One million percent. Access junkies that don't understand technology AT ALL were easily snowed by hucksters. Silicon Valley used to make cool shit but once "the internet" blew up, big papers and pubs hired dopes who could write flowery sentences but didn't know jack shit to cover the scene

The reason you so many of the most annoying Twitter Politics guys are sticking by Platner has nothing to do with the candidate or policy and more to do with the fact that they can never have been wrong. I was excited about him for a bit and now I am not. Very easy thing to say if you are normal.

What's next for the Blazers and the Moda Center after the state legislature overwhelmingly passed the bill to fund arena renovations? www.rosegardenreport.com/moda-center-...

I talked to a very happy Jared McCain about his new situation and the trade that “completely blindsided” him www.cbssports.com/nba/news/jar...

Hi everyone! My name is Andrea LaFlamme and I'm running to unseat Susan Collins in the US Senate. I'm a feminist public health professor and the ONLY candidate in this race who has worked in education, municipal health, and as an elected union leader. (1/2)

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

Right, lightly doxxing myself here but - I’ll be running the 5K at the Edinburgh Marathon to raise money for the Scottish Refugee Council! Any support you can provide would be very, very much appreciated - these folks are absolute heroes, especially now. www.justgiving.com/page/emily-e...

AI slop is a potent strategy of warfare in spreading disinfo and sowing doubt. Quickly produced at scale, AI slop drowns out human-made content and goes viral as spammers detect and exploit weaknesses in algorithms.

Yanic Konan Niederhäuser won’t play in San Antonio or Memphis pending further evaluation for what Clippers are only calling a “right foot injury” for now

I, too, think tens of thousands of people should go to prison because sometimes I smell something I don't like

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Labour is what happens when the nominally "center-left" party stands for absolutely nothing and just shifts more and more to the right in a foolish attempt to woo voters to their right: a massively unpopular party that's going to get absolutely crushed... and right-wing policies.

NEW: A group of Hollywood execs are running a smear campaign against "The Voice of Hind Rajab" to stop it from winning an Oscar. The group has ties to the Israeli government & received support from foundations of Russian oligarch Len Blavatnik & Casey Wasserman (both featured in the Epstein Files).

“fact-based feeling” is unfortunately an instant classic

It's good when three national NBA writers all choose the same day to write about your terrible decision at the trade deadline... right? www.si.com/nba/76ers/on...

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Tyrese Maxey: “I ain’t going to lie and say I don’t miss Jared [McCain]. But I’m happy for him. I’m happy for him. I watch him in OKC and hope he does well every single night, except for when he plays us.”

I think it says a lot that these morons think it's not possible to offer young men anything more than crypto, & gambling.

Just saw that Tyler the Creator is scheduled to start his upcoming festival set at 11:15 and had my most Liz Lemon reaction of all time

Bones Hyland has re-emerged from 2 years on the fringes of the NBA to become a key piece on a contender in Minnesota. Through tragedy, injury and exile, he’s never given in. That desperation has been key for a Wolves team that needs urgency. Free gift link 👇👇👇 www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

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This is called doing double work. The complaints I'm hearing from veteran coders is they're losing their minds that bosses are recruiting cheap vibe coders to fill out teams and real coders spend half their time fixing the dogshit code.

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Kris Dunn, to Austin Rivers postgame: “I tell people this all the time, there’s 3 things that get you to be in the league: 1, be good; 2, be a great teammate; and 3, be available.”

Tyronn Lue, to Brian Sieman postgame about Kris Dunn: “A winner. Whatever it takes to win. Tonight, he had 16 and 7. Some nights he might have 0 and 0. But the way that he affects the game ... whatever you need him to do, he’s gonna do.”

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Some of y’all listen to me Darius Garland will debut off the bench for Clippers Starters tonight will be Dunn/Sanders/Leonard/Jones/Lopez

White House privately tells Congress that "it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary."

Luke Kornet complaining about a Magic City night when we all have to watch Kevin Porter Jr. and Miles Bridges play basketball is so fucking embarrassing

The end point of VC capitalism is universal surveillance. The endpoint of universal surveillance is labor & social control systems by people with the most money. The endpoint of that is fascism. Ben Thompson, like a16z, was always on this path... for anyone with eyes & critical view of capitalism

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

do we think that luke kornet—a man who makes money having his body and talent exploited for the entertainment of an audience that is largely made up of men—has any self awareness about this situation or no

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

I'm sorry, this is mega corny. The dancers aren't delicate flowers that need protecting from white knights. Blog posts like this just contribute to the stigma of adult entertainment venues.

I do not give a fuck what you think about the current Iranian regime! If your condemnation of the attack starts with “well the Iranian regime is clearly bad and it must go” then you have aligned yourself with empire full stop. I can’t fucking believe how many people are doing this still!!!

James Harden on his future: “I know it’s coming soon. Hopefully, later than soon, but it’s a reality. Everybody has to go through this at some point. Just trying to continue to keep my body in shape & play well. We’ll see what happens the next few years. Take 1 game at a time & cherish the moments.”

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

this isn't the worst of the Democrats' statements, but statements like this are a stark reminder that to many people, the real issue with the Iraq War was that Americans died. everything else is a footnote.

🚨 18 people, mostly children, have been killed in Lamerd, in Iran’s southern Fars province, after US-Israeli missiles struck a sports hall & other residential sites, Fatemeh Amini, Lamerd’s top health official, told Iran’s state news agency IRNA. Roughly 100 people were wounded. The governor of...

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

I think "killing children is always bad" is maybe the easiest simplest position to hold.

That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this bloom.bg/3ORPnBo