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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Death-penalty opponents say that expired drugs could lose their effectiveness, resulting in an agonizingly painful death, or simply agonizing pain without death, which violate a prisoner’s protection from cruel and unusual punishment."
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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LOL it's Duanne from Annie Hall. Don't let these guys drive 😜
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so you are saying he is still a 49er?
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New @thelensnola.bsky.social data analysis of ICE arrests in Louisiana. Among the findings: "ICE has arrested and detained only a handful of people with convictions for violent crime, while arresting thousands of people with no criminal history at all." thelensnola.org/2026/08/30/w...
thelensnola.org
Who is ICE arresting in Louisiana, and where? We broke it down. | The Lens
Louisiana ICE arrests have reached record highs, with more people without criminal histories detained and local 287(g) agreements helping drive the increase.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 13/08/2026
I walked around with only one functioning hip joint for two years—twice
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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Friday, The Lens sued GOHSEP to release its contract with ICE establishing immigrant detention wing in Angola. GOHSEP called the document "proprietary." But government contract terms aren't trade secrets. Grateful to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for support.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
reiterating
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Lens, getting well-deserved recognition and awards. thelensnola.org/2026/07/20/t... @thelensnola.bsky.social
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What I like about this story at The Lens is that it uses the 'all in' project cost (including chips and equipment) for Meta's Hyperion center, which Bloomberg reported in May. Quarter trillion dollars. Worth keeping in mind: Blue Owl owns 80% of the joint venture. thelensnola.org/2026/07/17/m...
thelensnola.org
Black and white Louisiana churches split over $250B Meta data center | The Lens
Meta’s massive AI data center is transforming Richland Parish, dividing churches and raising concerns about housing, energy, race and environmental justice.
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TeddyBoogens @teddyboogens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is 100% worth all the data centers
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“My gut is we likely don't want to provide any further details" www.lamplighter.news/p/a-kipp-med...
lamplighter.news
A KIPP media strategy in the Douglass school closure: ‘Ok, will ignore...”
Inside the emails of New Orleans' largest charter network when discussing this reporter.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27/05/2026
Interview with the vampire 2nd interview with the vampire Just circling back with the vampire Final interview with the vampire Hiring the vampire Probation period with the vampire Everyone’s going in on a card for Geoff, it’s his birthday on Saturday but we’ll do a party on Friday with the Vampire
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Not to dim the 'light of consciousness reaching the stars,' or anything, but the SpaceX IPO isn't primarily a sale to investors as much as a claim on your passive retirement streams. It's the conversion of a highly speculative private-market valuation into an index-eligible public-market obligation.
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 24/05/2026
1. People who make fun of their kids online for clout should be put in those machines that make cars into cubes. 2. You don't have to be A Parent(tm). You can just be your kid's parent.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Without the plant’s completion, xAI and TVA could continue drawing billions of gallons of freshwater from the aquifer, which also supplies the [Memphis] region’s drinking water." dailymemphian.com/section/metr...
dailymemphian.com
XAI water recycling plant on indefinite pause, company confirms
The xAI water recycling plant is on an indefinite pause, company confirms. Without the plant’s completion, xAI and TVA could continue drawing billions of gallons of freshwater from the aquifer, which ...
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
vibe commoding while drinking rice whiskey wife says it's mental onanism but the chatbotress says I'm doing great
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
can't wait for someone to link the recent m-tov cocktail damage to the Tesla center and the pummeling of the cybertruck during Orpheus as a factor if #nola 'loses out' on the Boring company's underground loop idea
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
changed my linkedin description to 'light cone of all future value' — "Altman predicted that an artificial superintelligence... would eventually create enough economic benefits to 'capture the light cone of all future value in the universe.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/04/2026
Hall of fame FT correction
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
New Orleans‘ pitch for the 2031 SB will include a new airport expansion, a new Omni hotel with $700M in tax breaks, a revivified economy because of a data center hundreds of miles away underwritten by Blue Owl, but no firm guarantees that power or fresh water will be available.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This has been quite the saga.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
the signature appears to be on this, too www.ft.com/content/2e01...
ft.com
US bond market shows signs of strain as Iran war sparks Treasury tumult
Ease of trading in world’s most important debt has worsened in recent weeks, banks and investors say
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"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...
popular.info
The casino-fication of war
On February 28, the United States and Israel began major combat operations in Iran.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Seems to be a significant fire near lacombe
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
adding Fee Brothers grapefruit bitters to all my beverages and they’re turning out great! or maybe I’m dilutional
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Cade Roux @caderoux.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How the fuck did Shia get a 3PM court date on Mardi Gras? WTAF
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Dig @cajuntaper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Muffuletta from Mandina’s. Unconventional, but I’m a fan.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Shia better not ruin my Boeuf Gras experience
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“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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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
golden age that you don’t appreciate should be his SOTU theme
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Jefferson Parish, the self-proclaimed “King Cake Capital of the World” has a parade going.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Enjoyed seeing clips of Quinton and Miss Pussycat in the beginning of Secret Mall Apartment
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
i looked at the weather forecast and assumed Krewe du Vieux was marching tonight
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
i need temps to drop in #nola to justify the couch-centric snackfast i planned for this weekend
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"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...
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"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...
vox.com
Zillow’s short-sighted move to overlook climate risk
Welcome to the ‘la, la, la, can’t hear you’ climate era.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"an AI Media channel used AI to produce a decent explanation of why AI is garbage" www.richardcarrier.info/archives/38652
richardcarrier.info
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...
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"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...
utilitydive.com
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.
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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"the common understanding of AI’s energy consumption is full of holes ... "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...
technologyreview.com
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.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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/
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"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...
credaily.com
Tenant Union Targets Capital Realty Group Housing Portfolio
Tenant union efforts expand nationally as renters seek collective bargaining with major landlord Capital Realty Group.
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erster @ersterz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"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...
gurufocus.com
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
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