May 2026
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UBI won’t save us, and the nurse will tell you why
I have a friend who is a nurse. Not the TV kind, with good lighting and a romance subplot. The real kind. She does twelve-hour shifts, she lifts grown men who cannot lift themselves, she cleans up things you and I would rather not put into words, and she holds the hand of someone who is dying while their family is stuck in traffic.
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The lump of labour fallacy fallacy
Every time someone says the machines are coming for the jobs, there’s a guy in the back of the room who knows the term. Lump of labour fallacy . He’s read his economics and he’ll explain it to you slowly, the way you explain things to a child. Work isn’t a fixed pie, he says.
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The MCP Bridge: AL Language Tools for Every Agent
You picked Claude Code. Or Cursor. Or whatever agent actually fits how you work, because the agent you use matters more than the editor it lives in. You set it up. You tuned your prompts. You built the muscle memory. And then you tried to do anything serious with AL. Yeah.
