Dean Mack

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@SwipaCam Needed that bucket

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@aaron86roth @_MNMuse My Knicks are about go to the finals lol, enjoy figuring out what to do with Julius. But yes my loint still stands that anyone who says they know Wemby intentionally elbowed naz in the head is a fortune telling fool.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@aaron86roth @_MNMuse Not a Spurs, fan just like ball. The move is called a “clear out”. When a ball handler is double teamed and they flare elbows and turn to make space (knowing their elbow hit prob hit something) that is a clear out. It is usually not called unless someone catches a hard bow.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@BillSimmons Even the announcers said he’d be the first of many that OKC would throw at Wemby, assuming he would quickly rack up fouls (he did not).

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@aaron86roth @_MNMuse Blinking an eye looks like a pause at super slow speed too. The only way to get any sense of intent is by watching at real speed (still slower than real life), and even then saying “I know this common basketball move was done only to hit someone in the face” is 100% speculating.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@GameInjuryDoc @SpursReporter Foot caught/pinned between Chet’s legs while falling away, never looked like a hammy live, now calling it abductor which makes way more sense.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@BillSimmons Will voters look back at this as a ‘should’ve known better’ MVP year? If Shai becomes just a good player against this one guy who also goes 40 + 20, does that matter?

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@0xMovez People need to stop saying “free” with respect to using Claude or ChatGPT to do large tasks. These services are both extremely expensive currently.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@CBfit44 @SpursLead Consequence for a clear out incidental elbow is two shots and possession. If the refs called it correctly we’d blessfully be done with this conversation.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@JoeyBrainstorm Oof Chet looking like Naz Reid out there lol. Ayton def looked him in the eye and loaded up that shoulder, should be suspended! 😂

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@_MNMuse 0% chance of a suspension

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@cubert9 @BrandonRahbar Common foul

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@SLEENonSOL @mike_daddino Insane ejection, league owes Wemby and the Spurs an apology.

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@fliff Lol horrible call, ball don’t lie, Spurs 3-1, justice for Wemby ✊, Spurs v Thunder will be epic

[Anthony Castrio @AnthonyCastrio]

I made a super simple website where you can see everywhere you can get to in under an hour on the NYC subway.

The generated map is both a heat-map (changes color) and a cartogram (warps space).

https://t.co/liTziAmQEd

[The Quantum Insider @QuantumDaily]

Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN And IBM Model a 12,635-Atom Protein — The Largest Known to Be Simulated With Quantum Computers

https://t.co/ccQJpPH0hE

[Sandia National Labs @SandiaLabs]

Celebrating World IP Day 💡 Sandia has upgraded its searchable patent portfolio to help innovators and industry more easily find licensing opportunities among the Labs’ 1,800+ available patents.

➡️ https://t.co/G94PBAd3If

#IPDay #WorldIPDay #WIPD2026

[Dean Mack @EconDevCityPlan]

@swlittauer I wonder how many sf of development that is total in 15 yrs.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Yes, he really said that.

Yesterday Vice President JD Vance criticized Pope Leo XIV for not knowing enough theology: "I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology ... If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful, you’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth," he said, at a Turning Point conference.

One of the many, many, ironies about that statement is that it came in response to Pope Leo's comments about war and peace and, specifically, the concept of "just war," which originated with St. Augustine. As many have already noted, when the Vice President was making his comments, Pope Leo XIV, a member of the Augustinian Order, and twice Prior General of the Augustinians before his election as Pope, was visiting the hometown of St. Augustine, then called "Hippo," now in Annaba, a town in modern-day Algeria. For good measure, Pope Leo XIV, the man critiqued for insufficient theological education, earned not only a master's degree in divinity, but also licentiate and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

JD Vance's recent conversion to Catholicism is beside the point, because many converts are of course not only highly intelligent (and learned in theology) but faithful and energetic Catholics. We rejoice over everyone entering the church.

What most of us do not rejoice over, however, is a deadly combination of inaccuracy and hubris. Pace, Vice President Vance, but the current war in Iran is not a just war under Catholic doctrine. You can hear that from church leaders from across the theological spectrum, from Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the head of the military vicariate and former head of the @USCCB, to Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington who holds doctorates in both theology and political science. You can look all that up online. Suffice to say, the Vice President doesn't seem to understand the tenets of just war.

Nor does he seem to understand the fundamental position of the church, which is for peace. "War is always a defeat for humanity," as St. John Paul II said. If that authority isn't enough, then turn to Jesus who said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," not "Blessed are the warmongers." And after the Resurrection, the Risen Christ says to the frightened disciples not "Vengeance is mine" but "Peace be with you."

Incidentally, the day before, the Vice President said that the Pope (and the Vatican) should stick to teaching about morality, also seeming to forget that war and peace are profoundly moral issues.

For his part, Pope Leo was focused yesterday on his spiritual father, St. Augustine. After what seemed like an emotional visit to Hippo, he celebrated Mass at the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba. During his homily he said, "The primary task of pastors as ministers of the Gospel is therefore to bear witness to God before the world with one heart and one soul, not permitting our concerns to lead us astray through fear, nor trends to undermine us through compromise."

Amen. Let's all continue to pray for the Holy Father as he works for peace.

(Image: Pope Leo XIV prays at the archeological ruins of Hippo, home of St. Augustine, in current-day Algeria. CNS photo).