14 Wed Jan 2026
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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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antisemitism, art, authoritarianism, books, Europe, evil, humour, ignorance, israel, kennedy, netanyahu, Politics, protocols, racism, stupidy, totalitarianism, trump, vance, zion
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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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.
Continue reading13 Tue Jan 2026
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, chatgpt, corporate-welfare, cybersecurity, fraud, liars-bluff, read-between-the-lines, red-flags, technology
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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Martyn Rhisiart Jones12 Mon Jan 2026
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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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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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coexistence, decency, gaza, harmony, humanitarian, israel, live-and-let-live, palestine, peace, Politics, zionism
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, Monday 12th January 2026
Question of the day: Have there been any Zionists that could be described as decent, moral people of sound humanitarian values and principle?
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Madrid, Wednesday 14th January 2026
Right, listen. If you’ve ever sat through one of those AI conferences, you know the ones. Some bloke in a black polo neck stands on stage. He’s clearly never met a mirror he didn’t like. He says, “We’re on the cusp of AGI.” It sounds as if he’s just invented gravity. Then you’ll know the particular flavour of despair I’m talking about.
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Madrid, Tuesday 13th January 2026
As we venture further into 2026, the landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence has undergone a subtle but profound shift. The once-dazzling promise of autonomous AI agents has matured into something more prosaic. These self-directed digital entities can orchestrate tasks from customer engagement to complex data integration. Yet, they are no less pervasive. They are no longer novelties confined to experimental labs; they inhabit boardrooms, back offices and supply chains alike.
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