Amy Sterling Casil

I'm going to pay other creative people well to create the cover of Like Fire and will publish it this year. This is the really good fantasy book I completed that's paid off in terms of my personal life - these are some of Kirbi Fagan's illustrations that will be in book.

@barneyxbt @fuelgrannie x.com/king_sukunaaa/…

everyone keeps comparing ai to the early days of the internet like it’s the same opportunity. it’s not. the key difference no one wants to talk about is that the internet created millions of jobs. entire industries were born overnight. web development, ecommerce, social media, digital marketing, content creation… none of that existed before ai is doing the opposite. it’s here to eliminate jobs not create them. and the infrastructure being built to support it is massive data centers with almost no one even working there. the internet needed people. ai replaces them. that’s not the same revolution it’s literally the opposite.

@ChrisMartzWX @LauschJack That’s wrong

Just going to leave this here.

@SketchesbyBoze I think that's more like a bad text-to-speech interpretation, Owl. Remember: you have 100x the reach of me and you are a much much much more infinitely important person.

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.

Many people have used Goodreads over the years to create false profiles and review bomb the works of authors they see as competitors. Others are just angry, disgruntled losers who see it as their life's mission to police others' reading or denigrate the work of others they look down on or resent.

Hachette just cancelled the publication of a popular (fiction) book facing credible allegations of AI use The most fascinating part is watching readers edit their Goodreads ratings in real time People who loved the book when they read it now hate it if AI was involved 🤔

@Govindtwtt Life

Everyone says “AI will take all the jobs.” If that happens… how does this future actually work? No jobs → no income → no spending. So who buys things? Who pays rent? Who keeps the economy moving? What am I missing here?

Suspicions were raised when the book began with the words “It looks like you’re writing a novel! Would you like help?”

@jonkay What a nightmare.

interesting case study that shows what white men have had to do over the last 10 years to remain employed in avant garde art spaces. Compare Ben Bogart’s bio from 2016 with 2026. Same guy. Except he reinvented himself as “neurodivergent nonbinary agender” (they/them, of course)

@SarcasmStardust I don't think it was "weeks later" like the OP says. I think it was just a day or two.

An eyewitness had literally just seen him hit her. That’s why the cops were there in the first place. But then he told them “oh, she’s crazy” and suddenly she was the bad guy and they sent him to a hotel for the night on taxpayer dime because he was a “victim” and they told her to go stay alone in the RV and not contact him for the night. Infuriating.

@SarcasmStardust That's dreadful

This website has turned into nothing more than copypasta, engagement bait slop. These are just what I could fit in four screenshots. Goes on and on and on.

I’m 100 percent convinced the Art Deco design of Hoover Dam is America’s greatest ever public project and we’ll probably never come close again

@LucifersTweetz WalMart hires 'em all the time, and we just saw the 80 yo man carrying door dash, you're welcome.

70 and 80 year old people are generally unemployable due to physical and mental decline but for some reason we allow them to run the entire fucking country.

@libshipwreck "AI is gonna take your jobs" "AI will take over the courts and convict people wrongfully" "We have to use pesticides on our crops" "We can sell air" "You will own nothing and love it" jesus fucking christ ... etc

It’s important to remember that this was once described as “inevitable,” and that there was a time when you were derided as a Luddite for being skeptical of it. In retrospect lots of people are acting like it was clearly always BS, but for a time we were told it was inevitable…

This would certainly have improved food systems - so the hungry could eat nutritious food instead of Flaming Hot Chee-Tos and mercury-laden fish full of microplastics.

@_Regenaissance Of course they are. The people that live in their "company town" of Lost Hills die in their 40s and cannot drink the water. x.com/ASterling/stat…

I had no idea about this, literally had a glass of this juice today. Paraquat is far far worse than glyphosate, have heard of plenty folks personally affected by it. If you drink POM I strongly suggest you find an alternative like a hand held juicer along with actual pomegranates or Lakewood Organic Pomegranate Juice.

AI companies and their investors (BlackRock etc) pay for this type of account to spread fear about the tech, which in turn advantages the companies that are behind the curve or want to corner this part of the government market ("justice system"). There are many pedo or pro-rape judges who protect offenders. This type of account doesn't want them to be replaced with an AI that at least doesn't have child porn and is whacking off to it under his robes. One example of dozens - lawandcrime.com/crime/wisconsi…

@TheFern_X @Alex_TheAnalyst I disagree. You obviously are either one of the sociopaths in the criminal justice system who exists to protect predators or are stupid.

@ASterling @Alex_TheAnalyst Not at the scale it would with AI.

I'm going to call this right now. We are going to have a large population with absolutely no critical thinking skills if they blindly trust AI for everything. We have all already seen it. They don't validate outputs. They don't really understand anything. They just ask questions, it looks good, and they go with it. There are going to be huge issues in every company as this continues over the years. The amount of technical debt and knowledge gaps are going to be insane. So much opportunity if you actually know what you're doing.

@TheFern_X @Alex_TheAnalyst And you think that does not happen now, with humans and not AI?

@Alex_TheAnalyst @ASterling The is a serious problem. These are the same people who called snitch lines during Covid & said unvaccinated should have their kids taken away & be locked up. They will have no issue when an AI judge convicts you of a crime you didn’t commit and a robot hauls you off to prison.

I did all in my human power to help my students, daughter, and her friends. Somebody needs to tell those RESPONSIBLE for destroying the country's culture, education systems, health systems, food systems, and everything else, and it's not individual "boomers" it's those in charge. They are known. They are known knowns. They are the Epstein Class.

Someone needs to tell the boomers that the only way to get rich off their 3x overpriced assets was to create a prosperous younger generation. Whoops.

@r0ck3t23 Not real writing, boss.

Elon Musk just described the white-collar extinction event. On Joe Rogan. Casually. Musk: “Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.” Not gradually. Not eventually. Lightning. The assumption most professionals are operating on is that AI will assist them. Make them faster. Augment what they do. That assumption is the most expensive mistake a person can make right now. Musk: “Just like digital computers took over the job of people doing manual calculations. But much faster.” Think about that analogy for a moment. We used to employ entire rooms of people whose sole function was arithmetic. Highly educated. Well-compensated. Essential to every organization that ran on numbers. Then the computer arrived and the entire category disappeared. Not shrank. Disappeared. Nobody talks about it as a tragedy anymore because the transition happened before most people alive today were born. It’s just history. A curiosity. That same transition is happening right now to coding, writing, analysis, research, legal work, financial modeling. Every profession whose output lives entirely on a screen. The difference is the speed. Digital computers took decades to displace manual calculation. This is moving in years. If your work begins and ends on a screen, you are not competing with a tool that makes someone else more productive. You are competing with a replacement that does not sleep, does not need benefits, and gets cheaper every six months. Musk is not predicting this future. He is describing the present tense.