andrea boykowycz

Writing is thinking, exhibit one million. I tell students: you don’t have ideas you “just need to put into words.” You have vague subterranean inklings, and putting them into words is how you turn them into ideas. If you let AI do it, your own thoughts remain a squishy paste.

A dem takes office it takes them 4 years to pass the We Love You bill, Which grants a 1 time $1200 loan to black small business owners. Every time a republican is in office day 1 they pass the all encompassing Nasty Mothafucka Act that kills every living thing on gods green earth

attn @PghDOMI and cc @PGHDistrict3 and @PGHDistrict8 - an opportunity to address pedestrian safety projects in 15313?

I think about this more and more as I get older. Patience for studies, plans, resolutions, hearings wears thin, one wants government to Act - or if it can’t act, to get out of the way so others can act. Paint the crosswalk you wish to see in the world.

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own. (Link in the comment)

honestly my first idea was that it was staged to get him out of speaking to the press corps. which would have been appallingly stupid. but if it turns out to have been staged to build the case for tve goddamn ballroom I just don’t know if there’s any hope left.

@designmom all these guys out here in the comments falling over each other to prove your point lolol

Males developed as the secondary sex to support the primary sex (like drones in a beehive) and are naturally submissive. They thrive when given an assignment & told what to do. Matriarchy is the norm throughout nature, and patriarchy can only lead to the destruction of humankind.

On Anarchism.

@Wonderful_Chip @DCEDSecretary @billpeduto @TravelLeisure taking from this that you are speaking without love, then.

@bwycz @DCEDSecretary @billpeduto @TravelLeisure And they still should. It’s a shithole with minimal opportunity.

ICYMI: @TravelLeisure ranked Pittsburgh in their Top 10 Places for Gen X to live, citing strong jobs, healthcare, universities, and housing alongside world-class culture, sports, and outdoor recreation. Just one of many great communities in PA! ow.ly/15UJ50YKEF9

@chrisbriem the O. where has it gone.

Coming to Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft? It might not be the Pittsburgh you are expecting. Pittsburgh Technology Center (former closed steel plant) Summerset at Frick (former steel slag heap) Washington’s Landing (former livestock slaughterhouse) Bakery Square (former industrial bakery)

@SidKhurana3607 dallas

Guess the US city (min. 100k) by its racial demographics?

Wait it gets better. The Persian Empire is fighting an existential war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire just deposed its leader and the Ottoman Empire is stirring

@TodayinHistory terrible idea

America’s own Arc de Triomphe! What do we think?

this.

@SidKhurana3607 whoa suddenly the prevalence of Methodists in central PA makes sense

Top cities (min. 25k) by Welsh-born % in 1920, lot of mining areas on the list: Wilkes-Barre, PA (2.2%) Scranton, PA (2.0%) New Castle, PA (1.7%) Utica, NY (1.5%) Rome, NY (1.0%) Youngstown, OH (0.8%) Steubenville, OH (0.6%) Warren, OH (0.6%)

This, except replace “Russia” with “The United States.” And the population is bigger, and the country slightly smaller, also the transport systems are faster. But this.

@chrisbriem @CapitanoJacko they preserved a panel when they cleaned the building - you can see it on the library side, about halfway between Dippy and the main steps. also this is the music hall not the library. (hairsplitting)

@CapitanoJacko It causes me great cognitive dissonance to this day. I thought it was made of coal.

Check out the color of the Carnegie Library!

@chrisbriem lololol

How different is Pittsburgh (Housing version)? Year structure built, City of Pittsburgh and the United States (2024)