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"Go easy on the Pepsi" youtube.com/watch?v=g1oLfq…

MLB's worst home run park is now excellent for dingers With the fence being brought in, you can expect to see 40-50 additional home runs in Kansas City this year. Analysis by me on The Dugout: BallparkPal.com/TheDugout.php

With Jorginho in the headlines it’s a good time to look back at one of the best tweets of all time

What really matters to the market and the US economy is not the Strait of Hormuz.

If you’re in Buffalo, or just a SLU fan in general, the Pope has declared it okay to eat as many wings as possible on this Lenten Friday. We all need to do our part to ensure the January Billikens are on the court tomorrow.

Mizzou, who barely belongs in the tournament, somehow avoids the First Four AND gets a home game in St. Louis

I'm speechless. Henry scoring against Leeds, Arshavin scoring against Barcelona, we will all remember Max Dowman winning this game for Arsenal Football Club.

Resilience when it mattered most. (1) Saint Louis vs. (9) George Washington A-10 Quarterfinal: The Recap #RollBills

BREAKING NEWS: SLU and coach Josh Schertz have agreed on terms of a long term contract that will keep him at the school. Story to come at stuonslu.substack.com

McKinsey spent two years telling clients it was ahead of the curve on AI. It built an internal platform used by all 40,000 staff, and claimed AI now drove 40% of its revenue. It turned out the platform had basic security gaps. 22 API endpoints required no login. Impact: 46.5 million internal messages, 728,000 sensitive file names, and write access to the prompts controlling how the AI behaved. Fixed after two years on production. theregister.com/2026/03/09/mck…

Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway. Run the math on why. A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes. The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit. Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance. Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error. 67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results. Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.

If you use a personal phone/laptop for your work, pay very close attention to this little detail. Iran attackers wipe 200k devices at a company called Stryker. Within those devices appears to be employees PERSONAL devices. The attackers used the company’s MDM software, which is basically IT management software running on everything. It’s an incredibly attractive backdoor to an attacker. I successfully targeted MDM software for several Red Team engagements. It’s… lots of fun :) Anyway, a lot of companies require you to install their MDM software on your personal devices before you can access resources like Corp email. It’s used to keep devices updated, lock things down if they get stolen, etc. The company often promises that they won’t access personal data, erase any personal data, etc. But this is often ONLY POLICY. If a bad actor gains access to the MDM tool, as was the case here, then anything can happen. People should be aware of these risks. I refused to run MDM software on any of my personal devices. The company needs to provide me with hardware if they want that. I personally isolate all corp devices to their own network too. If an adversary can get into the corp laptop, then can then get inside my network… there have been cases of it happening in the past.

Gotta love the Georgetown fan on the laptop.. can’t make this shit up

Remember this dude? Austin Freeman, Georgetown 2007-2011 #Hoyas #HoyaSaxa #WeAreGeorgetown #BigEast @_SugarFree5

Imagine if Arsenal had Hakimi. He would be close to Haaland given the amount of touches in the box our RBs get.

Got the chance to write about @jordanneisler, and highlight the work he does for SLU's social media, what it takes to create those Cinematic Recaps that have been so popular on social media, and how he wound up helping the Schertzes bartend at Humphreys a10talk.com/2026/03/on-the…

@BlueBallsOfFury @WestPineBills Kitchen Sink wings at William Penn is the correct answer.

@WestPineBills Shenanigans, Big Shot Bobs, and William Penn Tavern (my personal favorite) Can’t go wrong with either of them

Need food recs for Pittsburgh. Drop them below. Bonus points if you have a good wing spot.

We're in March and Arsenal's quadruple dream is still alive! 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆

The data center buildout has allowed Loudoun County to lower property tax rates by 38% since 2010, translating to average savings of about $3,400 per year for homeowners.

@PuckPickz Lots of empty seats for sections on camera.

Man, it’s a bummer to see the atmosphere continually decline in the stadium. Don’t blame the fans too much. Not an exciting product for a long time.