Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net · 29/09/2026It’s entirely possible this is just a coincidence. Biology is the same in California as it is in Denmark. Researchers can end up on parallel paths. But in setting up a biology lab, Anthropic has become a competitor to their own customers. That requires a lot of trust. 110
Reposted by Evan HensleighThe Economist @economist.com · 28/09/2026Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris rested on a fragile coalition of voters dissatisfied with Democratic leadership. Our data analysis shows that coalition appears to be fracturing bit.lyDonald Trump’s disintegrating coalitionThe swing voters of 2024 have abandoned the president 4205
Reposted by Evan HensleighRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship 1430471
Reposted by Evan HensleighGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/09/2026You know who HAS read Ong on Orality? Ted Chiang, that's who I'll wait while you read this utterly devastating short storydevonzuegel.comThe Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang — Subterranean PressWhen my daughter Nicole was an infant, I read an essay suggesting that it might no longer be necessary to teach children how to read or write, because speech recognition and synthesis would soon rende... 614321
Reposted by Evan HensleighCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... 515428
Reposted by Evan HensleighDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431633459
Reposted by Evan HensleighThe Economist @economist.com · 17/09/2026The Mercator map has adorned school walls for generations, but it warps the size of landmasses. We explore how alternative maps try to remedy these distortionsbit.lyIn search of the least wrong mapThe UN wants to adopt a fairer way to trace borders 093
Reposted by Evan HensleighAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026This is worth a read because it eviscerates the narration of "AI solved complex mathematical problems, we can now retire mathematicians" that's currently being pushed by the AI companies. (and in general please remain sceptical of any claims to independent thinking or intent by LLMs) 721495
Reposted by Evan HensleighAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 14540451757
Reposted by Evan Hensleigh"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever. 631829399
Reposted by Evan HensleighMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/08/2026god if you'd told me that one day I'd witness people coming out of shops to take a proper look at the rain falling out of the sky, in ENGLAND 271221130
Reposted by Evan HensleighAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately. 542971824
Reposted by Evan HensleighThe Economist @economist.com · 17/08/2026The successful candidate will work across the full range of our social platforms plus alerts, newsletters and emerging digital platforms. They will be expected to organise, mentor and inspire our award-winning team. Interested? Apply by August 23rdbit.lyThe Economist is hiring a Deputy Head of Social MediaWe are offering a permanent contract in London to work across social media plus notifications, newsletters and emerging digital platforms 147
Reposted by Evan HensleighDr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns. 11287942731
Reposted by Evan HensleighLauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 10/08/2026We have more data about ourselves than ever. So why is everything converging on the same? In my new post I use data on high streets, Billboard hits, a million films and my own AI personas to expose the algorithms behind the sameness and how to regulate them. laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...laurenleek.substack.comTemperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the SameWhat 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it. 36120
Reposted by Evan Hensleighryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...inverse.comThe adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photosNearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told. 453087783
Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net · 25/07/2026I’ve never quite decided if the hyperbolic discussion around AI is marketing or, as this argues, Pygmalion-like affection. But it does shape the discussion around the wrong questions. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comWhy this philosopher turned down AnthropicThe AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions 020
Reposted by Evan HensleighThe Economist @economist.com · 25/07/2026For most of the past 30 years, the person in charge of The Economist’s covers has been Graeme James. We remember our dear friend and colleaguebit.lyThe Economist’s cover designer, Graeme James, has died, aged 65His more than 2,500 covers cleverly captured, mocked and ridiculed the world 410224
Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net · 22/07/2026It's a fun time to learn that all security was actually security through obscurity. openai.com/index/huggin...openai.comOpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationOpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders. 121
Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net · 16/07/2026The Guardian finally ran out of metaphors today. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 If you have any spare metaphors, please consider donating. 100
Reposted by Evan HensleighTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post. 411741410
Reposted by Evan HensleighPolly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday 602218152562
Reposted by Evan HensleighPaul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 05/06/2026100% this! Was just having this conversation with a colleague yesterday - studying the process of 'doing history' gives you invaluable skills to be able to question the provenance of sources and understand perspectives. More, please :) 011
Reposted by Evan HensleighJackson O'Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands 4360732054
Reposted by Evan HensleighArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 24/05/2026Has been a while since I wrote about agentic engineering, so this time around some learnings of maintaining Pi as a junior maintainer to @mariozechner.at lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi...lucumr.pocoo.orgBuilding Pi With PiLearnings from post-AI Open Source and how we’re approaching this so far. 312717
Reposted by Evan HensleighAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6085402316198
Reposted by Evan HensleighAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026We're hiring! It's only a fixed-term contract for maternity cover but the job—and the team—is interesting and fun infographics.economist.com/jobs/2026/in...infographics.economist.comWe’re hiring an interactive visual journalistCome and join The Economist’s data team on a fixed-term contract 11313
Reposted by Evan HensleighJeff @banterability.com · 09/05/2026“The majority of the technical infrastructure of the Internet was created in this way. For free, often by people in academia, or as part of their regular work, with no promise of some big payday or getting a ton of credit.” anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...anildash.comHow Markdown took over the world - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 27514
Reposted by Evan HensleighRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553912981
Reposted by Evan HensleighOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/05/202673 years ago today, Squadron Commander Christopher Draper DSC flew under 15 of London’s 18 bridges, prompting ‘Mad Major’ headlines – a nickname he’d earned by trying the same stunt 23 years earlier. He was 61, basically got away with it, and didn’t lose his pilot’s licence for another 11 years 🧵 422375
Reposted by Evan Hensleighkottke.org @kottke.org · 29/04/2026The intelligence of LLMs is “a function of the social complexity of the civilization whose language it digested”, and their widespread use will lead to a thinning of that complexity, “undermining the conditions for its own advancement”. (And ours.) [theideasletter.org]theideasletter.orgThe Social Edge of Intelligence - The Ideas LetterSimons challenges the dominant story of AI-driven efficiency, arguing that the intelligence powering today’s systems is built from accumulated human interaction. As organizations automate work and offload thinking, they risk… 0228
Reposted by Evan HensleighHelen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This is absolutely heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. 168
Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime.net · 19/04/2026This is such amazing news. It’s still reliant on early detection (this study treated people with operable cancers and it’s rare for pancreatic cancer to be detected early) but any progress at all is incredible. 010
Reposted by Evan HensleighIgnacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."nbcnews.comPancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trialScientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. 15997302890
Reposted by Evan HensleighOwen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Build-a-voter is back! @fransham.bsky.social's creation is now updated for 2026 with data from More in Common. www.economist.com/interactive/... My profile is predictably Labour-leaning... 97417
Reposted by Evan HensleighMichael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more 10836320
Reposted by Evan HensleighOwen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Happy Hungarian election day! Our final poll tracker update gives Tisza, the centre-right opposition, a 6pt lead over Orban's Fidesz: www.economist.com/interactive/... 725054
Reposted by Evan HensleighThe Economist @economist.com · 04/04/2026Would you like to be part of the team behind this account? We’re looking for an Audience Editor who can work across social media, newsletters, notifications and emerging platforms. Find out more and apply by April 23rdecon.stThe Economist is hiring an Audience Editor in LondonWe are offering a permanent contract to work across social media, newsletters, notifications and emerging digital platforms 046
Reposted by Evan HensleighCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This is so, so well-articulated. 97107673882
Reposted by Evan HensleighTaggart @taggart-tech.com · 30/03/2026As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.taggart-tech.comI used AI. It worked. I hated it.I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means. 3520356
Reposted by Evan HensleighDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This is a phenomenal piece of journalism by my colleagues at @economist.com - deep reported detail on how Iran is now being run that I haven't seen anywhere else: www.economist.com/middle-east-...economist.comThe Revolutionary Guards are taking over IranThey now appear to run both the state and the war 1426193
Reposted by Evan HensleighJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 17/02/2026Love this so much, especially the juxtaposition of English folklore paths with an Amazon spokesperson going out of their way to deny a person driving their branded vehicle is an employee. 1014532
Reposted by Evan HensleighAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026“Inventing the Renaissance” is having another $3.99 ebook sale. I think this one is Uk/Canada/AU/NZ too! If bit, that sale is coming in a couple days. 78743
Reposted by Evan HensleighMark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease 435124476142
Reposted by Evan HensleighIan Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 02/02/2026This is terrific from @om.co and I agree with every word. om.co/2026/02/01/w...om.coWhy Tech (&) Media is complicatedAfter I published my “velocity is the new authority” essay, a reader and dear friend emailed and asked if my framework explained the fraught relationship between media and the technology … 055
