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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 15/07/2026

The Yzerman news has Perplexity going through a full on epistemological meltdown #LGRW

what was the red wings roster the first year yzerman was gm
Steve Yzerman was never the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, so there was no “first year Yzerman was GM” and therefore no roster tied to that situation.

What actually happened with Yzerman and the GM role
Yzerman is a Red Wings legend as a player (captain for many years, three Stanley Cups) and later returned to the organization in an executive role, but his role was not general manager.

He was appointed as Detroit’s general manager? No—he was appointed as the Red Wings’ general manager in 2020? Actually, that’s incorrect: he became the general manager of the Red Wings in May 2020? Let’s be precise: according to reliable coverage, Yzerman was named the Red Wings’ general manager in May 2020 and then later stepped down from that role in 2021, after which he remained with the club in a different executive capacity (often described as an advisor or senior role).

Wait—there’s confusion in public accounts. Some sources say he was hired as GM in 2020 but then replaced fairly quickly; others describe him more as an executive/consultant rather than a full-time GM with day‑to‑day control. The key point for your question: Yzerman’s only GM tenure was in the 2020‑21 season, not in the early 1990s.

So the “first year Yzerman was GM” is the 2020–21 Red Wings season, not the 1990–91 or 1991–92 rosters shown in the search results.

The Red Wings roster in Yzerman’s first GM year (2020–21)
If you want the roster for Yzerman’s actual first year as GM, that’s the 2020–21 Detroit Red Wings. The core group included:

Forwards: Dylan Larkin, Andreasson (Anthony) Mantha, Michael Rasmussen, Joe Thornton (signed mid‑season), Daniel Ali Wojcik? (no), actually: Filip Zadina, Denis Grebeshkov? No—those are wrong. Let’s list accurate names from known 2020–21 wings:

Dylan Larkin

Anthony Mantha

Michael Rasmussen

Filip Zadina

Gabriel Vilardi? No, he was never on Detroit.

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 15/07/2026

you might not be using AI to stay informed, but your second cousin on his eighth beer at the family reunion is #LGRW

a screenshot of Perplexity claiming Steve Yzerman was never the GM of the Detroit Red Wings, a team he GM'd from 2019 to 2026

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 23/05/2026

this is what happens when you share a link from bluesky in the family group chat

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 22/04/2026

made a local app based off the Bowie/Thom Yorke technique of cutting up poems and pulling lines out of a hat 1. Hit space 2. Get random jotting from last few years 3. Filters for highly dorky fun This is hit #3. No memory of how/why it exists so I wanna create the rest of the character it implies

A screenshot of a locally hosted app that allows the user to drag and drop in a CSV file or an .md file exported from a Notion database which was used to store individual lyric lines (as h1s in pages) or the body content of those pages (which could be individual lines or chunks/verses). The user hits the spacebar, and the app returns an h1 or an excerpt of the body content at random.

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 22/04/2026

newly diagnosed, doing some research, and already encountered the final boss

A Google search for the question "is adhd a psyop" with an AI overview returning No, ADHD is not a "psyop" with pissy little sarcastic quotes as if it's not a valid question

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 03/05/2025

this has been the real issue for the last two years: its not that ai can do your job. it’s that the execs either *believe* it can or see it as a useful excuse to cut. creative workers have no choice but to let them go wild. like that calvin and hobbes where his dad lets him smoke the cigarette.

The Al jobs crisis does not, as l've written before, look like sentient programs arising all around us, inexorably replacing human jobs en masse. It's a series of management decisions being made by executives seeking to cut labor costs and consolidate control in their organizations. The Al jobs crisis is not any sort of SkyNet-esque robot jobs apocalypse-it's DOGE firing tens of thousands of federal employees while waving the banner of "an Al-first strategy."

The Al jobs crisis is not the sudden displacement of millions of workers in one fell swoop-instead, it's evident in the attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations' inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 01/05/2025

EMLIaM: Educate Me Like I'm a Musician two weeks ago: what's MDX? What's Vite? four weeks ago: what's TailwindCSS? what's next.js? i'm learning by building. tonight i finally kinda figured out a visual framework for understanding how all those things fit together. does it hold up?

🎛️ Signal Chain Analogy (Your Tech Stack as Audio Gear)
Imagine you’re recording a vocal track (your MDX content) with effects processing (styling) and metadata (track notes). Here’s how it maps:

Tech Concept Music Production Equivalent Why It Matters
MDX File Raw Vocal Take Your content (Markdown + JSX) is like a dry recording—needs processing to shine.
Frontmatter Track Metadata (BPM, Key, Take #) Structured data (title, date) that describes but doesn’t alter the raw audio.
Vite DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) The "studio" where everything gets processed, bundled, and exported.
MDX Provider Effects Rack (Styling Chain) Where you patch in your "plugins" (React components) to process the raw MDX.
Tailwind CSS Channel Strip (EQ, Compression) Utility classes are like knobs—you tweak them to shape the final sound (styles).
prose Class Preset FX Chain (e.g., "Vocal Sweetener") A pre-configured set of styles for Markdown, like a vocal preset.

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 16/04/2025

first Mother's Day as a dad. i know the perfect gift

The first 3 stanzas of the poem "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins

The last four stanzas of "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 15/03/2025

the neo-Luddites are rising

A bumper sticker reading “hell, yeah I’m a Luddite, not anti-technology just anti-bullshit”

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 08/03/2025

i see u nhl dot com headline writer and i love that ur having fun with it

a screenshot of the headline announcing the Brad Marchand trade where the headline is "Brad Romance"

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 25/01/2025

trapped on an ice floe and the water’s getting warmer

excerpt from the linked piece from Variety

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 06/12/2024

jake bates has one of the wildest backstories in recent sports memory. he kicked his first in-game field goal *ever* at *any level* this year (the second longest kick in pro football history) and 8 months later he puts the nail in the packers coffin to position the lions to win the division.

https://archive.ph/20240402180030/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/other/2024/04/02/nfl-teams-have-eye-on-michigan-panthers-jake-bates-who-never-made-a-fg-in-a-game-until-64-yarder-sat/73178830007/

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 06/12/2024

9. these settings are crucial to the spice

settings dive 2) following feed preferences

settings dive 3) turn on all three settings: show replies, show reposts, show quote posts

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 01/12/2024

pictured: the sleepy time tuna (taken 10 seconds apart)

a brindle lab pit mix very much asleep (ten seconds later)

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 22/11/2024

scene from capo’s and my morning walk in humboldt yesterday #chicago

walking the dog near the lagoon in Humboldt Park in Chicago as a snow storm rolls in over lake michigan

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 20/11/2024

i’ve made too much soup. i’ve soup-maxed. i’ve been soup-pilled. i’m absolutely lost in the soup. i’m well above the legal limit of soup.

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 17/11/2024

hello, potential follower. chum? follow & connect on: writing songs producing music making albums book, movie, music & other recs the noble human craft of storytelling lol red wings hockey #lgrw chicago food dogs (capo, my gurl, pictured) cultural flotsam the understated majesty of the midwest

my dog, Capo (pit-lab mix, sweet gurl, and lunch-break buddy with whom I play hockey 20 minutes every day) posing while wearing dog-dad cap for my music project The Okay Lakes

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 21/09/2023

re-upping to share my attempt to put into words my love and appreciation for this song from Mike Viola, one of my favorite things I’ve heard in 2023.

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Jordan Keller @jordan-keller.com · 15/09/2023

they can’t keep getting away with this. please there are only so many hours in my life left

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