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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 12h

exquisite timing

The Economist @economist.com · 12h

This week, the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns will play pre-season games in Macau. The excitement, and the stakes, could hardly be higher for those involved

All eyes on the NBA as its players return to China

Next month its teams will play in front of Chinese fans for the first time in six years

econ.st

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13h

but i'm learning to use the parry instead

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13h

reluctantly i have to admit that "and now, as usual, I have been proven right" is just an all time great turn of phrase

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t like the fact that you’re so much further than me but also haven’t done first sinner yet. Suggests I may be banging my head against that wall

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19h

Watching someone stride into a lift, displacing a pushchair, and then stride onto an escalator at the next floor is just so aggravating. It’s not a luxury transport option for you to take when you don’t feel like walking down the other end of the platform

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

www.theverge.com/news/796760/... mad that the UK and Australian governments didn't go this route

www.theverge.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

yes right just got it

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

b what

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

somewhat annoying to spend lots of my time going "AGI and superintelligence sound puffy but they are terms of art that it's useful being precise with so that we all know what we're talking about" and then having Sam Altman say this in an interview stratechery.com/2025/an-inte...

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

biggest failing in futurist fiction was the general assumption that biological supremacism would be a right-wing-coded belief

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

“Queen Elizabeth II might have scrolled through AI slop on instagram” is going to be one of these that hits hard in not that long

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

forgot the link www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Tories would abolish stamp duty, Badenoch tells party conference – UK politics live

Party leader says measure is a ‘bad tax’ and scrapping it would free up the housing market and improve social mobility

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

how dead is the tory party? dead enough that multiple people who support this exact policy have texted me in dismay that it's now backed by Kemi Badenoch

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

no 👍

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

weyyyyy queen

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

it should be illegal to park a lime bike on a public pavement BUT it should be legal to park a lime bike anywhere a car can be parked

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d

gonna go out on a limb and say that it's bad to watch ten hours of tiktok a day www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d

there's an optimal amount to blow on a single day's partying isn't there. if you give me £100 and tell me to have a good time I'll have more fun than if you give me £50 but if you give me £1000 I'd feel a lot of pressure to spend it all. Give me £10,000 and I'm drinking champagne with gold flakes

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

you had high hopes for the french government too huh

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 4d

The French government lasted 13 hours and 47 minutes. We are ruled by children and we probably deserve it. I am disgusted.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d

Guess this is just a thing Russia does now www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Drone sighting temporarily disrupt flights at Norway's Oslo airport, NTB reports

Norway's Oslo airport temporarily paused landings early on Monday after a report of a drone sighting near the airport, news agency NTB reported. Several arriving flights were delayed or diverted after...

www.yahoo.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d

A whole evening of people posting takes about “Ange” and I’ve just now realised they’re not talking about Rayner

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d

I actually haven’t experienced this because I killed him so fast that I never had time to play with the sound on

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sorry we’re banning the protests in support of the banned group? weren’t they already banned

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