@adamchicago.bsky.social
historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him. Linktr.ee/adamchicago
@adamchicago.bsky.socialNgl “ambassador” sounds like a sweet gig.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialFred 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.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialThe 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/9900304388
@smbdemocracy.bsky.socialReposted by @adamchicago.bsky.socialThe 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?
@adamchicago.bsky.socialOften 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
@adamchicago.bsky.socialI can imagine him being up since 4am getting many things accomplished.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialThe 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?...
@adamchicago.bsky.socialHell yeah. When they go low, kick ‘em in their stupid face while it’s nice and close to your foot.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialNah, 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.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialNot 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.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialRemember 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.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialGuys my Venmo is adamchicago
@adamchicago.bsky.social“Erdmuthe Kirchner” sounds like an old baseball player whose name would have ended up in the song “Van Lingle Mungo.”
@adamchicago.bsky.socialCemetery tours this weekend! Two at Graceland on Saturday, one at Rosehill on Sunday. Losing my instagram is a real hit on my advertising!
@adamchicago.bsky.socialI admit I haven’t real ALL of Marx but I’m pretty sure this never comes up.
@dieworkwear.bsky.socialReposted by @adamchicago.bsky.socialfirst time seeing sneakers at a senate debate
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@adamchicago.bsky.socialAnd 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.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialAh, 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.
@adamchicago.bsky.socialHey how come all my anti-ai stock options are suddenly surging? Good news but what’s up?
