Spending part of my morning reading through the old /r/nba thread making fun of the Knicks for signing Jalen Brunson. A treasure trove. www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/tGAA...

The problem here is all of these people know they're in a race against the clock to get all of this done before the tide turns. And by "all of this," I basically mean the destruction of anything that could criticize the post-Constitutional technofeudalist society they're hastily trying to stand up.

Still confused how the Spurs' plan was "Contested jumper over Mitchell Robinson" twice in a row.

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

aw man, so sad -- Giles an all-timer. Waiting to uncork him in "Once More With Feeling" was such a savvy move. RIP Ripper. www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

had never seen this one and it's killing me

"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...

This is the first time the Knicks have had a LEAD in the NBA Finals since they won Game 5 in 1994 That is the White Bronco game by the way

Reminder: It is currently legal for all little kids in New York City to stay up and watch the Knicks win this game.

"FOR TONY SCHIAVONE! FOR TAZ! FOR EXCALIBUR! FIX YOUR HEARTS OR *DIE*!!!!!! *THIS* IS ALL ELITE WRESTLING!!!!!" - @shutupexcalibur.bsky.social #AEWDynamite

Congrats to the White House Correspondents Association on getting that dinner rescheduled.

the biggest May at the box office since 2019, and the highest per-film average in May since 1998... folks... movies are back! www.gq.com/story/backro...

"Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor fight dinosaurs" is a perfect idea for a movie, shouldn't have taken this long but glad we're here now. youtu.be/3oB9AxspVow?...

I take Jared's point but it's pretty easy to make effective reactionary genre movies. There were dozens released every year in the '80s and '90s, and some of them were decently good and/or widely seen. Craig Zahler makes them today. These guys are just unpleasant nerds who are bad at everything.

“Remember when Landry killed a guy?” -Adrianne Palicki, unprompted Yes. Yes we do.

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

It's genuinely funny a 74 year old senator got played by the most obvious conman ever and is now posting passive aggressively like a pre-teen who hasn't learned subtlety yet.

Thank you to the Spurs for winning by so much could get to the Hacks finale tonight. Wonderful conclusion, the final scene transition was so obvious yet so good, they should put Jean Smart's laugh on currency, may Hannah Einbinder rule for eternity. What a series.

Wrong to the point of malpractice

A few bad episodes in a 25+ season doesn't sink the show. A few bad episodes in a 10 ep. season absolutely kills it.

I get questions about Graham Platner every time I talk to people outside of Maine. I think this is a very good and measured view of how he’s been campaigning here and why a lot of Mainers are supporting him. shaystewartbouley.substack.com/p/platner-is...

Talarico can win but I don't think it'll be because GOP voters cross party lines; it'll be based on getting independents/"moderates" (whatever that means!) and turning out first-time voters. And the good news is that's very doable. Especially when you have $40m dollars in the bank.

real pain for my fake friends

whatever the political establishment is, it's been wrong time after time about how voters will respond when confronted with a truly vile candidate. plus i always think it's worse to elect folks who are incapable of showing any evidence of public decency. it degrades the discourse and the country.

Weeping when Style Boyz get back together 😭😭

No it the fuck was not.

The repressed conservative ideas courses are so popular that the government has to make students want them.

the US and the UK are similar in that if 100 bigoted right wingers show up to a protest it can be top of the hour/front page/rolling cable news coverage. if 50,000 people do a left-coded protest they all ignore it

American style democracy is a joke. at the national level your vote is increasingly literally meaningless because of the Electoral College and gerrymandering. at the local level you’re supposed to vote for random party functionary offices you’ve got to be 9 levels deep to know what they even do

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

It’s wild to be this out of step with public sentiment. Wild. Yeah, that’s one word for it.

closest comparison I have to watching Wembanyama when he plays like that is “Reacher walks out of a townie bar and a bunch of 5’8 drunk guys goad him into a fight and end up hanging by their underpants from the town’s only stoplight”

wow

I love how much wemby hates chet. HATES HIM.

Basketball probably the coolest thing in the world. Wemby up there next to it.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

During the pandemic that killed a million Americans there was no talk about sacrifice from republicans. If you said it wasn’t safe to go to Dave & Busters because there were no more hospital beds available you were a traitor to America. But a war of choice? Better start your liberty garden now.

Derek Thompson is the canonical example of what staying on Twitter does to your brain.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

You guys are being mean. They’re trying really hard to do this. They really want to do it good. The podcast stuff.

Classic win-now move. You have to give Pittsburgh credit for going for it while their championship window is open.

this is a good example of what I’m talking about when I say that people like stoller are completely irrelevant on the platforms that actually reach people. he thinks that if you’re not on X, you’re not anywhere. meanwhile, half of americans get their news and politics from youtube and tiktok

Getting worried that what I post here isn’t influencing Rust Belt voters…

I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

It’s not necessarily just the booing that’s instructive; it is, as noted, that she is absolutely gobsmacked by it. She very obviously had no idea there was any remote possibility this would happen.

It's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.