Hasan Piker spends seven to eight hours a day, seven days per week, streaming on Twitch. The far-left political commentator bought his begin in 2013 interning for (and generally internet hosting) the Younger Turks. Greater than a decade later, he’s a powerhouse newsfluencer with the number-one channel in Twitch’s Politics and Commentary class. Greater than 3 million folks observe him for his takes and humor on the crumbling American empire, international coverage, and why Bernie would have gained. He’s additionally thought-about, by some, highly regarded. Piker works out each accessible morning and eats 1 pound of rooster with some rice at 6 pm. The remainder of his free time is spent researching, planning his streams, and getting in fights with individuals who have AI avatars.
Telephone mannequin: iPhone 16 Professional Max
For years and years, I’d do the basic iPhone-on-its-last-leg on precept, as a result of I hate the deliberate obsolescence and I simply am a really cussed individual. I’d have the oldest attainable iPhone I might for so long as I might till I’d have it mainly caught to {an electrical} outlet for it to work.
Now I’ve to have one of many newest ones for cybersecurity causes. That is what the civil rights attorneys I speak to inform me. We’re type of all simply attempting to do our best for privateness and for safety towards warrantless surveillance by the federal government. However they inform me, “You bought to get the latest and you bought to all the time maintain it up to date.” It has been very irritating for me, as a result of I hate the brand new iOS, Liquid Ass. It is so ugly. It is so unintuitive. I can not consider it. It is so irritating.
Laptop mannequin: Intel PC, gifted by Starforge
It is a PC, a prebuilt despatched to me by associates. The earlier one I had was made by Linus [Sebastian, creator of Linus Tech Tips]. We known as it “Large Purple.” I nonetheless have it in my home and use it as my secondary. It’s a behemoth that has the USSR crest and Jeff Bezos’ head on a dinner plate on it. It is lovely. There is a YouTube video the place he makes it and presents it to me. He took out one of many legs so it all the time leans left.
I’ve an iPad as nicely. I am a “screenager” now formally. Once I traveled, I used to simply use my cellphone, however then I spotted I am on planes for 15 hours at a time. Why am I placing myself via this?
Day by day common display time throughout Apple gadgets (not together with PC): 7 hours and eight minutes
Oh my Lord. That is so much. Final week I spent 22 hours and 14 minutes on Twitter. And my each day common is three hours and 42 minutes on Twitter alone. However to be honest, I learn articles off Twitter, so I do not know if it’s counting that as nicely.
It is humorous as a result of I used to delete Twitter off my cellphone. It made me an angrier individual, particularly put up–Elon Musk takeover. I spotted I’d simply be stepping into arguments or simply straight-up having a nasty time. I’d sit on my sofa, and I might activate Twitter, and I’d simply see a number of the dumbest folks on the planet, simply probably the most racist, poisonous folks on the planet. I seen that it was making me lose religion in humanity, so I’d delete it after which solely obtain it once I was touring to locations.
Now I am again on as a result of I really feel like woke is coming again, and because the Ayatollah of Woke, I’ve to be sure that I am on the entrance line. I am combating the battle within the trenches instantly in enemy territory.
Music app: Apple Podcasts
I do not hearken to any music. I solely hearken to podcasts. I positively used to hearken to music much more again within the day, however I had a Walkman after which a Discman. Once I was rising up in Turkey, I might burn CDs and stuff. After which I had an iPod. Since 2014, my food plan has largely consisted of podcasts and nothing else, as a result of I haven’t got time. I hearken to Chapo Lure Home, Trueanon, The Day by day, Up First, NPR Politics, NPR Information, Democracy Now, generally Think about This.
Variety of unacknowledged …
Emails: 1,049
Texts: 225
Missed calls: 352
Discord notifications: 6,353
Sign notifications: 3
WhatsApp messages: 7
My unread emails used to provide me anxiousness, however they do not anymore, as a result of I do not ever use my e mail. I’ve folks now that do my comms, fortunately. I primarily textual content.
I do not even see these notifications. After some time, it is simply gone. It’s what it’s. I simply do not care. I do not know.
Final individual you FaceTimed: A gaggle of associates
I am a texter, however generally I will do a FaceTime. I do not thoughts it, particularly if it is a pal I have not seen shortly. My household all the time loves FaceTiming. We FaceTime mainly on daily basis within the morning.
Final thing you Googled: Stomach of the Whale
I used to be attempting to Google “Stomach of the Beast,” which is a Cuban news outlet that does primarily English-speaking protection. And the rationale why I used to be doing that’s as a result of I needed to tug imagery for them, as a result of I am about to interview one in every of them at this time. However as a substitute of that, I ended up by chance Googling “Stomach of the Whale music.” I do not know what that’s.
Final video you took: Of himself, doing an incline bench press at 205 kilos for reps
Final screenshot: ?
I do not need to reveal. A high-profile politician’s comms individual.
Final thing you requested AI: N/A
I do not use AI. I believe there’s an actual drawback with cognitive offloading. There’s an actual drawback with hallucinations inside AI. I believe that AI is making humanity dumber typically. Every time I write a tweet after which the replies to it are like, “@Grock clarify what he means,” I am like, “You are actually not recognizing that you simply’re getting a robotic to attempt to practice you. You might be lesser than a human now. You’re a lesser human being because of this.” That is how I really feel about it. I am very annoyed.
I do know that finally folks will look again on the statements that I am making proper now and skim it—in the event that they’re nonetheless able to studying—and say, “Oh, you had been so smug and so elitist.” And I believe it is devastating. Not for the methods wherein Sam Altman and all these different AI folks tremendously overemphasize how highly effective and scary their new instrument is in an effort to fundraise one other $500 billion for his or her initiatives to fearmonger folks into pondering that the AI is definitely a lot smarter than it truly is or no matter, but it surely’s actually devastating for a mess of causes. Cognitive offloading, capability for being a car of limitless misinformation, which we have seen already. And final however not least, after all, or in all probability probably the most important, is the labor displacement mechanism.
