Profile avatar
nickarizti.bsky.social
I have 2 big fluffy cats Accidental IT professional with bio background Lacrosse coach I mostly use social media for following news and learning from smart people, but am trying to engage more.
120 posts 42 followers 161 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

These useless, chickenshit, corporate bastards.

rolling stone and teen vogue are all that remains of the fourth estate

Bluesky, for days I've been too sick about this to post much, but I need your help. Siwatu—best man at my wedding, one of the kindest, most human humans I know—lost everything in Altadena. My life and work wouldn't be what they are without him. Please donate any amount & share? gofund.me/098e91a6

it’s the culture war above all. the libs like clean, efficient energy? well then, fuck clean, efficient energy.

welp it turns out that i fucked it up lol. the igniter was getting roasted and we had a CO detector go off on NYE. $400 for a professional to fix it

Very chilling. Very. www.mediaite.com/tv/wake-up-r...

I am fascinated by the people at Meta who think this is a *good* idea in exactly the same way I'm fascinated by conspiracy theorists. It just seems so patently awful to me. And in ways that every sensible person I know would immediately grasp.

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"

STEPH WTH - This might be the most ridiculous shot of his career

Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off. He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.

Yes it's a plagiarism machine meant to put us all out of work and enrich the worst people alive and yes one request expends more energy than it takes to power Buffalo for a week, but more than that anything to do with AI is just corny dork-made shit. It fucking sucks and so do you if you use it.

in a christmas morning miracle, my MIL and i fixed the oven by taking it apart and replacing the busted baking igniter with the working broiler one

when cats curl up so much their faces go upside down rt if you agree

we're cooked

New York Rep. Pat Ryan, who easily held his Hudson Valley swing seat last month, spoke for AOC in the Dem conference meeting yesterday. Asked him what he said and he just sent me the speech - sharing in case it's interesting

This is an incredible interview.

we're toast

There’s no “responsible incorporation” of a technology that demonstrates every single bad habit that education is supposed to wean out of students - from making things up to citing sources you haven’t read to using other people’s work without proper permission to even just reading broadly.

sounds like a way to manufacture consent to heavily crack down on anyone who expresses discontent about health insurance companies like they did with that woman in Florida.

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

This guy sucks so much.

Dozens of pundits have been openly cheering on what Amnesty calls a genocide in Gaza nonstop for 15 months, 20K+ children dead, 15K+ more maimed, 100,000s of lives shattered with almost uniform elite support, namely from The Atlantic. This preening Oh My, The State of Things bullshit is so unserious

📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 dcabortionfund.org/donate

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

these motherfuckers

A deeply personal piece by my wife Ayesha and I about the hell insurance companies have put us through to get the life saving care our daughter needs to live. We're sharing because her story is sadly all too common. I have a platform & I intend to use it: www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-insur...

Y'all have no memory of what the cops did to protesters in 2020??? Were you alive this year to see what they did to teenagers on college campuses THIS YEAR?

plenty of leftists liked the stuff biden was doing on the economy. the lesson is not that the left are ingrates its that tons of extremely-online self-branded American "leftists" are not actually leftists in any real way.