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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 28/09/2026

My physical copy of AI Agents with MCP showed up...it's real! You can order the ebook now, and the print edition should be shipping soon, with pre-orders open. Over 330 pages on the Model Context Protocol, up to date with the July spec rewrite and Python SDK v2. kylestratis.com/books/ai-ag...

A super handsome guy holds AI Agents with MCP in Harvard Bookstore, a bookstore that doesn't actually carry the book.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think there's perhaps one valuable insight that AI code generation's giving us about the nature of software development. We speeded up production and the needle on value created barely moved. It's not a production process.

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 09/08/2026

You gotta keep a secret stash of docker containers in a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency box

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 30/06/2026

Hol’ up. This is a winged Lady Liberty-angel hybrid? W. T. F.

Musicology Duck’s photo of Trump’s Potemkin arch. The statue on top is clearly lady liberty (crown and torch) but with angel wings coming out of her back.

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 05/06/2026

Thank goodness Adobe's AI summary is available to save me the time of reading this long document

Screenshot of Adobe Acrobat Reader helpfully offering to generate an AI summary of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata because "This appears to be a long document"

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have two new shirt designs up until may 7th 2026 roryblank.bigcartel.com unless I cut it off early

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 30/04/2026

It’s a duck! No wait, it’s a rabbit!

Picture of the classic duck/rabbit illusion, rotated to match the op’s picture

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

*sexiest job of the 21st century* I whisper to myself as I move roadmap tiles, reschedule three meeting conflicts, and update the requirements document to reflect new governance standards #dataBS

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/04/2026

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

opensource.posit.co

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Saturday Night Live is neither all good nor all bad, no period of the show has ever been an absolute home run or a total failure, it’s the sum of thousands of people’s work, by its nature ebbing and flowing in quality, often very subjective This is one of the best snl sketches i’ve seen in a while

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What If I Told You - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 02/03/2026

If they had, Hegseth wouldn’t have even considered using it for war crimes, though.

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 23/02/2026

Consuming 5-6 caffeinated beverages certainly factors in to productivity, too!

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 27/01/2026

It seems Nao from @blef.fr just got open-sourced. Nao is a framework for building and deploying an analytics agent. Focused on data engineers. Included is a nao-core cli for getting context on metadata, modeling, and rules. And a chat UI to run analytics on your data.

github.com

GitHub - getnao/nao: 👾 nao is an open source analytics agent. (1) Create context with nao-core cli, (2) deploy nao chat interface for everyone

👾 nao is an open source analytics agent. (1) Create context with nao-core cli, (2) deploy nao chat interface for everyone - getnao/nao

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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

👋 Reminder: the Gemini APIs in ai.dev have a batch mode, which not only saves time – but also money (up to 50% of the standard costs)! If you're sending in many requests all at once, I strongly, *strongly* recommend taking a look. ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 21/01/2026

Love that the smirking alligator is both a hypothetical wildly different species that would exist if evolution were real and also a species that looks just like us and there evolution is not real. Good work, alligator!

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 20/01/2026

“Hey Claude, please science this data for me”

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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🎸✨Instead of hiding my questionable and ever-evolving @lastfm.bsky.social history, I built a Python bot to roast me about it every morning! 🤖 Poe API + ScriptBot (w/ Gemini⚡️) ⚙️ @github.com Workflows (running daily for free) 📩 Gmail (to bring it all home) And the best part? ~$1.75 per year to run.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/01/2026

This week on Counting Stuff, my brain is overloaded doing new-work-onboarding and so the only bandwidth I had was writing tips on onboarding to data work to at least make it less chaotic. slightly. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/effective-tr...

counting-stuff.com

Effective (training) firehose sipping

Just some habits I've built up

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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I am honored and humbled to join @amyactonoh 's ticket to deliver for Ohio’s working families. Amy is the only candidate in this race who will tackle our affordability crisis and work to lower costs, clean up the corruption 1/

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the history of the world!

cs.cmu.edu

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

>A suspect is in custody following an incident that occurred at Vice President JD Vance’s home on Monday morning. >The incident happened at Vance’s East Walnut Hills house, located on William Howard Taft Drive.

cincinnati.com

Secret Service detains man after windows broken at JD Vance's Cincinnati home

A suspect is in custody following an incident that occurred at Vice President JD Vance’s home on Monday morning.

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Joe Reis @joereis.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“The bigger point is simply that Bill and Ralph don’t care. If you’re still upset about the Kimball vs Inmon wars, see a therapist and get help.”

open.substack.com

Data Identity Politics and The Kimball vs. Inmon War

Bill and Ralph don't care, and neither should you. It's time to move on.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 30/12/2025

This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

counting-stuff.com

Making shiny rocks from man-made crystals

Some pure fun to ring in the new year on

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Last new shirt design of 2025, with an important message that i think could bring about a lasting world peace if everyone buys one that is my hope roryblank.bigcartel.com

A red on white shirt design depicting a cartoon cat and a cartoon dog in a street fight, slashing at eachother with knives. The dog has brass knuckles, the cat has a chain, the cat's head is not connected to its body and the dog's torso is cut in half. The cat says "is there no escape from this cycle of violence?"
The dog replies "what tragic creatures we are, built only to inflict and to feel pain."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/12/2025

Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 15/12/2025

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 11/12/2025

Hey everyone, we’re doing cargo cults now! Come on!

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 10/12/2025

Do those glasses record to the cloud? Hope Meta's keeping track of those for future discovery requests.

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 20/11/2025

Great week for new frontiers in prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 16/11/2025

Just presented this! You can check out the code here: (note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me. github.com/kylestratis/...

github.com

GitHub - kylestratis/vibedialer: A completely vibe coded Wardialer for the Practical Data Discord vibecoding hackathon

A completely vibe coded Wardialer for the Practical Data Discord vibecoding hackathon - kylestratis/vibedialer

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Remember when Childish Gambino released the video for This is America and everyone was amazed at all the symbolism? The stuff from the Trump admin is like the funhouse mirror of that with the polarity all flipped.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 04/11/2025

This week on Counting Stuff, using a cheap USB dongle and antenna to catch ads-b signals from airplanes going by and then decide and analyze the data #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/counting-the...

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Counting the planes overhead

Through the magic of RADIO WAVES~~~~

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 31/10/2025

This is amazing. Stop what you’re doing and watch this right now.

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Greg Wilson @greg.materialmachinelearn.ing · 30/10/2025

They've created different incentives for themselves: AWS is trying to sell AI to its customers, and (unfortunately) have chosen headcount reduction as a selling point. Have drunk enough of their own KoolAid to think that's a good way to justify it for themselves.

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Ian Cook @ian.columnar.tech · 29/10/2025

The future of data connectivity is columnar. Today we launched @columnar.tech to accelerate the shift from slow, row-oriented APIs like ODBC and JDBC to >10x faster alternatives powered by @arrow.apache.org. Learn more 👇

columnar.tech

Announcing Columnar

Back to the future of data connectivity

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 28/10/2025

I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching. Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).

me with some garden hoses connected in a X -> Z <- Y fashion. If I shut the valve at Z, water from X spills out at Y

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I want homeless people living in the ballroom during the next administration. Don't bulldoze it. Turn it into a shelter. Instead of ignoring and turning away from the most marginalized I want them in a palce next to the president

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