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That's why I'm so against ChatGPT. I'm against letting a machine do your homework for you. I think you should cling to Doing Your Homework Yourself like it's the last opportunity you have to liberate yourself from mental enslavement. Because it basically is.

Anyway shout out to Kai Cenat.

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

Second earthquake strikes Louisiana in less than a week; likely aftershock from previous 4.9 magnitude quake Second earthquake strikes Louisiana in less than a week; likely aftershock from previous 4.9 magnitude quake

Another earthquake? What is going on up there? www.wbrz.com/news/second-...

Major water main break floods Uptown streets, drops water pressure across area The break is the second major disruption in the Panola Street area in just over a month.

Meanwhile, we can spend a billion dollars a day to blow up schoolchildren in Iran. Can't invest in basic public infrastructure, though www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Large water main break sends two feet of water onto Uptown streets, drops water pressures Here’s what we know.

Like we keep saying, there are little geysers bubbling under most streets. It's just a matter of time before they all do this www.nola.com/news/water-m...

Oh it's a big one this time

The Year Of The Busted Pipe continues

HORMUZ TRACKER: Iran-Linked Ships Are the Only Ones to Transit Strait of Hormuz transit remains near a standstill for a seventh day, with Iran-linked ships the only commercial vessels making the crossing in the past 24 hours.

Bloomberg’s built a ship tracker and absolutely nothing is moving in the Persian Gulf rn — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hoping the TSA workers keep it up a few more weeks so maybe I don't have to go on this trip

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

The worst thing about daylight savings is it moves us an extra hour closer to start of the legislative session

He just seems like he longs for it

"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse

Do you think he wants to be buried in the ballroom?

Louisiana lawmaker files bill to legalize recreational marijuana through licensed dispensaries A New Orleans lawmaker wants to legalize recreational marijuana through licensed dispensaries in Louisiana.

Candace Newell has a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana www.fox8live.com/2026/03/06/l...

In November, HSBC forecast that despite a growing user base, OpenAl's compute power obligations will total $1.4 trillion by 2033. OpenAI later clarified it would be closer to $600bn by 2030, but just the rental space for all those data centres, for instance, will cost $620bn, analysts point out.

"OpenAl needs to generate $200bn in annual revenue by 2030 to justify their projections. That's 15x growth in five years while costs keep exploding," George Noble, a veteran financial analyst, said in a post on X. "The diminishing returns are becoming impossible to hide. Competitors are catching up. The lawsuits are piling up," Noble added.

Even this piece about “experts” gets stuff wrong, it was blatantly obvious that HSBC estimate was wrong in November, and quotes a guy off of Twitter who is saying stuff that’s numerically incorrect. They need more than that revenue! AhhhHhhhhh

Yeah this HSBC
www.privatebanking.hsbc.com/wih/investme...

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

AI can't fix illiteracy or lack of soul.

This is quite literally the job of a political campaign! bsky.app/profile/atom...

Oh, close! It was her job to do that, actually!

"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box

Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.

President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:

“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

Don't shun people just because they have different beliefs about blotting out the sun to usher in a new age of eternal darkness. We have to find an answer in the middle.

Trump doesn’t want Americans to know they’re in danger because he’ll look bad.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, "Thank you President Trump." | have said, "You're welcome!" Iran is no longer the "Bully of the Middle East," they are, instead, "THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST," and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

I dunno I kinda think Iran saying “we won’t bomb you anymore if you stop letting the US bomb from where you are” isn’t exactly surrendering

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

In this economy, Troy?

Of course the long history of Jazzland "redevelopment" is riddled with various con men attempting con jobs. But Troy is clearly a con man doing a con job. He just happens to be the most politically connected con man to run at it so far.

And there it is

OK Troy, sure www.nola.com/news/six-fla...