some people cheer for college football teams that have lost games within the last month and a half, but not me. i wouldn’t know what that’s like

i'm kinda sad about this UNO color rebrand, ngl www.nola.com/sports/uno/m...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Across the country- people who do jobs which were once considered the kind that you could build a comfortable life around are now paycheck to paycheck gigs. It can't stand.

seven-year-old has hit a Godzilla phase so I’ve been reminded that the 1954 Gojira roar might be the greatest sound effect in movie history

standard time aka Dark Time is better, we should be huddling for warmth around a single candleflame in the pitch dark at 4:45pm every night, the vibes are way better that way

dear my LSU neighbors and friends, I love you; however, this is tremendous content

I definitely consider Barthelme as part of a long tradition of irrealism in quote unquote literary fiction that's perhaps outside of the more traditional SFFH spaces. Beckett, Buzzati, Borges, Calvino, Ocampo, etc type vein. I like the idea of thinking of that as part of a larger "weird"

Barthelme rips

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

coverage of the lsu tiger football coaching change by national outlets is the most insufferable gumbo gumbo jambalaya crap ever written

getting arrested in the year of our lord 2025 for connections to a poker ring run by the mafia is kind of charming, really

No it doesn’t, it creates endlessly multiplying opportunities to rig events where now you can tank prop bets on your own performance instead of even needing to recruit teammates to help shave points

there should be more versions of nobody's side from chess than there are

Blueblood game college football announcers watching the most average football game of all time: ONE OF THE GREAT SPECTACLES IN HUMAN HISTORY! THE PAGEANTRY, THE MAJESTY! THE GREAT NARRATIVE OF THE SPECIES HAS LED TO THIS MOMENT. *disappears into own asshole*

Btw, I should note that Defector is an amazing example of how a publication and a bunch of very talented writers figured out how to modernize their tone from their original 2010s style while still keeping their funny, edgy voice.

online outlets so expected this style of essay that, for a while, it felt like the only food the internet word machine that existed back then would accept

just joined a 30-person waiting list at the New Orleans Public Library for the print copy of the new Ian McEwan novel, you buncha snobs you, I love you all

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Thinking more and more about Dead Internet Theory - especially every time I see someone who means well posting gen-AI slop by mistake... www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

😍 Better than literally every piece of so-called "AI" so-called art.

If the political, environmental, and social ramifications aren't registering, just remember using AI looks tacky and lazy as fuck too.

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

it is time to watch college football on a Thursday night

it is not even an anti-Dylan or anti-Bruce opinion to note that Johnny Cash was always way, way cooler than them. wtaf indeed.

This isn’t “lockstep with Pope Francis” it’s “lockstep with basic Catholic social teaching back to “Rerum novarum” (1891) and beyond.

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

That was probably the most fun I’ve had with Saints football since before the no call.

Cam Skattebo keeps a tub of fake jersey muck on the sideline to paint himself up with so he can cosplay as a Gritty Tough Guy

am i the only person who cares about housing prices? is this like a niche political interest or something?

Also here are some pics and love notes from the incredible @tricialockwood.bsky.social event this weekend ❤️❤️❤️ tinyurl.com/bdecz77m

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

re hegseth, it is important to remember that despite all the truly awful things this admin does, the ratio of horrific to just hilarious and dumb is like 1/5000

this is the kind of thing that will happen to the Broncos when they make the AFC Championship Game under Sean Payton, only the opponent will score the game-winning TD on that play and a ref will trip a Bronco who could have made a tackle

New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970. Carjackings are down 80% relative to 2022, vehicle burglaries are down 70%, shootings are down 63%. This is a wholly unnecessary stunt that will hurt local businesses.

Saints are giving literally everything you can ask for from a mid-major against a power 2 team and I’m enjoying it a lot

Through five weeks of his first season at Southern Miss, Charles Huff already has as many FBS wins as Will Hall had in 2023 and 2024 combined.

every year the lsu tigers football program has but one job and so far this year they are failing miserably at it

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

A defense of literary style, and why style is a lot more than just "pretty sentences" countercraft.substack.com/p/style-is-m...

spiritually and emotionally I am these lions from a 1500s painting

I remember this garbage. Shitting all over a suffering city only to have the Texas evacuation death machine make the New Orleans one look orderly and efficient by comparison.

as a Catholic from New Orleans, I didn’t learn about the rapture until I was a teenager on the way to an academic event thing with these Mississippi Protestant kids and one started talking about it and I thought he was making some kind of weird awkward joke

used to be rebuilding a college football team was supposed to be a multi-year slog while rebuilding an NFL team was supposed to be a quick process, but that seems reversed now.

anyone read a good literary novel lately that’s wrestling with big ideas but leaves space for joy and humor and levity, too? The world is bad and also my friends are very funny, sometimes food is good, trees are stunning. I am hungry for this in books, too, not only unrelenting bleakness. Any recs?

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

Seems entirely true in the disconnected and fear-filled suburbs and exurbs; discovered real fast after having kids that awesome trick-or-treating is still alive in cities like New Orleans though.

I cannot stress enough how much media consolidation under billionaires is not only part of the discussion about censorship, it is THE discussion. Oligarchs don’t care about ideology, they care about money, and if a leader offers them unlimited wealth, they’ll sell their own mother out to get it