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So You Think You Can Tout (2025): Brown Bob Dylan Put me in coach @peteroverzet

@SamMonsonNFL Ed Hochuli is my dentist. Pulled my wisdom teeth with his bare hands.

Why are they hiring lawyers, judges and aerospace engineers to be NFL officials? There are a LOT of capable people for whom $350k would be an AWESOME full-time salary. Why has the NFL targeted a small subset of people for whom that's not true?

@adamlevitan @Comm1sh63 @CoachspeakIndex It's pronounced Achane.

@Comm1sh63 @CoachspeakIndex ETN for me

Jaguars HC Liam Coen on evaluating his RBs, via @CoachspeakIndex: "What I look at, personally, is rushing yards over expected, and yards after contact. That’s what I give a crap about. It’s like, what are you doing outside of what we’re blocking, and what does that look like - because I can’t coach that." I think all RB metrics have some real flaws, but fwiw last year in Rush Yards Over Expectation per attempt: * Chris Rodriguez +0.7 * Bhayshul Tuten -0.2 In Yards After Contact per attempt: * Chris Rodriguez 4.0 * Bhayshul Tuten 3.6 I still much prefer Tuten in fantasy, but current market has the gap extremely wide. Rodriguez ADP is 145.1, Tuten at 60.0.

This perfectly captures the parasite's delusion: that wealth is static loot to be seized and redistributed. Here's what actually happens when you "repossess all their stuff": The producers will rebuild. They'll create new wealth because that's what they do. They identify opportunities, solve problems, innovate, build businesses, and generate value. Their wealth came from their minds, not magic. The looters will consume what they stole at light speed and wind up with nothing. Because they never learned to produce. They only know how to take. Look at every socialist revolution in history: seize the factories, the farms, the businesses. Within years, everything collapses. The factories stop producing. The farms stop yielding. The wealth evaporates. Venezuela. Cuba. Soviet Union. Zimbabwe. The pattern is identical. Why? Because wealth isn't stuff sitting in a vault. Wealth is the ongoing process of human intelligence applied to production. Confiscate a factory and you get the building. You don't get the knowledge, vision, and competence that made it productive. The "rich" you want to loot aren't dragons hoarding gold. They're producers creating value. Rob them and you rob everyone, including yourself. You'll be left with ruins and still blame capitalism.

By publishing this explicitly false story, the @FT has officially become tabloid trash for market participants. Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea that Chancellor-Bank of England statute serving as a prototype for a Treasury-Federal Reserve relationship, FT journalists manufactured a story with the headline, “Scott Bessent praised Bank of England as model for tighter oversight of the Federal Reserve.” These pathetic journalists have clearly fabricated a story to give the impression that both I and the Trump Administration are setting “about restructuring the relationship… at a time when President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the world’s most important central bank.” Their mendacious assertion is based on vague statements from unnamed “financial industry executives familiar with the matter.” In short, FT has literally manufactured an entirely fake policy position for me and the Administration. Other than furthering a maliciously false narrative of dysfunction and divisiveness, it baffles the mind as to why they would shred their already diminished journalistic credibility. Over the past 10 years, I have written more than 20,000 words opining on the Federal Reserve decisions, personnel, structure, and modifications. Nowhere have I ever mentioned this ridiculous notion. The Governor’s letters to the Chancellor have proven to be a useless and perfunctory device. There is much to be said about the storied Bank of England, but any recreation of its operating framework on this side of the Atlantic has never been contemplated. The shameful journalists and editors at the FT are shocking in their meretriciousness, lack of standards, and general intellectual libertinism. It is the worst tradition of Fleet Street to manufacture news rather than report on it. They have brought irredeemable shame to their parent organization, Nikkei Inc., with whom I had previously held excellent relations. In 2025, I laid out a comprehensive 6,000+ word review of each and every policy reform that I believe should be adopted by the Federal Reserve. Read my actual, real thoughts on and proposals for Federal Reserve reform at the International Economy: international-economy.com/TIE_Sp25_Besse…

Has anyone taken a Southwest flight in the last couple months that hasn't been delayed or is that just the new normal for them now?

@jameszimmermann Cracker - Low Also, @davidclowery is a good follow.

Here’s the 90s playlist so far. The barrier for entry is high – if my 16yo wants a longer 90s list Spotify has oodles of them, this playlist contains only certified bangers. It’s not enough just to be from the 90s, songs on this list have to capture the essence of the decade.

@hardeep_gambhir What IDE is that?

It’s happening. The bubble is popping. Went to a cafe in the absolute middle of nowhere today in Kyoto and a guy had Claude Code docs open there. Asked him what’s he using it for, he didn’t speak much English but said “Agents to automate university assignments” The world is going to go through an insane period of change and it is very close. YC is actively investing in agency model companies now. Sequoia recently published a blog with the title “the next $1 Trillion company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm” I am starting to become convinced, just through first principles that for the first time, the people who are going to win big in this market won’t be the tool makers But the people who leverage the tools, make the best tools internally and produce output that consumers and businesses will be pay $$ for While some tool companies certainly will win, it’s seeming it will unlock yet a whole another world of creator economy With everyone running their businesses using AI and selling their services to the world The people who will win in this new market would be who attract and retain the best talent in small teams Same as traditional startups. But this time A players would be actively working on figuring out how to automate themselves using agents. The way to win imo is to build exceptional communities and produce stories about your startup to attract the best talent. Being public about your values, your progress, your ambitions, your taste. And then work very very hard to make sure the talent you attract feels they are doing the work of a lifetime. A couple of these agencies would then truly dominate most contracts in the world in their own domains. Some of them may be acquired by traditional legacy businesses. Like Ben Affleck’s AI startup that got acquired for a supposedly $600 Million after Netflix backed out of the Warner Bros Acquisition What a time to be alive. What a time to be alive.

@cremieuxrecueil Aren't there open class actions against Gardasil? Has anything been proven in that?

One of the key psychological characteristics of anti-vaxxers is an EXTRAORDINARY tolerance of lying They don't care if they're demonstrably lied to; they JUST want to attack vaccines Almost every vaccine on the schedule, in current or earlier versions, was compared to a placebo

The failing @nytimes write a 3,000 word article on Jackson, Wyoming. I’ve suffered through it so you don’t have to (TMFMS) 1) this is going to surprise you but the authors really don’t like Donald Trump! Especially Donald Trump’s tax policies which they sort of claim created and entrenched a new wave of Jackson’s billionaires (lol!). 2) They have sour faced soylennial NGO person in there to tell you more money should go to immigrants. No mention of 7th gen ranching families who also can’t afford the area. This is about the NGOs and their immigrants! :( 2) the reporters really don’t like that billionaires exist at all, anywhere in America, and they really don’t like Elon Musk! They take about 1000 words to tell you all that before returning to Wyoming. 3) they attack @daily_cowboy as a “right wing paper” even though it’s arguably the best wildlife reporting in the entire Mountain West. This was the most surprising part of the article, I howled. 4) they mention Joe Rickett’s (of TD Ameritrade and Chicago Cubs fame) proposed luxury ranch resort that was planned in the middle of one of the most important mule deer/elk/pronghorn migration corridors in the entire Greater Yellowstone near Bondurant (pop 59). This is a super interesting case study but they sort of gloss over the most interesting parts. The county commission was going to let him build, but he wanted *all seasonal wildlife* restrictions lifted (eg allowing construction during peak migration). He was miffed he couldn’t get this and cancelled the project. What’s currently interesting about “billionaires in the west” isn’t any of the vignettes told by the NYT. Rather it’s shadowy donor advised funds and philanthropic networks pouring tons of campaign money into activist extremist pet projects ranging from American Prairie to this week’s ban on fur sales in Colorado. Billionaires are undermining local values, culture, and preferences, and funding campaigns that release wolves in the heart of ranch country, while facing zero accountability by the press. These impacts go against public wishes of the rural communities that wildlife commissions of the western states used to serve. State by state, restrictions on hunting and fishing and wildlife stewardship are being pushed by the same unelected (often opaque) networks of billionaires named in this very article (most notably the Swiss billionaire Wyss family) but the NYT spends all its ammo on Trump and Elon derangement, missing what’s happening on the ground and making the article boring and irrelevant. Missed opportunity to call out Millionaire Cowboy Bar for not having beer on draft. And they call themselves the paper of record.

@Grummz Claude, build a custom OS for my new rig. Make no mistakes.

You will eventually need a license to own a computer. This is where all this "Age Verification for OS" stuff is coming from. It's not about protecting kids. If it were, the CA law would not demand that you share this age data with any dev that asks for it. It's about controlling access to compute and what you do with it.

@Grummz How much drugs did it take to create Orgrimmar?

Stormwind was the first city we ever built. Our lead programmer had it load and play the song "We built this city" to our surprise when we first loaded in. The first version of Stormwind had no districts or canals. The framerate was below terrible. Then I thought of Venice. I grabbed a map of the city and slapped it down on the table the next morning. THIS, I said, is how we'll partition the city, drawing only the district you can see, separated by canals. It worked, and Stormwind was born.

It lacks repetition. Rear facing rules for sustainable play: Players agree on a season. Dealer deals X number of cards (7 or 9 feels like the right number) containing players, no repeats. Bet Round 1 (option to fold in each round). Players each put down 2 cards for the others to see. Bet Round 2 Players put down 2 more cards. Bet Round 3 Players put down one final card. Bet Round 4 Dealer flips a week number and fpts are determined. Would take an insane amount of knowledge about the season to be good.

okay - who wants to play?

a decade ago i designed a game that was basically poker but instead of cards, you had nfl players and the value of your hand is how they'd perform that week you wouldn't know if you won or lost the hand until after that week's nfl games the recent news makes me think it's time has come

@wesyang Sotomayor is disgusting.

"One family only found out their daughter had been transitioning at school after she attempted suicide." The Supreme Court acts to put a stop to the one of the most insane and depraved of the many abuses of the most basic civil rights that are ongoing in the country in the name of transgenderism.

My comp: Philip Rivers Polk showed up for one term, no extensions. Put up huge numbers: grabbed Texas, locked in Oregon, crushed Mexico and added 800k+ square miles. Checked every box on the manifest destiny list, got it all done, then walked to the ranch. Elite production, short window, no second contract.

@NeverSinkDev Just give it a few leagues.

Harbingers gone. You created a lot of penny memes and made a lot of filter problems. I won't miss them too much.

@cremieuxrecueil You may be able to improve your workflow by setting up adversarial agents that provide feedback/critique and do code reviews.

After probing, I now see a lot of errors that would've been obvious to a human who had, you know, read the codebook. In some cases, Claude gets weird ideas about what variables are, and just makes assumptions when a quick check would explain the variables aren't what it thinks.

@MattHarmon_BYB @maxtoscano1 We are all desperate for a deep dive on Charlie Kolar.

As I’ve said, *I* will never chart a TE but now we’ve officially brought in a TE specialist to handle it and help us quantify the film on a position so critical to offenses. So hyped to welcome @maxtoscano1 to the RP fam!

@YardsPerGretch Ravens got robbed again. Does Harbaugh get fired if he wins a playoff game?

Lol this one too? Crazy

I made the mistake of arguing this one on here, which meant a bunch of people told me I don’t know ball bc I disagreed with what was ruled. One of the truths of sports discussion is casuals want it all to be way more outcome-based than they’d care to admit.