Monthly Archives: Jan 2026

Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009 – 2026/01/17

16 Fri Jan 2026

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Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

First edition: The Jewish Chronicle – 19th May 2009

Revised edition: Friday 16th January 2026

Benedetti died at his home in Montevideo on Sunday, 17th May 2009, at the age of eighty-eight. With his passing, Latin America loses one of its most prolific and affectionately regarded literary voices of the postwar era. He was a figure whose work spanned more than eighty volumes across poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and journalism. His work captured the quotidian rhythms of urban life, the ache of exile, and the stubborn commitments of the left. He wrote with an unpretentious directness that endeared him to generations of readers.

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The Rise of Agentic AI in 2026 – 2026/01/15

15 Thu Jan 2026

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Is Agent Orange Agentic AI?

Sir Afilonius Rex and Martyn Rhisiart Jones

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Paris, Thursday 15th January 2026

Strap in, you beautiful, trusting little optimist. We’re about to crank the dial so far past irony that it transforms into existential despair. It comes with a side of eye-roll. Here’s your precious 2026 AI agent prophecy. It is now properly marinated in contempt. It is served with a garnish of pure, seething mockery.

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DATA WORLD: Big Data: The Art of Bullshit – 2026

15 Thu Jan 2026

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Bertxin Galestara and Sir Afilonius Rex,  based on an  opinion piece written by Marty Rhisiart Jones

Mountain View, 19th January 2017 – Bandoxa Thursday 15th January, 2026

“I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.” – Mel Brooks

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IT’S POLITICS: How The Welsh Made America – 2026/01/16

14 Wed Jan 2026

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Yes, We Did!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Friday 16th January 2026

Ah, Americans of Welsh origin. They were the quiet revolutionaries and the sneaky Founding Fathers. These are the guys and gals who basically built half the USA. Then, they vanished into the wallpaper like they owed money!

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IT’S POLITICS: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – 2026

14 Wed Jan 2026

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Get Your Authoritarian and Totalitarian Dogs off My Yard!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bandoxa, Wednesday 14 January 2026

Our service provider OpenAI could not process my prompt due to a moderation system. Please try to rephrase it changing potentially problematic words and try again. What a pile of dreck!

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,  oh boy, what a title! The minutes resemble the most boring bar mitzvah planning committee meeting in known history. Instead of arguing over chopped liver versus sushi and bara brith, they’re plotting to control the entire planet. And the punchline? It’s fake. A total forgery. A hoax so clumsy it makes a three-euro bill look like the genuine article. Yet this thing refuses to die. It’s like an unfortunate relative who keeps showing up at Thanksgiving with the same tired stories.

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Bridging Morality Across Political Divides – 2026

14 Wed Jan 2026

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Love Our World!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Wednesday 14th January 2026

The Universal Compass: Why Morality Transcends the Partisan Divide (With a Touch of Martyn Jones’s Slow-Burn Scepticism and a Proper Welsh Understated Grin)

Look, I’m not saying I’ve cracked the code to world peace or anything daft like that. However, morality, ethics, values, and principles don’t belong just to one side of the political spectrum. They’re not strictly red or blue. They’re like that jumper your mam keeps in the drawer ”just in case.” It’s full of holes and a bit faded. It smells faintly of mothballs. But it still does the job whoever’s wearing it. And if it doesn’t quite fit, well, there’s always room to stretch it a bit.

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Top AI Red Flags to Watch – 2026

13 Tue Jan 2026

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AI’s Red Flags – His Master’s Voice

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bandoxa, Tuesday 13th January 2026

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As we settle into 2026, artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic promise. It is embedded infrastructure. It powers everything from enterprise workflows and personal assistants to autonomous agents that act on our behalf. Yet with greater capability comes greater exposure. The biggest red flags this year are not hypothetical doomsday scenarios. They are already materialising in boardrooms. They are visible in cybersecurity dashboards, consumer wallets, and regulatory filings. Here are the most pressing warning signs to watch in 2026. These are drawn from industry reports. They originate from expert predictions. Emerging incident patterns also highlight them.

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Navigating Data Warehousing’s Professional Crisis – 2026

13 Tue Jan 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

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A quiet disquiet has settled over the once-confident corridors of enterprise data. What was, not so long ago, regarded as a rigorous and rather specialised craft, data warehousing and business intelligence, now frequently presents itself in a more casual, even improvisational guise. A growing number of senior executives, technology directors and indeed practitioners themselves confess to a mounting discomfort with the quality, and at times the sheer quantity, of self-proclaimed experts who populate the field.
 

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The GigaOm Data Lake Report

12 Mon Jan 2026

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Nonsense on parade

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Tuesday 13th January 2026

This GigaOm report is a classic vendor-sponsored benchmark. Fivetran picked the competitors and shaped the test scope. GigaOm (as explicitly disclosed) executed it “as-is” with “compatible configurations subject to judgment.” It’s marketing material presented as independent research. It has several structural weaknesses. These weaknesses make the 77–95% cost savings claim highly misleading for most real organisations.

1. It only measures ingestion compute, not true TCO.

The report repeatedly calls itself a “TCO report,” but it explicitly excludes:

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DATA WORLD: Information Technology Mirror Balls! – 2026/01/12

12 Mon Jan 2026

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Coffee and cakes for breakfast
On the Way of Saint James

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Brussels, 10th July 2019

Bandoxa, 12th January 2026

Imagine stepping onto a dimly lit stage, spotlight sharp, audience hushed. You lean into the mic and drop this line: “The key to success is sincerity.” Pause. Smile. “And if you can fake that… you’ve got it made.”

That’s George Burns, vaudeville legend, and cigar-chomping centenarian. He nails a truth that’s as old as show business. It is as fresh as today’s latest tech pitch deck.

Welcome to the strange, glittering world of information technology, where sincerity isn’t just optional—it’s optional and highly monetisable.

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