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[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

@PUSHA_T just killed Pittsburgh album of the year eazzzyyyyyyy

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

This is a terrible take but also incredibly revisionist on OKC-Harden. They had the money but because their owners were cheap and didn’t want to go into the tax, they traded him over ~$5m

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

“You mean participation trophy?” – Vincent Goodwill

“I’m sorry, Larry O’Brien is a participation trophy?” – Alan Hahn

“If everybody gets one” – Vincent Goodwill

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

I would die for Jalen Brunson, no player has ever moved me like this

[StatMuse @statmuse]

Everyone is better than Brunson until it's time to be better than Brunson.

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

@DragonflyJonez The irony of this run occurring while his arch French nemesis PR is resurgent is hilarious

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Duke sucks so much they made Dan Hurley likable

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

@Ankaman616 I support reffing with vibes in mind 100% of the time

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Wtf

[Brett Usher @UsherNBA]

Wemby 32-12-8-2-4 (13/24 FG) in 31 MP

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

@umirf1 @caldini4 No atrophy right? Nah, MIT just haven’t thought about it the way you have

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

🚨MIT STUDY: ChatGPT is destroying your brain connections and causing permanent irreversible cognitive debt

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

The NBA has a massive losers covering the sport problem

[Sam Amick @sam_amick]

Why Bam Adebayo and the Heat should have stopped at 81 - just like the broadcast said - rather than taking Kobe’s mark, @TheAthletic

(Free link)

https://t.co/0gIduStmes

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Bam’s 83 is going to be armageddon on the take circuit today

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

“Our company is great and profits are rising, but I’m firing half of you for robots, and that makes me a brave hero”

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

YOU FUCKING MELONS WILL NEVER CEASE TO SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY

[aída chávez @aidachavez]

NEW: Top Democrats are working behind the scenes to stop a vote on the Khanna-Massie Iran war powers resolution – a vote that would force every member of Congress to go on the record over Trump’s potential regime change war. https://t.co/M3Ac18aRUl

[John Oliver @iamjohnoliver]

Hello again! Here's our piece from Sunday about Twitter. Bye! https://t.co/KqA7EUY18B

[myles brown @mdotbrown]

Obama should be NBA Commissioner. He’s the only one the players respect and the only with enough info to blackmail owners into compliance.

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

@DragonflyJonez He’s on his 2018 LeBron Cavs run, a true generational talent

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Democrats: what if we did negotiate with terrorists?

[Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @RepMGP]

Things are terrible, but we need to be strategic right now.

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

There has never been a sicko ball-knower like this maniac

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

This is a First-Ballot Hall of Famer

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Kmart put hands on the nasty ICE agent for his hometown hero, and Draymond’s biggest body bag is some 7 foot French dude no one respects

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

Gotta score a point here for Kenyon in the Kmart-Dray debate for putting hands on someone who would’ve actually been down for a tussle. Karl Malone is not Jordan Poole.

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Jalen Hurts is the new test for if you know ball

[Josh Patterson @Patterson005]

Asking the bar I’m in to remove the Vikings-Bengals game, as we should not glorify public executions