Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I've written a little essay on the Holy Spirit and the epistemic crisis we find ourselves in. Don't worry, I haven't gone Christian. But noticing that even the delusions of religion are at this point epistemologically more valid than many big institutions should worry atheists and theists equally.open.substack.comThe Murder of GoodWhy Fascists go to hell and what the Holy Spirit has to do with our epistemic crisis 000
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Goddamn, @edzitron.com . I was just vaping when I came to your "they call him clamuel" line and started laughing so hard that you made me actually almost lose consciousness because I fell into a coughing fit. Seriously not sure whether to say well done or be upset, but jesus. 020
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 15/12/2025That the world‘s most valuable people consistently don’t know shit about fuck seems rather odd at first. However, I do have a pet theory in this regard. If you‘d like to hear it it’s over on Substack.open.substack.comHow fucking stupid do you have to be?Why the Ruling Classes seem more stupid every day: the Agnotology of extreme Wealth 020
Reposted by Ged SperberEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/12/2025Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years. 131226167
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 01/12/2025“Should we put the Nazi there?” “Nah man but what about the cute little lady? She seems dangerous.” 020
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 30/11/2025You may have seen this "MIT study" that allegedly (it really doesn't) claims that 11.7% of the US Workforce can be made obsolete with AI. While it doesn't say that, it's still horseshit. If you want to know why, I've written a short comment.open.substack.comAI isn't coming for your job: Melting the IcebergWhy the new MIT Study speaking of 11.7% automation is horseshit and why the way it's being reported is even worse 041
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Calling it now: as we learn more about the "Chinese hacking campaign" that Anthropic reportedly stopped, we will learn that a) the extent is inflated in the report b) the state-sponsored will turn out to be a very generous interpretation of the facts 110
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I don't think we can act anymore as if we could criticise media in a vacuum - in order to save critical journalism, we will have to stick up even for fuck ups. I have written a little piece where I try to make a case for this.open.substack.comIn defense of the BBCWhy we need a Firewall for Journalism even if it does a sloppy job 000
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 09/10/2025POV: you are sitting in on the White House Antifa briefing 030
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Nachdem letzte Woche die WELT ihren KI Kongress in Berlin abhielt und ich das zweifelhafte Vergnügen hatte, mir ein paar der zugehörigen Videos auf Welt-TV angesehen zu haben, wollte ich das Ganze nicht vollständig unkommentiert lassen.open.substack.comAI ist die Antwort. Was war die Frage?Der Axel Springer KI Kongress und die Sehnsucht der Bundesregierung nach deregulierter KI 021
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Friendly reminder how things have been going at the DOJ.substack.comMika Anderson (@mikaanderson)PLEASE UNDERSTAND! When a credible expert like Liz Oyer starts a video with “I don’t want you to be alarmed “… it's really BAD! 010
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 21/09/2025As several countries are debating designating Antifa as a terrorist organization in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, I felt compelled to write a love letter to Antifa and every other antifascist out there. Bring it, you cowards. We won't back down.open.substack.comAntifa in their own wordsThe Politics of Hope and why we'll win 040
Reposted by Ged SperberRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2025welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner 15988321595
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 19/09/2025As Peter Thiel holds his secretive lectures on the Antichrist, I thought I might expand a little on the notion of belief and faith in psychoanalysis. I think it’s a little too easy to fall into the trap of mistaking religious people for being delusional.open.substack.comBelieving in the AntichristWhat MAGA believes and what belief looks like from the Inside 010
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The US-Right is compiling and publishing lists of its political enemies and starting the “largest firing operation in history”. I have done a few things one definitely should not do in response to this, as they might be considered sabotage - and we are totally above that, aren’t we?open.substack.comThe Importance of being EarnestA few things that would be highly immoral to do to the Charlie Kirk Database 020
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 14/09/2025DOCTOR JONES, REAL MATURE. Is zis how you talk to everyone you disagree with?youtube.comYou (Indiana Jones) Just Called This Guy A NaziYouTube video by CharactersWelcome 010
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Please shove this clip down the throat of the empathy for Charlie Kirk crowd. 040
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 13/09/2025All hail the Amphora! All our money for the Amphora! (If you do not follow @edzitron.com , do it NOW) 000
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Paul Crenshaw, who doesn’t use AI, offers some prompts that you might want to use if you have to use it to begin with.substack.comSome Prompts For Your AITell it to write from the heart it doesn’t have, somewhere near the point blood begins to circulate throughout the body. 010
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025So Social Media Companies are being pressured to put lifetime bans on users that joke about Kirk. Immigrants are being threatened to get their Visa revoked if they make light of the murder. Scary dudes getting out their big boy pants because they are super untriggered I see. 020
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025„What the fuck is wrong with you people? How is it that now, in our hour of pain, when ItIsOkWhenPeoplegetShot-Man got shot, OUT OF NOWHERE, you laugh? What has ItIsOkWhenPeoplegetShot-Man ever done to deserve this? He lived a decent, a good life, he was a father and yet you act as this were ok?“ 023
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I know everyone and their pet monkey already said something about Charlie Kirk. But please, for the love of god, stop acting as if this was the start of a new fascism. We have long passed that line. It's an expression of fear and it empowers the right without the slightest need to do so.open.substack.comReichstagsbrand in HellWhy the murder of Charlie Kirk shouldn't be condemned as an escalation of violence 010
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 11/09/2025BlueAnon be like: „Charlie Kirk was an inside Job!“ TO DO WHAT? To threaten American cities with the military? To ignore the law? To round up citizens? To bypass due process? To bring the bootlickers in the business caste to heel? FOR FUCKS SAKE PEOPLE 031
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 11/09/2025@eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social once again being civil and fondly remembering septic tank man 110
Reposted by Ged SperberSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 06/09/2025If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can. 8546432611
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 19/08/2025This is so incomprehensibly stupid that I cannot even begin to explain to you how stupid it is. 120
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 16/08/2025You almost certainly heard about Trump laying off the BLS chief - you may not have heard about the end to two space missions that happened simultaneously. I decided to write a little farewell to the Orbital Carbon Observatories that provided us with invaluable Carbon data.open.substack.comBlind FlightA farewell to two NASA missions that may be gone soon. 010
Reposted by Ged SperberDaniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages 147177556413
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I cannot for the life of me remember where this endnote is from but I love it to bits. 040
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 20/07/2025English Version of part 2 of the Immiseration Article is now online. After having talked about Politics in part 1, part 2 will try to show how not every so-called improvement of the economy necessarily leads to better outcomes for everyone, specifically by looking at AI and Crypto.gedsperber.substack.comEconomies of DestructionImmiseration Part 2: Two Spotlights against the argument a better economy would ultimately lead to a better life for everyone. 000
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Teil 2 des Verelendungsartikels mit Fokus auf AI und Crypto als zwei von unzähligen Beispielen dafür, weshalb es sich bei der Idee, dass eine expandierende Wirtschaft allen zu Gute käme um nichts anderes als Propaganda handelt.open.substack.comÖkonomien der ZerstörungVerelendung Teil 2: Zwei Schlaglichter gegen das Argument, eine bessere Wirtschaft käme letztlich allen zu Gute. 170
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Once again Greg Gutfeld is having the normalest of days 020
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Guys guys I have an idea, things have been looking pretty bleak recently, so how about we release 100mph killing machines into schools to strike a little hope into people? 010
Reposted by Ged SperberMark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Now THAT's a cease and desist letter 563363729424
Reposted by Ged SperberDavid Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom. 1795322241
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Damn, maybe Trump shouldn’t have cut the Sesame Street funding. 030
Ged Sperber @gedsperber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Since we're currently being not only flooded with but rather drowned in shit, I have decided to write a short primer on Immiseration and how the entire point of this is to instill hopelessness. But we will stick together and we will win. Fuck these cowards.open.substack.comThe Beatings will continue until Morale improves.Immiseration Part 1: How Politics is being turned into a Pain machine 041