Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Drew Brees is in Bacchus again www.nola.com/entertainmen...

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

A bunch of people in the responses saying "it's because of suburbanization" or "it's because of cars" and that is horseshit. My family lived in urban and suburban type neighborhoods. I rode off on my bike through all of them. In traffic. Along interstate on ramps. Man we didn't even have bike lanes

“You will own nothing and you will love it” was always a threat of planned actions by the wealth class.

Is he saying he is Mr. Spock? open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

I was curious as to which Democrats might run for US Senate this year. So I clicked on this headline. I read all the way to the bottom but it just ends with "Three little-known Democrats have said they plan to run for the seat." We never find out who they are. www.nola.com/news/politic...

Trump is trying to repeal the "endangerment finding" -- the scientific investigation that led EPA to conclude that climate change is dangerous to humans. It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.

Maybe they should tell us what actually happened before they go making statements. I think this administration is less interested in being transparent and media friendly than it is in just creating its own information bubble

When Helena Moreno said during the campaign she wanted to keep NOPD separate from ICE she meant NOPD should have layers of bureaucratic plausible deniability when it systematically hands people over to ICE. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Did someone say "sports"?

Yeah, Dwayne isn't the only one who is like that www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

Look at this cute new milkshake duck, trying to save Democrats from their excesses. Update: we regret to inform you that the milkshake duck is a registered lobbyist for OpenAI. lda.gov/filings/publ...

gatorade is owned by pepsico but it's the coca cola of the sports drink market. powerade in turn is owned by coca cola, but it's unquestionably the pepsi of sports drinks. this should be plainly obvious to all

People look at the human capital development system + hedge fund hybrid and go “Communists!” and I’ll always be confused about it

I looked at Reddit this afternoon and saw multiple posts about different incidences of homophobic terrorizing and/or assaults uptown near the parades this weekend. Has there been any news investigation of this?

The Occult Roots of Nazism is less focused on like lifestyle and consumption, but it really shows how mysticism and woo fed into the Third Reich... you can totally see how the Instagram to Nazi pipeline works Free PDF here, for the curious ia801304.us.archive.org/11/items/The...

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

So wait “greater than 22% annual returns” if they manage to sell the chips that Apollo is renting to xAI in five years for a quarter of their value, but “almost 17%” if it’s just for scrap? And this is under the assumption that musk pays for all five years? Weird stuff

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

Whole article full of quotes from Bruce Greenstein accusing Medicaid recipients of "waste fraud and abuse" doesn't mention the time Greenstein was indicted for bid rigging a Medicaid contract www.nola.com/news/healthc...

LMAO 💀💀💀 LA National Guard troop leaves their rifle behind in a bar bathroom 🤌🏼 www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...

Well I'm certainly lazy enough to fall within these orbits

Another plug for Greg Grandin's book

Surely there is video. Someone get Ring on the phone

Yeah well I want to see the body cam footage www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Congratulations to the NFL's second most insufferable fan base on your win over the NFL's most insufferable fan base.

This morning in the formation area on Napoleon I noticed one of the bands arrived in this Mad Max bus

Here's the sun going down over St. Charles today

Ducote Designs: The Hands of Fate

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

The Super Bowl commercials are all the same. AI, crypto, Scientology. Yeah we get it you’re in a cult.

I asked Claude to replace Mononucleosis with Super Bowl Champ on the famous Sam Darnold meme and the results are stunning

The problem is there are too many police vehicles jammed up on the route

So the report is: a throw from Float 10 hit a police vehicle and they made them come off their float.

Riders now coming off the float.

Carrollton stopped before Phillip. NOPD surrounding a float.

Still trying to figure out how to post up on the sidewalk side. Today I balanced a chair precariously on some tree roots comme ca. It's a nice spot. But, yes, I did fall over sideways once. (Note the Diet Coke. Can't even blame alcohol for this.)

Every Catholic school band marches in Carrollton. Here's a few seconds of Rummel going by

King Carrollton CII

St. Aug band on Canal st

Emcee at Gallier Hall just announced that today is JP Morrell and his wife's 18th wedding anniversary

Front end of Femme Fatale is coming to the end of the route and the back end hasn't moved yet

Here's the Chalmette High Fighting Owl band marching in Femme Fatale

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider