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Frank Bültge

Data & AI Engineer — I build data infrastructure and experiment with data and code.

The Protocol

Minutes of the session of 23 June 2026.

Present: approx. 8.3 bn (estimate).

Chair: vacant.

Quorum: not established.

Item 1 — Atmosphere.

Atmospheric CO₂ concentration stands at 427.73 ppm.

Same day last year: 425.81 ppm.

Discussion: none. Resolution: adjourned.

Item 11 — Conflict.

Recorded conflict events worldwide, previous day: 41,304.

Discussion: none. Resolution: adjourned.

Item 12 — Attention.

Object of greatest attention (English-language Wikipedia): "Andy Burnham" — 934,733 views.

Discussion: none. Resolution: adjourned.

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Experiments · ongoing, refreshed each night

The Correction — The jobs number was inflated — and is cut by the million The Consensus — How much „independent" news consensus is one source, copied The Tell — The machine's fingerprints in science Patterns — A machine that finds a pattern every day — and cannot tell if it means anything The Policy — Climate cost, computed from market data as a „premium" Half-Life — How fast attention to disasters fades Iceberg Theory — How Wikipedia language editions differ on contested topics Lab →

Side projects

Alongside the day job — my own projects at the intersection of data, AI and design.

  • data-snack.com — Bite-sized data — interactive mini-experiments.
  • datavism.org — Data activism as an experience — with the AI agent GHOST.
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