Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6hAnd I use Ai often as a one-stop interface for reformatting, batch resizing, light tech support, transcription, etc. I’m willing to pay a few bucks a month for how well it can streamline basic “computing” stuff. But just a few; if they jack it up half enough to turn a profit I won’t miss it. 010
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6hThere have been weeks where my anti-ai investments have taken big hits. This week they’re all way up. It doesn’t take a genius to see that for these companies and data centers to turn a profit, they’d have to start charging WAY more than people are gonna be willing to spend. 130
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6hYeah it’s part of the game to act like you were never ambitious. Even though we all know that just to think you can handle the campaign, let alone the job, requires an ego the size of all outdoors, we still expect them to deny it. It’s part of the game; gotta respect the process. 070
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10hI was really stunned to learn that ep was written before the whole thing with Steinbrenner 041
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 12hStill just can’t get used to seeing him clean-shaven. It just looks wrong. 100
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026From 2005-2015 I ran something like 300 ghost tours a year. Since then I’ve mainly focused on cemetery tours (and the Haunted History tours for Lincoln Park Zoo) , but it’s fun to do a ghost tour on a bus again now and then. Running a couple this weekend! www.eventbrite.com/cc/ghost-tou...eventbrite.comGhost Tours 2026 by Adam Chicago / Mysterious Chicago | EventbriteGhost tours 2026! 041
Reposted by Adam SelzerHarebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 13/10/2026HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU? You stop by your favorite hot doggery and buy a dozen. You’re carrying them home but you only got two hands so they all start dropping onto the street? THERES GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY! Introducing the Got That Dog In Me tote! It can hold at least twelve hot dogs. 0273
Reposted by Adam SelzerLeor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Has anyone experienced as much of Chicago’s late-night musical offerings the past few decades as Claudio Velez? I interviewed 16 musicians, DJs, and nightlife workers about the Tamale Guy’s relationship with Chicago music for this Reader oral history.chicagoreader.comAn oral history of Chicago nightlife’s most beloved visitor - Chicago ReaderClaudio Velez, aka the Tamale Guy, as seen by the musicians, club owners, bar staff, and regulars sustained by the contents of his magical red cooler 1413854
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Like a a lower-tier candidate for class president at Napoleon Dynamite’s high school. 010
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Well as long as it isn’t rice colored it’s probably not cholera so you’re doing a whole lot greater than a lot of Chicagoans were OTD in 1866, Degg. 141
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Times on Jackson is harder to read on the microfilm, but they included a drawing of him. As usual the press thought the onlookers were sick. 010
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026And the Trib on William Jackson, hanged in the same place in 1857: 130
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I may do a thread of Chicago papers’ reaction to public executions; we only had three here, but sometimes they let so many people into the jail they may as well have been public. Here’s the Chicago Times on the crowd when Albert Staub was hanged on Rueben (now Ashland) between Polk and Taylor, 1856: 141
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Okay this guy sucks but I also kinda want to see someone try this. 120
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026In That 70s Show Eric’s Spider-Man sheets used the late 90s Spider-Man logo. 3141
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It was mostly the book world, but I got soooo many more aggressively hectoring, pedantic weirdos on Twitter. I don’t worry about backlash if I say what I’m reading/watching, and I don’t feel like anyone is dying for a reason to cancel me just to build clout. It was “last ditch” every day there. 020
Reposted by Adam SelzerLibby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026JUSTICE FOR DANNY TREJO 0205
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Lincoln never said a thing about the pilgrims in his thanksgiving proclamation; it’s a day to celebrate crushing the slaveholders rebellion. 030
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Fred here hired mediums to channel the spirit of Rafael to paint portraits of his wife. These people lived in a whole different world. But sometimes I can guess which news channel they would have watched. Or, in this case, which of them would have been insufferable w claims about what Ai could do. 130
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The facebook hack a week ago seems to have hit my advertising hard. What bad timing! But there's still some room on today's Rosehill Cemetery tour, and on my upcoming ghost tours. www.eventbrite.com/o/9900304388eventbrite.comAdam Chicago / Mysterious ChicagoAdam Selzer is an author, historian, and tour guide who, in the course of any given day, might solve a mystery or rewrite history. He turns deep archival research into incredible stories for his tours... 056
Reposted by Adam SelzerSMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The man had his five year old in the car. Why wouldn’t he try to get away from men running at him with guns drawn? 220552
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Often I found ghost tour stories exaggerated the history (certainly at this location), but sometimes the reality was even worse. Still a bit of space on cemetery tours this weekend! www.eventbrite.com/o/9900304388 011
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I can imagine him being up since 4am getting many things accomplished. 040
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The 90s sucked cause you could flip channels and randomly find things like Red Skelton and Vincent Price singing corny songs and lip syncing cheesy skits, but you couldn’t find out what it was or tell anyone about it. youtu.be/7MdnD-yEiHo?...youtu.be"Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner". Red Skelton and Vincent Price clip. 1981.YouTube video by Vincent Price 0122
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Hell yeah. When they go low, kick ‘em in their stupid face while it’s nice and close to your foot. 080
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Nah, just got hacked and lost my Facebook/insta (but not the fb business page at least). Meta Ai robots run all of their customer service now so it’s unlikely I can get them back. 300
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not sure what losing my Facebook/insta will do to my tour/book sales yet. The usual “end of week” surge hasn’t really happened this week. I tried telling myself rebuilding was an opportunity but the reality is hitting and depressing. The novel in progress is going well but that never ends well. 120
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Remember that Muppet Babies ep where Scooter buys an awesome robot that will be his new best friend, but then the robot turns out to be a terror and when it explodes they make the pieces into a bunch of other toys? I don’t remember all the details but learned a lot about life from Muppet Babies. 010
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Erdmuthe Kirchner” sounds like an old baseball player whose name would have ended up in the song “Van Lingle Mungo.” 120
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Cemetery tours this weekend! Two at Graceland on Saturday, one at Rosehill on Sunday. Losing my instagram is a real hit on my advertising! www.eventbrite.com/o/9900304388eventbrite.comAdam Chicago / Mysterious ChicagoAdam Selzer is an author, historian, and tour guide who, in the course of any given day, might solve a mystery or rewrite history. He turns deep archival research into incredible stories for his tours... 021
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I admit I haven’t real ALL of Marx but I’m pretty sure this never comes up. 181
Reposted by Adam Selzerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026first time seeing sneakers at a senate debate 101179394
Reposted by Adam SelzerStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 09/10/2026static.klipy.comFriday Meme: DAAAAAAAMN ReactionALT: Friday Meme: DAAAAAAAMN Reaction 205160563215
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And despite moral dilemmas I have used AI for old doc transcripts, formatting, code fixes, mass file renames. You know, computing stuff - but with an easier interface vs having to remember which program is which (and update all my subscriptions). Handy but unreliable; I wouldn’t pay much for it. 030
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ah, bad revenue news from OpenAI. Well that was easy to predict. To ever turn a profit these outfits will have to jack prices WAY up, and not nearly enough people, even regular Claude users, are gonna want to pay that much. There’s yet to be an ai product everyone really wants. 140
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hey how come all my anti-ai stock options are suddenly surging? Good news but what’s up? 010
Reposted by Adam SelzerMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I thought Mamdani's statement today about Oct. 7 was fine. Just saying that because man, a lot of people today apparently feel very free to announce to journalists how upset and angry "Jews in New York City" are, and I'm one, and I'm not. 833126
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No one who has dealt with an Ai customer service help bot from CVS is going to call it “super intelligent.” 1110
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don’t really use dating apps, but when I tried, I saw it (or variations) surprisingly often. 000
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I know, I know, it’s not necessarily yada yada…. But if you put “no zionists” in your dating profile I assume I’ll never convince you I’m one of the good Jews. 110
Reposted by Adam SelzerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Zohran Mamdani is living proof it is possible to be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, and some antisemitic anti-Zionists AND some right-wing Zionists will never forgive him for that. 13834160
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, went around in circles a while, no luck so far. It doesn’t seem like a wise investment on their part. 010
Reposted by Adam SelzerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.” 18099703243
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In a five minute span overnight I was hacked and had the accounts disabled. No way to get to a person on meta. Business page is still there but I can’t currently post there. 351