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[Ahmad Malay 💎🔊 @MalayAhmad]

Shaquille O’Neal reveals how Yao Ming tricked him for 3 years.

“Yao Ming was the first to block my shot three times in a row.”

“People like to say he’s 7’7”, but he’s really like my favorite convenience store, 7-Eleven. He was a great player.”

“For three years, I never spoke to Yao because I thought there was a language barrier.”

“One game, he hit me with a Hakeem Olajuwon fadeaway.”

“I said, ‘Hey Yao, nice move.’”

“He said, ‘Thanks, my brother.’”

“I said, ‘Woah, woah, woah… You speak English?!’”

“He said, ‘Shaq, you never talk to me! Of course I speak English.’” 😂

[Spanish Dan @SpanishDan1]

Guess the dance

[Vitalis😈 @stefanodotsui]

Tom Holland sat in the audience and asked Chris Pratt one simple question:

“Of all the actors in the world… who is your favorite?”

Chris: “Denzel.”

Tom: “What about an actor whose name begins with Tom?”

Chris: “Tom Cruise.”

Tom: “What if his second name begins with an H?”

Chris: “Hanks!”

Tom keeps narrowing it down (British… younger… Avenger…) and Chris still refuses to say the one name Tom wants to hear.

Pure gold.

[Victor @Vii_boy2]

Are you armed 😂😂🤲

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@DieHard_Chicago Is this a parody account? You really think the Clippers are that dumb?

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@WilliamsFC18 @TheSteinLine There is zero value to the clippers for any of that!

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@LegionHoops @TheSteinLine This is such BS, the Bulls are not signing him, they don’t even have the cap space to do so after signing Powell

[·₊Al0ra·₊ @MikeQue3rler]

I had no idea this was her 😭😭

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@NBA2KMyTEAM Played yesterday for the first time in like 6 months and I played a guy with Mutombo and Olajuwon shooting 3’s and with handles like Iverson… like what the fuck is that

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

The single greatest moment to have happened on live television. 🔥

[Vitalis😈 @stefanodotsui]

Never trust a magician who says 'it works 50% of the time' 😂

Chris Pratt attempts a card trick on The Graham Norton Show… and it looks like a TOTAL disaster 😬

Jen is dying inside trying to save him…

The twist is what got the whole show on their feets

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@Crypto4bailout He just won the bloody World Cup! Leave him alone

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@Crypto4bailout What’s the problem, you annoyed he’s won more than those two at this age?

[Voltex @VoltexGar]

In 1997 the greatest chess player who ever lived sat down against a machine, lost, and immediately accused it of cheating. IBM's answer was to switch the machine off, take it apart, and refuse to ever play him again.

The match was carried on live television. IBM's market value jumped by billions in a single week. The man who lost spent years asking one question the company would never answer.

His name is Garry Kasparov. The machine was Deep Blue. The footage is on YouTube.

Kasparov was not just a champion. He had been the world's number one for more than fifteen years and is still argued to be the strongest player in history. In 1996 he had beaten IBM's Deep Blue with ease. IBM took it away, rebuilt it, and challenged him again in 1997 in New York, with the whole world watching.

Then, in game two, the machine did something that broke him. In a position where every computer of that era would have greedily grabbed a pawn, Deep Blue quietly declined and played a slow, patient, deeply human move instead. Kasparov could not accept that a machine had chosen it. He became convinced a human grandmaster was hidden somewhere, feeding it moves. Rattled, he resigned a game that analysts later proved he could have drawn. He never recovered in the match.

Deep Blue won, three and a half to two and a half. It was the first time a reigning world champion had ever lost a match to a computer. The papers called it the day the machines arrived.

Kasparov demanded to see the machine's logs, the record of why it played what it played. IBM refused to release them, turned down the rematch he begged for, and quietly dismantled Deep Blue. Years later one of its own engineers admitted that an early move which had unnerved Kasparov may have come from nothing more than a bug, a meaningless fallback the champion had mistaken for genius. Nobody could ever fully settle it. The logs stayed private.

This is not really a story about chess. It is about the exact moment human intuition stopped being the ceiling. For centuries the best move in any hard game was whatever the finest human mind could see. In one match a machine found a move a human could not even believe was real, and the greatest mind in the game turned his own genius into paranoia against it.

Kasparov spent years bitter about it. Then he said the line that outlived the grudge:

"I could feel, I could smell, a new kind of intelligence across the table."

He stopped fighting the machine and started studying how humans and machines win together. That, not the loss, was the real lesson.

The edge moved that day and it never moved back. It used to be intuition. It became computation. The people who win from here are not the ones with the best gut. They are the ones who stopped trusting their gut the moment the machine could out-see it.

The film is free. The logs never came out. Most people will only remember that the human lost.

[Die-Hard Chicago @DieHard_Chicago]

Imagine pairing this monster next to Caleb Wilson.

League messed up.

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@BullsTalkOnly That was a fun few months

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@DieHard_Chicago Nah can’t see it

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@thescorechicago @MattSpiegs Mock drafts don’t mean shit! FFS

[Ben 🇦🇺 @BenJ233391]

@Bullsfans He hasn’t played in a year! Give him a break! You do realise he is younger than Wilson and Swain?!