And now our systematic dumbing down and culture of anti-intellectualism has created the perfect conditions for where we are today.
Thanks Roger Freeman
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I’ve got my Paul Reed jersey on. I’ve got my hot tea. I am so fucking ready for Pistons playoff basketball!
The Pistons’ turnaround predates their head coach, front office and most of the roster – including No. 1 pick Cade Cunningham.
It started six years ago with a draft night gamble that produced their longest-tenured player – and next great enforcer.
www.freep.com/story/sports...
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Baltimore is not playing around with their street art. Straight to the point.
B-more is not a game. Don't play with that city, remember...Tupac's mom left Baltimore for the projects...for a better life.
if you are wondering "but what is it good for then and why are companies pushing it so hard"
the answers are "it is good for centralizing power and rationalizing harm"
and "because it is good for centralizing power and rationalizing harm"
Make that 26 points in 22 minutes for Reed. 100% from the floor and line. 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 3 blocks, 0 turnovers.
Third. String. Center.
happy large wet authoritarian takes a fat fucking L day to all who celebrate
in my future the president will just be an effigy we burn each year to help us banish our collective desire to control each other
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.
Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.
This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran
(🎥 i24 News)
The priorities of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and MPD reveal "a kind of moral rot that must be addressed head on."
SGA with 22 FTA tonight. Pistons 23
More evidence B-schools are merely a way to legitimate/promote the pursuit of profit as a "career." They teach, they attract big bucks, they enable networking...but they DO NOT EDUCATE
Honestly floored by the claim that this is a way to talk to the past. But what do I know. I'm just a historian
Perfect illustration of the problem of being asked to have full-spectrum viewpoint diversity that incorporates every & any claim as a valid part of serious academic debate. We can either do that, or we can be actual scholars/universities. Some things are just lies & detached from empirical reality.
When bad-faith actors claim that it's antisemitic to criticize the Israeli government, they are implicitly connecting Jewish people worldwide to war crimes like this
JB Bickerstaff, according to his players, is a "normal guy," who "happens to be a coach." He's "like an uncle." He treats them like family. He wants to have fun.
The coach of the year candidate has turned the Pistons into a contender by being himself.
www.freep.com/story/sports...
I was not surprised to learn that I Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back.
Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed.
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I hear that! Returning to Detroit always feels like a regrounding. Everywhere else feels slightly to very disorienting. But when I am back in the city, I feel like all the parts of me make sense in that place. Happy for you to get to return soon!
Every year it gets just that much harder to not be able to live there. There is nowhere else on Earth that I would rather be than Detroit.
We're at the All-Star break and the Detroit Pistons have the best record in the league. That's pretty awesome.
And to think all that talent sits for a large portion of most games. Takes a selfless person/player to be willing to take the way way back seat and stay ready to step up when it’s your turn. So much admiration and respect for Paul Reed #Piston
I’d like to get an announcement that there’s a presser where David Schultz is stepping down as pundit
all my homies love Isaiah Stewart
Here are my top 10 most unique dog jobs!
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
It's rough out there, y'all. It can feel hard to find things that feel hopeful. But TJA's work gives me hope.
Join us tonight! Be in community with people who share your values. We need each other now more than ever.
And Angie Craig voted for it
