Job: the great team at @open_sanctions is looking for a a full-stack data person. Go work with @pudo to help make sense of the world's sanctions data and build a database that tracks a wide range of entities in the public interest opensanctions.org/docs/compa…
I’m beginning to hate @vercel with the heat of a thousand suns. In June they decided that using the Next 13 functionality for showing a simple spinner while a page loads should be billed differently. And by different I mean: they raised our bill from $20 to $680 for the same site
Oder man könnte Sanktionen durchsetzen und internationale Geldwäsche bekämpfen, statt im Dogwhistle-Traditions-Dreikampf "Die Araber" anzutreten: focus.de/politik/deutschland…
Ok, Eigenversuch. 1. Ergebnis: BundID crashed, wenn man versucht einen Elster-Zugang und einen ePA zu koppeln, weil der ePA alle Werte in ALL CAPS hat und es sich ganz klar deshalb um einen anderen Bürger handelt.... Why even try.
If you're wondering how much work goes into investigative reporting, these are *only* the interview transcripts for a single article I'm drafting right now for @OCCRP. This isn't even counting the court & company records, open source trawling, etc.
Listening to 4 bankers talk about AI. There’s something so weirdly scripted about how institutions relate to innovation now: recognize 3 benefits, name 2 concerns, say you’re ahead of it, but that really we’ll see later. Applause.
Last year tech stocks got creamed, crypto is dying, there may be a recession coming, higher interest rates are making money harder to come by, and no one cares about the Metaverse. That's why we're all suddenly hear about AI nonstop. businessinsider.com/ai-techn…
Datlab has looked at links between Czech procurement and Russian companies; found €2.5 billion in business and no signs of a slow-down post-war. datlab.eu/blog/public-tender…
OpenSanctions: An Open-Source Project About Financial Restrictions. I talked to Friedrich Lindenberg about investigative journalism and @open_sanctions which tracks sanctions and financial restrictions on assets and individuals.
medium.com/p/f1dbdfea3e04#neo4j#blog
The suggestion for social network services to "open their algorithm" has always annoyed me (cool thing to say on a panel, probably not useful in practice). Twitter is, I guess, doing the experiment. Will this create any outcomes relevant to accountability?
Twitter has released the code for its recommender. I am reading through this documentation and the actual repo and will have commentary soon. blog.twitter.com/engineering…
Das von uns geförderte Projekt Open Sanctions @open_sanctions sucht eine*n Data/Integration Engineer um öffentlich zugängliche Daten zu sammeln und aufzubereiten.
opensanctions.org/docs/jobs/…