@jjvincent.bsky.social
journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
“AI is a threat not just to jobs, but to the entire existence of organized labor in America.”
Hugely important from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
accidentally quite good preparation for being an adult in a world filled with speaking machines guided by corporate dictats
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hahah i'd not made the connection but yes absolutely
i find it ridiculous too lol
yeah, i've been doing the PT/sports routes so far but they've not made a huge difference. glad you got yours sorted!
oh yeah, it does that too. i've learned to put it back in myself. not from a full dislocation, but when it gets stuck on the cuff. awful feeling. you're like an animal with its leg in a trap: just pain and confusion until you can put it back in place. i'm mid-consultation for surgical fixes...
i should say, i'm not hypermobile - i just have a terrible rotator cuff from a really bad dislocation many years ago. but yeah; it pops out maybe a half-dozen times a year. often it gets stuck on the cuff and i have to put it back in myself, which i hate. my sympathies to you!!
this response made me laugh, thanks
i have a dodgy shoulder that subluxes randomly and the surprise is almost worse than the pain. it did it yesterday when i was putting a jumper on - brief, screaming agony, then it just pops back in. it's like putting your hands in your pockets but one time in every 50 there's a mousetrap in there
late to it, but a brilliant piece on the trial of the sycamore tree felling two harpers.org/archive/2026...
perfect, thank you google AI - those are indeed the limits of language
stolen from x, but i always assumed "akimbo" was borrowed from Japanese or something, but it's a contraction of the middle english "in kene bowe" meaning "in a sharp bend." (and bow in this sense of a bend also gives us the bow of a ship, an archer's bow, a knot tied in a bow, a rainbow, etc — fun!)
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
the book itself is a beaut, too. not only do we get "Max Jammer" in an editorial role, but a foreword by old Einstein himself.
a lovely bookplate on this random PDF — cor ad, cor loquitur; "heart speaks to heart."
and a quick temperature check on x, the everything app:
there's just a million moving parts here, really. i've not even mentioned export controls, with anthropic's support for these winning favor with china hawks, or ted cruz, currently moving pro-regulation ahead of 2028 republican candidate nominations. it's all about AI policy!
and atm it does look like the WH is overstepping. e.g. sending that memo Utah's republican legislature opposing a bill on AI transparency and safety. state lawmakers thought they'd be free to legislate on this, and the child safety angle is very important with the republican base
it's costly signalling baby and the nerds loves it!!
it'll be really interesting to see how this plays out in the midterms. we now have two broad coalitions (to simplify: anthropic vs openai) putting money behind candidates based on their stance on AI regulation. if the anti-regulation lot lose, then Trump will look less favorably on his AI advisors
it also makes more sense to take a stand against an administration that is unpopular and chaotic, rather than one that's soaring in the polls and focused. the real damage may come from the AI cabal around the WH (sacks, andreessen, etc) who already despise anthropic and will use this to punish it
absolutely. hegseth hardly seems like the most fearsome opponent in this sense
who knows exactly why Amodei has done this — but it does genuinely seem to be a matter of principle to him. and, to be cynical, that's a very valuable asset when your rivals seem to have none. top AI talent seems as much motivated by mission as paycheck, and anthropic now stands alone on this
if Hegseth follows through on his threats, then Anthropic loses a $200m contract (not important in the scheme of things), but is designated a supply chain risk (potentially incredibly damaging to reputation/business, but could be legally challenged)
wow: anthropic are sticking by their guns — or, rather, not sticking by the Pengaton's. amodei says the company won't drop safeguards against using its AI to power fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, per DoD demands, and will take what punishment it gets www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
apple, orange, banana: the trinity of fruit really
just a wonderful, wonderful piece of writing. "The Moon Makes Us Human" - www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-moon-m...
Easily one of the top charts of all time
This is fascinating science (and one of the many reasons I like Bluesky these days) about the first giant organism to live on the earth's land surface 400 million years ago: 25-foot-tall (!) pre-trees grown from "previously undescribed" organisms that are now completely extinct. What the hell!!
