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  • HOW NOT TO: The Vacuum of Thought: Why AI-Powered Orbital Synergy is the Ultimate Catalyst for Your Synergy’s Synergy

    HOW NOT TO: The Vacuum of Thought: Why AI-Powered Orbital Synergy is the Ultimate Catalyst for Your Synergy’s Synergy

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, Saturday 9th May 2026

    Multi-faced figure with TV heads and clocks controlling puppet-like people amid flames and flags
    Surreal depiction of a multi-faced figure controlling society with media and propaganda

    The Vacuum of Thought: Why AI-Powered Orbital Synergy is the Ultimate Catalyst for Your Synergy’s Synergy

    By Brandish Blather World-renowned Futurist, LinkedIn Legend, and Thought-Haver with a Passion for Synergising Technology for the Good of My Personal Brand.

    The first time you experience the sheer, weightless emptiness of a venture capital pitch, everything changes. One moment, you’re grounded by the heavy, suffocating “hyper-G” of reality, things like “revenue,” “logic,” and “the laws of physics.” The next, all that noise disappears. You are floating in a perfect, silent void of pure, unadulterated hype.

    That sense of transition isn’t just what happens when you’re strapped into a billionaire’s phallic hobby-rocket; it reflects a “Quantum Leap” in the Space-AI-Human-Potential-Sandwich™ economy. I recently sat down with Major Tad Mumbleton, a man who spent 400 days in orbit and now serves as the Chief Vibe Officer for Void-X, a company currently building inflatable habitats and AI-powered space-toasters that will absolutely, definitely reshape the way you eat sourdough on Earth.

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  • LE COIN DES ARNAQUEURS : L’impact de l’IA avec des agents dans Gammon

    LE COIN DES ARNAQUEURS : L’impact de l’IA avec des agents dans Gammon

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Madrid, mercredi 25 mars 2026

    Ah, le 25 mars 2026, le soleil brille, les croissants de Snowflake sont délicieux, et une autre prophétesse LinkedIn est apparue pour nous gratifier de son dernier rapport, fruit de son expertise. Merci, cher lecteur, d’être tombé sur « Les agents spéciaux IA sont sur le point de révolutionner les jeux vidéo et la mutilation », signé par l’incomparable Bernie Barr, futuriste de renommée mondiale, véritable aimant à quatre-vingts millions d’abonnés, et auteure d’une quantité impressionnante de livres sur l’IA.

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  • EL RINCÓN DEL ESTAFADOR: El impacto de la IA con agentes en Gammon

    EL RINCÓN DEL ESTAFADOR: El impacto de la IA con agentes en Gammon

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Madrid, miércoles 25 de marzo de 2026

    Ah, 25 de marzo de 2026, el sol brilla, los croissants de Snowflake están deliciosos y otro profeta de LinkedIn ha aparecido para bendecirnos con su último informe desde la cima del liderazgo intelectual. Gracias, querido lector, por toparse con «Los agentes especiales de IA están a punto de cambiar los videojuegos y las mutilaciones para siempre», de la inigualable Berneice Barr, futurista de renombre mundial, imán de ochenta millones de seguidores y mujer que ha escrito más libros sobre IA que la mayoría de la gente ha comido una comida caliente.

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  • Revealing Wealth: A Blueprint for Financial Transparency – Book Review

    Revealing Wealth: A Blueprint for Financial Transparency – Book Review

    By Samantha Sterling Parker, Spanish FT Weekend

    Madrid, Monday 9th March 2026

    To say that Martyn Jones’s Revealing Wealth is merely a book about tax evasion is like saying the Large Hadron Collider is just a fancy pipe. This is a manifesto for a digital revolution, a technical blueprint for global equity, and a provocative call to arms that arrives just as the old financial order begins to crack.

    Below is a look at this seminal work through three distinct editorial lenses.

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  • STRAIGHT TALK: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design – The Guardian

    STRAIGHT TALK: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design – The Guardian

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, Wednesday 25th February 2026.

    Seven years on, the verdict is in, and it’s not flattering. Back in 2019, in a Brussels-fuelled rant channelling the incomparable Bob Hoffman, I declared Agile at Scale the next frontier of IT bullshit: immature, ill-conceived, supercilious, and emphatically not agile. It killed communication with jargon, turned criticism into heresy, and mangled history by ignoring what actually worked. I called it a cultish Frankenstein of Scientology zeal, Vatican pomp, and authoritarian quirks – all wrapped in vainglorious slide decks.

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  • DATA WORLD: Big data’s unvirtuous circus and twelve v-words – Refresh – 2026/02/05

    DATA WORLD: Big data’s unvirtuous circus and twelve v-words – Refresh – 2026/02/05

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Bonn, Germany, 2014

    Many people come up to me in the street and ask me what big-data is all about. I have experienced this numerous times before. I am sure it might just happen to you as well. I know sort of thing, I read the big-data tea leaves. Nothing gets past me.

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  • The Quantum Revolution: More Than Just Computing

    THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION IS HERE (THEY SWEAR), AND IT’S ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN COMPUTING — IT’S ABOUT GENERATING ENOUGH HYPE TO POWER A SMALL COUNTRY

    Sir Afilonius Rex, Martyn Rhisiart Jones, and Lila De Alba

    Madrid 3rd December 2025

    (Mel Brooks: “Ladies and gentlemen… QUANTUM! The only science where nobody knows what the hell is happening, including the scientists!”)
    (Dave Chappelle: “Man, every time somebody says ‘quantum’, my wallet hides in the corner out of fear.”)

    When people hear “quantum,” they think of a super-computer so powerful it could fold reality, solve climate change, and somehow still lose to your gran at Sudoku. But no — the PR departments insist — that’s tiny baby quantum. Now we’re in Quantum 2.0, which sounds like a direct-to-DVD sequel starring a different actor.

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  • Understanding the Brain: What Neuroscientists Reveal

    Understanding the Brain: What Neuroscientists Reveal

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Madrid, 17th November 2025

    Question: Do we fully understand the brain?

    Answer: No, according to reputable Neuroscientists, we do not fully understand the brain. So, the short answer is a resounding no.

    That’ll be a no then!

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  • The Good Data Bible: Set Theory

    The Good Data Bible: Set Theory

    The Good Data Bible: Set Theory

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, 7th November 2025

    Set theory is a branch of mathematics that studies sets, which are simply collections of things.

    It was pioneered by Georg Cantor, a German mathematician, in the late 19th century. He introduced concepts such as infinite sets (sets that contain an endless number of elements) and cardinality (a concept that helps define the number of elements in a set). His work, initially controversial, revolutionised mathematics by providing a rigorous framework for understanding infinity despite facing personal and professional challenges.

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  • The Role of Statisticians in the Age of Data Science

    The Role of Statisticians in the Age of Data Science

    Did data and AI kill the statistician?

    Without a grounding in statistics, a Data Scientist is a Data Lab Assistant.

    Martyn Jones

    Hold this thought: There are big lies, damn big lies and data science with an AI chaser.

    Statistics is a science, and some would argue that it is one of the oldest sciences.

    Statistics can be traced back to the days of Augustus Caesar. He was a statesman, military leader, and the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Some set its provenance even earlier.

    Indeed, suppose we accept that censuses are a part of statistics. In that case, we can trace history back to the Chinese Han Dynasty (2 AD). We can also consider the Egyptians (2,500 BC) and the Babylonians (4,000 BC).

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