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The only pickle ball I support

They’re calling him “White Phosphorus”

This is considered an illegitimate opinion in the US while supporting Israel is fine. But lets look at the numbers. Countries invaded by Hamas: 1 Countries invaded by Israel: 5 People killed by Hamas: 6,000 People killed by Israel: 250,000 Global economic downturns caused by Hamas: 0 Global economic downturns caused by Israel: 2 Hamas intervention in American politics: almost non-existent Israeli intervention in American politics: massive and destructive The onus is on supporters of Israel to explain why despite the numbers, Israel is somehow better for America. The evidence shows otherwise.

@nkulw x.com/i/status/20442…

This happened to me tonight and it bummed me out big time

@mulvihill79 I'm at a casino with like 200 tvs and the bartenders stared at me blankly when I asked about Amazon Prime. They're playing the dodgers and some old college basketball games

The NBA regular season goes down as yet another demonstration of the power of sports on broadcast TV. Total time spent viewing the NBA this season was up +22% across national partners. On broadcast networks it was up +128%.

Bars didn't seem to subscribe to Amazon Prime, seems like a problem for the NBA

Sometimes I'm riding Muni and both elated with how functional and full it is while being so angry about all the dumbass waymos outside it driving schmucks around

@fulligin Bro the bus literally passes right behind it

saw a beautiful use of a Waymo a few days ago - a cyclist stuck in the rain threw his bike in the back seat and dipped. total genius, great trick to have in my pocket

@threefingybrown @_retromichael_ @_BenBecker @Domo8186 Mil '28 swap is unprotected?

@_retromichael_ @_BenBecker @Domo8186 If Portland makes the playoffs, the pick they owe will convey this year. Portland has first rights to swap with Milwaukee in 28. If Portland misses the playoffs in 26 and 27, but makes it in 28, the Wizards will have first dibs on the swap with Milwaukee in 28

Two straight Phoenix losses would give the Wizards a few more ping-pong balls in the draft lottery thanks to the pick swap DC acquired in the Bradley Beal trade. Let’s go Blazers!

the pope—deeply suspicious of thinking machines—is cultivating desert power. it's happening out of order but it's happening.

@aadilpickle So shop in person next time dumbass

made a $175 instacart order and the shopper left the reciept in the bag found out it would cost $125 if shopped in person 40% markup what a great business model

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

@neeratanden They have no shame what purpose would that serve?

Gotta say, I have also been wondering why there are no shame chants at Trump staff.

@Timodc @Lauren_V_Egan Why would trump admin care about campus protest? The Biden admin were more swayable (in theory). Protests ostensibly exist to accomplish things, same reason why there's more energy over Palestine (us policy) than Sudan. Ppl are rational (w/r/t organizing) how they dedicate time.

Campus protests have dissipated significantly from Biden to Trump term. @Lauren_V_Egan talks to activists to try to understand why. (I think part of it is a freduian relationship with their parents doing No Kings but that's for another day) thebulwark.com/p/the-campus-p…

In the moral framework outlined here, countless countries would be totally justified in bombing Palo Alto, Pasadena, Ann Arbor, Cambridge, and College Station into the dust.

#Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City to spend $280 Million a year to make bus travel free for all This is part of a broader push to curb traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Making bus rides free, will encourage people to shift away from private motorbikes toward public transport, city officials said. Ho Chi Minh City is preparing to allocate around VND7 trillion (US$280 million) annually to make bus travel free across the city, with authorities aiming to finalize the policy by late April. The plan, announced by the city's Party chief Tran Luu Quang on Wednesday, would eliminate fares on 135 intra-city bus routes while requiring additional investment in infrastructure and service frequency to accommodate rising demand. These routes form the backbone of the city's public transport network, while inter-provincial lines would remain excluded due to separate funding mechanisms. The city now spends about VND1.5 trillion each year subsidizing bus operations, said Bui Hoa An, deputy director of HCMC's Department of Construction. Even with fares removed, authorities plan to closely track passenger volumes through technology-based monitoring systems. The data will be used to guide budget allocation and system management, ensuring transparency in how public funds are deployed. Ridership is projected to increase by about 30% compared to 2025 levels, adding pressure on operational capacity. While many newer routes are currently underutilized, officials are assessing whether the existing fleet can absorb a sudden surge in demand. Plans include boosting bus frequency and optimizing high-traffic routes, particularly those linking schools, industrial zones, and residential areas. The proposal is expected to be finalized and submitted to the city's People's Council for approval at its next session later this month. Ho Chi Minh City currently operates around 179 bus routes with more than 2,100 vehicles. Currently, free travel is limited to specific groups, including seniors, young children, and people with disabilities, while standard fares on subsidized routes range from VND5,000 (US$0.19) to VND7,000 per trip. In 2025, the network carried nearly 97 million passengers, a 6% increase year-on-year, with further growth recorded in early 2026. Officials say initiatives such as electric bus rollouts, cashless payments, and occasional free-fare campaigns have already helped attract riders, trends they expect to accelerate under a fully subsidized model.

@ryangrim @isaiah_bb We're rooting against a single country's ability to wreck havoc and attempt to control the destiny of other countries - Palestine and Iran, but also Venezuela and Cuba are recent examples as well.

If this is an honest question, I’d say: Americans are rooting against America because we facilitated a genocide and followed it with a surprise attack on a girls elementary school followed by attacks on universities, medical centers, more schools, a world famous pharmaceutical research center, a volley ball team, an unfinished bridge we claimed was transporting weapons and then a nuclear power plant. We are now promising endless attacks on civilian infrastructure. We are hunting and targeting anyone who might be involved in ceasefire negotiations. Most people do not pay enough attention to have absorbed all the propaganda about the U.S. and Iran. So people coming to this fresh see us for what we are: absolute monsters. And monsters must be stopped. That’s why people are rooting against us and for civilization to prevail.

Ngl I thought this was the Strait of Hormuz

@wheatonbrando @HPbasketball Draymond could functionally be considered the point guard absolutely

@HPbasketball What makes him not the point guard? If he’s not the point guard, who was? Klay? Draymond? Durant? Iggy? Kevon Looney? He’s the smallest starter, often brings the ball up or initiates offense, has the ball the most, has basically never played with another PG…

What precisely makes Steph Curry considered a point guard instead of a shooting guard? Wade, Harden, Kobe, Jordan all brought the ball up the floor, so it can't be that.

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

@JonahPlatt Are you listening to yourself

Masterclass in demagoguery from Ms. Rachel: "Wanting kids to live isn't antisemitic." True sentence. Five words. Zero accountability. A whole community smeared. Because in that framing, the only reason Jews would object... is that they don't want kids to live. This is what modern Jew-hatred looks like dressed up as kindness.