Marques

BLUF: Portland native. Japan resident. INTJ-T | Trailblazers | Braves | Seahawks | Oregon Ducks FB | #Bitcoin

[Marques @HeirMax]

Fuji Classic Golf Course ⛳️
Muira Beach Festival 🎇
Hiking Fuji ⛰️
Ramen in Sasebo. 🍜

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Iran President: We're to ensure Japan ships passage via Hormuz with greater ease.

[DailyRapFacts @DailyRapFacts]

JAŸ-Z responds to Drake's diss ‘The Jig Is Up’ off ‘ICEMAN’ in a new freestyle at the Roots Picnic in Philly 👀

"The jig is up, n**** I'm up 10, wrong chart champ, n****s looked up to Hov, I never looked up to them"

“A rapper can’t be my opp”

[Marques @HeirMax]

@JWeinbachNBA No.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[myles brown @mdotbrown]

Wemby, meet LaMarcus Aldridge. You two should hang out this summer. A lot.

[Marques @HeirMax]

Coming to the belief that scrolling Twitter and watching the games isn’t fun.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.

[O.T.G @ParisEighty]

22 years ago... No Problem came out.

[Marques @HeirMax]

Castle what you on, fam

[Canaan Smith-Njigba @CanaanSmith_]

The NFL quickly collected a fine for the dunk celebration, then used those same images for promotion.
The Offensive Player of the Year was turned into a comedy segment with Druski, minimizing an award earned through elite performance and hard work.
NFL Honors never acknowledged the poor representation of one of the league’s top individual awards.
The “prestigious” ceremony didn’t even air the pre-recorded acceptance speech.
After months to prepare and ship the award, the only offensive player selected received a Defensive Player of the Year trophy.
At some point, professionalism, respect, and attention to detail should matter.

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

Tonight @PBSAmerMasters premieres the new film by Rita Coburn about the life and work of the great W.E.B. Du Bois. Hope you have a chance to watch: https://t.co/tyV46KdsPY

[Nick Daschel @nickdaschel]

Blazers lay off more than 70 employees. From our story:

"The Blazers were one of the largest organizations in the NBA, an unsustainable reality considering they fetch the league’s lowest sponsorship revenue and rank near the bottom in ticket revenue."

https://t.co/gsoM4CiWYb

[Coach Rome @Rome_Beast]

did i just see… the mvp… benched in the clutch…

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

we have never seen anything like victor wembanyama

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

Herbie Hancock showing Quincy Jones how to use the Fairlight CMI synthesizer - one of the first commercially available digital samplers

Herbie was an early adopter, using the $80,000 machine to compose and arrange, "Rockit," his classic work of early hip-hop/electro/jazz fusion.

[𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 @AirAssets]

The USS Mahan DDG-72 an Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer part of the Ford CSG returns from her extended deployment. Thanks for your service folks and job well done.

[Marques @HeirMax]

@sentdefender Nice homeward bound pennant!

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[𝒮𝒾𝑒. ᡣ𐭩 @Cindtrillella]

That nigga Drake 52 talkin bout “my social battery is drained” bruh I HATE hearing social media lingo offline. That shit be infuriating me lol