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Erikk Geannikis

@erikk38.bsky.social
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podcast producer (@relentlesspicnic.com; formerly @vox.com, @yahoonews.com); philosophy ex-professor

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I need to bring a small amount of stuff with me all day, but don't wanna lug a whole backpack; oh nice here's a small crossbody sling that if you can get over the idea you have a purse is perfect; but actually it's so hot that I wonder if I could just shorten the strap and wear this around my waist—
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.
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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 16/09/2026
is this whole thing just a little joke about the historiography of the bronze age collapse? did nolan direct a laughably bad fight scene on purpose? is the erosion of the law of zeus a kind of code for sexual violence? part 2 of our odyssey discussion, free to all. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...
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Nolan's Odyssey (part 2) | Stanley Picnic
Adam, Erikk, and Nick continue their discussion of The Odyssey, which took place in the immediate aftermath of first seeing The Odyssey (202
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The San Francisco Standard
Breaking News

SF Home where a landlord allegedly murdered his tenant is renting for $6,300
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
we are building the jankiest, least efficient, most unabashedly brute force spaghetti at the wall rube goldberg nonsense you could imagine and branding it like it's chessmaster skynet
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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 08/09/2026
we talked at some length about nolan's (and homer's) odyssey — way before the internet became saturated by thinkpiece after plodding thinkpiece. it just took us a really long time to get it out to you. here's part 1. parts 2 and 3 to come. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...
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Nolan's Odyssey (part 1) | Stanley Picnic
Earlier this summer, Adam, Erikk, and Nick saw The Odyssey separately, and then came together to talk things out. This discussion took place
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
nb: - joshua oppenheimer (brilliant director of 'the act of killing', its sequel, 2024's 'the end', & nothing else) - noah oppenheim (disgraced former president of nbc news, wrote that terrible show where de niro's the president) - lance oppenheim (director: doc on the villages, this forthcoming)
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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my buddy quit reading the odyssey halfway through, then lost his life savings on kalshi– betting penelope would marry one of the suitors before odysseus returned. he thought he was being smart by not betting on a specific suitor–now his wife is leaving him. brutal beat
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More of your wealth than ever goes to them, less of it than ever goes to you. It's a class war. But only one side is waging it
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US corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt
Pre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
kind of incredible that with the right affect, vicious partisanship can be read as magnanimous understanding
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
LOL they literally settled as I was typing. Only $17 billion but product changes are major: •limit minors’ access to 2 hours/day •blocks from midnight-6am •Notifications blocked between 10pm-7am & during school hours •concealing likes for minors •banning beauty filters •can deactivate the news feed
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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Poem for a Friend I Don’t Talk to Anymore
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026
the average tech exec and venture capitalist and honestly an alarming amount of bay area software engineers have close to zero interaction or connection with regular people, and the richer they are, the more isolated they've become. They have built rationalizations for everything.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026
we know LLM companies are fueled by plagiarism on the supply side, but this raises the worrying question of how much plagiarism defines the demand side as well
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026
Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.
Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Posted on Jan. 28th 2009. 1696 favorites
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the boomer-spirited gentlemen in charge of axios dot com are some of the dumbest most credulous AI idiots there are. they fill the sweet spot of complete and total worship of wherever the money goes, coupled with technological illiteracy on like an identity-deep level
Top AI architects say their technology has arrived at a threshold once confined to science fiction: the singularity, when machines begin accelerating their own evolution, Axios' Ina Fried and Zachary Basu write.

 - Why it matters: If these moguls are right, we may be entering the most consequential technological transition in human history — the opening stages of an "intelligence explosion" that transforms civilization faster than humanity can understand or control.
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
pov you are in méxico listening to early-00's renditions of finnish folk music
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/08/2026
AI is the true demonstration of the excesses of capitalism and a gratuitous example of how much money companies have access to versus regular people, and how credulous some people can be as a result of the powerful spending lots of money. bsky.app/profile/emil...
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
uh huh, yeah, good, go 'head
"Imagine you're a clownfish, Erikk Geannikis,

Sunlight dances across a kaleidoscope of coral, where big-belly seahorses sway with the current and blue-spotted ribbontail rays effortlessly glide below. You nestle into the gentle arms of a sea anemone, your safe haven in a living masterpience."
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Mark @samueltwain.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
this is what every damn Monday feels like fellas, join the club
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I guess the most generous theory is, charli knew the next album would be a letdown regardless, that it would be the end of the fame she experienced, struggled with, and ultimately professed to love, and so she made something fully phoned-in, dull, asinine, & faux-pretentious, but had fun doing it?
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/04/2024
remembering the greatest interview of all time
An interview with the guy who yells MORTAL KOMBAT in the theme for Mortal Kombat

interviewer: I see. will you do it over the phone?
guy: would i do it over the phone? absolutely.
interviewer: let's hear it.
guy: Mortal Kombat!
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"democrats, let republicans decide who you elect this year"
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
once after an absolutely brutal day, @juskewitch.bsky.social invited me out to a bar in adams morgan, a neighborhood he knew I hated but lord i needed it. so i called an uber and texted adam: "ebenezer's on his way." and he was like "ok chill dude." but i wasn't being glib. he really was coming.
a screenshot of the uber app indicating a driver named EBENEZER was 1min away from picking up a passenger from his DC locale. imposed atop this screenshot is an incoming text message from @juskewitch.bsky.social, reading: "No fucking way."
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
alex don't fuck this up alex please
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When Dems attack Trump's corruption, is that "leftist" or "moderate"? It's neither. People need to stop trying to map everything on to these ludicrously simplistic little templates, which are just designed to facilitate factional infighting and build online followings.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bro what about the 75 billion-with-a-b dollars Congress gave you last summer
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
rehashing a complaint from the last world cup, which I see has still yet to be addressed
a thread from the old site:

so in soccer, instead of stopping the clock during the match, some unseen forces keep track of how much non-game time elapsed as the clock kept running, then they add it on at the end in whole-minute increments, then, during that "stoppage" time, some even more unseen forces keep track of new non-game time, and add it on in their minds (?), with no announcement of how much or how long, until suddenly at a seemingly arbitrary moment, the ref just says the match is over? this is the best system?

I don't know how you people live like this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2026
also this is basically republican orthodoxy, they just don’t say it out loud. the main intellectual project of the conservative judicial movement for example is to make watergate legal bsky.app/profile/theb...
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
damn! I wish I was strega nona cook pasta 'til the daylight comes keep the townsfolk smilin' and warm I am everything, an Italian grandmother I'll make spaghetti fall like rain sing to my pot and I'll make you ashamed
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
hey so, listen... 🎶 𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 🎶 which did you like betta, the sex or the pizza? 🎶 𝘪 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 🎶 I don't know... how can you be sure you're making the right choice? 🎶 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 🎶 well you and me, we could just straight up fuck this pizza
a hulking guy is behind the counter at a pizza place ladling sauce onto dough with a towel over his shoulder. a young lady leans over the counter watching him intently, as though she's never fucking seen this mysterious pizza-forming process done before.our hulking pizza chef looks up to leer creepily at the young woman, lit by menacing fluorescents, eyes black as nightthe two sit down at a booth to ostensibly enjoy the pizza that the possibly villainous man-chef has produced. he stares contemplatively at a half-eaten slice that he holds in his own hand, and it is from within this gaze that he starts thinking of the questions that will haunt him all night long. will the pizza be the key to his fucking this girl? should he be fucking this pizza directly, in front of the girl? or should he risk it all and pitch the idea of fucking this pizza together?
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Peformative thoughtful male, why don’t you retire to just sit in Gramercy Park and draw
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
You know what they call Jerome James in Paris? Victor Wembanyama
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
jalen hugging Rick and Rick coming out in Jalens shirt -- I have died
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
am i proud that i clicked on the "Spurs Fans INSANE CRASHOUT REACTIONS To 106-107 Choke vs Knicks😭 || 4th Quarter & Postgame Reactions" youtube vid? no, not proud. but only because this has been me far, far longer than this has been you — longer than you have even been you, in fact
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
knicks superstar jalen brunson appearing before the media after leading a team to the largest comeback in nba finals history, looking like he's in witness protection, and wearing a wool hat with 😐 on it
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Fred Katz @fredkatz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“It’s cool. Everyone’s excited. I’m excited, too,” OG Anunoby says with no inflection at all.
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I HAVE VIBRATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AM NOW A DIFFERENT KIND OF ORGANISM
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Claes Holtzmann @claeshs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/06/2026
Once Elon Musk did an apperance at a Dave Chapelle show in San Francisco and was booed so fiercly that colleagues called the cops for a wellness check and if New York doesn't out-do that tonight, then what are we even doing here.
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
a tweet from when arcade fire won the album of the year Grammy award.

"Who is Arcade Fire? And how much did they pay voters to beat Perry, Eminem, Lady Antebellum, and Gaga?"

@gambit509 Jesus Angel
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/06/2026
The convergent forms and spaces of data centers and detention centers
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"fight back"? so you admit that egalitarian social policies feel like an attack on you, the economist readers? and your weapons will be, what, — I guess, wealth? AI, no black power, no muslim mayor, no watermelon, and unfrozen rent? and above all no phone stickers? howsaboutgofuckyaselves
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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
you don't understand. i watched isiah thomas pour this franchise down the drain for a sedentary jerome james. i watched zach randolph get bored on the court and fling his headband to get ejected. i watched dolan hold a gun to donnie walsh. i've seen larry brown and phil jackson's legacies sullied.
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