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The two stories of the NBA are
1) the entire league has old man bodies by 22 that are breaking down
2) the 3 most iconic players from the 2000s are all somehow immortal
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Wrote about this back in September. Our X feeds switched over to nonstop posts about WW3 starting because there are now a whole bunch of Verified accounts that make money by psychologically tormenting day traders and crypto bros with poorly aggregated newswires.
what, genuinely, do ppl think is happening with this? feels like a combo of real and justified cybersecurity fears and iran escalations. but also a real
algorithmic tweak that feels suspicious this close to the election (and a lot of rando accounts that could be run by any engagement farmer or nation state)
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Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Proud Panican retweeted
Patrick Stewart’s villainous turn in GREEN ROOM has stayed with me longer than I ever anticipated. His casual delivery of “I need a true believer” has echoed in my mind for a decade.
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If baseball teams cooperated instead of competing, they could work together to score a virtually unlimited number of runs. And isn't that the point? To score runs?
the contradictions are part of the text
This! @christianbrits pans the "unethical travesty" that is Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything.
"There's no getting around the fact that Nathan Fielder made a crooked bargain to get his documentary made," he writes.
I agree. I'm surprised, and a bit disappointed, that more people aren't denouncing the filmmakers' tactics. Fielder made a documentary about someone who conned people out of money they were owed—and then goes and does something... kind of similar.
reason.com/2026/10/26/nathan…
Think the demand for payment actually worked in the filmmakers' favor. Fielder turns the situation into an “I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me” deal. Exploits Billy's complete misunderstanding of leverage to get exactly where he wants to go.
Recognizing that a new film probes similar questions to older films is also not a sufficient critique. These questions are eternal, and there's plenty to explore in YCSE. These coworkers should talk! newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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This question has long been settled and the movie correctly doesn’t take much interest in it.
There’s no honest reading of this movie or it’s marketing or any interviews that could lead you to believe it was about that.
the search and rescue industrial complex is about to be revolutionized
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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when people complain that YCSE didn't sufficiently explore Elizabeth Holmes' guilt and allowed some audience members to believe she's innocent
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This is exactly it
for bkmag, wrote about you can see everything as a movie about prison bkmag.com/2026/10/21/you-can…
Guess it depends to what degree you view YCSE as an act of journalism. But that feels like the least rewarding way of engaging with it. Which may be why it’s such a hit with cinephiles and seems to bounce off people who want a more literal examination of Holmes
