Congratulations to the U.S. Men’s and Women’s hockey teams, Alysa Liu, Breezy Johnson, Mikaela Shiffrin and all the amazing Olympic athletes representing Team USA.

We didn't throw away our shot at least

Prodigy? Learn to love that theme song

Also I can tell you those lessons don't carry over to middle school geometry 😔

The Six Biggest Questions of the NBA’s Stretch Run From Jayson Tatum’s looming return to a future-altering tankathon, the NBA regular season is anything but settled

now that the all-star break is over, here are 6 questions about the stretch run i’m keeping an eye on: www.theringer.com/2026/02/16/n...

An Afternoon With Pliny The Younger | Defector Sunday was a rather dry sporting day, even if you include the “discovery” of Kevin Durant’s supposed burner account. The combination of the NBA’s All-Star break and the Milan Cortina Olympics…

Ray Ratto drinks a rare craft beer: defector.com/an-afternoon...

This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters.

Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.

“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...