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Alex Hern
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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.
It feels like a bad way to do what they're doing. "We won't review games which use generative AI for creative work" feels better all round than this
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
www.colliers.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
a mild example of the form: oh wow, Tokyo the tenth best city for tech hiring? I wonder what sits in number two in this ranking Noah xcancel.com/Noahpinion/s...
xcancel.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
xcancel.com/Noahpinion/s... oh right it turns out there isn't a good reason
xcancel.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
onemileatatime.com/news/economi... lots of people are focusing on his failure to follow big purple signs but I've spent the last twenty minutes going through flights and I literally cannot work out a single good reason to have a layover in London
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
have you tried standing stock still in the middle of the map and shouting pspspspsps
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
retvrn to calling everything clones
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
No and everyone who tries is lying
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
as a seasoned cool s drawer, it has to be aligned with the paper
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Is that Tina’s!!!
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Because I can’t get the family discount as a business traveller no matter how early I book. The fee means that if I travel with a novel group of people, I don’t get the family railcard for that one trip
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Your family trips are likely booked in advance, on non peak trains, and are price sensitive, all of which make you useful people to get in to fill up otherwise empty trains
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The third largest party in the commons has lots of ability to mouth off and very little power to act so I think it’s useful to look at whether their big talk matches their behaviour when they actually have the ability to do something
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
But congestion charging and tolls are only complex for the people affected by them. And also, frankly, the complexity is part of the point. You don't _want_ frictionless congestion charging! You want people to be aware of what they're doing every time they do it so they stop doing it
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
That would be nice! It's not worth the added complexity, political and infrastructural cost, and you can already just do congestion charging and tolls
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
lots of objectives for road pricing. I think we should prioritise the simple, easy and privacy-preserving option over trying to build a panopticon for cars. And I would _love_ a panopticon for cars
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM