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hern.bsky.social
Alex Hern
@hern.bsky.social
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AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2h
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 · 4h
www.theverge.com/news/796760/... mad that the UK and Australian governments didn't go this route
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4h
yes right just got it
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4h
b what
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5h
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 · 7h
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 · 1d
“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
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
no 👍
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d
weyyyyy queen
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 3d
you had high hopes for the french government too huh
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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 3d
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 · 3d
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...
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
I’m sorry we’re banning the protests in support of the banned group? weren’t they already banned
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you!
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 4d
Is there a version of this by capacity or actual generation in 24/25?
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d
Oh captain my captain
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d
Which is to say, ebay.us/m/eJnXOW
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