“So for everybody saying New York is doing too much - just understand:
For a lot of us, we’re not only celebrating a title.
We’re celebrating the people we wish were still here to see it.”
Beautiful ❤️
In that same breath, the FO and ownership need to show loyalty the player. No way JB takes that deal if he doesn't trust Leon and Dolan to hold up their side of the deal
Jay Williams:
“I've talked to a couple of different players that could be Supermax this year or next year — they're starting to feel a little pressure from team owners by saying, 'Yo, Jalen Brunson left 113 million dollars on the table. What are you going to do?'”
(via @GetUpESPN, h/t @TheNBABase)
1. Never take internet discourse too seriously.
2. Real New Yorkers have been getting priced out by people who move to our neighborhoods file noise complaints and cops on activities that people have been enjoying peacefully for decades
Why does NYC have their weird “who is REALLY a New Yorker?” discourse but in Los Angeles you can call yourself an Angeleno after living there for 9 months and no one cares
In almost 100 years, no World Cup host has ever forced game breaks just to show commercials, or harassed the very referees & players of the competition because of where they're from. So emblematic of how the US interact with the planet. Capitalism & imperialism on steroids.
ESPN implies that Gianni Infantino personally told Iran plans had changed and they had to leave the US for Mexico immediately after last night’s game in LA, leaving no time whatsoever for recovery.
Iran’s next game is in… LA.
I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.
The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.
There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.
What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.
Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.
This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.
That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.
What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.
Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?
No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.
Nick Young says Wemby is soft for not shaking hands after the game:
“Let’s keep it real, Wemby is a soft baby. He’s a cried protected, baby. Everybody protecting him because he didn’t fu*king shake hands we all making excuses for this sh*t. He’s a crybaby, bro. He got more responsibility then everybody in the league according to some people he hasn’t took losing well at all, he out there trying to hurt motherfu*kers pushing people heads down, elbowing people he’s whining like sh*t every where we go and we still protect this man.”
(Via @GilsArenaShow)
Jalen: "When Josh honestly missed the layup. I'm not even trying to be funny. Usually I joke about that. Josh is on the floor kind of like holding his face and like me KAT and Jose just ran up to him and said get up, next play. I think that play really embodies this team"
nyc the last few days has reminded me of the NYC of my youth -- more communal, less self-serious; more random interactions, less mean-mugging as if you're starring in your own personal HBO show. good reminder that despite gentrification this place can reclaim what made it cool.
On Juneteenth, the first free Black republic, Haiti, faces Brazil, home to the largest Black population outside Africa, on American soil—a nation shaped by the sacrifices and struggles of Black Americans. It's more than a soccer match; it's a meeting of three major chapters...
Fair arguement, but counter argument. One could say that Europe has always had a disproportionate amount of WC spots. We easily could have kept it at 32 and given other federations more spots instead.
It's always Fuck Dolan.... But damn with this team, and this coach,and owner backing you and a GM who backs you, and a city who backs you. ..... Yeah I can see why these men had no quit in them.
Former Knicks who shall not go unthanked:
Julius Randle
Derrick Rose
Tom Thibodeau
Taj Gibson
RJ Barrett
Immanuel Quickley
Evan Fournier
Kemba Walker
Precious Achiuwa
Isaiah Hartenstein