Niklas Pivic

I love freedom, people, music, video, and reading. I review books. At work I'm a technical writer. I collect interesting web pages about AI here: https://readwise.io/reader/view/a76a9027-4900-476f-be49-7bf97646fbcd

blog: https://pivic.blog
reviews: https://reviews.pivic.com
books: https://bookwyrm.social/user/pivic
music and other stuff: https://thoughts.pivic.com

Last Notes

2026-07-17 17:04:44 CEST

@npub1fdr…lvhs on the AI bubble.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBubble #economy #Nvidia #OpenAI #Anthropic #Microsoft #Oracle #Google #ElonMusk #Grok #capitalism #grift
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2026-04-23 07:38:22 CEST

I miss Kim Kierkegaardashian intensely.
#KimKierkegaardashian #philosophy #lunacy #fun #funny @npub1q60…kp90 #books #reading #Kierkegaard #KimKardashian
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2025-07-16 09:16:59 CEST

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This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:
'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.
Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'
#google #layoffs

2025-06-26 14:41:07 CEST

https://pivic.blog/blog/two-kinds-of-serial-killer
I've written about two kinds of serial killers: the one who murders people with their own hands and the one that murders people from behind their desk.
Parts of my simple comparison include bits from Caroline Fraser's great book on different kinds of serial killers, Benjamin Nathans's brilliant book on Soviet dissidents, and Ed Zitron's recent blog post and podcast mini-series on 'the business idiot'.
#blog #metaphor #comparison @npub1ny7…uv57 #CarolineFraser #BenjaminNathans #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #EdZitron
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2025-05-31 07:10:32 CEST

Amy guess about what Pelikan model this is? I have no details about anything, I'm afraid.
#FountainPens #Pelikan
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2025-05-28 06:16:33 CEST

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/gaza-letter-genocide-zadie-smith-ian-mcewan
#Gaza #FreePalestine #Palestine #israel #genocide @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-11 13:21:43 CEST

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1400113/s/war-made-invisible
This book by Norman Solomon says many illuminating things about the military-industrial complex.
It's very good. I wholeheartedly recommend reading this book.
#books #reading #NormanSolomon #war @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-03-06 22:19:33 CET

the person who made this is a genius
#unabomber #capitalism #fun #meme #corporations #TedKaczynski
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2025-03-01 23:54:58 CET

RIP David Johansen.
'David Johansen passed away peacefully at home, holding the hands of his wife Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, in the sunlight surrounded by music and flowers.
After a decade of profoundly compromised health he died of natural causes at the age of 75.
David and his family were deeply moved by the outpouring of love and support they’ve experienced recently as the result of having gone public with their challenges. He was thankful that he had a chance to be in touch with so many friends and family before he passed.
He knew he was ecstatically loved.'
https://www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohansenfund.html
#DavidJohansen #RIP #TheNewYorkDolls #legend #music

2025-02-23 07:34:29 CET

'Elon Musk Threatens FBI Agents and Air Traffic Controllers With Forced Resignation If They Don't Respond to an Email': https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-forced-resignation-email-twitter/
I hope the NSA acts against this obvious threat against the USA (and everywhere else). Doesn't this count as abuse?
#ElonMusk #corruption #usa #kleptocracy #abuse

2025-01-10 08:05:02 CET

I've just started reading 'Unreliable' by Csaba Szabo, about the unreliability of much published biomedical research and other types of so-called scientific work: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1813136/s/unreliable
#CsabaSzabo #reading #book #Bookwyrm @npub1ny7…uv57 #PhD #BioMedicine #science #PseudoScience #capitalism
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2024-12-19 12:35:27 CET

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Verkligen. Fan ta Meta som använder slavar.

2024-12-19 09:56:21 CET

More than 140 Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD. Two new articles:
Booth, Robert. “More than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed with Severe PTSD.” The Guardian, December 18, 2024, sec. Media. Accessed December 19, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/18/kenya-facebook-moderators-sue-after-diagnoses-of-severe-ptsd.
Booth, Robert, and Caroline Kimeu. “PTSD, Depression and Anxiety: Why Former Facebook Moderators in Kenya Are Taking Legal Action.” The Guardian, December 18, 2024, sec. World news. Accessed December 19, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-facebook-moderators-in-kenya-are-taking-legal-action.
#ArtificialIntelligence #facebook #meta #AI #PTSD #capitalism