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Alyx MacQueen @alyx.diginomica.com · 12/08/2026

"Nobody's talking to engineers anymore. They're asking agents for problems, and it just keeps the conversation very isolated." Never mind all the talk about saving x number of hours a week in productivity - and I hate to be *that* person - but decent leaders have got to look at the pain points.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A must-read piece from our summer issue

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

my god we don't deserve this but so lucky he's here carving a new path

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/07/2026

Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

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Let AI Burn

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Screencap of page for linked article, reading:

Contents
Introduction
AI Is a Research Field
AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
AI Is a Parlor Trick
AI Is an Ideology
AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
AI Is a Way to Centralize Power
Conclusion
Notes

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

leftist populist men 29 days later: why did those terrible women fail to get us to listen

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

So @espn.com we don’t get to see women playing even when Wimbledon has them on centre court? The women’s 2 seed is playing centre court, but that’s not worthy of coverage? WTH

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Jaysus. Hard to get my head around Hakeem being this thick. Wrong side of history, man.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Damn this is lovely

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The home bathroom is the one place of quiet where no one gives a woman tasks or advice or instructions and if you take that away from us we will burn it all down with cleansing fire I promise you

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2026

going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/06/2026

This, from Pelley's interview today, is such a good articulation of a problem I've had with so many of these MAGA people. The insulting hubris to take a job with no qualifications or experience. It sticks in my craw.

This is like somebody
walking up to me and saying,
"There's a 747, there are 400 people on it, we need you to fly it to Paris." I'm going to decline because I don't have a clue. And it would have been so much better if Bari Weiss had been offered this job and said, "Oh, that's not for me, I don't know how to do that."

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

UK transplant here. In London on a Tech Innovator Visa I love the NHS but one way they could materially cut costs: in the US, a 90 day prescription for ongoing meds is the norm In the UK, it's treated as a bizarre request The unnecessary system work for 1/month instead of once/3 months! whyyy

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

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Chuck @ivychat.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Tonight…

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

How it’s going How it’s going to go

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

He cut your funding, you don’t need to keep doing this

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

to think I've lived my entire life hearing the word ballroom perhaps a total of 3 times until recently

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A great read on AI in schools, including this powerful analogy for allowing AI to automate vital steps in a child’s learning progression and cognitive development: “We don’t say to the parents of an eight-month-old, ‘Don’t encourage your child to crawl—that’s a useless skill.’ ”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The more I think about the techno-fascist tech nerds the more I wonder if the Nazis were just a bunch of angry nerds.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

is that a lot of days to detain a widow what should we compare ourselves to

nytimes.com

French Widow Detained by ICE in Alabama Is Released After 16 Days

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Emily is on the frontline, fighting the good fight. I signed - you should too.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Loss upon loss upon loss for MAGA. And when you’re losing so much you lose one other thing- the fear you had instilled in other politicians, the media, universities and business.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

JD Vance, are you free in October

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained becaus Cassandra (famously) was right. It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

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The silent coup

How AI captured Westminster

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/04/2026

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23. 20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t. They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

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Keith A. Eddins @eugeneinoregon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Now any white man promoted has to be considered suspect because he may well have taken the place of a more qualified black or female officer personally removed from the promotion list by Hegseth.

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

AI is data and most companies have a massive data health problem. Proud of this work with Alyx exposing some hard truth that shouldn’t be hard at all

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Alyx MacQueen @alyx.diginomica.com · 31/03/2026

I believe the people who most need honest, independent research about enterprise data are the practitioners living inside the problem, not the vendors selling solutions to it. Today, @maureenb2b.bsky.social and I published our Enterprise Data Health Study. This is the start, not the finish.

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diginomica @diginomica.com · 31/03/2026

Industry benchmarks: 93% plan to deploy AI agents within 2 years. Our independent research with @maureenb2b.bsky.social: 3 of 18 have anything close to a live implementation. The gap between benchmark and reality is where millions of dollars of investment disappears. Download here: bit.ly/4dghVil

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diginomica research - enterprises are spending millions on data. Here's what they told us in private

New independent research from diginomica and Serendipitus.io finds that enterprise data health is far worse than industry benchmarks suggest - and that the market telling organizations to deploy AI fa...

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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is such a clear example of how transphobia goes hand in hand with misogyny against cis women. The underlying principle here is "Sports are for boys. We can let girls have their little fake sports on the side, but they can't be too strong—that would be gross!"

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thank god Jo Rowling has been so effective at protecting women. What a nightmare

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Excerpt from the article:

"The question here is not really one of whether such prayer is in fact an attempt to “dominate” – or the more obvious explanation, that during Ramadan one breaks ones’ fast by eating very briefly just before and then more properly after the evening Maghrib prayer (yes, like our own Maariv prayer). Rather it is about whether one has the right to publicly express their religious identity in this country. In this specific instance, an event to mark a key event in the Islamic calendar had been openly and legally booked for Trafalgar Square. Muslims present had every right to pray as a part of that."

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

same lesson, different outcome

via @dell.bsky.social:

"I didn’t feel like I could live with myself."

Anticipatory guilt is the correct and healthy response when being induced to compromise your principles. Congrats to this guy for having a functioning moral compass.

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New: Prediction markets are trying to cut deals with reporters, offering hundreds of dollars per story that uses their data. Rick Ellis, and independent entertainment reporter, tells me why he said no

via ‪@transgenderreport.com‬:

John Lithgow almost quit the Harry Potter series over J.K. Rowling's anti-trans views

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Will take any opportunity to read or get to listen to @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social But both of them together? Restorative. Palliative. Even joy.

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Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder @maureenb2b.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Will take any opportunity to read or get to listen to @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social But both of them together? Restorative. Palliative. Even joy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"President Trump will hit the home run, score the touchdown and win the marathon. He will bring home the bacon AND fry it up in a pan. He will bring in the funk, he will kick out the jams. And I assure you -- he will, he will rock you."

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

here are 3 books off the top of my head that will make you write better: 1) elements of eloquence 2) clear and simple as the truth 3) the secret life of pronouns

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