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I wrote about it at length in my column today. Think there's five plausible QB1s right now: Mahomes, Stafford, Darnold, Maye, and Allen. (www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...)

The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against rampant AI development.

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics…

…and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here.

read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

This person took this when they called the race

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race

NEW MAYOR VICTORY SPEECH INCOMING www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM_...

After a 137-106 Sunday shellacking of the woebegone New Orleans Pelicans, the Thunder sit atop the Western Conference at 7-0 — the last undefeated team in the NBA. As they begin a four-game West Coast road trip in Los Angeles on Tuesday against the Clippers, they own the NBA’s best net rating, according to NBA Advanced Stats, just ahead of the Rockets, whom they beat on opening night.

Thanks partly to a double-overtime double-nickel in an NBA Finals rematch against the Pacers, Gilgeous-Alexander is topping last season’s league-leading scoring mark, averaging 33.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.9 assists in 36 minutes per game. He’s on pace for a third straight season of 30-5-5 on 50% shooting — more than any player save for Michael Jordan and Giannis Antetokounmpo — and has balanced out a rough start from long distance (just 26.8% from 3-point range on nearly six attempts a night) by shooting a blistering 61.7% on 2-point shots, with career-best marks finishing at the rim, from floater range and on his patented midrange pull-ups. SGA remains the NBA’s preeminent source of dribble penetration, averaging a league-high 20.3 drives to the basket per game — the north-south engine of a Thunder offense that ranks eighth in points scored per possession despite a frigid overall start from 3-point land. He remains one of the game’s most devastating late-game offensive options, with twice as many points (46) when the score’s within five points in the final five minutes as the second-leading “clutch” scorer (Tyrese Maxey, 23).

Entering Tuesday’s action, the Thunder — again — lead the NBA in defensive efficiency … and by, like, a lot. They’ve allowed 105.3 points per 100 possessions outside of garbage time, according to Cleaning the Glass; that’s 3.6 points-per-100 stingier than the second-ranked defense in the NBA, the Victor Wembanyama-led San Antonio Spurs. The gap between OKC and San Antonio is as large as the gap between the Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks, who rank eighth. The Thunder sit second in the league in steals, fifth in deflections, seventh in blocks, first in charges drawn and second in shots contested. They continue to rank among the league’s best teams at limiting shot attempts at the rim, getting back in transition and forcing opponents to play against a set half-court defense. All-Defensive stopper Luguentz Dort continues to subject the toughest covers the league has to offer to his physical and athletic brand of ball-hawking; Cason Wallace has opened the season by making a compelling case to join him, leading the NBA in steals and sitting seventh in deflections while checking opponents of all shapes and sizes.

Many things about the NBA have changed since last season. The main thing that hasn't, though, is that the Thunder look like one of the best teams we've ever seen ... even without having their full team together for a second yet. yhoo.it/4oRLWHI

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

When you see those outfits, you immediately know what those people are trying to communicate. And thus, the outfits work because they are in conversation with culture using a shared language.

It's very hard to invent your own language, as this Key & Peele skit shows.

YouTube video by Clarion West Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

Here’s the panel I did with Cory Doctorow a few days ago in Seattle!
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TikTok thread go, remembering guys champion here

This was possibly the best concert I have ever been to. Still thinking about it months later.

these should all be mass-produced. every single one.

Incredible

we were interviewed for this great piece, check it out!

Read Murderland by Caroline Fraser, this is basically the thesis bsky.app/profile/mapq...

‘The Chair Company’ Star and Real-Life Suit Salesman on Acting for the First Time With ‘Unbelievable’ Tim Robinson: ‘I Hope I Don’t Make a Fool Out of Myself in Front of My Wife’ 'The Chair Company' star Jared Lindner, a first-time actor and real life suit salesman, discusses his appearance in Tim Robinson's HBO comedy

if you watched the shirt shop scene in THE CHAIR COMPANY and thought “who is *that*?!” I have the article for you!

meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

Don’t forget about ColorStar too!

100 percent complete now and can officially confirm that ROYAL CITY is fantastic

YouTube video by Cracked Comedy Club Humble Offering | Stand Up Comedy | Eli Yudin Full Special

All right enough about the blood money comedians. Let’s talk GOOD comedians. I saw @davidjroth.bsky.social link to this special once and it had me dying. youtu.be/g9NT46SGqFY?...

Picador to publish Emily St John Mandel's new 'mind-bending epic' Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, is set to publish Emily St John Mandel's new "mind-bending epic" novel.

Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, is set to publish Emily St John Mandel's new "mind-bending epic" novel 👇

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to “End Racism,” and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

hot damn, what a blog www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

YouTube video by The Paradox The Paradox - Bender ft Travis Barker (Official Music Video)

These guys haven’t missed yet
youtu.be/xj4g2P1QBuw

FIVE ORKS METHODIST CHURCH, actually FIVEFORKS METHODIST CHURCH, but the F burnt out.

WAAAAGHMEN

A reenactment of a therapy session that absolutely changed my life. To anyone who knows me in real life I promise you I’ve never been in that headspace since. Life really is too precious to not keep ... TikTok video by ohbrittuary🌱🍄🐞

Ah man how did someone else’s therapist fuck me up from seven years ago www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6hvpEPK/

If you’re not familiar (or if you are), you are welcome youtu.be/sAwh1_lKZnYm

Paul Vincent wearing a brown wool coat and brown button-up shirt.

An SEH Kelly model wearing a charcoal belted overcoat.

An SEH Kelly model wears a grey textured "birdseye knit" sweater.

An SEH Kelly model wears a brown duffle coat.

Sad to learn of the passing of Paul Vincent, co-founder of SEH Kelly. With his partner Sara, Paul ran a clothing company the way I think all should be run: a singular focus on making beautiful clothes from quality materials with no interest in expansion or business gimmicks. RIP.