Chad Geidel
@lemadchef.bsky.social
He/Him
Gravel cyclist, code monger, mediocre sim racer.
Denver, CO
Gravel cyclist, code monger, mediocre sim racer.
Denver, CO
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The potential for upheaval is precisely why economic elites wield AI as a weapon to threaten workers, even as we've seen time and again that AI cannot actually replace what humans do.
You can take these dynamics seriously without buying into the framing of the people doing the threatening.
You can take these dynamics seriously without buying into the framing of the people doing the threatening.
I'm not even saying that's the most *likely* possibility, but it's just very clear that the likelihood of that outcome as increased and even if there's, like, a 1 in 10 change that "AI replaces most to all white collar jobs in 10 years" that's an *enormous* risk to the social order!
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The potential for upheaval is precisely why economic elites wield AI as a weapon to threaten workers, even as we've seen time and again that AI cannot actually replace what humans do.
You can take these dynamics seriously without buying into the framing of the people doing the threatening.
You can take these dynamics seriously without buying into the framing of the people doing the threatening.
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Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.
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every video essay i watch now has all this shitty interpretive scaffolding that adds 0 value. it's obvious this is b/c it's very easy for LLMs to predict when something is "not scarce, it's abundant" or "not a problem, but an opportunity," or to say "this isn't about control. It's about freedom."
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
every video essay i watch now has all this shitty interpretive scaffolding that adds 0 value. it's obvious this is b/c it's very easy for LLMs to predict when something is "not scarce, it's abundant" or "not a problem, but an opportunity," or to say "this isn't about control. It's about freedom."
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10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t.
But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.
But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.
I'm not even saying that's the most *likely* possibility, but it's just very clear that the likelihood of that outcome as increased and even if there's, like, a 1 in 10 change that "AI replaces most to all white collar jobs in 10 years" that's an *enormous* risk to the social order!
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
10 years ago they told us AI and self-driving cars were going to wipe out up to half of all jobs. They didn’t.
But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.
But while everyone was talking about whether they would, companies rolled out algorithmic management and used digital tech as a pretext to reclassify workers as contractors.
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Stock market will skyrocket when certain good news happens.
A classic
*TRUMP REITERATES THAT STOCK MARKET SHOULD GO UP ON GOOD NEWS
*TRUMP REITERATES THAT STOCK MARKET SHOULD GO UP ON GOOD NEWS
February 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Stock market will skyrocket when certain good news happens.
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$345 is actually a bargain for a first edition of Old Man's War, there's only 3700 of the first printing and just 7700 of the standard hardcover, not counting Science Fiction Book Club versions (which are black where the Tor version is blue). Signed versions of 1st printing can sell for $1k+.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
$345 is actually a bargain for a first edition of Old Man's War, there's only 3700 of the first printing and just 7700 of the standard hardcover, not counting Science Fiction Book Club versions (which are black where the Tor version is blue). Signed versions of 1st printing can sell for $1k+.
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A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social)
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Trump’s nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk’s Grok
The inclusion of Elon Musk’s chatbot in the government website follows backlash over the chatbot creating millions of sexualized images of women and children.
www.nextgov.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social)
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
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I need people to stop pretending that betting markets add any value to our society
Miller Lite stat o' the day
$24 million
the amount that was bet on Kalshi on "will Mark Wahlberg attend the Super Bowl"
$24 million
the amount that was bet on Kalshi on "will Mark Wahlberg attend the Super Bowl"
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I need people to stop pretending that betting markets add any value to our society
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This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.
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So what's happening here is that Walz is likely negotiating a deal where ICE would be allow access to our justice system to detain supposed undocumented people accused of crimes. Note the "accused." ICE is grabbing people from *pre-trial* hearings, so people who have not had their day in court.
These assholes look like the psychotically violent henchmen in a mediocre movie
February 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM
So what's happening here is that Walz is likely negotiating a deal where ICE would be allow access to our justice system to detain supposed undocumented people accused of crimes. Note the "accused." ICE is grabbing people from *pre-trial* hearings, so people who have not had their day in court.
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NEW: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that ICE agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned.
Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
NEW: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that ICE agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned.
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GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
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That’s a fascist roster, and if you join it, and you purport to be a libertarian, at a minimum you’re trying to suggest fascism is libertarian.
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
That’s a fascist roster, and if you join it, and you purport to be a libertarian, at a minimum you’re trying to suggest fascism is libertarian.
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An autistiphobic moral panic fabricated by those with zero morals inflicted innocent children with measles. Now as outbreaks rage, "doctor" Oz audaciously gaslights, claiming “we have advocated for measles vaccines all along” and that Kennedy “has been on the very front of this.”
‘Take the vaccine, please,’ Dr. Oz says in an appeal as measles cases rise
A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states.
www.ky3.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
An autistiphobic moral panic fabricated by those with zero morals inflicted innocent children with measles. Now as outbreaks rage, "doctor" Oz audaciously gaslights, claiming “we have advocated for measles vaccines all along” and that Kennedy “has been on the very front of this.”
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In case you thought I was kidding. Ryan Clark posted this and immediately they ask "Grok". So Grok is the arbiter of truth. The CSAM maker is the arbiter of truth. Epstein lives, baby.
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
In case you thought I was kidding. Ryan Clark posted this and immediately they ask "Grok". So Grok is the arbiter of truth. The CSAM maker is the arbiter of truth. Epstein lives, baby.
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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The fun thing about telling the truth is you don't have to constantly change your story.
New on MS NOW:
According to a White House official: "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down."
Just hours ago, Karoline Leavitt defended the racist post. Now it's been taken down.
According to a White House official: "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down."
Just hours ago, Karoline Leavitt defended the racist post. Now it's been taken down.
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The fun thing about telling the truth is you don't have to constantly change your story.
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Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.
When people ask how to get into GA SF I always say that the right way is via some of those fat "Best Of" short fiction collections
February 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.
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Trump is *extremely* obviously racist and has been for many decades. I'm not sure why this particular video garnered such an immediate backlash, while his oft- and proudly-repeated vile racism against Latinos and Somalis is just ignored.
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Trump is *extremely* obviously racist and has been for many decades. I'm not sure why this particular video garnered such an immediate backlash, while his oft- and proudly-repeated vile racism against Latinos and Somalis is just ignored.
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This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
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Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
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Listening to Satya Nadella speeches and slowly going insane
![Nadella is, at his core, a bullshit artist. Every speech that he gives meanders for what feels like days. When asked at the World Economic Forum what would seem obvious in a few years looking back at 2026 (a nonsense question asked by an imbecile), Nadella responded by saying, after several seconds of word salad thanking everybody for the opportunity to ramble:
“I think, when it comes to AI, the real question in front of all of us is, how do you ensure that the diffusion of AI happens, and happens fast. You have to have that line of how do the models, data and infrastructure spread more-evenly to create surplus everywhere if you sort of think about it. The way I come at this is not that, this has always been the arch of computation, you can sort of take it in the last 30 years, or the last 70 years, it’s always been about can you digitize artifacts about people, places and things, and then build analytical and predictive power, right, that’s what the mainframes did, that’s what the mini computer did, that’s what the [unintelligible] era did, that’s what the web era did, the mobile cloud era did.
It depends, in respect to which paradigm or platform it has been one continuous arch of “let’s make better sense of this world by reasoning about it in digital form,” because in some sense, once you have these artifacts in digital form, you can use a more malleable resource like software, which doesn’t have the same type of, I’ll call it “marginal cost economics” associated with it, that allows us to then build more insight and more capability. And in that context AI, I’ll say, is of the same class, at least, like the web and the internet or mobile or PC or the cloud or maybe even greater. And so to me, right now where we are, let’s take what just happened with software engineering, which is knowledge work, you can say it’s “elite” knowledge work. It started off, in fact my own belief in this generation of AI and its capability really got built up when I first saw Github …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreic5oila23hrfgseskz25uuxv7vd7l6c3v7se5ikfderbrikz6gbg4@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Listening to Satya Nadella speeches and slowly going insane
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Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
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once again the only solution is to pay journalists directly (mothership.blog)
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
once again the only solution is to pay journalists directly (mothership.blog)
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Absolutely feral social media staff in our democarric governors offices right now.
February 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Absolutely feral social media staff in our democarric governors offices right now.