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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cee you’re not pointing your camera at the bird

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Truly we are blessed to live in the age of Kemi

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jesus, went to WHSmith in Heathrow to try and pick up a copy of Edge and the entire magazine section is about two units wide. With no Edge in sight

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Siren for the net zero dads: anyone got a recommended installer for air conditioning and solar? Ideally someone who can do both at once

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was a bit confused when I got this alert this morning but thanks 2021-me for recognising that I’d get a good post out of it

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thought this was a perceptive comment from a classicist about ancient Athens

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What’s the worst example of millennial cringe that you can’t get out of your life? I still tell my partner to dust my wets every time we have pasta

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When assessing claims like “are the labs sincere about their concern that recursive self improvement is imminent, or is it simply marketing”, I think a useful data point is that openAI is now on a weekly release cycle for point improvements.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still remember when DeepMind was about to reveal AlphaGo and Facebook rushed out some half-arsed paper on training a Go AI literally days before the embargo dropped. I’m sure that didn’t happen here

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder when Meta decided to launch Muse in September and when OpenAI decided to launch Dots in September and when Meta learned that OpenAI had decided to launch Dots in September

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Connect these dots because I cannot

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, in the long term with a healthy economy, it ought to be effectively a single lock to earnings. Hopefully we have a healthy economy in the long run!

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The obvious situation to consider here is a world where inflation goes up by 10% in y1, which causes 10% earnings growth in y2. Triple lock means there’s two years of 10% uprating; Burnham is promising just one year of 10% uprating, so that the earnings “catches up” with the inflation lock

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No - the promise is it _will_ move above earnings (if earnings stagnate) because it will be locked to inflation. But if earnings boom, the situation is less clear, and the promise is not “rises with earnings” but a more nebulous “wont lose value vs earnings in the long term”

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just need like three or four weeks of no news to clear what’s on my plate and then I’ll be ready for more news

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can I have a crumb of no more AI news please

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sounds like the opposite - it won’t rise higher than _inflation_, but if earnings persistently outstrip inflation, it will/may get a kick.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@stephenkb.bsky.social look. Look Stephen. Having spent a lot of time in playgrounds in the last five years I do need to point out that the knotted speaking tube depicted in that illustration works absolutely fine