"I practice my jazz standards."

Haotong Li has shown intestinal fortitude this week at Augusta, from his viral bathroom confessions to being paired with Scottie Scheffler in Sunday’s final round. Still, he says the best part of his week was the Par 3 Contest with his mom — and Kevin Hart. www.espn.com/golf/story/_...

Sort of makes you wonder what Rory's last decade would have looked like if he'd won a major in, say, 2017

Hitting the refresh button on Overcast every 5 seconds until the new Stavvy's World drops

Brandon Holtz, a 39-year-old RE/MAX agent drank Coors Light and watched hoops in the Crow’s Nest and grabbed a whiskey and camped out on 16 after his first round at the Masters. The golf, he wishes it went better. But he’s ready to keep on dreaming. www.espn.com/golf/story/_...

More and more people are keeping exotic venomous snakes as pets. What happens when they get bitten? Here’s me in @wired.com on the network of zookeepers saving lives across the country: www.wired.com/snake-bros-a...

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

Asterisk oh no

If you’re keeping count, in my TL, I just came across in the last 15 minutes three separate stories on people claiming to be journalists who boast of using AI in their writing. They are willing accomplices to the attempted murder of journalism.

For five years, Rori Harmon has had one of the toughest jobs in sports: She’s Vic Schaefer’s point guard. His first commit, she led his rebuild but most importantly, his defense: "She picks your ass up at the city limits and she shows your butt the door when we're done.” www.espn.com/womens-colle...

That is a tremendous amount of talent that walked across the street, so to speak, to a Washpost competitor. My goodness.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Deservedly

the most important night in Washington Wizards' history

this is what never facing a single consequence in your entire life does to you

Sawyer Robertson is the ultimate searcher, a Lubbock kid who idolized Mike Leach, was lost when he died, and now faces an uncertain NFL draft. But don’t mistake his honesty and humility and faith for softness. “A golden retriever,” he says, “is still a dog.” www.espn.com/nfl/draft202...

Boone Niederhofer, a 32-year-old father of two who’s a production engineer for a Midland oil company, made the US Olympic team as a bobsledder, while juggling work and dad duties. Inside the adventures of an Aggie from San Antonio who made it to Italy. www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

Baumann probably thought he had it bad when he had to listen to me, The Last Millennial. Little did he know it could get worse. At least I know The Cheat.

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

So you're saying plagiarizing is bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ya think? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Dark Knight evil surveillance tech but for finding your lost dog

Lady Gaga appearing here is risking some "actually Italians aren't white after all" backlash

Frankly a total misuse of the Fender Rhodes

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

He's not running the post like it's Amazon, he's using the idea of "data" to offload responsibility for his own politically motivated decisions onto readers

talking about the weather is generally the lowest form of discourse but i can’t hold it in anymore: this weather is bullshit

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Was Grunfeld actually a mastermind allowing this cursed franchise to reach its full potential? Do I miss him now that he is gone?

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Workshopping a Is Sinner Mentally Weak take. Gimme a bit.

Something too on the nose about talks of deep cuts to reporter jobs at Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, while his other company, Amazon, debuts essentially a $75 million propaganda film about the First Lady.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Masterfully done

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

Oh he capitalized now, that should do it.

A budget bigger than the marines and they are failing to terrorize the 45th largest city in the US

Thanks brother that's exactly what was on my mind

Voters love telling focus groups that they want more compromise in politics but when you press them on it it becomes clear what they want is for people who disagree with them to do what they want. For 250 years Americans have longed for politics without politics. CBS News is the latest sucker

conner o'malley

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same