Not to dim the 'light of consciousness reaching the stars,' or anything, but the SpaceX IPO isn't primarily a sale to investors as much as a claim on your passive retirement streams. It's the conversion of a highly speculative private-market valuation into an index-eligible public-market obligation.

1. People who make fun of their kids online for clout should be put in those machines that make cars into cubes. 2. You don't have to be A Parent(tm). You can just be your kid's parent.

"Without the plant’s completion, xAI and TVA could continue drawing billions of gallons of freshwater from the aquifer, which also supplies the [Memphis] region’s drinking water." dailymemphian.com/section/metr...

vibe commoding while drinking rice whiskey wife says it's mental onanism but the chatbotress says I'm doing great

can't wait for someone to link the recent m-tov cocktail damage to the Tesla center and the pummeling of the cybertruck during Orpheus as a factor if #nola 'loses out' on the Boring company's underground loop idea

changed my linkedin description to 'light cone of all future value' — "Altman predicted that an artificial superintelligence... would eventually create enough economic benefits to 'capture the light cone of all future value in the universe.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hall of fame FT correction

New Orleans‘ pitch for the 2031 SB will include a new airport expansion, a new Omni hotel with $700M in tax breaks, a revivified economy because of a data center hundreds of miles away underwritten by Blue Owl, but no firm guarantees that power or fresh water will be available.

This has been quite the saga.

the signature appears to be on this, too www.ft.com/content/2e01...

"Popular Information contacted Polymarket and asked which people directly affected by the attacks had spoken with the company and why prediction markets could provide them with 'the answers they needed.'” popular.info/p/the-casino...

Seems to be a significant fire near lacombe

adding Fee Brothers grapefruit bitters to all my beverages and they’re turning out great! or maybe I’m dilutional

How the fuck did Shia get a 3PM court date on Mardi Gras? WTAF

Muffuletta from Mandina’s. Unconventional, but I’m a fan.

Shia better not ruin my Boeuf Gras experience

“In the middle of the mayhem, "he did the 'Do you know who I am?' bit," …”Why don't you go back and dig holes?" she said -- a reference to the actor's breakout movie Holes, from 2003.
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golden age that you don’t appreciate should be his SOTU theme

Jefferson Parish, the self-proclaimed “King Cake Capital of the World” has a parade going.

Enjoyed seeing clips of Quinton and Miss Pussycat in the beginning of Secret Mall Apartment

i looked at the weather forecast and assumed Krewe du Vieux was marching tonight

i need temps to drop in #nola to justify the couch-centric snackfast i planned for this weekend

"Jeff Landry, President Trump’s newly appointed special envoy to Greenland, says his goal is to make the autonomous Danish territory 'part of the U.S.'” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

"Climate risk assessments are not great if your current house has a bad score, and you’re trying to sell it. Under pressure from real estate groups, Zillow stopped including them." www.vox.com/climate/4717...

much ado about the delayed payroll reports, some of which will be released soon; expectations are worsening (correctly imo) but here's a preview from the pre-shutdown PAYEMS YoY data, which already broke through +1% in Aug.. That's a reliable recession indicator.

Newsletter from Spencer Greenberg of @clearerthinking.org.web.brid.gy reports: "People are increasingly "lightgassing" themselves by getting AIs to tell them that problems in their relationships are entirely everyone else's fault." #lightgassing

"an AI Media channel used AI to produce a decent explanation of why AI is garbage" www.richardcarrier.info/archives/38652

"Data center operators should pay for residential upgrades to heat pumps, rooftop solar and storage — to secure the power they need right now, and establish the grid stability we all need for the future." www.utilitydive.com/news/househo...

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

"the common understanding of AI’s energy consumption is full of holes ... "countless variables beyond your control can make one query thousands of times more energy-intensive and emissions-producing than another" www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

"With tenant movements gaining political traction and housing affordability becoming a populist issue, organizers believe national-level tenant power could soon become a standard — especially as more large landlords consolidate control of affordable housing." www.credaily.com/briefs/tenan...

"Wells long thought dead are erupting with toxic brine, lawsuits are multiplying, and academic research is pointing to a disturbing trend: pressure is building underground, and it's looking for ways to escape." #producedwater www.gurufocus.com/news/3110846...

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Common Crane, Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana, 2025 #crane #bird #wildlife #synthographer #synthography #synth #artificialintelligence #aiart #midjourney #aiartcommunity #davinciai #generativeart #midjourneyart #aiartwork #midjourneyai #aiphoto #aiphotography #aiphotographer

The Skunk Diner, Lafayette, Louisiana, circa 1960

They did the same thing with Fred Hampton’s actual headstone here in Louisiana so it’s been covered with a bulletproof casing.

south seas restaurant, vertical detail, veterans highway, new orleans, louisiana, 1982

is disturbed still coping with stupification?

Zirin bringing the goods “People crave politicians who promise programmatically, not just rhetorically” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Oops.

"Louisiana isn’t just passing bad policy. It’s laying bricks in a pathway toward fascism" truthout.org/articles/lou...

Wow. Not a word about the 6,000-word story written by me and @alexwoodward.bsky.social showing that many, many of Jim Brown’s columns were plagiarized? Can’t find it on the @gambitweekly.bsky.social website but it happened 14 years ago.

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snippet of convo with a new orleans service industry professional me: during the 70s when he was recording station to station, bowie subsisted on nothing but red peppers, milk and cocaine service guy: Red Peppers!?!

Stein's Market & Deli ads in @antigravitymag.bsky.social are always a pleasure

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