ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family.
She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.
Trump strangely claims that Obama gave Iran hundreds of billions of dollars.
Which is how you know that Trump has agreed to give Iran hundreds of billions of dollars.
I have never, in my life, seen a series-long choke like what the Spurs just did. They broke down in almost every big moment. Pretty much the entire team was visibly petrified in the clutch. Chalk it up to youth or inexperience but that was an insane thing to witness.
What timeline are we on man.
There’s a $60 million UFC cage on the White House lawn for the president’s 80th birthday. 125,000 guests. 494 port-a-potties. He compared it to the Eiffel Tower and said maybe they’ll never take it down.
The world’s first trillionaire was minted yesterday. SpaceX IPO. One person now holds more wealth than the GDP of most countries.
The government is negotiating to own a piece of OpenAI. The CEO walked into the White House and pitched it himself. They’re calling it a Public Wealth Fund.
That same government killed OpenAI’s biggest competitor’s models on a Friday night. The reason? A verbal jailbreak claim from an unnamed company. The same jailbreak works on OpenAI’s models. Nobody touched them.
The competitor got blacklisted by the Pentagon four months ago. Their crime? Refusing to let the military use their AI for mass surveillance of American citizens. A judge called it retaliation. The Pentagon did it anyway.
Both AI companies filed to go public in the same two-week window. Both targeting trillion-dollar valuations. One has a government equity deal in progress. The other can’t keep its products online.
The engineers who built the banned models can’t use them anymore. Because of their passports.
And an AI company that spent thousands of hours cooperating with government safety testing got punished harder than any company that didn’t bother.
UFC on the White House lawn. A trillionaire. Government-owned AI. Export controls based on phone calls. Cage fights and trillion-dollar IPOs in the same news cycle.
Watch the film titled Idiocracy. That’s the timeline we’re on.
My manager kept “forgetting” my overtime. Three weeks in a row.
Every Friday I’d clock 47 hours. Every Monday my paycheck showed 40.
I asked HR. They said: “Talk to your manager first.”
I emailed him: “My timecard shows 7 hours OT missing. Can you fix it?”
He replied: “System must’ve glitched. If it’s not approved, you didn’t work it.”
I didn’t fight him.
Because the district manager said: “He’s been here 15 years. He doesn’t make mistakes.”
So I started taking a photo of the timeclock every time I clocked out.
Next Friday, I clocked out at 6:32 p.m. — 7.5 hours OT for the week.
Took a photo. Time, date, my name, all visible. Then went home.
Monday morning, paycheck still said 40 hours.
I checked the system. My clock-out had been edited to 4:00 p.m.
Edit log showed: “Approved by: J. Matthews” at 8:14 a.m.
I saved screenshots, emailed them to myself, printed two copies, then asked HR for a meeting. No anger. Just put the folder on the desk.
Turns out he’d been shaving hours off anyone who “questioned policy.”
I was just the first one who kept receipts.
He got written up + I got backpay for 22.5 hours.
And somehow…
I’m the one coworkers avoid in the break room.
Apparently, proving you worked is “not being a team player.”
But stealing wages?
That was just “a misunderstanding.”
Funny how evidence turns you into the villain.
It’s hilarious how we always need to give the billionaires more money so they can continue to grow their wealth while others struggle. Urlacher kinda just sucks at being a human.
It only takes about 5 minutes of watching Fox News to understand why Trump supporters live in a completely fucking different reality than everyone else.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
Hard to believe this is from a guy who inherited $413 million from his father only to declare bankruptcy 6 times before convincing an NBC producer to bail him out by creating a fictional show that he was a successful businessman.
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.