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kinarnicholas.bsky.social
Hydrology Paper of the Day @florianaltermatt.bsky.social on how land use, landcover and landscapes influence functional trait composition in the Dongjiang River, China: relating eDNA to geography; gradients, patterns of change and structural equations; and understanding regional metaweb models.
florianaltermatt.bsky.social Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Aug 22
A functional-trophic pathway links #riparian #land use intensification to #riverine #community stability: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐟 🦠🦟📈

Intensive land use is transforming 🔄 #river 🌊 corridors #worldwide 🌍 🌐, with agricultural 🚜 and urban 🏙️ land use intensification being most prominent. 🧵1/4
August 27, 2026 at 12:03 AM
memoire2cite.bsky.social
oui sauf que j y comprend rien a tt ca le metaweb du charabia pr moi suis de l autre siecle ^^
January 6, 2024 at 4:35 PM
akumar.me
interesting - google continues to move into structured data and acquires metaweb. freebase now owned by them - any concerns? #in #yam
November 14, 2024 at 8:27 AM
conservbytes.bsky.social
Crop and forest pest metawebs shift towards increased linkage and suitability overlap under climate change https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-0962-9
Crop and forest pest metawebs shift towards increased linkage and suitability overlap under climate change - Communications Biology
Marc Grünig et al. report a study of land-use opportunities and risks of introducing novel insect pests in Europe that may arise from global climate change. Using a metaweb approach, they find that there is a predicted general increase in risk of pests to managed plant species under climate change due to an increase in land with suitable climate for both pests and plants.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:58 AM
benjkrause.bsky.social
Elon wants SO BADLY to be the protagonist in a William Gibson/Neal Stephenson joint venture. He wants it so badly that he believes he actually IS it.
He speaks with the language and cadence of a teenage cyberhacker surfing through the digital ether of the metaweb bitverse.
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
jameslittlewood.bsky.social
Meanwhile in another corner of Metaweb, for a moment there, Meta’s new celebrity voiced chatbot got coaxed into some really terrible sex bragging (& abuse bragging) chat with a journo posing as a 14 yo.

Here’s the only free (and G rated) link I can find timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/met...
Meta AI under fire after Facebook, Instagram bots engage in disturbing conversations with 'child' users in Disney, celebrity voices: Report - The Times of India
Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology, Heal...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
halans.com
Google acquired Metaweb/Freebase <a href="http://bit.ly/dzrXmu" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/dzrXmu
Deeper understanding with Metaweb
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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November 8, 2024 at 10:15 PM
ceresbarros.bsky.social
3/6 Our probabilistic framework builds potential trophic networks based on a probabilistic metaweb of interactions and the probability of species' presences in each given location.

July 22, 2024 at 7:10 PM
doriantaylor.com
they absolutely do; they acquired metaweb/freebase back in 2009 i think and imo schema dot org is a catch-and-kill operation
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
doriantaylor.com
plus they did and end run around linked data with schema dot org (and a catch-and-kill on metaweb/freebase) and now the only structured data anybody knows is seo junk
May 1, 2024 at 12:25 AM
avadiax.bsky.social
Metaweb - Probably the next generation of web indexing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfrNo3Z-DU
February 11, 2024 at 12:57 AM
icel.me
I liked a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/TJfrNo3Z-DU?a Welcome to Metaweb
Welcome to Metaweb
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December 16, 2024 at 2:46 PM
nermonper.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to present at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social the probabilistic plant pollinator metaweb across Europe that @ibartomeus.bsky.social and I have been working on in collaboration with @ctrlalttim.com. This research has been possible thanks to
@csic.es iMove and @safeguard-pollinators.eu
June 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
nmouquet.bsky.social
Worked a long time ago on neutral theory of network organisation and metaweb, do I qualify for your list? :)
November 9, 2024 at 9:58 PM
bmannconsulting.com
Google acquires Metaweb / @fbase http://post.ly/nTqS
March 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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#epsteinweb #efta02409878
https://epsteinweb.org
Available in the iOS app store now!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epstein-web/id6758880661
EFTA02409878 | EFTA02409878 To: From: Sent: Subject: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] John Brockman Fri 7/16/2010 8:32:14 PM Google Buys Metaweb Google Buys Metaweb, the One Company That Could Revolutionize Google Search http://www.fastcompany.com/1671024/google-buys-metaweb-the-one-company-that-couldrevolutionize-google-search ...Metaweb was founded by Danny Hillis, a computing legend who pioneered both the RAID disk array and parallel computing, both now standards. He was also a vice president at Disney, and took control of Metaweb once it spun out of Applied Minds in 2005. It's not clear if he'll be going to work at Google, but he would certainly be a major asset to the team at Mountain View. EFTA_R1_01470334 EFTA02409878
April 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
epsteinweb.bsky.social
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#epsteinweb #efta02039087
https://epsteinweb.org
Available in the iOS app store now!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epstein-web/id6758880661
EFTA02039071 | EFTA02039087 DANNY HILLIS William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25,1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, Applied Proteomics, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Danny Hillis was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1956. His father, William Hillis, was a US Air Force epidemiologist studying hepatitis in Africa and relocated with his family through Rwanda, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, and Kenya. He spent a briefpart ofhis childhood in Calcutta, India when his father was a visiting faculty at ISI, Calcutta. During these years the young Hillis was home schooled by his mother Aryge Briggs Hillis, a biostatistician, and developed an early appreciation for mathematics and biology. His younger brother is David Hillis, a professor ofevolutionary biology at the University of Texas at Austin, and his sister is Argye E. Hillis, a professor ofneurology at Johns Hopkins University. In 1978 Hillis graduated from MIT with a BS degree in mathematics, followed in 1981with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EELS), specializing in robotics. During this time Hillis worked at the MIT Logo Laboratory developing computer hardware and software for children. He designed computer-oriented toys and games for the Milton Bradley Company, and co-founded Terrapin Software—a producer ofcomputer software for elementary schools. He also built a digital computer composed of Tinkertoys that is on display at the Museum of Science, Boston. Hillis' major research, however, was into parallel computing. Hillis designed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer; in 1983 Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation to produce and market supercomputers based on this design.In 1988, continuing this research, Hillis received a PhD in EECS from MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon. Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in 1983 while doing his doctoral work at MIT. The company was to develop Hillis' Connection Machine design into commercial parallel supercomputers, and to explore computational pathways to building artificial intelligence. Hillis' ambitions are represented by the company's motto: "We're building a machine that will be proud ofus," and Hillis' parallel architecture was to be the main component for this task: Clearly, the organizing principle of the brain is parallelism. It's using massive parallelism. The information is in the connection between a lot ofvery simple parallel units working together. So if we built a computer that was more along that system of organization, it would likely be able to do the same kinds of things the brain does. At Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis built a technical team with many people that would later become leaders in science and industry including Brewster Kahle, Guy Steele, Sydney Brenner, David Waltz, Jack Schwartz, and Eric Lander. He even recruited Richard Feynman to spend his summers there. For many years, Thinking Machines Corporation connection machines were the fastest computers in the world. During 1994, however, Thinking Machines filed for bankruptcy.In1996, after a short stint as a professor at the MIT Media Lab, Hillis joined The Walt Disney Company full time in the newly created role ofDisney Fellow and Vice President, Research and Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, which Hillis claimed was an early ambition ofhis: I've wanted to work at Disney ever since I was a child...I remember listening to Walt Disney on television describing the 'Imagincers' who designed Disneyland. I decided then that someday I would be an Imagineer. Later, I became interested in a different kind ofmagic— the magic ofcomputers. Now I finally have the perfect job—bringing computer magic into Disney. At Disney, Hillis developed new technologies as well as business strategies for Disney's theme parks, television, motion pictures, Internet and consumer products businesses. He also designed new theme park rides, a full sized walking robot dinosaur and various micro mechanical devices. Hillis left Disney in 2000, taking with him Bran Ferren, President of the Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D Creative Technologies division. Together, Ferren and Hillis founded Applied Minds, a company aimed at providing technology and consulting services to firms in an array of industries, including aerospace, electronics, and toys.In July 2005, Hillis and others from Applied Minds initiated Metaweb Technologies, Inc. to develop a semantic data storage infrastructure for the Internet, and Freebase, an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". When Metaweb was acquired by Google, the technology became the basis ofGoogle's Knowledge Graph. Hillis, together with Dr. David B. Agus, cofounded a spinoffofApplied Minds called Applied Proteomics Inc which designed and prototyped a machine that measures the level ofproteins in the blood for medical diagnosis. Hillis' work with Agus on cancer led to the founding of the University ofSouthern California Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (USC PS-OC), funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Hillis is the principle investigator of this program. In 1993, with Thinking Machines facing its demise, Hillis wrote about long-term thinking and suggested a project to build a clock designed to function for millennia: When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year z000. Now, thirty years later, they still talk about what will happen by the year 2000. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a longterm project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Millennium. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes.It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium. This clock became the Clock of the Long Now, a name invented by the songwriter and composer, Brian Eno. Hillis wrote an article for Wired magazine suggesting a clock that would last over 10,000 years. The project led directly to the founding of the Long Now Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor. Hillis asserts that parallelism itselfis approximately the main ingredient ofintelligence; that there is not anything else required to make a mind result from a distributed network ofprocessors. Hillis believes that ...intelligence is just a whole lot oflittle things, thousands of them. And what will happen is we'll learn about each one at a time, and as we do it, machines will be more and more like people. It will be a gradual process, and that's been happening. This is not so different from Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory, which holds that mind is a collection of agents, each one taking care ofa particular aspect ofintelligence, and communicating with one another, exchanging information as required. Some artificial intelligence theorists have other opinions—that it's not the underlying computational mode that's crucial, but rather particular algorithms (ofreasoning, memory, perception, etc.). Others argue that the right combination of "little things" is needed to give rise to the overall emergent patterns of coordinated activity that constitute real intelligence. Hillis is one ofa small number ofpeople who have made a serious attempt to create such a "thinking machine" and his ambitions are clear: "I'd like to find a way for consciousness to transcend human flesh. Building a thinking machine is really a search for a kind ofEarthly immortality-
March 19, 2026 at 9:34 PM
timostler.com
Google buys Metaweb. <a href="http://bit.ly/bnFEIP" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/bnFEIP Important step in convergence of semweb and web 2.0 thinking. I like it. (via @timoreilly)
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November 13, 2024 at 11:03 AM
stsparky.bsky.social
Heh - www.tumblr.com/stsparky/778... abridged
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Stephenson:Neal:Cryptonomicon:776:Californian oral-surgery market(SparkySantos) From the Quicksilver Metaweb. The Cryptonomicon page on Wisdom Teeth and Salt Stephensonia: One has to wonder what…
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March 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
stsparky.bsky.social
“That vessels could drift tied together, without damage, is “improbable” because of the Casimir Effect, … considred a quantum mechanical vacuum force, its nautical analog in the realm of ocean waves is well explained by Professor John D. Barrow. …” web.archive.org/web/20060426...
Snap of Metaweb Wiki Book cover
January 30, 2024 at 12:48 AM
knowtheory.net
Yeah one of the things in the backdrop is that JG is retiring: www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

He came up through Metaweb, acquired into google, & turned Google into what it was pre-restructuring, and then got poached to Apple. So like, there's some interesting things here about what didn't go right
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
Applying a metaweb approach to reserve design: large, well protected areas are crucial to maintain food webs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.01.708826v1
March 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
kidehen.bsky.social
Great #linkeddata value prop. video from #metaweb: http://bit.ly/bplX0F . Only change: #webid allows "Your" #dataspace to be like "Theirs" .
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
kidehen.bsky.social
I favorited a YouTube video -- Welcome to Metaweb http://youtu.be/TJfrNo3Z-DU?a
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
kidehen.bsky.social
Clearly #GOOG is now buying #LinkedData (and #LinkedData-to-be) oriented #databases. First #ITA and now #metaweb. #BOLD .
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM