Kevin Smith

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@KING5Seattle Looks like the other vehicle in the video was also shooting fireworks out of the window. Not a random vehicle, most likely they knew each other. All of these kids need to be held responsible, not just the one holding the firework.

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@BigTenNetwork Biggest flopper I’ve seen at QB, look at him and he falls down

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@BigTenNetwork 🤮

[Patrick Schwarzenegger @PSchwarzenegger]

You got no idea…

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@mattgraykxly Would be interesting to see if there is any correlation to growth of cities when looking at this? More asphalt and concrete will have more heat retention overnight.

[Patrick T. Brown @PTBwrites]

Nothing says "growing the game" like forcing fans to subscribe to three different streaming services to watch Games 2, 3, and 4 of the regular season.

I know this is an MLB/Manfred move, and I'm sure the teams hate it almost as much as the fans. But it's aggressively anti-fan.

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@GeeScottSr 🤮

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

The Washington state constitution bars an income tax and voters have repeatedly rejected it, but what’s a little parchment and democratic consent when there are political interests to pay off?
https://t.co/BdPiMy0sCa

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If doctors in 1950 could be catastrophically wrong about smoking, fat, and sugar while being completely confident in their recommendations...

And doctors in 1980 could be catastrophically wrong about margarine, low-fat diets, and dietary cholesterol while being completely confident in their recommendations...

And doctors in 2000 could be catastrophically wrong about opioids, hormone therapy, and Vioxx while being completely confident in their recommendations...

Why would you assume doctors today, working in the same institutional structures with the same pharmaceutical funding and the same regulatory capture, have suddenly figured it all out?

The system hasn't changed. The incentives haven't changed. The conflicts of interest haven't changed.

Only your willingness to believe them has.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

Stacked wins.

[Kim Grinolds @KimGrinolds]

John Schneider finally did what Jody Allen failed to do after @Seahawks celebrated with trophies after beating the Rams and winning the Super Bowl. He thanked Paul Allen. Good on John. Paul Allen saved the Seahawks.

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

Seattle socialists hate capitalism, police, and the military until they need law enforcement to close streets and vehicles to escort a football team in a parade

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.

The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.

Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.

This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.

They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@zacyourback My first year at wsu in 2003 was like this, no crowds, no students. Then they hired Dick Bennet. That started a winning culture and the crowds came. Sell outs and storming courts. It’s possible, but you need the right people in place to make it exciting.

[Kevin Smith @wsuturf]

@wspd1pio What the actual hell. No wonder semi drivers are some of the worst drivers on the road today. Should be charged with something stronger than a DUI

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

Unpopular opinion: schools should extremely reduce the use of chrome books and return to paper and pencil being the main use. There is a connection between writing and how the brain learns.

[Mike and Jeff show @AgrisAcademy @AgrisAcademy]

My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill.

Cargill was/is the leading producer of critical staple ingredients such as flour, pasta, vegetable oil, and rice in VZ. I am not saying I agree with grabbing the dictator, but I did have a front row seat to the damage a kleptocracy did to innocent people.
1. The government took over our "minute rice" facility at gunpoint because we were "gouging" the nation's poor. The government was never able to run the plant. It never ran again. It was returned years later with no equipment inside
2. There are 1000's of generals in the army. They are each given a slice of the economy to loot. The large number of generals made it difficult to organize a coup against the regime.
3. The government opened grocery stores and sold staples below the cost we sold them to the government. In theory they used petro oil money to lower grocery prices. Our regular grocery outlets were forced out of business. When the government demanded we sell them products below cost we simply had to shut down. The populous became ever more dependent on the government handouts. (PS this is the mayor of New York City's proposal.
4. Dollars- We needed dollars to go buy raw materials like wheat from places like the US and Canada. The government would periodically allocate us some dollars that could only be spent for raw materials and freight. Eventually only the local companies that can and would pay bribes got dollar allocations. We had several facilities closed for lack of raw material
5. My employees liked working for Cargill. The office was an armed compound with access to a gym, high speed internet, global communications, and a weekly box of basic staples. Cargill provided a safe and secure environment if only for the working hours.
6. Employees became very close to others inside the apartment building. Going out on the street with a desperate population was not advisable.
7. I needed wood pallets for feed. We tried to export wood pallets to swap for grain. We refused to pay the bribes it would take to export the pallets
8. I once tried to set up a closed loop wheat planting to flour mill supply chain. A. They came and stole all the seed wheat for food. When we tried to ship in seed wheat in containers via US donors there was no way to get it out of the port without it being stolen
9. Livestock- Our feed business completely collapsed. Even if you could raise a pig, you couldn't defend it from being stolen. People with guns were hungry.
10. Employees- In the end my highly skilled team alone with other highly educated people chose to leave. Cargill often found jobs for them in other Latin countries. The regime was more than happy to see the well-educated leave the country. Setting these employees up with high quality stable jobs after fleeing remains one of the best things I ever did in my career. No one remembers millions in trading earnings.

This is a short list. In my opinion the first money spent needs to happen now and it needs to be food. The US is already on the clock. The current regime does not care if it starves the population. The orgy of theft will actually accelerate if they believe their days are numbered. VZ should be an outstanding customer of US grown ag products. Rice, bread wheat, veg oil ect. Feed the people first.

Jeff Kazin
Former head trading Cargill

[Future 42 @future42org]

1. City of Vancouver, WA allows drug encampments on public land.
2. BNSF Railroad places boulders outside their buildings to dissuade drug encampments.
3. Boulders are working, with KATU interviewing homeless woman in a tent who verifies their effectiveness.
4. City demands BNSF remove boulders but doesn't remove drug camps
5. BNSF doubles down and increases amount of boulders.
6. City of Vancouver sues BNSF, saying they must remove boulders and allow drug encampments.

Not even 1980's dystopian movies could have fully predicted the backwards stupidity by some local governments.

@VictorParkNews | @KATUNews
Article: https://t.co/5CYasrYKsX

[Jeff Sunday @TheDegenWeekly]

So you’re telling me now that every school can pay their players all of a sudden Georgia and Alabama can’t even sniff the National Championship…?

What a coincidence.