Trees in New Orleans often carry memories of hurricane damage. But as @sam-karlin.bsky.social explores in his series on rising summer temps and heat deaths in Louisiana, trees can make a huge difference in cooling down cities. Still, our canopy is sparse www.nola.com/news/new-orl...

As summers in Louisiana get hotter, heat-related deaths are soaring. But it’s a quiet disaster, @sam-karlin.bsky.social reports in his new deep dive. No blue taped roofs or spray painted homes that show the true toll. Louisiana is doing little to prevent it. www.nola.com/news/environ...

voting for mayor based on whether they can deliver this in downtown new orleans

I believe my political ideology is increasingly that everyone should have access to a high quality Italian deli sandwich at a reasonable price for lunch every day, without fear of financial insecurity.

Here are the raw vote totals for the winners in the key swing states. PA 2020: Biden 3,458,229 2024: Trump 3,543,308 WI 2020: Biden 1,630,866 2024: Trump 1,697,626 MI 2020: Biden 2,804,040 2024: Trump 2,816,636

Great story from @sam-karlin.bsky.social about just how many rural communities in Louisiana are facing water systems on the verge of a breakdown. Water is brown, murky and lots of federal $$$ still has not been enough to fix it. www.nola.com/news/louisia...

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

You never like to have to do this sort of thing as an editor, but if you have to update and amend a story, "the pope is actually a White Sox fan, contradicting earlier reporting" is a pretty good reason. defector.com/well-they-ma...

Asked if he's experienced cognitive decline, Joe Biden says no and rambles on before being cut off by Jill Biden. JOE BIDEN: You know, one of the things that, that, well, I'm, I'm talking too long — JILL BIDEN: The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us.

I need the citizens of Bluesky to be ready to grieve together when it's not Pizzaballa

Read the whole story, the second installment in a @miamiherald.com series on real estate and sea level rise, here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Blue sky is constantly logging me out so when I come here I’m viewing a generic feed and it’s mostly Patton Oswalt (?)

ALL FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS THAT DO NOT FEATURE A STEVIE NICKS LEAD VOCAL ARE NOW TARIFFED AT 250%

😲 “We built our last gas-fired facility in 2022, at $785/kW. If we wanted to build that same gas-fired combined cycle unit today…$2,400/kW" - NextEra CEO John Ketchum gasoutlook.com/analysis/cos... 🔌💡

A Louisiana lawmaker has introduced a bill to have the state government issue "catastrophe bonds" in a bid to inject more capital into the reinsurance market. I went to Bermuda last year to report on the growing cat bond market, where Wall Street cashes in on La. hurricane risk

Louisiana abruptly ends long-sought program to make homes more energy efficient www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/... via @sam-karlin.bsky.social #lalege

Five weeks ago, Mary Kate Cornett was a first-year business major dating another Ole Miss student. Then a spurious claim about her and her boyfriend’s father spread — and was amplified by Pat McAfee, Barstool personalities and others. http://dlvr.it/TJtKS4

There's a whole cottage industry of baloney justifications for the plagiarism machine having one-way IP rights, but I simply do not see how "produce this work in the style of [specific artist] which you can do because you have their complete works in your training" can possibly be fair use.

the 1919 Anaconda Standard was a little less respectful to baseball

Over 100 New Orleans biz owners have asked Louisiana not to go forward w/ nitrogen gas executions: "Executions — especially those by experimental and gruesome methods — don’t send the right message about Louisiana, our culture, and our people" they say www.nola.com/news/louisia...

Stronger roofs, a key part of making Louisiana habitable in the face of climate change, are saving most homeowners more money in insurance premiums than they cost. Story: www.nola.com/news/louisia...

The Republican-dominated council of Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, which abuts the Gulf of Mexico, rejected a symbolic measure to rename it the Gulf of America on local maps, @laranicholson.bsky.social reports. www.nola.com/news/jeffers...

easily the most insane corporate press release I've ever read

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

This is the kind of SEO crap my childhood newspaper, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser, thinks it's worth sending a news alert out for. “Here’s what the murderers did"

Under the Biden administration, Louisiana started to pivot toward embracing clean energy jobs with several groundbreakings for battery plants, solar plants, etc. What happens now, with Trump saying he wants to embrace drilling again? Via @sam-karlin.bsky.social www.nola.com/news/louisia...

stewart: you guys got anything other than platitudes? jeffries: nope, in fact here’s one of my favorite platitudes

looks like he's watching Derek Carr prepare to throw while blitzed

Maybe a photo of him looking less confused next time

Some dipshit is trying to go at Jon Krakauer and brother let me tell you I would never ever want to be the dude on the end of a 20 page Jon Krakauer rebuttal jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber...

The players in this draft class have never experienced an NFL season that doesn't include going to a Super Bowl.

miss him so much

this is crazy. why would people pay for good journalism? I thought what people wanted was breaking news regurgitated with big images and a staff of 300 people that get laid off in two months

For Louisiana churches and houses of worship, the state's property insurance crisis means there are tough decisions for religious communities. Story by @sam-karlin.bsky.social www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Turns out, the United States did send $50 million for STD prevention to Gaza ($83 million to be exact). Just so happens, it was sent to the province of Gaza in Mozambique, the country located on the southeastern coast of Africa.

I talked to The Times-Picayune/Advocate about coastal restoration, which has bipartisan support in Louisiana and is made possible by funding from federal grants. These projects benefit everyone in our state — especially communities and industry.

somehow this is not an Onion article: OpenAI, which built its AI by stealing everything on the web with no credit, says that DeepSeek stole that pilfered work to make its own AI that's now eating OpenAI's lunch futurism.com/openai-deeps...

Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future. www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

every book about baseball & every book about hockey

Sure but if you’re an adult you should mostly read books for adults let’s be real here

Indeed defector.com/patrick-maho...

Entergy Corp, which recently landed a deal to build three huge gas plants to support a massive AI data center for Meta in north Louisiana, is down 5% today amid the AI selloff

Yes, perfectly fine

I made homemade hot chocolate and then steamed the leftovers to use in a latte. Previously unheard-of levels of snow day happening here

News: Ollie likes the snow now

Go ahead, Shreveport