Zack McCartney

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

So we've reached the point at which the powerful are burning down the public utility on purpose, because it's better for them that the populace be kept uninformed. Note that this accompanies the rise of AI and deepfakes. We are in perilous fucking times. -fin-

Who are the Chicago bulls, holy what

tracker updated! nbastt.grepco.net

and picking phoenix. i won't say it's the most _possible_ outcome, but it does seem like the funniest

I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.

My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.

Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

Sincerity, like introspection, is terrifying, because we are engineered to judge people for being “too much” or “too emotional,” and that’s before gendered and racial bias amplifies the problem further. Media mocks the emotionally honest and elevates manufactured, controlled sincerity, as it’s safe.

This was against a completely set defense 🤯

The alternative to naloxone (Narcan) for a fentanyl overdose outside a healthcare facility - where almost all of them in this country occur - is death. Dead people don’t recover. Fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-44. Every single fentanyl overdose death is preventable.

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines?

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We’ve done this mass tariff thing 3 times in American history.

1828, 1930, 2025.

All spaced about 100 years apart because everyone who remembers the last one needs to be dead for the next one to happen.

The last two caused a depression. I hope this one makes us rich tho.

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

There was never a Pistons playoff win tweet before today

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Westbrook's game is like a series of randomly selected 45 second clips from Uncut Gems

You can order spaghetti at basketball games?!?

Chris Paul on playing 34 minutes at age 39 in his 82nd game of the season:

"I wanted to hoop. One of the guys on the bench asked me in the fourth quarter, 'Why are you in there playing?' I said, it's a long summer when you don't make the playoffs. Like what else I got to do?"

This Is What Insider Trading Looks Like Zero-day options represent speculation in its purest form. Traders pay a small premium for a contract destined to expire worthless within hours unless the market dramatically swings your way. On Apri...

Wednesday wasn't luck.

It was insider trading at historic scale.

Millions in zero-day options precisely 29min before Trump's announcement.

This could only have been executed by sophisticated pros with advance knowledge.

My third newsletter post: data-and-politics.ghost.io/this-is-what...

To any fans of the Slam N' Jam pod from @theathletic.bsky.social out there: You might remember the Surprise Teams tracker that came up on the show a bit ago. Here it is again, with some updates:
• Past seasons: nbastt.grepco.net/archive/
• Graphs!!! 🎩: nbastt.grepco.net/stats/

Check it out!

Last night a friend and I were talking about like. What Happened over the past decade where it feels like COVID caused a lot of kind of bog standard soft conservatives to spiral out into anti-vaccine Nazism. And my thing was, a lot of these people had never had any constraints put on their behavior

saw a coexist bumper sticker but it actually said corndogs??????

one thing i do not like about these days is that i am filled with hate for so many people

Alsupp issuing a PI from the bench. Finding that OPM engaged in sham terminations, claiming they were performance based in an attempt to avoid the procedural requirements of the Reduction in Force Act.

Oh holy shit, quote in next post

I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

American citizens should not have to enter into a contract with a private company (that’s an X account signup!) to receive government communications

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass