What the cluster's most engaged post reveals is that open source AI's cultural weight has outpaced its technical footprint [1]. The argument that American white-collar workers are 'triggered' by LLMs because cognitive labor was tied to identity — not just income — is a structural observation about why this technology lands differently than prior automation waves. The [open source AI beat](/beats/Open Source AI) has carried versions of this tension across dozens of dispatches, but this framing sharpens it: the threat is not job loss in the abstract, it is the…