Maureen Blandford, Serendipitus Founder

~taking out my earrings~ B2B GTM folks, let’s maybe not be gaslit about AI anymore. Neither is true: “AI gives us life.” “AI will kill us.” Stop giving any of it oxygen. Instead, focus on what can give you immediate results in acquisition, expansion, retention:

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

yesssss

A must-read piece from our summer issue

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

Waking up to good news is a … new feeling.

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/

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...

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

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

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.

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

Damn this is lovely

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

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

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.

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

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.

Tonight…

How it’s going How it’s going to go

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

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.’ ”

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

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

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

JD Vance, are you free in October

giving big "my weakness is I care too much"

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...

“in future wars”

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

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.

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.

where do I sign up

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

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

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!"

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

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...

same lesson, different outcome

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.

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.

"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."