Perplexity built an AI shopping agent that bypasses Amazon's carefully curated marketplace. This should be competition working as intended, but the last two decades suggest we shouldn't celebrate yet. I explore why in my latest post open.substack.com/pub/timyc/p/...

Political content creators have become a toxic corner of the online ecosystem. But the current engagement model incentivizes the creation or rage bait and misinformation. I chat about these incentives and the dark places they may lead in my latest vid: youtu.be/nHNKYmWub9M

Happy November, I released the first edition of my Tech Newsletter, which aggregates all the recent content released on TechState as well as other stories, news, and videos we're tracking in the tech world in the last month. timyc.substack.com/p/masks-rage...

We're going to have reckon with the fact that bad times call for bad people.

Content creators already have a financial incentive to be obnoxious and spread misinformation, but will this only get worse as the field becomes more competitive? I explore this in my latest blog. timyc.substack.com/p/whos-creat...

From my latest blog post on how there really is nothing stopping content creators from manufacturing rage, and engagement metrics + ad revenue give them an incentive to do so.

From my latest blog post where I describe how social media content pipelines tried to steer me into conservative content.

Knowing that liking certain posts can influence my future content has changed how I interact with social media. I actively avoid engaging with content that I know will take me down certain rabbit holes, like the man-0-sphere. My latest post explores these pipelines timyc.substack.com/p/content-pi...

OpenAI released a new app that is truly a slop machine. Sora is a TikTok like app except all the videos are 100% AI generated. I discuss the app and my thoughts in this episode. youtu.be/0-rMWvB8fS4?...

Politics and Tech News has been burning many and myself out of late. Took a break in this episode to talk about hobbies and how important they are for developing purpose, community, and skill: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCj1...

Politics and Tech News has been burning many and myself out of late. Took a break in this episode to talk about hobbies and how important they are for developing purpose, community, and skill: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCj1...

"Draw me a picture of Glonzo, the fearful paranoid internet troll who hates stats and facts"

Modern adults dont understand the brain of terminaly online youth

When 8 billion people all use the same communication method, you are bound to see every permutation of an idea.

America is a huge country, but i'm slowly starting to feel i'm trapped on a small island.

MMW, They're going to regret abondoning this rebrand as they slowly become part of a dying generation. Kinda reminds me of Golden Corral. This will be used as a case study of why you should ignore terminally online political content creators.

Going to catch up on news - maybe play some stardew later: twitch.tv/timchinwalks

Hacker News, which I have historically relied on fairly nuanced, tempered, and reasonable takes and dicussions has started to veer more conpsiratorial. But also, idk if you can avoid such a mind set these days.

Never understand how overworking yourself is a flex to so many people. Getting overworked is totally submissive behavior. It involves no confrontation with superiors or use of free will. You just go along with demands...

It's hard not being smug these days

People are falling in love and losing their minds over AI like ChatGPT. But why is this happening and what if this intentional? Exploring this and more in our latest episode. youtu.be/8ypfU7Y8wsQ?si

People are falling in love and losing their minds over AI like ChatGPT. But why is this happening and what if this intentional? Exploring this and more in my latest episode. youtu.be/8ypfU7Y8wsQ?si

People are falling in love and losing their minds over AI like ChatGPT. But why is this happening and what if this intentional? Exploring this and more in my latest episode. youtu.be/8ypfU7Y8wsQ?si

Engagement is important. If it wasn't we'd just take our dumb little skeets to an empty field in Nebraska and shout them out.

Twitter isn't as bad as Bluesky makes it seem. Bluesky isn't as bad as Twitter makes it seem. Really just depends whether you prefer your death threats from racists or communists.

Going to go live in a bit. Chatting about Tech News, AI Psychosis, microblogging, and "Dark Money" in influencing: twitch.tv/timchinwalks

"The top 10 percent of earners now drive about half of spending, according to Moody’s, up from 36 percent three decades ago. These people will determine if the U.S. economy avoids a recession." -> glad to know I'm propping up the American economy. sjgenco.medium.com/riding-the-t...

AI companies have a vested interest in getting us hooked on AI. Unfortunately this is coming at the cost of people losing their mind and falling in love with their chatbots. 🤖💖 I explore why this is happening and why they don't care: timyc.substack.com/p/were-losin...

People are falling in love and losing their minds to AI that is too afraid to say "no". But this is no accident and it's not the first time we've been here. My latest blog explores another avenue of mental abuse from AI 🩷💜🤖 open.substack.com/pub/timyc/p/...

People are falling in love and losing their minds to AI that is too afraid to say "no". But this is no accident and it's not the first time we've been here. My latest blog explores another avenue of mental abuse from AI 🩷💜🤖 open.substack.com/pub/timyc/p/...

Many people are saying this. Ripped from @climateandtransit.bsky.social

This is why DC's bar scene is suffering during this admin.

Knowing the American electorate, congress just needs to pass the "T.H.O.U.G.H.T.S. and P.R.A.Y.E.R.S. Act". Imagine voting against that.

AI is like what corn was to agra but for tech. We have such an unnecessarily large surplus of it that we're just shoving it into products we don't need.

I get spirtually why we think it's ridiculous to stay on Twitter. But after watching the left digitally boycott platforms for over a decade - I don't think it's having any impact that supports their cause. I struggle to think of one example that worked. Twitter, Substack, Goya are all still around

Can Trump even deploy the national gaurd in NYC? Havent they BEEN deployed since 9/11?

Is it time to require software engineers to certify? The latest Tea App breach demonstrated the bar is too low for who can deploy consumer grade data harvesting platforms. I explore this and more in my latest vid 🫖💻👾 youtu.be/RJcN1aH8_hc

The latest AI buzzword from Silicon Valley is "AI Agents" and "Agentic Flows". But this really isn't a new concept. Agents have existed for decades, and if we don't recognize the similarities we risk making a bunch of crap tech. timyc.substack.com/p/stop-prete...

"Too many people's politics are defined by who made fun of them last" - The Elephant Graveyard

"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested that up to 50 percent of the company’s work was being done by AI." - How would a ceo even go about determining this bullshit number?

Superintelligence is coming and serious people recognize that it will rely on three neatly defined corperate structures

If intelligence was correlated with capital, universities would be the most valued organizations in the country. But they arn't. So why do investors believe making AI that is the equivalent to having an AI in your pocket will make them cash money?

Em dashes, y'all think he's using chatgpt these days?

I tracked my job hunt progress this year after I left federal government. I show some of that data and discuss some thoughts on applying for different positions: open.substack.com/pub/timyc/p/...

I tracked my job hunt progress this year after I left federal government. I show some of that data and discuss some thoughts on applying for different positions: open.substack.com/pub/timyc/p/...

The biggest change I've noticed since the occupation of DC is that there is pretty much no more moped food delivery guys. They used to just sit around together on block corners waiting for work - but now they're all gone.

Imagine standing in a recently developed neighborhood, across a boba shop, getting out of your new AC'd car and saying "the liberals ruined this country".