"Louisiana Lacunas: Why So Few People Along the Sabine and Pearl Rivers?," by yours truly: https://t.co/OMoWYIv9A0 (Photos below are of Logansport, Louisiana's only incorporated community directly on the Sabine River.)

The student-led organization is challenging the way economics is taught at universities around the world, with a goal to make economics education “plural, critical, decolonised and historically grounded.” https://t.co/w0EMdwDQJj

Prelude...

The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

New chancellor James Dalton has finished moving in. Now he’s aiming to move LSU forward

It's so n(ice) outside! 🥶

Louisiana declares state of emergency ahead of winter storm

La Plata, Argentina 🇦🇷 A masterpiece of urban design.

LSU will pay Kiffin an extra $500k because Ole Miss, a team Kiffin no longer coaches, won last night. Lots of talk about holding the line on coaching contracts down here in Louisiana. And yet ... #lalege

Canal street, New Orleans

Farewell to Louisiana's King of Honky Tonk Heaven Jimmy Swaggart #lagov #lalege https://t.co/8NyqxBIufA via @shreveporttimes

.@LAGovJeffLandry is pushing for a provision in @Lane_Kiffin's contract with LSU that explicitly states TAF/donors will pay any buyout owed Kiffin. Not taxpayers. (Donors usually pay the buyout FWIW.) Story from @Sam4tr and @dougherty_jesse #lalege https://t.co/wN3TJ8TVPP

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

As a wild guestimate, @yalepress publishes abut 250 books/year, and its backlist might be around 1 million titles. If it sells AI rights to it for $100 million each to five AI companies, that's sales of $500 million. At 25%, authors would get $125 per title. At 75%, $375.

Unlike royalties, with better selling titles making more, AI licensing seems to be done in bulk and for a one-time fee. As far as I know, there is no way to parse the value to the training of a particular title or track its usage in the AI outputs. Pls inform if that's wrong.

We're probably talking about the usual peanuts for authors no matter what the percentage is. Presses are looking at their backlists and see a way to make millions by selling to a market that did not even exist a few years ago.

Merry Christmas from America’s unions! Our labor movement stands in solidarity with all working people who are still fighting for dignity, respect and more this holiday season.

A merry foggy Christmas from New Orleans

.@LAGovJeffLandry on fixing college football with “common sense. He says of his involvement in #LSU’s coaching drama: “don't hate the player, hate the game! We did what we had to.” #lalege #lagov https://t.co/kwQZ94oANM

⛄️ Chances of a white Christmas across the United States.