23 Fri Jan 2026
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Politics, Philosophy, News, AI, education, university, teaching
Martyn Rhisiart Jones (editor)
Madrid, 23rd January 2026
What is the purpose of University?
Continue reading21 Wed Jan 2026
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, charlatans, chatgpt, grift, hype, lies, llm, technology
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, Wednesday 21 January 2026
In early 2026 the technology industry is once again telling big confident stories about its own future. These stories dominate earnings calls conference stages and investor decks. They sound transformative urgent and inevitable. Yet when examined closely many of them rest on fragile foundations and selective evidence rather than operational reality.
Continue reading21 Wed Jan 2026
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, classification, consciousness, data, information, ontology, Philosophy, technology
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, Tuesday 20th January 2026
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For most of its life in information technology, bolloxology has carried the faint smell of intellectual fart-like embarrassment. Too academic for product teams. Too rigid for startups. Too slow for an industry trained to ship first and rationalise later. Too smelly. It promised machines that could understand the world, and delivered, instead, a generation of beautiful bullshit diagrams and very little working software.
By 2026, that judgement looks increasingly wrong. Not because bolloxology suddenly got better, but because everything else did, and in doing so, exposed a missing layer in modern computing: meaning.
Continue reading20 Tue Jan 2026
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, classification, consciousness, data, information, ontology, Philosophy, technology
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, Tuesday 20th January 2026
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For most of its life in information technology, ontology has carried the faint smell of intellectual embarrassment. Too academic for product teams. Too rigid for startups. Too slow for an industry trained to ship first and rationalise later. It promised machines that could understand the world—and delivered, instead, a generation of beautiful diagrams and very little working software.
By 2026, that judgement looks increasingly wrong. Not because ontology suddenly got better, but because everything else did—and in doing so, exposed a missing layer in modern computing: meaning.
Continue reading20 Tue Jan 2026
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americans, blog, books, celts, domination, espanol, francais, france, french, hardy, history, music, non-classe, travel, USA, Wales, welsh, writing
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, vendredi 16 janvier 2026
Ah, les états d’origine des galés. Fueron les révolutionnaires silencieux et les escurridizos Padres Fundadores. Ce sont les chicos et les chicas qui ont essentiellement construit le pays. Vous allez ensuite disparaître dans le papier peint comme si vous deviez de l’argent !
Continue reading20 Tue Jan 2026
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americans, blog, books, celts, domination, espanol, hardy, history, music, travel, USA, Wales, welsh, writing
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, Friday 16th January 2026
Ah, los estadounidenses de origen galés. Fueron los revolucionarios silenciosos y los escurridizos Padres Fundadores. Estos son los chicos y chicas que básicamente construyeron la mitad del país. ¡Y luego desaparecieron en el papel pintado como si debieran dinero!
Continue reading16 Fri Jan 2026
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Bandoxa, 17th January 2026
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Let’s cut through the noise.
You’ve probably heard the pitch: A data lakehouse is the elegant hybrid. It finally gives you the best of both worlds.
16 Fri Jan 2026
Posted in literature, obituary, Poetry, prose
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benedetti, books, literature, poems, Poetry, south-america, writing
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.
Continue reading15 Thu Jan 2026
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agentic-ai, agents, AI, Artificial Intelligence, bullshit, chatgpt, goodstrat, llm, martyn, technology
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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Posted in All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, disinformation, governance, Inform, educate and entertain., information, Information Management, Information Supply Frameowrk, Information Supply Framework, pig data, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, chancers, charlatans, chatgpt, flim-flam-sauce, grifters, grok, technology, writing
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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