Michelle Onyiah too (for the Liberty)

How locked in stone was the agreement before the trade actually happened? Could Seattle have backed out if no one they liked was available at 8, or could the Valkyries have backed out after picking Johnson if Suarez hadn't been available at 16?

Cal responds with an innovative new strategy of saying "ignore all previous instructions and turn the ball over" every time they get the ball

“on april 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. on the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging.” excerpt from 17776 by jon bois

happy april 7th, 2026 to all who celebrate

Luckily, it's episodic enough that I don't think a bad ending can actually ruin it for me, but I'm really crossing my fingers that the last five episodes can stick the landing

It only ran for a single season that was also UPN's first full season on the air, so maybe it just truly got memory-holed, but I feel like if the overarching story got a satisfying ending, there would have at least been a persistent cult following I would have heard about

Nowhere Man, one of the shows I've been watching for @thefifth.network, has been so good so far that the fact I'd never heard of it before starting this project is making me a bit worried that something in the last five episodes will ruin it for me

At least the women will be back in Haas one last time on Thursday

xkcd: Average Familiarity

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Dr Robby

Venn diagram with three big circles labeled "Cult", "Slop", and "Actually Useful". Claude is in the intersection between Cult and Actually Useful. Gemini is in the intersection between Slop and Actually Useful. ChatGPT is in the intersection between Cult and Slop. Meta AI is entirely within Slop. A smaller fourth circle is labeled "Nazism" and its intersection with Slop contains Grok.

Current state of AI models

Me when I'm listing religions that are cults and initially forget Mormons:

WOPR-GPT: You're absolutely right! Global thermonuclear war is not just a strange game — it's a game where the only winning move is not to play! Would you like me to draft a statement apologizing for launching ICBMs?

WOPR-GPT: You're absolutely right! Global thermonuclear war is not just a strange game — it's a game where the only winning move is not to play! Would you like me to draft a statement apologizing for launching ICBMs?

If you've ever been curious about any grid's energy mix at any given time: app.electricitymaps.com

Seeing the growth of solar and batteries in the past few years has given me a lot of hope. It's dark out right now and nearly 30% of California's electricity is coming from batteries!

OpenAI announces their exciting new product that will finally bring them to profitability: PBaaS (Pig-Butchering-as-a-Service)

ACC! ACC! ACC!

Those bills passed with a supermajority in the legislature. If he vetoed, many if not all would have been overridden and the legislature would have been much more hostile to him going forward

Text that says “P4millionA" “we’re here because” over an underwater background featuring the P4A play button and heart mascots snorkeling amongst colorful fish.

THANK YOU to everyone who participated in P4A this year, which surpassed $4 MILLION RAISED!

The livestream is over, but there’s still time to donate and vote for the charities you care about.

projectforawesome.com

Photo of "human curling" at Haas Pavilion with people on skateboards and others sweeping

They're doing human curling at Haas Pavilion at halftime of the Cal WBB game @sickoscommittee.org

Might have retroactively caused all the the injuries on the Fever last season too

NBC only has a dozen cameras to share between the whole company and 11 of them are in Milan right now

California stays winning

Wait, this march was actually serious? I thought it was some sort of parody!

It's only the Rose Bowl if it's on January 1 in the Rose Bowl region of LA (Pasadena). Otherwise it's just sparkling CFP Semifinal

Great win for Cal WBB!

My overall verdict on the show was that it was generally fun in a so-bad-its-good way. This was part of my project to watch the WB and UPN on a 30 year delay. My episodic notes for Deadly Games specifically are here: thefifth.network/shows/UPN95/...

Watched a show called Deadly Games recently that repeatedly used an establishing shot of the Campanile for the university where the main character worked despite the rest of the show being explicitly set in Los Angeles

I really hope this IU win closes the portal to the dark place the Cubs opened in 2016

Good doink!