> A relational database for state. A key-value store for coordination.
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November 1, 2026 at 2:32 PM
> A relational database for state. A key-value store for coordination.
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Sorry I disagree. The party establishment didn’t win these races. The grassroots networks did the unglamorous, self organized relational work. Giving top down credit to the DNC chair completely ignores the people who actually mobilized voters.
November 4, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Sorry I disagree. The party establishment didn’t win these races. The grassroots networks did the unglamorous, self organized relational work. Giving top down credit to the DNC chair completely ignores the people who actually mobilized voters.
It's not even like it's a hard no I just still don't know what "NoSQL" is and when I would prefer it over Postgres, especially since afaict the vast majority of my use cases are handled perfectly fine by relational data, most data is relational!
November 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
It's not even like it's a hard no I just still don't know what "NoSQL" is and when I would prefer it over Postgres, especially since afaict the vast majority of my use cases are handled perfectly fine by relational data, most data is relational!
Even in finance & professional services, taking on more clients or projects is a labour-intensive step.
These are relational businesses, and worker-level efficiencies may not translate into topline efficiencies. Software is in that sense is more like manufacturing than most other services.
These are relational businesses, and worker-level efficiencies may not translate into topline efficiencies. Software is in that sense is more like manufacturing than most other services.
November 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Even in finance & professional services, taking on more clients or projects is a labour-intensive step.
These are relational businesses, and worker-level efficiencies may not translate into topline efficiencies. Software is in that sense is more like manufacturing than most other services.
These are relational businesses, and worker-level efficiencies may not translate into topline efficiencies. Software is in that sense is more like manufacturing than most other services.
That, and any job that has relational elements.
October 30, 2026 at 1:22 AM
That, and any job that has relational elements.
We received the BabyLM Best Workshop Paper Award for our paper 'Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling' with @abrsvn.bsky.social and Jakub Dotlacil! 🥳 👶 #EMNLP2026
November 2, 2026 at 10:54 AM
We received the BabyLM Best Workshop Paper Award for our paper 'Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling' with @abrsvn.bsky.social and Jakub Dotlacil! 🥳 👶 #EMNLP2026
this is what i mean when i say i prefer relational politics over identity politics when considering queerness
November 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
this is what i mean when i say i prefer relational politics over identity politics when considering queerness
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Hiratsuka, H. (2026). Brewing silence: Coffee, care, and the ethics of unspoken dialogue in relational autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 7(4), 443–455. doi.org/10.1525/joae...
Hiratsuka, H. (2026). Brewing silence: Coffee, care, and the ethics of unspoken dialogue in relational autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 7(4), 443–455. doi.org/10.1525/joae...
Brewing Silence: Coffee, Care, and the Ethics of Unspoken Dialogue in Relational Autoethnography
This autoethnographic manuscript explores how silence, brewed through coffee rituals, becomes a medium of ethical attunement in trauma-informed relational practice. Drawing on Japanese aesthetics…
doi.org
November 3, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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Hiratsuka, H. (2026). Brewing silence: Coffee, care, and the ethics of unspoken dialogue in relational autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 7(4), 443–455. doi.org/10.1525/joae...
Hiratsuka, H. (2026). Brewing silence: Coffee, care, and the ethics of unspoken dialogue in relational autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 7(4), 443–455. doi.org/10.1525/joae...
📰 Relational ontology of the organism: from eels to fungi
https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/relacyjna-ontologia-organizmu-magnetorecepcja-wegorza
https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/relacyjna-ontologia-organizmu-magnetorecepcja-wegorza
Relational ontology of the organism: from eels to fungi
Learn about the relational ontology of the organism and the concept of dynamic rootedness through the example of eel magnetoreception in the context of Forest Euphoria.
dobrepanstwo.org
November 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
📰 Relational ontology of the organism: from eels to fungi
https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/relacyjna-ontologia-organizmu-magnetorecepcja-wegorza
https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/relacyjna-ontologia-organizmu-magnetorecepcja-wegorza
The rich and the Anti-Renters: this week I write about land history, farmer solidarity, and rebellious Helderberg women in Relational Maps for Time Travel and Collective Action:
finding-throughlines.ghost.io/relational-m...
finding-throughlines.ghost.io/relational-m...
Relational Maps for Time Travel and Collective Action
"It was all right for the banks to suspend payment in 1837, [Bennett] remarked editorially. It was always all right for bankers, financiers, and merchants to suspend debts, because they could always g...
finding-throughlines.ghost.io
November 2, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The rich and the Anti-Renters: this week I write about land history, farmer solidarity, and rebellious Helderberg women in Relational Maps for Time Travel and Collective Action:
finding-throughlines.ghost.io/relational-m...
finding-throughlines.ghost.io/relational-m...
Relational Organizing!
My video on lessons to take from Lula’s victory in Brazil has blown up on YouTube, and the comments are full of fantastic advice from Brazilians, like this.
Take note.
Take note.
October 29, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Relational Organizing!
“When we talk about AI with social-relational language, we begin to think of AI as meeting social-relational needs and we lose the opportunity to create the kinds of lasting connections between real people that give our work purpose.”
ICYMI | Stop Calling AI Your ‘Collaborator’
Please. The quality of higher ed leadership depends on it. By Catherine McTamaney and Eve Rifkin: https://bit.ly/4kotQOp
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Please. The quality of higher ed leadership depends on it. By Catherine McTamaney and Eve Rifkin: https://bit.ly/4kotQOp
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
October 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
“When we talk about AI with social-relational language, we begin to think of AI as meeting social-relational needs and we lose the opportunity to create the kinds of lasting connections between real people that give our work purpose.”
What sort of query patterns made the difference between treating Mongo as a document store versus a relational crutch back then?
November 2, 2026 at 1:34 AM
What sort of query patterns made the difference between treating Mongo as a document store versus a relational crutch back then?
I think one of the things about this is that, like their sense of morality and ethics, these guys' aesthetic ideas are also primarily *relational* and hierarchical, rather than proceed from some kind of principle or something. They *say* they believe in objective aesthetic value,
![AlphaChad William T. Reicher
@AlphaChadRiker
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Oct 31
THE CHUDS OWN THE CULTURE NOW
#anakin #malfoid #starwars #harrypotter
[this post is accompanied by an AI generated picture of Anakin Skywalked embracing "Malfoid", the gender swapped Draco Malfoy.]
LordAratonar ☦︎ Malleus Sionistarum
@LordAratonar
Gross.
Malfoid belongs with Potter.
Anakin belongs with Padme.
Don't blur the lines in fandoms like that.
That's what troons do.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aesxmgqau5bmwvfmtd3wsex2/bafkreie2srqwmicaefnk4uycrkoocphcy4vibpftb2zctdabpifb7ck7cy)
November 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I think one of the things about this is that, like their sense of morality and ethics, these guys' aesthetic ideas are also primarily *relational* and hierarchical, rather than proceed from some kind of principle or something. They *say* they believe in objective aesthetic value,
Join the Systems Convening Zoom next week (Nov 9th, 1pm) to hear Liz Williams share 'A relational services journey: the Surrey System Conveners team’s story'.
More info/register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
NB It will be followed by a relational services community of practice meet-up.
More info/register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
NB It will be followed by a relational services community of practice meet-up.
November 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Join the Systems Convening Zoom next week (Nov 9th, 1pm) to hear Liz Williams share 'A relational services journey: the Surrey System Conveners team’s story'.
More info/register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
NB It will be followed by a relational services community of practice meet-up.
More info/register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
NB It will be followed by a relational services community of practice meet-up.
It's the extension of replacing organic relational language with financial metrics terminology:
Companionate Bonding vs Dating Market
They've been at this for a good while.
Companionate Bonding vs Dating Market
They've been at this for a good while.
October 31, 2026 at 11:40 PM
It's the extension of replacing organic relational language with financial metrics terminology:
Companionate Bonding vs Dating Market
They've been at this for a good while.
Companionate Bonding vs Dating Market
They've been at this for a good while.
Having a kid mangles your idea of yourself because you're still you but the your entire self is now fundamentally relational to a chaotic little joker who is not basing themselves on anything that you take seriously
November 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Having a kid mangles your idea of yourself because you're still you but the your entire self is now fundamentally relational to a chaotic little joker who is not basing themselves on anything that you take seriously
Why Tabular Foundation Models Excel on Relational Data They Have Never Seen
Linjie Xu et al.
#arXiv #cs.AI #cs.DB #cs.LG
Linjie Xu et al.
#arXiv #cs.AI #cs.DB #cs.LG
Why Tabular Foundation Models Excel on Relational Data They Have Never Seen
Given a relational database (RDB) storing heterogeneous tabular information, how can we predict missing (or future) values in some target column of interest? As candidate targets are numerous in enterprise settings, it is preferable to avoid learning a new model from scratch each time there is a ne…
arxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Listen.
if you don't connect w bigger things (books, literature, poetry, relational care, sunlight, history, art, nature, love), you will make the ill mistake of believing you are the big thing.
if you don't connect w bigger things (books, literature, poetry, relational care, sunlight, history, art, nature, love), you will make the ill mistake of believing you are the big thing.
November 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Listen.
if you don't connect w bigger things (books, literature, poetry, relational care, sunlight, history, art, nature, love), you will make the ill mistake of believing you are the big thing.
if you don't connect w bigger things (books, literature, poetry, relational care, sunlight, history, art, nature, love), you will make the ill mistake of believing you are the big thing.
Back in the early 90s I worked a bit on a db-based filesystem, but then we heard MS Windows Cairo was going to have an object file system (and later WinFS - relational db filesystem)...
So we scrapped our plans and focused on other things.
So we scrapped our plans and focused on other things.
November 3, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Back in the early 90s I worked a bit on a db-based filesystem, but then we heard MS Windows Cairo was going to have an object file system (and later WinFS - relational db filesystem)...
So we scrapped our plans and focused on other things.
So we scrapped our plans and focused on other things.
That’s not very “relational cultivator” of you bro
October 31, 2026 at 4:09 PM
That’s not very “relational cultivator” of you bro
relational isomorphism across representational spaces
November 4, 2026 at 1:33 AM
relational isomorphism across representational spaces
If this election season has exacerbated political divisions in your relationships, please join us tonight for our free, online support group for those with friends and family in MAGA.
https://leavingmaga.org/support-group/
https://leavingmaga.org/support-group/
Support Group - Leaving MAGA
Friends & Family Support Group Solutions & Serenity: A Support Group For Those Affected By A Loved One’s MAGA Affiliation Tuesdays, 7 p.m. EST Facilitated by Julianna Forlano, MSW Many people impacted by a loved one involved in MAGA and extremist politics find their lives reshaped by conflict, avoidance, emotional strain, and other distorted relational
leavingmaga.org
November 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
If this election season has exacerbated political divisions in your relationships, please join us tonight for our free, online support group for those with friends and family in MAGA.
https://leavingmaga.org/support-group/
https://leavingmaga.org/support-group/
Protecting Youth Autonomy from Relational AI impactethics.ca/2026/11/03/p... a new commentary on Impact Ethics, by Theodoros Zarkos
Protecting Youth Autonomy from Relational AI
Theodoros Zarkos recommends that efforts to protect children from the potential harms of AI should focus on design features that may diminish young people’s agency or foster emotional depende…
impactethics.ca
November 3, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Protecting Youth Autonomy from Relational AI impactethics.ca/2026/11/03/p... a new commentary on Impact Ethics, by Theodoros Zarkos
As always, if this excites you or you want to tinker with us, join us at xql.systems
xql.systems
Towards Relational Arrays
xql.systems
October 30, 2026 at 3:26 PM
As always, if this excites you or you want to tinker with us, join us at xql.systems