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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 2d

ETTOUFFEE GATOR PASTALAYA!!!

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d

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"

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d

Barthelme rips

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking of Barthelme as speculative, or floating within the larger pool of irrealism, is syncing up nicely with some thoughts I’ve been working on with weird genre/canon formation, especially pulling on this excellent thought by Timothy Jarvis and Helen Marshall

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

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.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

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.

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 4d

This is the most insulting thing that anyone could possibly write about LSU

LSU football is a power unlike anything else in the state, perhaps the single most influential and powerful entity across the boot of Louisiana.
More than the NFL's New Orleans Saints, yes. And the seafood industry even. The oil rigs too.

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 4d

GUMBO GUMBO JAMBALAYA

Down on the bayou, they've got a sayin'.
C'est tout!
It's pronounced SAY-too and it's Cajun French for,
"That's all."
And that is all. For Brian Kelly.

Shall I put it in south Louisiana terms? With the arrival of gumbo weather, things got quite spicy on the bayou (I'll see myself out).

It's a reason the state's politics and LSU football are tethered to one another, linked forever, symbiotic organisms coexisting for the good or bad — a relationship that began 100 years ago when former Gov. Huey Long, known to lead the LSU band in its march across the field, orchestrated some political maneuvering to help build Tiger Stadium itself.
Politics and LSU Football — like hot boudin and cold couche-couche (Google it).

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 4d

it’s not even November and universities have rolled up nearly $150 million in football coach buyout costs.

college football should be banned.

also, my Golden Eagles are a top 75 SP+ program for the first time eons, undefeated in conference play, we are back baby 😤😤😤

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 10d

i need a playlist that's just 20 covers of nobody's side but alas

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 13d

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*

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 15d

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

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15d

I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 19d

He’s some kind of social media chosen one. He sees it like third act Neo.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19d

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

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19d

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...

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Is most of the content on the internet fake? Here’s what the dead internet theory really means – and why we should be warier of how we’re manipulated for profit and political gain.

www.unsw.edu.au

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · 19d

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

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 19d

toddler asked me to draw him a dinosaur so I banged out this pterodactyl who realized he left the oven on and he’s hours from home and it’s raining

a cartoonish pterodactyl sitting on a branch with huge eyes getting rained on

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Dan Fox @dantigravity.bsky.social · 19d

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

ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 21d

I must take a moment to make a plea to the general public to please, for the love of fucking God, stop using AI, writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

LETTER FROM AN EDITOR - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine

Two years ago, Senior Editor Holly Devon reflected on AG internal discussions surrounding the encroachment of AI, but remained steadfast in her assurance that those who lend their hand to this magazin...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21d

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”

Sexy Monsters @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 21d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Bradley Warshauer @warsh.bsky.social · 22d

it is time to watch college football on a Thursday night

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