dan solomon
@dansolomon.com
senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). i’m really a very complicated kinda guy. he/him
always read jason on college football
It's A&M's year (so far) but the Mean Green are the best story in Texas. I guess this is either my year in review or a premature College Football Playoff preview. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
Texas College Football Has Turned Upside Down
Four of our teams might make the College Football Playoff, but which four?
www.texasmonthly.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
always read jason on college football
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
if the lions lose after eminem and jack white play “till i collapse” at halftime they don’t deserve the playoffs
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
if the lions lose after eminem and jack white play “till i collapse” at halftime they don’t deserve the playoffs
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Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Near Me
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Near Me
i hope this guy finds out that you can skip every step of this process and just listen to music other people have made that sounds interesting to you
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
i hope this guy finds out that you can skip every step of this process and just listen to music other people have made that sounds interesting to you
i was on a plane, is the latest nuzzi thing funny gossip or just sad. if it’s funny please tell me what it is
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
i was on a plane, is the latest nuzzi thing funny gossip or just sad. if it’s funny please tell me what it is
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Honestly, as an avowed atheist and materialist it is pretty irritating to admit that even the worst piece of human-authored creative writing I ever read did, in fact, contain a spark of the Divine.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Honestly, as an avowed atheist and materialist it is pretty irritating to admit that even the worst piece of human-authored creative writing I ever read did, in fact, contain a spark of the Divine.
seems like only ever surrounding yourself with nothing but people who tell you how smart and cool and funny you are probably makes it pretty hard to tell or care about the difference between real people and your ai ghostwriter
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
seems like only ever surrounding yourself with nothing but people who tell you how smart and cool and funny you are probably makes it pretty hard to tell or care about the difference between real people and your ai ghostwriter
this was truly one of the most bizarre things i have ever witnessed, in a courtroom or anywhere else, just this bafflingly antagonistic testimony when he wasn’t even the one being sued
If you are interested in whether Briles has taken responsibility for the failures under his tenure at Baylor, consider that two years ago, during the only time he's been under oath, he lied about basic things like whether he wrote his own memoir: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Most Puzzling Moments From Art Briles’s Testimony in the Baylor Title IX Lawsuit
The former head football coach was called to testify on Thursday—and made some surprising assertions.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this was truly one of the most bizarre things i have ever witnessed, in a courtroom or anywhere else, just this bafflingly antagonistic testimony when he wasn’t even the one being sued
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If you are interested in whether Briles has taken responsibility for the failures under his tenure at Baylor, consider that two years ago, during the only time he's been under oath, he lied about basic things like whether he wrote his own memoir: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Most Puzzling Moments From Art Briles’s Testimony in the Baylor Title IX Lawsuit
The former head football coach was called to testify on Thursday—and made some surprising assertions.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you are interested in whether Briles has taken responsibility for the failures under his tenure at Baylor, consider that two years ago, during the only time he's been under oath, he lied about basic things like whether he wrote his own memoir: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
it’s so funny that every commercial for every tech product tries to show the practical uses of AI and it’s just somebody saying to their phone or their sunglasses or their hat or whatever “hey AI, is it gonna rain today” and then a robot voice saying “nope, there’s no rain forecast until tuesday”
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
it’s so funny that every commercial for every tech product tries to show the practical uses of AI and it’s just somebody saying to their phone or their sunglasses or their hat or whatever “hey AI, is it gonna rain today” and then a robot voice saying “nope, there’s no rain forecast until tuesday”
can someone who actually understands this stuff explain it as if to a reasonably clever child (no need to share big short gifs)
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
can someone who actually understands this stuff explain it as if to a reasonably clever child (no need to share big short gifs)
“a technology that requires a poet to operate” is such a lovely and whimsical concept; it’s a real bummer that most of what poetry can accomplish with it is stuff like getting it to spit out instructions on how to build bombs
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“a technology that requires a poet to operate” is such a lovely and whimsical concept; it’s a real bummer that most of what poetry can accomplish with it is stuff like getting it to spit out instructions on how to build bombs
he beat kamala harris by a point and a half
Trump: My pollsters said, 'sir, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln came back from the dead and they aligned and they went for the president, vice president as a combination, you'd be beating them by 25 points.'
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
he beat kamala harris by a point and a half
genuinely incredible watching these people discover the american health care system for the very first time, and assume like high school kids that nobody else has ever thought about any of the things that have just occurred to them. can't wait to see where this leads
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
genuinely incredible watching these people discover the american health care system for the very first time, and assume like high school kids that nobody else has ever thought about any of the things that have just occurred to them. can't wait to see where this leads
autumn clothes for sale. never worn
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
autumn clothes for sale. never worn
yall are making fun of her but when tupac would say this it sounded cool as hell
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
yall are making fun of her but when tupac would say this it sounded cool as hell
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If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
as a reporter, the part of this that i’ve simply never understood is how the next person to ask a question when he does something like this doesn’t simply repeat the question that set him off. it’s not just solidarity with your colleague, it’s an important question that remains worth asking
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
as a reporter, the part of this that i’ve simply never understood is how the next person to ask a question when he does something like this doesn’t simply repeat the question that set him off. it’s not just solidarity with your colleague, it’s an important question that remains worth asking
man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
my firmest conviction about the electorate is that most americans want to vote for bulworth and the candidate that makes people think he or she is bulworth will win a general election and most primaries outside of the democratic presidential one (which is likely to be a real problem for democrats)
All I can say is I attended a Democratic Party event in DALLAS, TEXAS 10 days ago with officials and candidates and the biggest cheers were for Mamdani and the most questions/most frequent topic of conversation was Epstein.
We should not overthink this.
We should not overthink this.
Pundits have said Zohran is a strictly-NYC phenomenon. But a DSA member named Kelsea Bond just got elected to the Atlanta City Council. I talked to her about how she won.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
my firmest conviction about the electorate is that most americans want to vote for bulworth and the candidate that makes people think he or she is bulworth will win a general election and most primaries outside of the democratic presidential one (which is likely to be a real problem for democrats)
it's good that he's saying it out loud because this has been one of the more baffling things texas democrats have done in a very long time
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said Friday that he wanted to team up with Allred, Talarico, O’Rourke to divide up 2026 statewide races, but that they hit an impasse over the U.S. Senate seat. bit.ly/3WWRrsU
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
it's good that he's saying it out loud because this has been one of the more baffling things texas democrats have done in a very long time
before my dad died, my sister got him a membership to a service that sent him weekly prompts about his memories, feelings, etc, and bound it in a book after a year. it’s one of my treasured possessions and gives me the feeling of his presence when i miss him. this feels like a perversion of that
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
before my dad died, my sister got him a membership to a service that sent him weekly prompts about his memories, feelings, etc, and bound it in a book after a year. it’s one of my treasured possessions and gives me the feeling of his presence when i miss him. this feels like a perversion of that