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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

They've been asked to do almost the impossible: follow the money, without the tools to do it. New research across 20 countries finds financial intelligence units chasing dirty money without the data, powers or independence they need www.transparency.org/en/news/fina...

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Data and Research Center @dataresearchcenter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#OpenAleph 5.3 is here! New features in our blog posts: - Emails are now threaded - New table explorer - Entity Screening (Percolation) find #FollowTheMoney entities mentioned in uploaded docs The release: openaleph.org/blog/2026/op... The Screening Feature: openaleph.org/blog/2026/ho...

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OpenAleph 5.3: Email threads, Table exploration and Entity Screening - OpenAleph

OpenAleph – The open source platform to search documents and structured data for investigative newsrooms and research organizations. Originally started by OCCRP as

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

QuickCheck flagged 3 signals on the subject ⚡ FullCheck surfaced 31 more across the wider network 🕵️ Hover over any risk signal on OpenCheck to see exactly what red flag is raised and why opencheck.world?lei=213800LH... #LEI #opendata #openstandards #GODIN #CDD #EDD #duediligence #AMLR

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Why did @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social, @wikirate.bsky.social and Open Supply Hub decide to join the Global Open Data Integration Network? www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/... #GODIN is a team effort to enhance global data interoperability and accessibility godin.gleif.org #LEI #opendata #openstandards

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Wikidata @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🤖 AI + Wikidata - how AI can serve open knowledge: PoliLoom: large-language models (LLMs) extract politician data from Wikipedia and compare against 100 Million Wikidata entities - gaps and missing information are presented for human-verification. More: everypolitician.org/about/contri...

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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 12/05/2026

The compliance industry's data needs are changing. @pudo.org has been writing about how we’ve been using LLMs for watchlist-to-watchlist deduplication, and some of the technical — and ethical — challenges the sector will need to navigate👇 www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

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How LLMs are changing screening

A shift towards narrative matching is redefining the compliance industry's data needs. Here at OpenSanctions, experiments using Large Language Models (LLMs) to deduplicate sanctioned and politically…

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 13/02/2026

When your hackathon project kinda escalates

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 07/02/2026

Who Do I Call When I Want to Call Europe? - The European sanctions data service has crashed, and the result is me realizing once again how hard it is to contact anyone... Just got a phone recording of the words "The European Union is currently closed."

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 03/01/2026

You know you’re getting old when you miss the basic decorum of Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/11/2025

amen!! #Mozfest

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 02/08/2025

The most cruel thing apple has ever done is show me these when I come home.

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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 14/07/2025

We’ve published an updated, improved and more deeply documented version of the data model and core data validation stack that drives OpenSanctions. Read more on our blog: www.opensanctions.org/articles/202...

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Announcing FollowTheMoney 4.0

This week, we are releasing version 4.0 of the FollowTheMoney (FtM) toolchain.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 10/07/2025

Current US foreign policy fever level: Designating a UN human rights rapporteur

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 26/06/2025

Ballmer Peak is a hell of a thing.

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OpenSanctions @opensanctions.org · 20/06/2025

Recent hobby: building up extensive reference data for name matching, including a database of company type filler words, and all human names from Wikidata. Check the open data assets here: opensanctions.github.io/rigour/data/

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Data assets - rigour

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Amanda @amandabeloved.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I love this Native woman’s spunk! However this should NEVER have happened.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 15/06/2025

America threw a hell of a parade yesterday. Except the banana republic cosplay in DC - that was weird.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 09/04/2025

In that meeting where the US federal government decided to introduce a thing called the "Unique Entity ID", did no-one mention the notion of "tempting fate"? Government needs more data superstitionists.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 08/04/2025

Yo American friends - just let me know if anyone needs that MacBook you left at my house mailed back to the US, ok?

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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 22/03/2025

Contested territories in Europe, 2025: Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and Mallorca.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 21/03/2025

I get why you’d want to dismantle the rule of law.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 28/02/2025

Reuters has a live stream where you can watch Rome at night and wait for the pope to die: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsGP... - it's oddly calming, would recommend.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump claimed that Ukraine has no strong cards on their hands. Zelensky replied, "I did not come here to play cards."

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 28/02/2025

A European response should include abandoning the F35 program.

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Updated RDF vocabulary for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) from @openownership.bsky.social This is super useful, I've got two projects underway in which to leverage these updates.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 28/02/2025

Every time I see a new release of @nextjs.org, my mind goes into panic mode: "What have they done now?" The half of the JavaScript world that relies on constant breaking change for job security has made life a living hell for the half that doesn't.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 24/02/2025

we've been trying to reach you about your world orders extended warranty

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 24/02/2025

Turns out most of what sanctions are about is telling people: "If someone calls you working for the 'Kadyrov Foundation' and wants to be friends, maybe hang up." It worrying that people need to be told.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 21/02/2025

Looks like grandpa forgot to register a global trademark...

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 17/02/2025

I just let Claude generate an SSL cipher config for nginx for me and I don't think I'll get any gifts from Santa this year.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 12/02/2025

What was Democracy wearing?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 07/02/2025

Freedom of Speech people are hard at work.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 05/02/2025

TIL Teslas are now called Swasticars.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 31/01/2025

I want to live as shame-free as the guy I just spotted wearing a Lockheed Martin polo shirt in a Cambodian airport.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 15/01/2025

Google's failed to interest its Workspace users in buying Gemini AI (it's expensive); so now they're just going to force feed it to everyone: www.theverge.com/2025/1/15/24... Innovation will continue until morale improves.

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Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace

Google is betting big that AI is the future of work.

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 14/01/2025

The TikTok/RedNote subplot is something straight out of a Gibson novel. Just saw an American woman on video realize she couldn’t afford the grocery haul of a normal Chinese person. The hashtag is #areWeInTheBadPlace …

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Friedrich Lindenberg @pudo.org · 07/01/2025

The UK government's newly released guide on "Countering Russian sanctions evasion" has some best practices that I'd heartily agree with :)

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishili (and de-facto leader of the Georgian government) now sanctioned by the U.S. State Department.

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