Living in Interesting Times
Jon AustinThings I like, things I think about, things I want to know more about, things that make me happy, sad or angry.
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My Not-Predictions for Election Night 2026
Ten days out, every forecaster in the country is telling us the same thing: Democrats are heavily favored to take back the House and have a real, if narrow, path to the Senate. I’m not going to argue with them. I’m also not going to predict...
The Superpower We May Be Giving Away
Last week David Robinson, who led safety transparency at OpenAI, quit and told Ezra Klein why. The interview is worth reading in full but one observation he made stuck with me more than the rest. Describing recent incidents in which swarms...
Azriel Blackman, the Real Deal
The dedication to The Mechanic reads in part, “And to all the mechanics and others who carry a load on our behalf.” It is, from cover to cover, a work of fiction but much of it was informed by my experiences in the airline industry and spec...
The Trial Before the Testimony
On Sunday, Anthropic published a research paper with a title so abstruse and unglamorous that I’m half-sure it’s some sort of inside joke: “Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models.”
You can read the company...
Spring...er...Summer in Minnesota
“Where you been?”
“How’s things going?”
How you holding up in Minnesota?”
“Are you busy?”
“How’s the book doing?”
“Why haven’t you posted anything in a while?”
Okay, I made up the last one. No one has expressed any concern that I have...
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Husband, father, son, friend, human. Comms consultant in Minneapolis, author of "The Mechanic," now available on Amazon. Believer in relationships not transactions.
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