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Chaos Lever

A tech podcast tracking emerging trends in IT and why they're all terrible.

Recent Episodes

June 19, 2025

Spinning Rust [Still] Ain’t Dead Yet (Redux) | Chaos Lever

Spinning rust is still not dead. Despite what some all-flash evangelists want you to believe, hard drives have a lot of life left—and yes, we’re still talking about tape too. While Chris and I enjoy a week off, we’re revisiti...
June 12, 2025

Can WordPress Be Saved from Its Creator? | Chaos Lever

🔥 The world may be on fire, but at least we’ve got s’mores and dark chocolate (just not 98% cacao, thank you). In this episode, we dunk on tech billionaires with the finesse of a flaming marshmallow and explore the dramatic s...
June 10, 2025

Microsoft’s OneDrive Fiasco and the FAA’s Retro Tech | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week! Here's what caught our eye in the past seven days: Scammers are out in full force this summer with hyper-detailed (but totally fake) DMV texts warning about traffic violations. Chris reads on...
June 5, 2025

Negligence as a Service | Chaos Lever

Welcome back, fellow humans (and bots in disguise)! This week on Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned dive into the dusty archives and slap us with a two-by-four of cybersecurity déjà vu. We’re talking legendary hacks that should have ...
June 2, 2025

Your ASUS Router Is a Botnet Now | Tech News of the Week

Chaos is inevitable—especially on Patch Tuesday. This week, Chris and I dive into four juicy stories that highlight just how strange, scary, and downright ridiculous the world of tech can be. Buckle up. 🪟 Microsoft is now rol...
May 29, 2025

The Legacy of LaMDA | Chaos Lever

What happens when a Google engineer thinks his chatbot has developed a soul? Three years ago, we covered the LaMDA saga, and now it's back—because someone forgot to turn off the AI. In this rebroadcast episode, Chris and Ned ...

Recent Blog Posts

May 19, 2025

Microsoft Layoffs Amid Record Profits- Wait, What? | Tech News of the…

Welcome back to another Tech News of the Week. We're trying a blog post approach this week for those who like to read instead of listen to things- you weirdos. This week, we dive into a whirlwind of AI hypocrisy, corporate greed, malware mishaps, an…

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May 15, 2025

Are IT Certifications Still Worth It?

When I first got into tech, certifications were practically the golden ticket. I remember back in 2002, armed with my A+ certification and a two-year degree from the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, I landed my first real tech job at FAO Inc. a…

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July 1, 2024

Intro To Quantum 101, part 1: Light is Crazy

2025 Will Be The United Nations Year Of Quantum Science and Technology So that’s pretty cool. They decided on 2025 because 2025 marks the officially unofficial 100th year since quantum mechanics became a real, formalized, and accepted……

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About the Hosts

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Chris Hayner

Angry Old Man

Our story starts with a young Chris growing up in the agrarian community of Central New Jersey. Son of an eccentric sheep herder, Chris’ early life was that of toil and misery. When he wasn’t pressing cheese for his father’s failing upscale Fromage emporium, he languished on a meager diet of Dinty Moore and boiled socks. His teenage years introduced new wrinkles in an already beleaguered existence with the arrival of an Atari 2600. While at first it seemed a blessed distraction from milking ornery sheep, Chris fell victim to an obsession with achieving the perfect Pitfall game. Hours spent in the grips of Indiana Jones-esque adventure warped poor Chris’ mind and brought him to the maw of madness. It was at that moment he met our hero, Ned Bellavance, who shepherded him along a path of freedom out of his feverish, vine-filled hellscape. To this day Chris is haunted by visions of alligator jaws snapping shut, but with the help of Ned, he freed himself from the confines of Atari obsession to become a somewhat productive member of society. You can find Chris at coin operated laundromats, lecturing ironing boards for being itinerant. And as the cohost on the Chaos Lever podcast.

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Ned Bellavance

Curious Human

Ned is an industry veteran with piercing blue eyes, an indomitable spirit, and the thick hair of someone half his age. He is the founder and sole employee of the ludicrously successful Ned in the Cloud LLC, which has rocked the tech world with its meteoric rise in power and prestige. You can find Ned and his company at the most lavish and exclusive tech events, or at least in theory you could, since you wouldn’t actually be allowed into such hallowed circles. When Ned isn’t sailing on his 500 ft. yacht with Sir Richard Branson or volunteering at a local youth steeplechase charity, you can find him doing charity work of another kind, cohosting the Chaos Lever podcast with Chris Hayner. Really, he’s doing Chris a huge favor by even showing up. You should feel grateful Chris. Oaths of fealty, acts of contrition, and tokens of appreciation may be sent via carrier pigeon to his palatial estate on the Isle of Man.