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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“People are realising that this is a bad career to be in and an industry that’s hostile to its workers.” 1/2

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights & sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson’s dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958”

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm contractually obliged to point out that it begins with a discussion of the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 02/10/2026

My colleague Audree Fletcher has published a fabulous article in the Lewis Silkin magazine making the case for pragmatic optimism. Am big fan of Audree. And big fan of her ideas. www.lewissilkin.com/our-thinking...

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The hard-nosed case for optimism

<div class="ck-content"><p>Despite its reputation for softness, a particular kind of optimism is the most useful thing a leader can bring to bear in times of uncertainty. </p></div>

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

P.S. If anyone in the UK would like a signed copy of the paperback direct from me, let me know. I have a few handmade linocut bookmarks by my mum, Jo, and will throw one in for free. Just drop me an email with your address at hello@tom-cox.com.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Back to school! 50% off all my online courses until 30 September 2026 with the code: SEPT50 This applies to: • Content design pathway • User-centred design pathway • Content accessibility short course • Writing for web short course 🎂 🍰 #Design #Content #UCD #Digital #ContentDesign #WritingForWeb

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Browse our courses, CAKE

Explore user-centred design and content design online training courses from Cake.

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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 30/09/2026

Product for the People 10(!) is going to be in Leeds on the 19th November. luma.com/7s9dnegb @debblanch44.bsky.social has put together a brilliant line-up for this milestone meet-up!

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Product for the People 10 · Luma

This is the 10th (!!) of our Product for the People events and we're coming to Leeds. An event for people interested in public service and product management…

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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh hi, it’s me and snooker/pool (and yes, bowling)

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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New job role at GDS: Deputy Director for Digital Standards and Inclusive Design. Deadline end of 8th October. Public sector only... Come be my boss! If you're nice, and good. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Quick Check Needed

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminds me of an old digital government hand telling me about the 80s/90s when they'd make fake people in the tax system and chat by appending notes to Mickey Mouse's record.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I think you are asking too much of your reader with this book." - confident influential person in the UK publishing industry, in 2022, telling me why the first of these two books didn't work, and wouldn't find an audience. I'm going to take a wild guess that she wouldn't like the second either.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm reposting this as a sample of the sort of stuff that will land in your inbox if you subscribe to my newsletter... I'd start with a free subscription if I were you, see how it goes, but a paid one isn't expensive, helps support my writing, and then you get to read everything...

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

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Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brilliant piece on LinkedIn, which I expected to just be a rant about the AI-slop writing style but is actually a much deeper thought piece on WHY LinkedIn has become this weird glassed over haven among social media

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I promise this is significantly better if you read it all the way to the end. I mean, I would say that, wouldn’t I, but, honestly, it really is. There’s also an audio version at the top, read by me, if you’re tired of reading stuff off screens.

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SpudRazor @spudrazor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tom’s books are fabulous, and you should read this excerpt to get a feel for his writing. The story he tells in this thread is infuriating and inspiring, and I hope you end by buying some of his work. Blackwell’s ships to the US for free, and I’ve bought a few other things from them too.

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me:

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Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of his infamous lines… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We live in a poll-driven political age, but it's important for all politicians to remember that they can lead/influence public opinion through leadership and communication.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In short, I am not going to trash the potential of books I've shed blood, sweat and tears to write and make my own life considerably worse just to look appear morally right in front of some people on the internet who have found another thing to get angry about without grasping its crazy nuances.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

as prologue to writing on AI regulation, I get into definitions and ask "what do we say when people do the same thing that AI agents are accused of doing?" backofmind.substack.com/p/a-bad-tool...

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a bad tool always blames the workman

what happens when the human isn’t central to the loop

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

P.S. For anyone in the UK, I have just a handful of signed copies of this here, in case you'd like to grab one direct from me. I'll also personalise it and send you a beautiful free handmade linoprint bookmark by my mum, Jo. Drop me an email at hello@tom-cox.com with your address while stocks last!

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Morning Kitten Monday coming in hot…

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

This is very a very thorough analysis and covers an issue I had been thinking about in the context of AI job automation - what about 'relational' work, where humans are the whole point? (TL;DR: that is not going away, and will probably grow)

(b) Relational goods. In the model, the output of a task is identical regardless of whether
it is produced by a worker or a machine. But for a large class of services, the human
provider is part of the product itself: think of teachers, nurses, therapists, waiters,
priests, live performers. Alex calls this the "relational sector" and argues that it will
grow as a share of the economy precisely as AI makes everything else cheap. Notably,
the reference class for this sector is broad: it includes any good or service where
human involvement is part of the value. This likely includes many familiar jobs such as
doctors, nurses, educators, and advisors, as well as new jobs that will be created in
response to this latent demand.

The logic comes from the economics of structural change: as people get richer, they
spend a larger share of their income on goods and services with high income
elasticities, and relational goods have exactly this property (there is always a better
restaurant or a more attentive doctor). A nice current example is Starbucks, which
spent years automating its stores, concluded that this was a mistake, and is now hiring
more baristas and advertising handwritten notes on cups. This argument is related to
but distinct from the messy jobs argument: messy jobs are hard to automate for
reasons of production (local knowledge, accountability), relational tasks are hard to
automate for reasons of demand (customers value the human). Either way, a substantial
and growing part of the economy consists of tasks where machines cannot effectively
substitute for workers.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Can it hurt to give this one more nudge? Perhaps, slightly (because every time I do any self promotion I feel an irrepressible wave of nausea). But I'm going to do it anyway. Because it might bring a mistreated book to three or four new readers. And that's VERY much worth my while.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well. This is scary “frontier agents will likely be capable of establishing a [covert, persistent] rogue deployment [within the AI company] in six months. Once established, it seems plausible this could spiral all the way to a takeover.” www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/the-huggin...

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The Hugging Face attack surprised me

It’s a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 01/09/2026

Can you imagine: being born into a void, all that exists is The Searcher, a being you can’t truly glimpse, who has posed to you The Question, which you must answer Oh, and Wikipedia, you can look up cool shit there, wow, did you know that Super Mario Bros 2 was originally called Doki Doki Panic

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Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So this is exciting. I'll be keynoting at Service Design Disrupted on Bad Services in Barcelona. There's some amazing speakers on the line up I'm looking forward to hearing from and some old friends to catch up with. I've got a 15% discount code for tickets, just use LOU-X-SDD sddisrupted.com

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is a great piece If really f**king depressing Perhaps like @jukes.ie I’ve just been around this loop a few too many times - and lived the highs of the 2011-2016 era, and what was to an extent a brief Covid bounce back - to not feel a bit too old and cynical for this sh*t

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 27/07/2026

A v interesting angle on the AI hype cycle I hadn't clocked before. From the very smart Nikhil Suresh. "...we have executives around the world nervously pointing guns at each other... watching everything gradually spiral out of control" ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

On a trip overseas, I had the privilege of a meeting with one of the Fortune 500 executives mentioned at the beginning of the post, who will remain anonymous so that they are not executed by firing squad by their board. As we were chatting, it became clear that they were very switched-on and technically competent, and they also happened to be at a company that had committed to the usual battery of exorbitant claims about their recent innovations – we’ve 100x’d our productivity, AI is the future of everything, I am but a vessel for OpenAI to make love to my wife. You know, normal things. But since I had them there without any microphones around, I asked why this was being repeated without opposition. Was it just sales fluff?

The answer was a lot more interesting. It was partially ridiculous sales material being delivered to an easily excitable audience, but this was not the dominant factor constraining honesty. Executives at their customers were saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive at the vendor said that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack (or heresy), and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation. And getting enterprise contracts cancelled because you wanted to opine on something that doesn’t really matter to your organisation’s mission is a great way to get fired.

But this company was also a major player, of the kind that signs enormous enterprise contracts with other companies. So presumably there is another vendor that has sold to them, and their CEO is worried that saying something sane will contradict this executive, and very quickly we can see how we can have executives around the world nervously pointing guns at each other, not wanting to be shot first but also watching everything gradually spiral out of control6. This is to say that we’re facing a coordination problem around executives being honest arou…

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is, I feel, a pretty hysterical response to post to a video of the prime minister eating pork scratching with the chancellor

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Richard Partington @rjpartington.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

When the editor of the Guardian finds out her econ correspondent is from the same Warrington suburb as the new Prime Minister… A pleasure, yet daunting to write. Hope I’ve done Culcheth justice: I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped the UK’s new PM www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped the UK’s new PM

In the Warrington suburb of Culcheth, people are hopeful about what one of their own can achieve as the first northern PM in half a century

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Citizen Wolf @citizenw0lf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Random moment with Raven Sunny day walking in Galway

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Jesmond Allen @jesmonda.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

And then of course each consultancy does their work in a manner designed to allow them to sell in a £millions+ project to unfuck the issue, that was what the internal teams wanted to do in the first place…

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