Erikk Geannikis
@erikk38.bsky.social
podcast producer (@relentlesspicnic.com); (formerly @vox.com, @yahoonews.com); philosophy ex-professor
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
no right, this makes sense, because the business here is bad
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
no right, this makes sense, because the business here is bad
this is actually insane
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
this is actually insane
it's possible that no one has ever misunderstood anything harder than olivia nuzzi and her ostensibly human editors have misunderstood dante
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
it's possible that no one has ever misunderstood anything harder than olivia nuzzi and her ostensibly human editors have misunderstood dante
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also think this fantasy of mastery expresses itself as an opportunity for total surrender, to expect nothing from yourself
"Generative AI platforms center the idea that one has written, or created, by interacting with a structure they did not build and do not understand" - this I think is key -- less about interpassivity & 100% about the master/slave dialectic: the point is not to create but to be a master.
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
also think this fantasy of mastery expresses itself as an opportunity for total surrender, to expect nothing from yourself
i have the opportunity to see a movie solo while wife+family see wicked 2: 2 wickeds. options are running man, predator, and hamnet — and I feel like the universe would like me to sit through hamnet, despite my being filled w conviction that this will be a bad movie cloaked as good. anyone seen it?
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
i have the opportunity to see a movie solo while wife+family see wicked 2: 2 wickeds. options are running man, predator, and hamnet — and I feel like the universe would like me to sit through hamnet, despite my being filled w conviction that this will be a bad movie cloaked as good. anyone seen it?
abbye keeps seeing commercials with marshawn lynch and adam devine and asking me "is THAT mr. beast?"
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
abbye keeps seeing commercials with marshawn lynch and adam devine and asking me "is THAT mr. beast?"
it's that time of year where i can whip out this, the craziest ad of all time. what happens at the "climax" is so funny—i don't understand how the actor at that moment could have been directed sincerely by any person. other than maybe some total saboteur tim robinson type.
youtu.be/PDonPiUV07E?...
youtu.be/PDonPiUV07E?...
Old Friends: A Tribute to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
YouTube video by Macy's
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
it's that time of year where i can whip out this, the craziest ad of all time. what happens at the "climax" is so funny—i don't understand how the actor at that moment could have been directed sincerely by any person. other than maybe some total saboteur tim robinson type.
youtu.be/PDonPiUV07E?...
youtu.be/PDonPiUV07E?...
well, this clock's shit got serious in a hurry
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
well, this clock's shit got serious in a hurry
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
hang on I have a great idea for an economy.. what if we all gave all the money to the GPU company, and uhh, I guess that's it. end of idea. what do you guys think
Nvidia delivers big once again, and investors brush aside the bigger picture about AI spending
Nvidia delivers big once again, and investors brush aside the bigger picture about AI spending
The real debate — whether all this AI capacity being built today will be profitable tomorrow — remains unresolved.
cnb.cx
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
hang on I have a great idea for an economy.. what if we all gave all the money to the GPU company, and uhh, I guess that's it. end of idea. what do you guys think
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
a shot that I took at the abolition of time dinner, which took place on XXXXXXXXXX
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
a shot that I took at the abolition of time dinner, which took place on XXXXXXXXXX
baby shoes never worn, a challenger has emerged
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
baby shoes never worn, a challenger has emerged
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
I guess you make a protracted 12-hour series on solitude and isolation and you invite this sort of thing, but: it is shocking to me how little I myself have progressed from the first conversation in this first episode—recorded with @juskewitch.bsky.social & @lazenby.bsky.social in april 2019. fuck.
Been more than 5 years now, and the darkness of winter is coming. Imma listen to @relentlesspicnic.com’s Cabin series again.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Cabin - Ep. 1
Podcast Episode · The Relentless Picnic · 05/30/2020 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I guess you make a protracted 12-hour series on solitude and isolation and you invite this sort of thing, but: it is shocking to me how little I myself have progressed from the first conversation in this first episode—recorded with @juskewitch.bsky.social & @lazenby.bsky.social in april 2019. fuck.
been more than 5 years now
been more than 5 years NOW
been More than 5 years. Now, — …
beeeen moooreethan5yrsnw
been more than 5 years NOW
been More than 5 years. Now, — …
beeeen moooreethan5yrsnw
Been more than 5 years now, and the darkness of winter is coming. Imma listen to @relentlesspicnic.com’s Cabin series again.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Cabin - Ep. 1
Podcast Episode · The Relentless Picnic · 05/30/2020 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
been more than 5 years now
been more than 5 years NOW
been More than 5 years. Now, — …
beeeen moooreethan5yrsnw
been more than 5 years NOW
been More than 5 years. Now, — …
beeeen moooreethan5yrsnw
@cjosephbea.bsky.social don scott appearing on msnbc with don scott on msnbc on in the background, care to comment sir
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
@cjosephbea.bsky.social don scott appearing on msnbc with don scott on msnbc on in the background, care to comment sir
you're doing it, aren't you—you're writing your ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS THE DEMS' REAL STAR editorial. listen I am glad she won but do you have eyes on this man in ny? she is a milquetoast cia-bot who couldn't possibly be more boring. I'm obligated by all that I hold dear to catapult you into the sea
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
you're doing it, aren't you—you're writing your ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS THE DEMS' REAL STAR editorial. listen I am glad she won but do you have eyes on this man in ny? she is a milquetoast cia-bot who couldn't possibly be more boring. I'm obligated by all that I hold dear to catapult you into the sea
you really couldn't do better than 25 years after 9/11 dick cheney finally dies on the same day as a majority of NYC voters elect a socialist muslim mayor. that is some mythic lightbearer being sweatily forged in the darkness type mythos.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
you really couldn't do better than 25 years after 9/11 dick cheney finally dies on the same day as a majority of NYC voters elect a socialist muslim mayor. that is some mythic lightbearer being sweatily forged in the darkness type mythos.
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zohran zohran www.zohranfornyc.com/vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
zohran zohran www.zohranfornyc.com/vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
i guess this is my occasional reminder that falling in love, for some people, is issuing forth a kind of organized cruelty
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
i guess this is my occasional reminder that falling in love, for some people, is issuing forth a kind of organized cruelty
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i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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moloch worshippers
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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