Samir Kumar

International relations, South Asia, and curiosities. Sports 🎾🏏🏀 and culture sprinkled in.

[Samir Kumar @samirkum]

@florianederer Could help with cancer treatment!

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@FranziaMom Absolutely

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@bgtennisnation North Dumpling! That’s the spot

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@kevinroose Who would be “pricing in” this possibility who is (1) capable of doing so and (2) not already doing so?

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@Steven_Hyden hold your groove together…with rotosound strings!

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@WaveCapper Matched Duval's score this week

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

There are men who have been reciting lines and scenarios from episodes of Seinfeld for like thirty years now.

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@BastienFachan Novak couldn’t move properly from a game or two before the second set tiebreak. How he took it to five sets is beyond me

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@billdifferen Rattlehead by Megadeth (and written a decade after)

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@DPD_ Inspiring stuff, catching up on old New Yorkers. How do you make time for it?

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@KVanValkenburg -He’s sympathetic to an attempted U.S. coup

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Rare for a team to lead for like 90 percent of the minutes in a series and still deserve to lose

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Magic let the clock run out in a tie game in Game 2 of the 1984 Finals and turned the ball over late in Game 4…famously! He could have just left himself out of it. @BillSimmons

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Magic Johnson on De’Aaron Fox:

“He should’ve pulled the ball back out… I think that play really hurt the Spurs. Wemby’s two free throws he missed hurt the spurs. De’Aaron is a point guard, you gotta know every situation. My job as a point guard was to know every situation.”
(via @FirstTake, h/t @NBA__Courtside)

[Kring @kringrush]

New order has like 4 of the greatest songs of all time

[Samir Kumar @samirkum]

'Workers' perception of the labor market' is a dubious construct, esp in analyzing short-term trends. Identifying general perceptual conditions ("doomerism") is risky, riskier when folded without reflection (systematically) into chains of supposition underpinning analysis.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

In Tuesday’s newsletter, I wrote about a potential gap emerging between worker perceptions of the labor market (horrendous) and the actual labor market (not terrible, possibly improving).

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@TheStalwart I believe you but we're supposed to just take the word of watchers/analysts on this?

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https://t.co/S90nPKjzmP reminder that you can produce slop with human writers and editors

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How old is too old to ragebait?

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@KylePorterNS He has a lot of heart but doesn’t quite close. Pinehurst, Augusta, Bethpage…

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This is a fashion statement

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

Woke extreme left and extreme right have in common an incapacity for pluralism. I never use the word fascist lightly, but I think the left in this country is becoming more like it than the right