Sam Karlin

Me: ah what a busy day. Now to run home and write my story. Ollie:

Wild story

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

Louisiana could soon send $50 million more to fortified roof grants. Is this the state's way out of ever-rising homeowners' insurance costs? And what's to be done about people who still struggle to afford out-of-pocket costs above the grant? Via @samkarlin nola.com/news/louisiana…

Making this long ass post about how devastating this photo has been for you while you also have the photo as your avi is one of the funniest things in the world

People always got some slick shit to say about New Orleans…until it rains a lil bit and then your big city looks like a lake

The people lecturing you about food btw

Barney Frank was an historic figure in a lot of ways, but I will primarily remember him for this very funny string of insults he lobbed at one of his own constituents

@FrederickHoll develop him for a year, get him drafted, then bring him back in 2 years. smart, classic will wade

19? Too young. We’re not cradle robbers.

Senate President Cameron Henry said lawmakers are pressing forward with a budget removing some - not all - state pay raises. They need input from @LAGovJeffLandry when he returns from Greenland, though Henry doesn't know when that will be. #lalege lailluminator.com/2026/05/20/law…

Landry lashes out at journalists —DR

@DownriverUp Would love to hear more! skarlin@theadvocate.com

@samkarlin I was and didn’t win in 2 rounds. Then I found out that SBP has a program to do fortified roofs for those on a fixed income and they pay 100% and manage the whole project. Much better.

Louisiana folks: Have you been on the waitlist for the state's fortified roof lottery? Would love to chat. skarlin@theadvocate.com.

my childhood nickname was “christine the bean” until 2001 when my older brother and sister began a competition to see which of them could think of a new nickname that made me cry the most. this resulted in them calling me “osama bin laden” for the next three years

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So I'm 36 years old and, you know, out of touch with what's going on at colleges, so maybe this is a dumb question, but did every school in the country lose their fucking minds lol. Why have all these universities baked AI into their graduation ceremonies? What fuck is going on?

Interesting gadget, but one note on the script: Don't go from "Everything starts with a mark" directly to a pre-order ask.

Tonight is the first party primary in Louisiana since new law took effect closing them. This reporting from Tyler Bridges in The Advocate underscoring pains of the transition is just jaw-dropping. Commissioners freaking out. People refusing to work polls.

one week ago: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…

Will this be the fewest number of Trump mentions (1) in a #lasen ad this cycle?

Friday (legislative) flashback - Got (raw) milk? Sen LeFleur wants you to have it! youtu.be/6TxjmMnREdQ?si… via @YouTube