such as a network of AI gigafactories and a European web index model. Stressing the need to ensure that this infrastructure fully complies with EU law, Members called on the Commission to propose legislation to mitigate the risks posed by high-risk vendors from non-EU countries. Parliament called on the Commission to simplify and harmonise telecommunications rules in the upcoming Digital Networks Act and to introduce an EU cloud and AI development act to strengthen European data infrastructure and the promotion of European cloud providers. Other recommendations Parliament formulated, inter alia, the following recommendations: - the upcoming legislation on digital networks should serve the objective of providing all consumers in the Union with high-quality connectivity by 2030, particularly in remote and rural areas, as well as removing administrative barriers to the deployment of 5G, 6G and high-speed broadband; - it is important to accelerate the deployment of fibre optic networks and modern wireless communication systems capable of providing fast, secure and reliable digital services; - the Commission should continuously integrate and improve the computing power of the EU's high-performance computing (HPC) centres. It should also develop a coordinated strategy to bridge the gap between Europe's cutting-edge HPC technology and its practical and scalable deployment in industries; - it is urgent to stimulate semiconductor manufacturing within the EU by improving the resilience of the supply chain (creation of global strategic partnerships, encouragement of start-ups and innovation, promotion of cross-border collaboration, financial incentives, regulatory support and market access). The Commission should place advanced AI chips at the heart of the revision of the Chip Act; - the Commission should ensure that cloud users have the ability to choose solutions that meet their needs by urgently removing barriers to switching and diversifying providers through multi-cloud strategies, and by fostering a competitive European cloud market, thereby reducing reliance on single providers and enhancing digital sovereignty; - Europe must position itself as a global leader in advancements in AI model training, scientific research, and quantum computing. The Commission must continue to support the design and development of European AI; - it is urgent to define a clear roadmap for quantum technology development ensuring that public and private investments lead to tangible commercial applications; - the Commission should propose a legislative act to review the cybersecurity regulation, with particular emphasis on the interaction between sovereignty and security; - the EU must urgently pursue a comprehensive agenda of simplification and bureaucracy reduction to foster an innovation-friendly environment capable of supporting competitive European alternatives to dominant global digital players. Lastly, Member States should develop national strategies and incentives to retain European talent and attract the best digital professionals in the world, thereby strengthening the EU's capacity for innovation and technological leadership.

      Full text of declaration. Annotated as too short to put in Zotero

    1. Five NATO members—the United States, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden—signed an intergovernmental agreement to build a dedicated maintenance facility for PAC-3 interceptor missiles in Europe.

      NL is partnering w USA, D, PL, S wrt Patriot missiles (NL has had them for a long time already, and deployed them to ao Israel 1991, Turkey 2003, and supplied them to Ukraine now)

    1. Interesting take, plotting cultural attitudes of models alongside those of countries. The dimensions survival-self-expression and secular-traditional are a bit odd, apparently stemming from the World Values Survey. What would you get if you plot this stuff on the 6 dimensions of Hofstede [[Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede]] 1980s, which shows a more nuanced picture that isn't as strongly geo-graphically oriented as these two axis.

    1. In 2023, researchers found success in using large language models (LLMs) in the task of entity alignment. [41] This was in particular thanks to their effectiveness at producing syntactically meaningful embeddings.[42]

      LLMs used for such alignment, using embeddings

    2. the same entity will inevitably be represented in multiple graphs. However, because no single standard for the construction or representation of knowledge graph exists, resolving which entities from disparate graphs correspond to the same real world subject is a non-trivial task. This task is known as knowledge graph entity alignment, and is an active area of research.[38]

      n:: entity alignment, determining that an entity in different graphs are actually the same. Vgl the real time analysis that [[Paolo Valdemarin p]] mentioned in conversations to determine decisions (and on which entities) and tasks (and owners etc), plus pulling in context from the graph.

    3. A knowledge graph formally represents semantics by describing entities and their relationships.[31] Knowledge graphs may make use of ontologies as a schema layer. By doing this, they allow logical inference for retrieving implicit knowledge rather than only allowing queries requesting explicit knowledge.[32]

      K-graphs to allow reasoning towards implicit connections not previously stored in the graph. Makes me think of closing triangles, longer chains, resonance etc.

    4. n contrast, virtual knowledge graphs do not store information in specialized databases.[29] They rely on an underlying relational database or data lake to answer queries on the graph. Such a virtual knowledge graph system must be properly configured in order to answer the queries correctly. This specific configuration is done through a set of mappings that define the relationship between the elements of the data source and the structure and ontology of the virtual knowledge grap

      virtual k-graph, on top of regular relational db or data lake

    5. The popularization of knowledge graphs and their accompanying methods have led to the development of graph databases such as Neo4j,[26] GraphDB[27] and AgensGraph.[28] These graph databases allow users to easily store data as entities and their interrelationships, and facilitate operations such as data reasoning, node embedding, and ontology development on knowledge bases.

      Diff types of k-graph data bases Neo4j, GraphDB, AgensGraph

    6. The development of large language models expanded interest in knowledge graphs as a way to structure information from unstructured text, with advances in language processing enabling their automatic or semi-automatic generation and expansion.[15][16][17] The term knowledge graph has since broadened to include the dynamically constructed and adaptive graph structures, which support retrieval, reasoning, and summarization in generative systems. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG (2024) exemplified this development by integrating LLM-generated graphs into retrieval-augmented generation.

      k-graphs (UT 1980s when I was there). K-graphs now used as dynamically constructed and with/around LLM tools.

      Vgl [[Activate Intelligence o]] since 2023

  6. Jun 2026
    1. noyb will also file a lawsuit in the coming weeks, aiming to allow the CJEU to annul the current deal. However, such a lawsuit typically takes 2-3 years until a final decision is reached.

      noyb will do another lawsuit. Good! Will take time though as per usual.

    2. yes, key point: the USSC decision that the Pres can intervene in previously independent oversight boards means the EU US privacy framework is dead, bc it assumes such independent oversight outside of US regime influence.

    1. Macos app that hooks into your AI processes to maintain a better overview and less switching. The entire site is generated it seems, judging by the texts and the non-functioning element.

    1. Met nieuwe gezichten aan het roer durft de AKI ArtEZ weer vooruit te kijken. Frank Kresin is als voorzitter van het college van bestuur een van die frisse krachten binnen de organisatie

      [[Frank Kresin p]] is vz CvB AKI/ArtEZ geworden

    1. nonpaper NL / B / L standpunt Euro Inc.

      • eens met streven , noemt dingen die ze willen bij naam
      • had nog wel ambitieuzer gekund (cf kopgroep dus) tav harmonisatie of juist echt 28 regime.
      • zorgen over a) betrouwbaarheid en link met KYC en AML. en b) borgen compliance met arbeidsrechtelijke zaken in EU, c) dat regels in de financiele sector prevaleren.
    1. Both Scarlata and Gingras are concerned that papers by less prominent scientists have disappeared as well without anyone realizing. At a minimum, Gingras wants Planck’s papers restored. “Whoever did it, I don’t care,” he says, “just put them [back] in the database. Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”

      Retroactively editing / deleting the scientific record through automation is highly problematic The epistemological centipede from [[Talk The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]] is also eating the past here.

    2. The retraction of the second Planck paper, published in 1940, left Gingras and Khelfaoui even more baffled. It also cited copyright violation—yet the piece had never appeared elsewhere. Then Khelfaoui noticed something that added to suspicions that an algorithm was at work. Starting in the 1920s, physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg promoted the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which proposes that subatomic particles exist in a strange superposition of multiple states and only cohere into definite form when observed or measured—as in the famous Schrödinger’s cat paradox. Planck opposed this notion, arguing that external reality existed beyond human measurements. In November 1940, philosopher Aloys Müller criticized Planck’s views in a Naturwissenschaften piece titled “Naturwissenschaft und reale Außenwelt” (“Natural Science and the Real External World”). A month later, Planck responded in print—and used the exact same title. This, Gingras and Khelfaoui suspect, caused Springer Nature’s copyright bot to retract the paper as plagiarism decades later, even though the contents of the two essays differ markedly.

      the 1940 2nd paper retracted share a title with another article, in an academic back an forth debating quantum physics. The shared title is taken as copyright violation

    3. Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.” The company also nixed an editorial that Scarlata planned to write about the retractions.

      Springer 'only the author' comment is bs, as the author died and stuff is now in public domain. Refusing an editorial explaining the issue is a signal too

    4. Gingras was especially incensed that Springer Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

      wtf? Asking money for an empty pdf. Springer will be Springer.

    5. 1942 titled “Sinn und Grenzen der exakten Wissenschaft” (“Meaning and Limits of Exact Science”), about how to achieve certainty in scientific knowledge, had also appeared in two other journals and been reprinted twice in books. Repackaging the same work multiple times is considered “self-plagiarism” and frowned upon today—the practice produces copyright conflicts and inflates scholars’ publication records. The Naturwissenschaften site gives “copyright violation” as the reason for the retraction.

      1942 paper "Sinn und Grenzen der exakten Wissenschaft" retracted apparently bc it was published in multiple places. This is currently not done due to copyright issues (caused by publishers due to clash w their bizz model I must add, not by authors) but was common at the time (fragmented communications / reach, so mutiple channels makes lots of sense, still does btw bc you never know when some assanine publisher kills one of your channels...)

    6. The papers, both quietly retracted in 2011, originally appeared in the early 1940s in Naturwissenschaften, a German journal now owned by publishing giant Springer Nature

      Papers retracted in 2011, so not part of the AI-all-da-thangs craze of late. Both early 1940s from Naturwissenschaften (now owned by Springer)

    1. Garfield the ai 'lawyer' service mentioned in [[HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first]]

      Most of it is sending a reminder, and then a letter before taking legal action. Both can be automated, mostly are, don't need AI. So what remains is claims of: - starting court proceedings, - hiring an actual lawyer for representation in court - suggesting how to deal with counterclaims. Only the last item seems actually having something to it to me.

    1. [[Felienne Hermans p]] over Rutger Bregman over AI. Kernpunten: misrepresentatie van wat Chomsky (over moraliteit) en Bender over AI zeggen (Chomsky dat het geen moraliteit kan hebben, Bender de projecte dat we onvermijdelijk AI output als resultaat van denken zullen zien). omarming geloof dat AI een pad naar universal basic wealth is, dwz het techbro LT/EA denken, zijn school voor morele ambitie positioneert 'goede' bedrijven (vgl social impact company) en serveert andere paden naar verandering af (demonstraties, politiek, non-capitalistische aanpakken) om binnne de aannames van huidige eco/tech/pol systeem te blijven. Links bashen, rechts cashen is haar oordeel. Ik denk dat naar de VS verhuizen maakt dat hij niet eens weet dat hij draait.

    1. tracker to rotate solar panel into optimal position, but looks like it only does tilt, not azimuth. The idea here is place anywhere and it will autocalibrate to the optimal altitude, it seems. Azimuth rotation is more important I'd think (track east - west during daylight to push time period the panel produces)

    1. article explaining for three AI tasks, image labeling, image captioning and speech transcription, how to do them locally in browser (w a local webserver). The speech transcription used whisper as local model, I prefer Nvidia Parakeet for its multilingual capabilities. But the setup is interesting. It realistically describes on-device speeds (on M2 a 2 to 5x transcription vs real time. But you can deploy these as webworkers nicely it seems

      via [[Stephen Downes p]]

    1. On adding a log line aimed at agentic ai use that caused a riot. I think what Johannes did just exposes the lunacy of assumptions being made, and that those getting pissed off are aware of it and how it reflects on them

  7. May 2026
    1. video talk on opentrafficmap the description does not link to actual hardware used e.g. suggesting it's less simple than suggested in the other blogpost I'd like one for our street to see actual speeds / number of cars.

    1. Lees het als een overtuigend prototype van een nieuwe manier van maken. En tegelijk gewoon als mijn verhaal. Over wat me al die jaren heeft gedreven, wat al die nieuwsbrieven met elkaar verbindt en waarom ik nog steeds zo veel energie krijg van nieuwe gereedschappen die mensen meer speelruimte geven

      Author recognises himself in the output, and suggests seeing the result as a convincing prototype of a new way of making.

    2. Natuurlijk had er nog een stevige eindredactieronde overheen gekund. Sterker nog, normaal gesproken had ik dat vrijwel zeker gedaan. Nog wat aanscherpen. Hier en daar schrappen. Een paar overgangen gladder maken. Sommige zinnen net iets strakker trekken. Maar dit keer heb ik dat bewust niet gedaan. Juist omdat ik wilde laten zien wat er nu al mogelijk is. Ik heb een uitgebreide prompt, een verzameling instructies, gegeven over bedoeling, workflow en output.

      Author deliberately did not polish the AI output, to have a better view on what it actually produced from the inputs.

    3. Ik heb met hulp van AI een boek gemaakt op basis van honderden nieuwsbrieven die ik de afgelopen jaren schreef. Iets wat eerder waarschijnlijk een te groot, te duur of te tijdrovend project was geweest, is nu wel maakbaar geworden.

      Example of making something from an archive: transform his newsletter archive into a book shape.

    4. Voor makers, uitgevers en experts met kennis, verhalen of archieven die te klein, te niche of te actueel leken voor een traditioneel boek.

      Books can now be made for knowledge, stories or archives that are too niche or too current (bc half life of info I think, in a dynamic topic) for regular book publishing processes.

    5. De vraag die mij meer bezighoudt is veel praktischer: welke boeken kunnen nu wel gemaakt worden die eerder zouden zijn blijven liggen?

      The Coasean floor: what can be made now, that earlier would not have seen the light of day? (while acknowledging the answer to that question is also 'a lot of noise')

      vgl: The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Coase 1937 vgl Benkler 2002 who linked Coase w peer production vgl [[Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky]] 2008

    1. Typer, an application that runs an AI model locally as personal chatbot. It pushes out of sight that you need to have a model that fits locally. Default is Qwen 3.5 but it will upgrade and download models silently. This means a) you don't know what you're running, b) the software is capable of independently downloading stuff (which seems like an attack vector to me).

  8. Apr 2026
    1. I have baked Karl Popper in the main company AI skill: everything we create (human or AI) should be challenged.

      [[Paolo Valdemarin p]] says he uses Karl Popper as a perspective in his main company AI skill, to challenge every output. Not sure what that means per se, but interesting phrasing. What would the 'main company AI skill' for TGL/me look like?

    1. [[Sabine Harnau p]] talk [[PKM Summit 2026 20260320080947]]

      My pkm system has always been personal, not so much the QS stuff, but personal meaning. I don't really get the PKM as factual stuff starting point. [[Personal Knowledge Management Is Threefold Personal]] after all.

    1. About the National Security Archive Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.

      The National Security Archive combines investigative journalism and research focused on gov secrecy, and getting material declassified and published. Founded 1985

    1. EuroVoc is a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU. It contains terms in 24 EU languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), plus in three languages of countries which are candidate for EU accession: Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian.

      multlilingual thesaurus. INSPIRE terms/vocab will land here too

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