23 Friday Jan 2026
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AI, education, News, Philosophy, Politics, teaching, university
Martyn Rhisiart Jones (editor)
Madrid, 23rd January 2026
What is the purpose of University?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
15 Thursday 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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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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13 Tuesday 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 Monday 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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