Hasan Piker, Self-Proclaimed ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI Us

Hasan Piker spends money seven to eight hours a day, seven days a week, streaming on Twitch. The left-wing political commentator began in 2013 joining (and sometimes hosting) the Turkish Youth. More than ten years later, he is a news anchor with Powerhouse method number one in Twitch’s Politics and Commentary category. More than 3 million people follow him for his antics and jokes about America’s crumbling empire, foreign policy, and why Bernie should have won. They are also considered, by some, very hot. Piker works every morning and eats one chicken and rice at 6 o’clock in the afternoon. All of his free time is spent researching, preparing his streams, and fighting against AI avatars.

Mobile Phone: iPhone 16 Pro Max

For years and years, I’ve done the old iPhone-on-its-last-leg on principle, because I hate being out of order and I’m a very stubborn person. I wish I had an older iPhone that I would last as long as I could until I could plug it in to work.

Now I have to have one of the latest ones cybersecurity reasons. This is what the civil rights lawyers I talk to tell me. We’re all just trying to do everything we can to maintain privacy and protection against unauthorized government surveillance. But he tells me, “You have to find new things and you have to change them all the time.” It has been very frustrating for me, because I hate the new iOS, Donkey juice. It is very disgusting. It’s absurd. I can’t believe it. It is very disappointing.

Computer type: Intel PC, provided by Starforge

It’s a PC, pre-configured sent to me and my friends. The previous one I had was made by Linus (Sebastian, creator of Linus Tech Tips). We called it “Big Red.” I still have it in my house and use it as my secondary. It’s a behemoth with the USSR crest and Jeff Bezos’ head on a dinner plate. It’s beautiful. There is a YouTube video where he made it and gave it to me as a present. He put out one leg so that it always leans to the left.

I have an iPad as well. I’m officially a “watcher” now. When I was traveling, I would just use my phone, but then I realized that I was on a plane for 15 hours at a time. Why am I putting myself through this?

Daily exposure time for Apple devices (excluding PC): 7 hours and 8 minutes

Oh my Lord. That’s a lot. Last week I spent 22 hours and 14 minutes on Twitter. And almost every day is 3 hours and 42 minutes on Twitter alone. But to be fair, I read the posts on Twitter, so I don’t know if that counts anymore.

It’s funny because I like to delete Twitter from my phone. It made me a very angry person, mostly post-Elon Musk takeover. I realized that I was always arguing or just having a bad time. I was sitting in my bed, I was on Twitter, and I was just seeing some of the stupidest people in the world, the most racist, the most dangerous people in the world. I find that it makes me lose faith in humanity, so I remove it and then just download it when I go somewhere.

Now I’m back because I feel like waking up and going back, and as the Ayatollah of Woke, I have to make sure I’m in the front. I am fighting in the trenches directly in enemy territory.

Music program: Apple Podcasts

I don’t listen to any music. I only listen to podcasts. I used to listen to music most of the day, but I had a Walkman and then a Discman. When I was growing up in Turkey, I used to burn CDs and stuff. Then I had an iPod. Since 2014, my diet consists mostly of podcasts and nothing else, because I don’t have time. I listen Chapo Trap House, Trueanon, The Daily, Above First, NPR Politics, NPR news, Democracy Nowsometimes Consider This.

The number of unknown…

Emails: 1,049

Notes: 225

Missed calls: 352

Discord accounts: 6,353

Signal Information: 3

WhatsApp messages: 7

My unread emails used to worry me, but they don’t, because I don’t use my email. I have people now doing comms for me, luckily. I text.

I no longer see these notifications. After a while, it’s just gone. It is what it is. I just don’t care. I don’t know.

The last person you FaceTimed: A group of friends

I’m a texter, but sometimes I do FaceTime. I don’t care, especially if it’s a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. My family has always loved FaceTiming. We FaceTime literally every morning.

What you did on Google: Belly of the Whale

I was trying to Google “Belly of the Beast,” which it is the Cuban story which mainly affects English speakers. And the reason I’m doing this is because I want to take pictures of them, because I’m going to ask one of them today. But instead, I accidentally ended up Googling “Belly of the Whale song.” I don’t know what it is.

Last video you took: As for himself, he’s doing the bench press at 205 pounds to come back

Final image: ?

I don’t want to reveal. A well-known political comms person.

The last thing you asked the AI: N/A

I don’t use AI. I think there is a real problem with smart downloading. There is a real problem with imagination within AI. I think AI makes people stupid. Every time I tweet and the responses are like, “@Grock explain what he means,” I’m like, “You don’t know you’re getting a robot to teach you. You’re less than human now. You’re less human for this.” That’s how I feel. I am very disappointed.

I know that in time people will look back at the words I’m speaking right now and read them—if they can still read—and say, “Oh, you were proud and arrogant.” And I think that’s devastating. Not the ways that Sam Altman and the rest of the AI ​​people are emphasizing how powerful and dangerous their new tool is by trying to get another $500 billion in funding for their projects to scare people into thinking that AI is smarter than it is or anything, but it is very destructive for many reasons. Downloading information, the potential to be a vehicle for unlimited propaganda, which we have already seen. And finally, of course, or most importantly, it is a way to get rid of the workers.