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hern.bsky.social
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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Some personal news (do we still do personal news on BlueSky?): I am the Economist’s new South Asia economics correspondent, and will be based in Mumbai.

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@jjvincent.bsky.social well I thought it was a good post

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A lot of the bluesky vs twitter chat is at cross purposes, really. I'm not here because it's better, or nicer, or algorithm free. I'm here because I don't trust the guy who runs that place.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

fucking hell wikipedia

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

My fellow Brits, you can now watch Halt and Catch Fire for *free* on ITVX. This isn't just the best show ever made about the internet and computers, but one of the best ever shows, period.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

youtube chuds: "an em-dash is a sure sign that content is written by ChatGPT" my editor:

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Worth noting the inciting incident here is the very unautonomous practice of not looking before opening the car door

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Pushing for an increase in fuel duty is like pushing for a higher income tax for people born before 1970. It’s a valid response to the situation in 2025, it feels emotionally satisfying to younger leftists, it would be wildly unpopular and it gets increasingly useless from day one

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Queen Prince Charles isn’t technically a king it’s just a gender affirming title we let him use

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A political schism that may become more salient, especially if Labour’s building programme works, is the massive divergence in council services received by people who live in houses vs flats

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

It is soooooo good that the US is having NO KINGS day when we have YAY KING day

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Poetic Delivery Service, one from 2017

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The Meta AI debacle is just this, 20 years on, and on purpose. Incredible how little anyone has learned web.archive.org/web/20190324...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

extremely fun

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

a) it is soooooo consistent that every car that almost runs me down is also on the road illegally b) it is sooooooo mental that I can reliably find this out and prove it but can’t do anything about it

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

RSS feeds were good weren’t they

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

this feels almost exactly wrong, based on actual interactions with driverless cars. it's reading an awful lot in to the use of an American term in a press release

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It's time for glasnost in cupertino economist.com/leaders/2025...

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