Bradley Warshauer
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new orleans writer | one of teen people magazine’s 20 teens who will change the world | in principio erat verbum | bradleywarshauer.com
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
It doesn’t make a mockery of college football so much as it reveals to fans of the rich teams that the whole thing is already just charade meant to enrich coaches and admins at a handful of parasitic athletic departments.
From @theathletic.com: The timing of Lane Kiffin’s move to LSU makes a mockery of college football, our columnist writes. Imagine if a player tried to leave one SEC school for another in the middle of the season for a ton of money. nyti.ms/4oqebwn
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It doesn’t make a mockery of college football so much as it reveals to fans of the rich teams that the whole thing is already just charade meant to enrich coaches and admins at a handful of parasitic athletic departments.
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Autofiction writers smdh
“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?”
“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Autofiction writers smdh
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My unsolicited writing advice is that if you want to get better at writing prose, you should keep a journal of sentences you like. In my learning phase, I'd rewrite sentences I loved in my journal, and every day, I'd go back and reread from page 1 of the journal each sentence I copied.
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My unsolicited writing advice is that if you want to get better at writing prose, you should keep a journal of sentences you like. In my learning phase, I'd rewrite sentences I loved in my journal, and every day, I'd go back and reread from page 1 of the journal each sentence I copied.
kinda feels like the histrionic reaction to the Kiffin thing by college football fans could be related to the way it reveals the college football playoff as the meaningless nothingburger it is, a secondary concern for the people who actually do the sport…
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
kinda feels like the histrionic reaction to the Kiffin thing by college football fans could be related to the way it reveals the college football playoff as the meaningless nothingburger it is, a secondary concern for the people who actually do the sport…
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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and to lead with this...
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
and to lead with this...
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Grim stuff here from the new Maryland athletic director, offering a preview of what's coming for a lot of college sports fans. Said with glee! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGs2...
September 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Grim stuff here from the new Maryland athletic director, offering a preview of what's coming for a lot of college sports fans. Said with glee! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGs2...
ah yes, it seems they read the famous 1989 Tom Clancy novel DO NOT DO A WAR ON THE CARTELS IN SOUTH AMERICA, which was later adapted into a popular film starring Harrison Ford, and fully understood it
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
ah yes, it seems they read the famous 1989 Tom Clancy novel DO NOT DO A WAR ON THE CARTELS IN SOUTH AMERICA, which was later adapted into a popular film starring Harrison Ford, and fully understood it
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
the world is not ready for the Oyster Shougher
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
the world is not ready for the Oyster Shougher
some people cheer for college football teams that have lost games within the last month and a half, but not me. i wouldn’t know what that’s like
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
some people cheer for college football teams that have lost games within the last month and a half, but not me. i wouldn’t know what that’s like
i'm kinda sad about this UNO color rebrand, ngl www.nola.com/sports/uno/m...
Logo drafts show changes may be on the way for UNO athletics in transition to LSU system
New UNO logo mockups were revealed as the school transitions to the LSU system.
www.nola.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
i'm kinda sad about this UNO color rebrand, ngl www.nola.com/sports/uno/m...
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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Across the country- people who do jobs which were once considered the kind that you could build a comfortable life around are now paycheck to paycheck gigs. It can't stand.
OPINION by Jack Criss, air traffic controller:
“After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | I’m an air traffic controller, working without pay in my third shutdown.
There is zero margin for error in our jobs. Showing up to work every day, not knowing when or if you'll be paid, is deeply unsettling.
www.msnbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Across the country- people who do jobs which were once considered the kind that you could build a comfortable life around are now paycheck to paycheck gigs. It can't stand.
seven-year-old has hit a Godzilla phase so I’ve been reminded that the 1954 Gojira roar might be the greatest sound effect in movie history
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
seven-year-old has hit a Godzilla phase so I’ve been reminded that the 1954 Gojira roar might be the greatest sound effect in movie history
standard time aka Dark Time is better, we should be huddling for warmth around a single candleflame in the pitch dark at 4:45pm every night, the vibes are way better that way
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
standard time aka Dark Time is better, we should be huddling for warmth around a single candleflame in the pitch dark at 4:45pm every night, the vibes are way better that way
dear my LSU neighbors and friends, I love you; however, this is tremendous content
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
dear my LSU neighbors and friends, I love you; however, this is tremendous content
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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"
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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Barthelme rips
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
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Barthelme rips
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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.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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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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.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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.