Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

Kenny Smith

@kennysmith.bsky.social

3.1K followers 230 following 6.6K posts

Adventuring with @laurensmith.bsky.social. Cyclist, reader. On the side: professor of Comm Studies and Sports Communication and Media. Formerly: reporter, news anchor, producer, exec producer, adviser. https://www.kennysmith.org

www.kennysmith.org

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Kenny Smith

NPR @npr.org · 7h

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. n.pr/4ofQ2cb

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, sheriff says

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said.

Reposted by Kenny Smith

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 8h

Left: In a desperate effort to find reasonable use case, OpenAI is running ads during the baseball playoffs about how you can use ChatGPT to plan a road trip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4o...

Right: What happens if you actually do that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Open AI commercial about using ChatGPT to plan a road trip

Hannah Read, 37, tried to use an AI chatbot to plan a trip to Norway with her partner and three children.

She wanted to drive from her home in Flintshire, north Wales and cross the North Sea by ferry.

"I thought it might make for a nice drive," Hannah says. "I asked ChatGPT if there was a ferry from the UK to Norway and it said there was one from Newcastle to Bergen."

She later checked a ferry travel website but found no such route exists.

A travel blog detailing how Brits can reach Norway says the last time the route operated was in 2008.

"I did feel a bit disappointed when I found out the information on ChatGPT was incorrect, as I'd got quite excited and had started planning the trip in my head," Hannah adds.

"My advice is don't rely on AI 100%, it's better to still do proper research."

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 10h

To hell with Georgia.

Reposted by Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

This is about outcomes, credit, and responsibility.

Given recent trends at Auburn, then, this game had the possible hallmarks of beginning the nadir phase.

But this game, the way it will be remembered, strengthens the perception of persecution phase internally.

And so … sigh … the clock resets.

Reposted by Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

You’ll win some. You’ll lose some.

What is inexcusable — particular in high-speed, high-value college athletics — is a coach who can’t prepare the team to be in a position to win. That’s a letdown for those guys who work so hard to play a game.

Hugh Freeze, historically, can’t level up to that.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

You would too.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

The #SEC … It just means … *shrug* #Georgia’s check cleared.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

I would seriously walk my team off the field.

I would walk my team off my home field.

I would walk my team off my home field in front of 88,043 people.

I would walk my team off the field with all those folk heroes in the building.

I would walk my team off the field and feel good about it.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

Watch ‘em wave this time out off …

ROFL

DAMN DAWGS.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

This is about outcomes, credit, and responsibility.

Given recent trends at Auburn, then, this game had the possible hallmarks of beginning the nadir phase.

But this game, the way it will be remembered, strengthens the perception of persecution phase internally.

And so … sigh … the clock resets.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

You’ll win some. You’ll lose some.

What is inexcusable — particular in high-speed, high-value college athletics — is a coach who can’t prepare the team to be in a position to win. That’s a letdown for those guys who work so hard to play a game.

Hugh Freeze, historically, can’t level up to that.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

Not a little bit, no.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

They overuse the concept of adversity in sports sometimes, but this is that, and this team hasn’t been prepared to deal with it.

(That isn’t on the guys wearing pads.)

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 11h

This would have been a funnier tell in 2023.

Professor Pumpkin, PhD @guyflint7.bsky.social · 12h

I'm being forced to consider the reality that SEC officials hate Hugh Freeze. Which, fair.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

They overuse the concept of adversity in sports sometime, but this is that, and this team hasn’t been prepared to deal with it. That isn’t on the guys wearing pads.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

The premise belies the problem.

Delvin W @deeray1977.bsky.social · 12h

If Freeze is worth even a quarter of his salary he uses his halftime speech to have those boys FIRED. UP after halftime. You couldn’t have easier fuel than what he has

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

The problem: there’s no magic in a waning gibbous moon, no miracle in the air, no power on the plains, no morbid humor about the SEC office in B’ham, no coach, no “leave no doubt” speech, no Auburn Jesus that can overcome whatever the hell that was.

Then again this is a full circle kind of moment.

Aubie, Auburn’s mascot, is in a church robe kneeling before a sign that reads “When the Lord be blessin, the devil be messin. — Cam”

This is a 2010 photograph before the Georgia game.

#ToHellWithGeorgia

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

A 3-2 #Auburn is leading, and somehow, frankly dominating 10th ranked #Georgia 10-3 at the half and is bitterly, bitterly unhappy on several levels.

Want to see the complexities of fandom? I have the Starter Pack for you.

go.bsky.app/PxZSjVH

Bluesky is now a sports platform.

#THWG

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

“Hugh Freeze has to be thinking ‘What have I done to deserve this?’”

— Sean McDonough

Well, Sean McDonough …

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

The run-ons are about to become that inspired, don’t worry.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not a real big jump-on-refs guy, but with yet another dumb blown call, and this one with the added benefit of replay, Auburn oughta consider calling the PAC-12, which has some openings.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 12h

Gotta hand it to the SEC office in Birmingham.

You don’t gotta hand it to them. This is sublimely ridiculous.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 13h

“When football makes you hungry, order Uber Eats!”

— Uber Eats spot.

When football makes me hungry, I go into the kitchen, like an adult.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 14h

But if you’ve been at this for a while you probably have already experienced the answer to that question. …

Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 14h

If as a journalist you don't know which photos or videos to trust on social media any more you might ask why the news media is not positioning itself to prosper from the pending consumer rush back to trusted sources.

Kenny Smith @kennysmith.bsky.social · 14h

“Give Hugh Freeze credit.”

No, I don’t think I will.