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[Sheed on the Hawks @SheedinATL]

perception wise, LaMelo Ball is one of the most interesting cases ever where he has an abundance of aura moments and has amassed possibly the most aesthetically pleasing portfolio of passing and pull up shooting highlights in this era yet i've encountered so many people thinking he sucks, while it's the analytics heads who end up being the ones who defend him

i think it's just people extrapolating and mapping LaMelo's supposedly unserious off-court personality onto his actual on-court profile. But what they end up criticizing isn't the actual LaMelo Ball, who, by all accounts, has been one of NBA's best offensive engines this decade; they end up criticizing a caricature of a player that they made up themselves

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Oh my God Zohran did it. New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board APPROVED A RENT FREEZE!!!!

[red @bluelemxnade]

The Timberwolves have two 3Pr maxxing chuckers in the backcourt this is literally the only way to make Gobert useable on offense, make use of his screening + oREB, we are running it back happy to say and Wolves fc yall will be seeing me for at least another year

[Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare]

These workers are making minimum wage or close to it, and many of them work multiple jobs to get by. They want basic protections, dignified pay, and health insurance from Delaware North. In response The Twins said they're bringing in scabs. All coming to a head at tonight's game.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

The Mississippi cop killed a baby because the management at Walmmart claimed A BABY was shoplifting a pack of diapers (bis mother had a receipt), and now they police have unleashed tear gas on community members protesting the execution of a baby.

This is America.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Bloodsport with AI generated patriotism slop in between ads for insider trading platforms, beer, gambling, and drug money laundering crypto really was the appropriate celebration for the state of America at 250

[Neal Parikh @npparikh]

Anthony Bourdain wrote about this. This was his pitch for Parts Unknown. Trust me, read the whole thing.

[parkeuh @parkeuhhhh]

goooood morning

[paris martineau @parismartineau]

my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 120+ lab tests of popular snacks

we found over a third of grocery products had more additives or contaminants in one serving than what health agencies have identified as safe to consume daily (🧵)

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

Imagine going out and once the night starts you have no way to contact anyone. It’s just you, the people you’re out with, and whoever you might happen to run into throughout the evening. What a time.

[richard @richard_normal]

ruining your first home finals game in three decades up 2-0 so the worlds fattest pedophile can nod off in a private box >>>

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

Last year, people on this app argued over whether kids should be fed in public schools if they can’t afford it.

[Sam White @SamWhiteTky]

Future people will look back on current discussions about LLMs being conscious in the same way that we look back on Victorians discussing whether the telephone could be used to contact the spirit world.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[taylr @taylr]

one week ago today, brian o’hara was in front of the minneapolis city council, unable to explain to aisha chughtai why the police department was $20 million over budget this year already as she went through line item by line item. and now he’s resigned as the police chief

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT THE ENHANCED GAMES..

Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. spent millions to create a steroid Olympics.
They promised to "redefine human limits" and put up $25M in prize money.

After 5 hours in Las Vegas, here’s the scoreboard:
- 1 world record (not recognized by anyone)
- Thor Björnsson failed his 515kg deadlift (managed only 475kg)
- olympic sprinter Fred Kerley missed the 100m WR by 0.4s - without even taking drugs
- the only "record" came from a Greek swimmer who finished 5th at Paris 2024. He wore a supersuit banned since 2009 and beat the clean record by just 0.07s

the whole pitch was that drugs would shatter the limits of clean sport.

instead they proved the gap between juiced and clean is now 7 hundredths of a second - in a suit banned 17 years ago.

the only thing they actually proved was how good the clean athletes already are.

You think the Enhanced Games exposed anything or just embarrassed themselves?

[Tea with Tolkien @TeawithTolkien]

the Pope quoting The Lord of the Rings!!!!!!! I feel so alive!!!!