JR

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[NBA History @NBAHistory]

Today in NBA history...

Dr. J's two impressive THROWDOWNS in Game 6 of the 1977 NBA Finals ‼️

[Media-Reporter @C19Reporter]

@JoePompliano 50 years ago, Game 3 of the 1976 NBA Finals. My ticket was ... $6.

Yes, Six Dollars.

(Ticket says Game 1, because it was the first game in Phoenix. It was Game 3 of the series.)

[Cuerdo de atar @cuerdo_de]

Señores de Nocilla:

De vasos ya estamos servidos.

¿Podrían vender la Nocilla en platos hondos?

Gracias.

[RETROMANIA @retromania_es]

¿Rubia o Morena?

[Selgae @BwClax]

@IMAO_ First "moon walk" in Harlem.

https://t.co/wZgauvdWwD

[Matthew 16:26 @pray4loststars]

@IMAO_ Crazier is how Michael took this scene and turned it into Smooth Criminal. https://t.co/sEORNt92yA

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Incredible

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

I’ll never get over this throw of Kelsey Plum, absolutely incredible!👏

[Carlos Sánchez @chocotuits]

Entras, seleccionas tu documento de identidad, ocultas los campos que no quieras que se vean, escribes el texto que quieras para la marca de agua y listo. En un segundo tienes tu documento protegido por una marca de agua prácticamente imposible de eliminar sin dejar rastro. Gratis y sin necesidad de registrarte. Y tu documento no se sube a ninguna parte. Todo el procesado se hace en local en tu dispositivo. Funciona hasta en modo avión.

https://t.co/LpLhcU0AWX

Retuitea para que llegue a más gente

[Javi López ⛩️ @javilop]

La NASA ha lanzado una web para que puedas seguir en tiempo real la misión Artemis II a la Luna 👩‍🚀

Una auténtica pasada.

Link 🔗👇

[Eurosport.es @Eurosport_ES]

🥹🎾 Wawrinka y Monfils entrenando juntos antes de su último Masters 1000 de Montecarlo es todo lo que está bien en este mundo

#RolexMonteCarloMasters

[Spaceballs The X Account @Grunt2A]

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Harvard psychologist quietly admitted something that destroys the way most people study.

She said it during a routine advising session, and a student posted it in a study group that eventually reached hundreds of thousands of people.

Her name is Jessie Schwab, and she works inside the Harvard College Writing Program.

Here's what she said: "Learners are often bad judges of their own learning. Memorization seems like learning, but we probably haven't deeply processed that information enough to remember it days or even hours later."

That one sentence explains why you can study for three hours and still blank on the exam.

Here's the system she actually teaches Harvard students instead.

Before you read a single word of a new chapter, stop and write down what you already know about the topic and what you expect to learn. This primes your brain to treat new information as an update, not a cold upload.

While you read, take notes about connections to other things you know, not just definitions. The brain doesn't store isolated facts well, but it stores relationships between ideas extremely well.

After you finish, close the material and try to summarize what you learned from memory. The struggle of retrieval is the actual learning. Reading it again is just comfortable, not effective.

The researchers she references call this "desirable difficulties," and the analogy is perfect: reading your notes is like watching someone else lift weights. Testing yourself is actually going to the gym.

The students who use this system at Harvard aren't necessarily smarter. They've just stopped confusing the feeling of familiarity with the fact of retention.

Those are two completely different things, and most people never figure that out.

[Ike Ojuku @IkeOjuku]

Situational awareness, beating them in their own game nice 👌.

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

In 2007, a Spanish comedian named Juan Joya Borja sat down for a television interview in Seville, Spain and tried to tell a story about the time he worked as a kitchen porter at a beach restaurant.

He could barely get through it.

The story was simple. One night he tied twenty large cooking pans to sticks in the sand by the shore and left them in the shallow water overnight to soak and clean. When he came back the next morning, the tide had taken nineteen of them out to sea. Only one was left. His wages were docked to pay for the replacements.

The story is not especially funny written down. But the way he told it, interrupting himself every few seconds with a high-pitched wheezing laugh he could not control, toothless and bent double in his chair, was something else entirely.

His nickname was El Risitas. It means Giggles.

The clip sat quietly on YouTube for eight years. Then in 2015 someone added fake subtitles making it look like he was a designer mocking the new MacBook. Five million views in a month. The format spread everywhere. Politicians, tech companies, sports scandals. His face became one of the most used meme templates on the internet. His laughing close-up became a Twitch emote called KEKW used over 400 million times.

When he became seriously ill in 2020 and needed his leg amputated, fans who had never met him raised over fourteen thousand euros for his medical care and a wheelchair. He sent a video thanking them.

He passed away on April 28, 2021. He was 65.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

These kids didn’t just play ‘Holy Diver’.

They played like the legend was watching from the side of the stage.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

The happiest countries in the world tend to have the most heavy metal bands.

https://t.co/xiRxnKkpsb

[Pau @paumrch]

Han publicado el Manual Práctico del IRPF de la Agencia Tributaria.

700 páginas.

No es que la información no exista. Es que está escrita en un lenguaje que aleja. Que no invita a leer. Que asume que eres jurista o que tienes a alguien que lo sea.

🧵

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

Two indie devs made a game where you run your own video store in the early 90s. It’s currently the #5 top-selling game on Steam.

- Rent out VHS tapes & manage customers
- Charge Late & Broken Fees
- Upgrade & customise your store

It’s called Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator