The Twitch streamer could pivot from influencer to candidate. But he tells WIRED's podcast he'd rather use his platform to tell Dems "you can't podcast your way out of this problem." Hasan Piker is many things to many people. They don't all feel the same way about Piker or his politics, but most presumably agree on one thing: He is a relentless human being. Most days a week, you can find the 34-year-old Twitch streamer talking to his audience, often for six to nine hours at a stretch. And during President Trump's second term, there's plenty of that to go around. He has nearly 3 million followers on Twitch and has hosted conversations with Senator Bernie Sanders and US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He claims his election night stream in 2024 reached a staggering 7.5 million viewers. On this episode of, I talked to Piker about his looks, his love of Italian sandwiches, and any future political aspirations he might (or might not) want to tease. It's great to be here. I heard you were just at the gym. Yeah, I was at the park. Some days I take my dog and I play a little bit of basketball and get to hang out with some people.

For several hours a week, I write for a technology company worth billions of dollars. Alongside me are published novelists, rising academics and several other freelance journalists. The workload is flexible, the pay better than we are used to, and the assignments never run out. But what we write will never be read by anyone outside the company. We are writing for an AI.

You might have read the story of a man who accidentally'deleted his entire company' with one line of bad code. If not, you can read it here. By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers. Though not a Linux command, I would add hash tables that have grown out of control (and start doing massive amounts of memory paging), forcing me to shut down the computer and restart in a very messy environment, as a result. It is always good to keep a copy of all your important files, including email, outside your Internet network, possibly in the cloud, and with a mirror copy in case your cloud provider disappears. And do not accidentally delete or compromise your cloud copy, for instance by overwriting a good version of a file, with one that was recently infected or emptied.

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