Alex Hern
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.
- every now and again I remember that thirty years ago britain and france built the longest underwater tunnel in the world, still not beaten, and the thing that limits how many people we can shove through it is the tiny cellar underneath the train station that we use for security theatre
- The worst thing about kickstarter is that over a year ago I agreed to stop buying more board games because our house can’t store them and I barely have time to play them and new ones keep arriving at my house that I bought pre-pandemic
- Reposted by Alex HernCorrect. The claim that Starmer was “echoing” Powell only makes sense if you decouple the words from their meaning and message, which in Powell’s case was predicting mass racial violence.
- Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
- headlines from american fintech innovation www.theverge.com/news/665638/...
- One point that seems important to the visa discussion that I’ve not seen made is that it appears that the vast majority of people who entered the country on social care visas do not currently work in social care
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- Reposted by Alex HernI cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.
- They’ve shut down Skype but not turned off the servers sending emails telling me my Skype credit has expired
- So was that powercut just in the economist building or did anyone else in central london get it
- Very annoying that this has happened quickly enough that guitar manufacturers didn’t have time to lower UK prices to offload a glut, I was really hoping for a new acoustic
- Breaking news: As part of an agreement hammered out in Geneva over the weekend, the US will lower tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% from 145% and China will reduce duties on US imports to 10% from 125%. www.ft.com/content/9288...
- If you open your PlayStation’s disc drive after it’s loaded Theme Park into memory and replace it with a music CD it will just play whatever you put in as the soundtrack for the game
- I’d like more luxury homes
- The Mayor’s green belt proposal won’t solve London’s housing crisis. It’s just more luxury homes dressed up as a good deal for Londoners. What we need is need rent controls, a freeze on Right to Buy and to take back control of the thousands of empty homes across the city. @cprelondon.bsky.social
- a reminder that Radio Vatican is a member of the EBU and Eurovision is coming up. the new pope has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
- Attention metropolitan elite, the Good Tomatoes are back iowtomatoes.co.uk/shop/product...
- @kierongillen.bsky.social i'm sure i'm treading on something here but have you confirmed that power fantasy is building up to the year 2000
