Niq Fury

Niq Fury

@niqfury.com

Nicole Hill (Niq) • Black, fat, queer creator. 🌌 @blackinspaceandti.me 🎮 @games.niqfury.com on the joysticks. 🔗 https://niqfury.com ✨ She/They

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I am and want to be in community with Black, queer folks and Black creators, gamers, and streamers. I have far too many—sometimes incongruous—interests to list them individually. I engage with film, tv, video games, anime (manga to a much lesser extent), Black folks business, and that gay shit.

I love how malleable "bitch" is lol. It really can be a compliment, a pejorative, a modifier 😂 My bitch is good, you bitch is bad, bad bitch is good, bitchass is bad, boss bitch good, bitch made bad, etc

One time this lady used the word "incinerate" instead of "insinuate" so much in a single convo And as an inside joke I started doing it too, but sometimes I do it in mixed company and people think I don't know the difference 😂

The same thing happened with the word gigabyte I jokingly pronounce as jiggabyte as an inside joke 💀

It's butt booty ass naked, please be serious

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Ok but is it "rabbid ass mind" or "rabbit ass mind"?

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Wow, I mean just wow. This is such a beautifully succinct summary of the underlying concepts behind generative AI use that I could teach a full lecture on the cyberpsychology on display. The motivations. The implied sociological pressures. The perceptions and grievances. It's all just... there.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Not Edgerunners 2 starting like one of these 2077 endings 😭😩 I love Roman and if something happens to him I'm going to kill Bartosz Sztybor then myself

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Edgerunners is coming to Twitch! 🔥 Watch the first episode of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 on our official Twitch channels on October 20: 🕛 12:01 AM CEST / 3:01 PM PDT / 7:01 AM JST 🕛 12:00 PM CEST / 3:00 AM PDT / 7:00 PM JST 🕘 9:00 PM CEST / 12:00 PM PDT / 4:00 AM (+1) JST 📺 twitch.tv/cdprojektred

We have like 3 or 4 Amazon echoes (older models) we literally never setup—still.in the boxes— and I'm wondering if they can be rooted or cracked in some way to be useful without being tied to the Amazon ecosystem 🤔

I wouldn't mind just using them as basic Bluetooth speakers but I don't want the river in the process at all, I don't think there's been any movement on this Google Home/Nest speakers seem to have more modding action but I only have one of those

My mama watch this game show called The Line or some shit and I learned from there that 50 Cent had 61 singles in the Billboard top 100. HELLO?! Curtis Jackson??? 😂 I knew he had HITS but he got 61 SINGLES??? That's so many individual songs omg

The homie suggested it might count features as well, and that makes more sense to me 😂

I sometimes want to quote/reply when attractive folks post themselves, but when you're not attractive yourself the line between flattering and creepy is extremely flimsy and sometimes nonexistent 😂 But congratulations!

And I need for folks not to act like they don't understand this because y'all can be so mean to/about folks who are openly thirsty when they're not also desirable lol

I consider myself fairly discerning but these political ads are so insidious. CA voters often vote for the tax bracket they dream to be in and not their reality and we all are worse for it. If you're voting aspirationally, vote to protect and uplift the most vulnerable among us.

The political phone banks have found my number yet again. It should be illegal to contact me unsolicited. Do not text me. Do not call me. Your candidate or cause can be 100% politically aligned and I still don't want you on my phone. Leave me alone.

Opt-outs should not expire after election season. I said STOP. What's unclear? Lose my fucking number.

Twitch is easy to start streaming on, and it's not terribly difficult to make affiliate and start earning, so it can become a meaningful income source (even if it is not a significant income for many). It has no natural predators right now. There aren't (m)any other places for creators to go 😩

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Twitch is easy to start streaming on, and it's not terribly difficult to make affiliate and start earning, so it can become a meaningful income source (even if it is not a significant income for many). It has no natural predators right now. There aren't (m)any other places for creators to go 😩

I haven't streamed in months for multiple reasons, but Twitch being That Way is making it less appealing by the day. I do not/have not earn(ed) enough to stay for the monetization but I like the community features and there aren't good alternatives. It's annoying to feel kinda stuck.

My point being that a lot of us have likely already been negatively impacted by automatic filtering because we use terms in our channel titles, tags, and profiles that likely exclude us from certain campaigns anyway. AI will exacerbate an existing problem, but I doubt it's creating a new one.

Niq Fury@niqfury.com

I don't want these things automated at all, but they BEEN automated. "AI" is just the same shit with more autonomy (yikes) but it's not like human people were assigning advertisers/campaigns to streamers manually—outside of their largest partners, of course. Its always been an algorithm 🤷🏾‍♀️

I, personally, use these terms with the explicit expectation that doing so likely excludes my channel from certain advertisers. I want folks in my streams who align with me, and crucially I want folks who don't align to be turned off. That applies to advertisers too.

I don't use these words for no reason. I don't always include "Black", and "queer" in my channel tags for no reason. I want to be as easy to find as I am to avoid and I want any viewer or advertiser to stay away if they don't want to see or platform my Black, fat, queer ass

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I have noticed that the people who find AI tools useful outside of writing code for them tend to be profoundly uncreative, like "unable to conceive of people who are different from them" levels of uncreative. They find the tools useful because actual creativity is not among their need set.

Oh imma about to act TF up 💀 how many brands can we scare away challenge!!

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

CEO Dan Clancy says Twitch now uses AI to identify streamers that may not match a brand, since it now transcribes all streams for brand safety. It won't show ads on channels or content the AI believes don't match what the advertiser is trying to achieve.

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I don't want these things automated at all, but they BEEN automated. "AI" is just the same shit with more autonomy (yikes) but it's not like human people were assigning advertisers/campaigns to streamers manually—outside of their largest partners, of course. Its always been an algorithm 🤷🏾‍♀️

When you consider how easy it is to manipulate SEO and AI summaries I am super curious whether folks will be able to game this system for fun or for profit

Oh imma about to act TF up 💀 how many brands can we scare away challenge!!

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

CEO Dan Clancy says Twitch now uses AI to identify streamers that may not match a brand, since it now transcribes all streams for brand safety. It won't show ads on channels or content the AI believes don't match what the advertiser is trying to achieve.

I'm not joking. I would love to be excluded from campaigns for products and brands that don't mesh. I don't want to align with a lot of these advertisers, accidently or on purpose. I wish both parties could choose each other tbh.

This is dope

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AI companies: he's just a little guy, let him have all your credentials

Niq Fury@niqfury.com

AI companies: look at this fucking guy, he's so cute, trust him