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The casino-fication of war On February 28, the United States and Israel began major combat operations in Iran.

"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...

St. Tammany parish closes parts of I-12 due to large woods fire in Lacombe I-12 is closed from LA 434 to LA 59.

www.wdsu.com/article/st-t...

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

purity of essence (POE) is important, I've been told, especially in prior to armageddon

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...

Zillow’s short-sighted move to overlook climate risk Welcome to the ‘la, la, la, can’t hear you’ climate era.

"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...

courtesy of Calculated Risk, here's the employment data with the 2M marker I track

when YoY employment drops below 2M, we see slowdowns. In this case labor market seizes up (no hiring), consumer spending constricts, growth slows... and the markets eventually respond because those data centers, and the power grid serving them, won't get built in time to justify PE multiples.

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

AI Is Garbage and a Bubble (Please Learn This) • Richard Carrier Blogs There is no AI. What is being called artificial intelligence and sold as snake oil under that label is actually artificial stupidity. It will destroy your own personal ability to critically reason. It...

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

Why data center operators should pay for residential electrification upgrades Upgrading households is the fastest way for hyperscalers to obtain all the electricity they need, writes Ari Matusiak, founder and CEO of Rewiring America.

"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...

nice one - congrats

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.

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

"the common understanding of AI’s energy consumption is full of holes
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"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/

Tenant Union Targets Capital Realty Group Housing Portfolio Tenant union efforts expand nationally as renters seek collective bargaining with major landlord Capital Realty Group.

"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...

Texas Oil Wells Are Blowing Out--and Wall Street Can't Look Away Chevron (CVX) and other Permian producers are navigating a quiet but growing crisis in America's most prolific oil patch. After regulators restricted deep waste

"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...

#TheLensNola🔍 In the wake of the recent explosion in Roseland, a flow of unidentified contaminants –– black, oily, and smelling like asphalt –– has made its way down the Tangipahoa River and is visible at least as far downriver as Ponchatoula.

✍Delaney Nolan

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