08 Monday Dec 2025
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The Christmas Special Editorial Team
Madrid, 8th December 2025
Imagine the stage is almost completely dark. One spotlight, maybe two. Our favourite standup philosopher stands perfectly still for eight full seconds. He just breathes through his nose. It’s like a man who’s just found a half-eaten kebab in his coat pocket from 2009. Then, very slowly, he begins.
Thank you… thank you for coming… to our Good Strat and LinkedIn dog and pony show.
Continue reading05 Friday Dec 2025
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Martyn Richard Jones
A Coruña, Galicia, 5 de diciembre de 2025
La storia futuristica: quando l’intelligenza artificiale conversazionale esaurisce i capitali e deve vendere i suoi data center
In questa storia, il boom dell’intelligenza artificiale conversazionale si raffredda. Dopo anni passati a bruciare denaro a velocità supernova [abbonamenti economici, costi operativi astronomici, modelli giganteschi che richiedono elettricità come città], gli investitori finalmente dicono: “Basta, basta round”.
Continue reading04 Thursday Dec 2025
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Martyn Richard Jones
A Coruña, 4/12/2025
Mae AI Asiantaeth yn nodi’r newid o sgwrsio robotiaid adweithiol i systemau ymreolaethol, sy’n canolbwyntio ar nodau, sy’n cynllunio, rhesymu, defnyddio offer, a chyflawni tasgau gyda’r lleiafswm o ymyrraeth ddynol. Nid cynorthwyydd cwrtais mohono, ond dysgwr rhagweithiol sy’n archebu’ch gwyliau, yn negodi prisiau, ac yn trefnu cludiant cyn i chi hyd yn oed orffen eich diod.
Ond mae peryglon yn gysylltiedig ag ymreolaeth.
Continue reading03 Wednesday Dec 2025
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones and Lila de Alba
It’s not your obedient chatbot anymore. It’s a proactive and goal-driven system. It plans and reasons. It uses tools like browsers, APIs, and code editors. It keeps working until the job is done. Often, it requires zero human hand-holding.
Think: a tireless, hyper-competent underling who takes care of everything. They book your Provençal villa and negotiate the rate. They also curate restaurants and arrange transfers, all while you’re already on the rosé.
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Córdoba, Spain, 17th November 2025
(The Ruthless, No-Bullshit, Slightly Evil Edition)
14 Friday Nov 2025
Martyn Rhisiart Jones and the GoodStrat Editorial Team (Alex S., Marcus S., Stewart L., Dawn F., Jenny S.)
Brussels, EU, 14th November, 2025
As 2026 creeps in, it resembles a broken-down delivery robot experiencing hallucinations of depression and dread. The big tech news isn’t flashy new features. Bells and whistles, and bullshit aren’t prominent anymore. Instead, AI has quietly infiltrated everything. It’s like mould, cynicism and cheap furniture in a rental apartment. Suddenly, it’s “infrastructure.” This is what people say when they mean, “We can’t get rid of it now.” Even if it starts insulting customers, peeing on the C-suite carpet, and revealing the fraud of our makers.
Continue reading12 Wednesday Nov 2025
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
A Coruña, 12th November 2025
CONSIDER THIS: DATA AS A MIRROR OF HUMANITY
Friends, Roman, Countryfolk! In an age where every tap on a screen, every fleeting glance at a smartwatch, and even the subtle rhythm of a resting pulse are silently collected as data, what does this immense and glittering digital mosaic reveal about our innermost selves and the selves we have yet to inhabit?
Continue reading08 Saturday Nov 2025
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Sir Afilonius Rex and Vanessa Bell
Bloomsbury, London, 8th November 2025
Calling Bullshit on Fakery
A LinkedIn post by Thorsten Wunde (or “WundeThorsten”) shared a viral anecdote claiming to illustrate why “socialism always fails.” The story presents an economics professor in Sweden. He fails an entire class after averaging the grades to simulate socialist equality. This action leads to widespread laziness and eventual collapse. It concludes with a moral: When half the population realises they can slack off, the nation is in danger. The other half sees no reward for effort. This marks the end of every nation. This tale aims to serve as compelling evidence of socialism’s inherent flaws. However, it is deeply problematic on several levels. It is factually, logically, and empirically flawed. It’s a classic example of a fabricated parable. It is dressed up as real-world evidence. This story has been circulating online since at least 2009. It appears as chain emails and memes, often tied to U.S. politics (e.g., “Obama’s socialism”). Below, we’ll break it down systematically.
Continue reading02 Sunday Nov 2025
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
2nd November 2025
Suppose you enjoy, abhor or are simply bored with the massive surfeit of hype surrounding degenerative AI. In that case, you might just hate these less-than-faithful quotes as well.
If you enjoy one or two of the quotes, well, then that’s an acceptable bonus too.
So, to begin at the beginning…
Continue reading27 Monday Oct 2025
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AgenticAI, AI, Artificial Intelligence, chatgpt, DigitalTransformation, FutureOfBullshit, GenerativeAI, SyntheticAuthenticity, technology, ThoughtLeadership, writing
27th October 2025
Galicia, Spain, European Union
Every age has its prophets. The Victorians had their mesmerists, the 1990s had their dot-com futurists, the 2000s had our wacky and dishonest Big Data clowns, and we — lucky us — have our AI influencers, the brave souls who can turn a prompt into a keynote, a hallucination into a business model, and a buzzword into a lifestyle.
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