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Seat

Representative for Oklahoma District 1

Born

December 4, 1961

Age 64

Phone

(202) 225-2211

Office

171 Cannon House Office Building, Washington 20515

Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|Oklahoma District 1

Kevin Hern

Kevin Ray Hern is an American politician and businessman from Oklahoma. A Republican, he is serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district since 2018.

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Congressional District 1

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Kevin Hern

U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanOklahoma District 1

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Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 7(source)

The Friends episode where Joey reads Little Women has as its initial premise the idea that he only reads Stephen King novels not classics

Mx. Tiffany Leigh

@tiffanyleigh.bsky.social

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I rewatched FRIENDS & was struck at the multitude of establishing shots in scenes where one of the gang is sitting in their apartment reading a contemporary fiction novel

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Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

They’re doing “only white people are British” again

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

Oh my god they’re doing British food _again_

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

"I want to write about the end of consensus reality" was the pitch, I think. Oh well! Sure it'll be fine

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

missed the fifth anniversary of this piece which is I think one of the most prescient I've worked on

Facebook, QAnon and the world's slackening grip on reality

The coronavirus pandemic has left us living more and more of our lives online. But the place where we chat with friends, get our news and form our opinions is full of vile and dangerous conspiracy the...

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

my mental definition of inner/outer london is always along these lines really – if the primary way of getting somewhere is down, are the alternatives almost as good

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

I'm too inner london! the hackney downs/central interchange would be the way to do it without buses but it's specifically hateful for this particular interchange because it requires five lifts and a chunky walk to get from w/b mildmay to n/b weaver

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

of course anything bus reliant means I can't rely on a pushchair, because then I can't get on the bus if there's two other parents on it, so the 15 minute walk actually has to be "wait for a second bus"

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

No but I can walk for 15 minutes and then catch the 97 bus for "half an hour" which is always an hour given traffic

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

as someone currently trying to work out how to transport a 2 year-old from inner london to Stow proper: yes it bloody is

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

new yorkers (morning), is the staten island railway "a subway"? [i fear the answer is ‘oh no the light rail on staten island run by the department of subways using subway rolling stock with a subway fare schedule is actually a distinct rapid transit service’]

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

stage three of the starmer cycle

Jessica Elgot

@jessicaelgot.bsky.social

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Wes Streeting warns of ‘disintegration’ of rules-based world order after Venezuela attack www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 6(source)

Jodie Foster and Hannibal?

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Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.socialJan 5(source)

Lots of people tried to reconstruct the ML/AI/stats community over here. 90% of them left because the random abuse they got for just posting ordinary research results was too much. bsky.app/profile/jwhe...

John Herrman

@jwherrman.bsky.social

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Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...

The reality of the AI industry is far larger than a subculture on X with hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into physical infrastructure, reshaping jobs, and deploying into products used by billions of people. But that makes X's capture of the AI conversation all the more notable. Much as Twitter long ago captured, amplified, and distorted elite conversation in media, in sports, in parts of finance, in left politics, and more recently in right politics, the world's understanding of what's going on in Silicon Valley right now - the hype and the doom and the bubble and the progress - is first processed through the strange culture and incentives of X, which is now owned by estranged OpenAI co-founder, Google antagonist, and xAI founder Elon Musk. It has been merged into xAI, where the in-house chatbot occasionally confuses itself with Hitler. When the history of this period in tech is eventually written, it will be composed of, among other things, a whole lot of threads and replies from blue checks on X.

Then, of course, there's the Musk factor. The fact of his ownership creates obvious risks for all of his competitors, who rely on his platform to supply the vibes they need to help keep their companies, and the AI boom in general, going. It's worth remembering that, back before he decided to purchase it and let it drive him nuts, Twitter was, to Musk, a platform with clear functional utility, a social network that helped make him wildly famous and use that fame to convince thousands of retail traders to buy into Tesla, the company that made him the richest man in the world.
Even if we assume, against all reason, that Musk won't leverage this unusual sort of power over all the competitors gathered on his platform, X's influence over them and how they're seen by the rest of the world is undeniable. Along with "AI Twitter," some of the other communities thriving on Musk era X include MAGA guys and crypto guys, meaning that the background vibe of the primary gathering place for the industry that's trying to remake the world is quite a bit more conservative and mercenary than it otherwise might have been, and while the primary factor in the public's deep skepticism of where Al is going is clearly fear about labor, association with polarizing Muskian politics probably doesn't help assuage ambient fears about job loss and surveillance. (One important consequence of having the AI elite gathered on X is that their media diets are now substantially made up of one another's posts, effusive and dismissive responses to their oren posts, and standard "For You" page Musk-era algo-slop.
It's hard to overstate how thoroughly their information diets are influenced by their timelines, and you can get a pretty good idea of what those look like by jacking into
AI Twitter yourself.)

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Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.socialJan 5(source)

I want this site to beat twitter, and for twitter to evaporate. For that to happen, people you hate must have a more pleasant experience posting here than posting there. A minority of this site decided instead that they want it to be their little club, so that's what we have.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 5(source)

An information request is the first step of an enforcement action here

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 5(source)

campaigning to add BAE to the ESG fund

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Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.comDec 27(source)

I turned off history on YouTube years ago meaning that, when I open it, it just shows me a completely blank page, instead of algorithmic recommendations, and sometimes that makes me feel like I live in an alternate universe

Jacob Aron

@jjaron.bsky.social

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I find this incredibly jarring - personally, I watch very little on YouTube, and my children are banned from it. Unlike Netflix, Disney etc it's an uncurated swamp with a very real risk that you encounter the worst of the internet. How can that be the new Hollywood? www.ft.com/content/9e75...

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 5(source)

Initially read this and thought the painting was a photorealistic rendition of a sick kickflip

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