Want to support small business and trade within Canada? Subsidize Canada Post 🍁 to deliver packages cheaper. The economic benefit outweighs the cost. It's insane that companies outside Canada can ship things to us cheaper than we can ship things to ourselves. (and support unions & postal workers)

No one has blocked me for several days now, so here’s a picture of me and the second book I wrote to educate people about #AI, business, and the workplace. I love it when a few fellow authors hate me for writing about AI more than they like supporting all authors. #booksky 📚 💙

"Matt is always ahead of the curve given how quickly AI is changing our world. 2.0 provides a detailed & thoughtful way to think where the AI revolution is today, how to navigate it, & where it may be going including thoughts about risks of Superintelligence. HIGHLY RECOMMEND" -Paul Summerville PhD

Punk isn't dead. It's Disaster Scenes by Codefendants. Thrash Metal at Tipping Point. Pop Punk isn't dead, it's just Bowling for Soup. Many GenX haven't heard new music since they left high school. They're missing a world of new music in "dead" genres. Baby Metal+Electric Callboy exists, people!

In this episode of Digital Marketing Masters, I sit down with execution coach Mark Delaney from the School of Execution to unpack the “worst kept secret” of success: doing the work boldly, consistently, effectively and getting a little better every day. serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

When you get your book in print, it just hits different than the digital version. I recommend authors set it on the table while they have a warm beverage. You’ll be surprised how often a conversation will pop up about it. #booksky 📚 💙 #authorsky #WillAITakeMyJob

Maybe I’m old and cynical but everyone yelling, “be MORE human and that’s how you win at marketing” is bascially wishful thinking and not advice with any impirical evidence. They might be right. But they also might not be. (Con’t)

Peek at what is in my latest book, "WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2: The Future of AI for Work, Business, and Organizations" Available now in Kindle, Print, or Audiobook. amzn.to/4mKirGg

How old do people need to be to understand the system of dirty politicians causing problems and then pointing at the problems they caused as the reason people should elect them? (again) I figured this out by about 17... and I remember feeling at the time that I had taken too long to realize it.

NS author news 📚💙 Matt Rouse (Port Royal) wrote his latest book at Sissiboo Cafe in Annapolis Royal. “Will AI Take My Job? 2” is about the future impacts of Artificial Intelligence on jobs, organizations, and businesses. Available on Amazon and coming soon to local bookstores across Nova Scotia.

🍁 Friends Left, my new book, written in Sissiboo Cafe in Annapolis Royal, NS. To the right, a chrome monster tamed by a few delightful artist/baristas. Living on a hobby farm with my fam, pets & 51 chickens, I feel grounded in reality while writing about the future of #AI. #Booksky 📚 #auhtorsky

If you get a Sora2 key & don't want it. Instead of spitting on the ground in disgust and deleting it, please fire it my way so we can do testing. I literally wrote the book on AI and jobs & I would like to put this video model through the paces. I'll let people know that you think it's bad. #Sora2

Nearly everyone I talk to is convinced #AI couldn't take their job or replace their business. I'm not so sure and I spent the last 3 years researching this topic. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW. The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. I've seen sh*t you wouldn't believe.

“We could get along like 1101110 1101100.” -MXPX Also, “Will AI Take My Job? 2” is officially released tomorrow.

Very special thanks to all the people who helped contribute directly or indirectly to, WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2. (Most of which are not on #Bluesky, but I will recruit them.) 📚📖 @garyewer.bsky.social @emollick.bsky.social @ethanholland.bsky.social @paulroetzer.bsky.social @mreflow.bsky.social

Last day to upload my book & the Internet is out. Since I live in rural Nova Scotia, we pay first-world prices for third-world reliability, so I already uploaded an "almost done" version last night... Just in case. I'm not worried, the coffee shop in town has Internet still. ☕📚 #authorsky

"This title is a pre-order. Changes allowed for the next 1 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes, and 25 seconds." Yup, I just wrote the last word of the book with a day to spare! Now the last couple paragraphs are in editing and formatting. WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2 Release Date: September 30th. #booksky 📚

If I get raptured, do I have to wear this as my ghost-outfit for eternity? 👻 And if so, do I have time to change into a nicer shirt?

I usually post every day but I did not post today.

"You listen to weird music." What's weird about it?

Finishing up writing the chapter about #AIPolicy in education, with a personal note about how things were when I was a kid in the 80s. A geeky nerd who was into computers and tech. Guess I haven't changed much. #Booksky 📚

How many more articles will be written proclaiming that "AI can only guess the next word?" (Do they mean tokens?) This is an absurd oversimplification of a modern #AI system. Like saying that nature is just some animals, plants and shit. (cont'd)

In chapter 5 of WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2, I talk about how #Fiverr was down 14% last year and the drop is attributable to tasks, voiceovers, and music handled by AI. Then Fiverr just laid off 250 employees to become an "AI-First" company. I predicted this and the book hasn't been released yet. 📚

Squishy gel robots are my favorite new weird tech thing. WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2 Is available on pre-order now on Amazon. Get it and find out if a squishy gel robot is coming for your job.

Got added to a block list, "AI Goobers". 🤣 HOW DARE YOU, SIR! 🤺 I'm a 90s punk & metal GenX'er. I remember I made a bad shot while shooting pool with a friend and they slapped me and said, "Nice fuckin' shot, pirate hooker. You must be the dumbest man alive." And that's someone I like... Goober? 😭

You have no chance to survive make your time. #zerowing #genXnerds #genXgamers

Excerpt from Chapter 8 of WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2... 🚕 Chapter 8 is about Transportation, Logistics, Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Self Driving. #AI #Futurism #SelfDriving #Logistics #Agriculture #Manufacturing #transportation #booksky #authorsky 📚

Spoiler Alert! ‼️ This was the plot of “Star Wars: Epstein Alliance”

Sometimes I want to close a tab, but I also want to pretend that I have the time to read it later, so I press ctrl-D to send it to the Bookmark Graveyard where tabs go to die.

I liked the #Stargate novels that carried on after the end of #StargateAtlantis. The crossover comic series with #SGU was also pretty good, but I didnt feel the characters were as well developed. Maybe just because of the longer format. The comics had more action, as one would expect.

My barred rock rooster, “Turducken,” is getting pretty big for 4 months old!

My bard rock rooster, “Turducken,” is getting pretty big for 4 months old!

Humanity isn’t getting less intelligent. (Contrary to what we see on the socials) IQs are rising, overall. 📈 But knowledge is growing so fast that, compared to the whole, we are all falling behind. 🥚 🐓 Those who refuse to be lifelong learners are accelerating into irrelevance. 📚

“AI is progressing so quickly, that every day that goes by, even experts know less of the entire corpus of available knowledge. What happens when AI is self improving?” -Roman Yampolskiy (AI Security Researcher) * paraphrased from my memory of the podcast because I couldnt type fast enough.

Working on Chapter 14 of "Will AI Take My Job? 2." This time, I show the devil in the details of #AGI & #superintelligence safety. This book is twice the length of the previous book, with more stories more studies, and this chapter on the potential nightmares of run-away AI. #Booksky #AuthorSky 📚

I’ve been a self-published business book author for a decade, having written eight non-fiction books. Today I received my author copy of, “Tales of Galactic Pest Control” by Amazing Stories includes AGENDA ITEM B: Pest Control by Matt Rouse. #authorsky #booksky 📖 📕 📚

Why do scifi movie franchises always one-up the powers of the characters? I feel like it's just lazy writing instead of finding sinister uses of existing abilities. Take Star Wars. The insane advantage mind reading/control and telekinesis would have over folks is huge? No "force lightening" needed.

From AGI Next: "She was tired of meditation classes and yoga classes, filled with little room noises like a clicking heat register and the odd sniffle or sneeze of another participant. She would get deeply entranced, finding her way out of reality and deep inside of consciousness itself..."

Why #AI will replace search... "recipe for sweet and sour meatballs" [12 pages of ads and some bullshit story] SWEET & SOUR MEATBALLS Ingredients: - Meatballs - Sweet & Sour Sauce No shit? So helpful. Glad I read through your fake Grandma's family history to read these stunning chef secrets.

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Every morning in NYC, a man buys a newspaper, looks at the front page, sighs, and gives it back. After a week, the vendor asks, “Why buy it if you dont read it?” He says, “I’m checking for an obituary.” “But obits aren’t on the front page, they’re in the back.” “The one I’m waiting for will be.”

Outdoor movie for the girls. We had three families with young ones come over for movie night on the big screen!

My little girl has completed her first Musical Theater Camp. #theater

You don't have to love AI to learn about it. You don't have to approve of robots to learn about them. You don't have to trust big tech to learn what's coming. That's why I wrote "Will AI Take My Job? 2" with an optimistic outlook and a pessimistic outlook presented. #Authorsky #AI #robots #tech 📚📖

I'm getting put on a lot of block lists for "AI boosters" or "AI Imagery" because I wrote the book, "Will AI Take My Job? 2". 🤣 Good work by the "If I don't look at it, it doesn't exist" crowd. If ANYONE should be reading my book, it's them.

🍁 Excerpt from "Will AI Take My Job? 2" My daughter needed some school supplies that we were unable to secure locally in the tiny rural town where we live, so we drove to the vast metropolis of Digby, Nova Scotia (population 7,270) to visit a big box store. (cont) #authorsky #booksky 📖📚

AI in the enterprise: 1. "Hey staff, IT has given you access to Co-pilot!" 2. "Hey staff, IT is allowing you access to ChatGPT!" 3. "Hey staff, Slack & Google Workspace now have AI too!" 4. [go back to doing everything as they always have] 5. "AI is not having the impact we expected." #enterpriseAI

Ok, 🍁 friends. Amazon approved pre-order for: WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2 The Future of AI for Work, Business, and Organizations I use my crystal ball (research and experience) plus expert consultations and interviews to figure out what's going on in #artificialintelligence and what it means for you.

My books are coming out like FIRE (ironic since southern Nova Scotia is on fire right now 🔥 thank-you fire fighters!) My story was the final in this anthology, "AGENDA ITEM B: Pest Control" Book available now on Amazon and anywhere great Science Fiction books are sold. #authorsky #booksky 📚📖

What if you could peak behind the curtain AI in business? What if you could have a crystal ball into the future of #AI? Now you can... 📖 WILL AI TAKE MY JOB? 2 📚The Future of AI for Work, Business, and Organizations Pre-order now on Amazon. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNNKV5GL #authorsky #booksky