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@RunItBackFDTV @MichelleDBeadle @boogiecousins @ChandlerParsons @TeamLou23 What?

Isiah Thomas on the MVP Race: "It's a 2-man race... in terms of who's been the most valuable to their team, that's Jaylen Brown and Wemby." 👀🏆 @MichelleDBeadle | @boogiecousins | @ChandlerParsons | @TeamLou23

@SpencerKeele @NBA__Courtside He doesn’t know ball? But you do? Please.

Skip doesn’t know ball. With that usage rate and with how efficient he is in the lane, 36% to make the defense respect your shot is a good number. He’s being guarded with much more attention that most if not all of the 95 players with a higher 3P%. Usage usage rate is there for a reason. It’s the best chance for that team to score a bucket.

Skip Bayless says Luka Doncic is by far the least efficient player in the NBA: “Because from three he’s 36% which is if you look at it that ranks 96th in the league. So, he’s taking the most three point shots and he’s 96th in making those shots. And from the free throw line he takes the most free throws and he’s 86th in making free throws, because he is a 70% free throw shooter. So, he’s by superstar standards he’s a poor three point shooter and a poor free throw shooter. But he’s leading the league and attempts and attempts.” (Via @GilsArenaShow)

@Lakersided310 @NBA__Courtside Both Kobe and Harden were criticized all along for being low-percentage shooters.

@NBA__Courtside Kobe Bryant was a career 44% FG & 32.9% 3pt James Harden is a career 43.9% FG & 36% 3pt Luka is a career 47% FG & 35% 3 pt Didn’t see anyone trashing the other two. Nothing but praise for them when they were chucking shots in their prime

@wembygotme @AndrewDBailey According to the defensive plus-minus, Kawhi is the worst defender on the list. That is definitely silly.

@AndrewDBailey THIS is silly

This might’ve been silly.

@RnaudBertrand @Grobbenbolletje When violent imperialists want to appropriate Christianity, they always look to the Old Testament.

And we're told it's the other side that's a fanatical theocracy...

@AmazonKindle There is no way to turn off series grouping in the Kindle mobile app. Why do you insist on this stupid filter?

@njsbricks @AndrewDBailey Yes, and it doesn’t matter because he’s black. It only matters if you’re Luka or Jokic.

@HouseofFlagons @AndrewDBailey Feels like lots of projection and/or identity issues going on here. SGA may win for a second year in a row and I assure you it ain’t for his defense my brother.

Is this recent push from all over the media just because Jaylen Brown is on East Coast? I'm genuinely curious, because Brown doesn't even have an ironclad 3rd Team All-NBA case. Plenty of numbers point to Derrick White being the Celtics' best player this season.

George Lucas on the state of film and TV today: "Nobody knows what to do. The stories they're telling are just old movies. Let's do a sequel. Let's do another version of this movie. And it's not just in movies, but in almost everything, there's no original thinking. It's like I saw something, let's do something like that." Is he on to something here?

COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment. No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes. Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do. And the results were exactly the same. For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue. The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive. Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people. COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time. But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession. Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for. And so many of them did it anyway. Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically. Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke. Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it. Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things. It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough. We just watched it happen again. And the lesson, as always, is the same. An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders. Think for yourself. Question everything. And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.

Never seen anything quite like this story…

@matthewstoller @420GHz Mussolini had it wrong about fascism. It’s not a merger of corporations and government, it’s an acquisition of the latter by the former.

The day after a jury convicts Meta of illegally endangering children, Trump puts Mark Zuckerberg on a panel overseeing AI regulation.

@NBA Not part of the MVP discussion.

JOKIĆ SEALS IT WITH THE JUMPER 🔥 He ends with: 23 PTS, 17 REB, 17 AST UNBELIEVABLE SHOWING BY THE JOKER.

Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician. Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive. And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless. Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.” For five hundred years, the idea was the prize. The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed. That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for. Gone. A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses. A thousand of them. Before dinner. The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room. Now it is the cheapest. But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow. Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.” Sit with that. We automated creation. We did not automate truth. We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon. We cannot tell you which ones are real. That is not a gap. That is a chasm. And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now. Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.” The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce. Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate. That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it. Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output. They are now absorbing machine-speed volume. And they are cracking under it. Tao compared it to the internet. The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside. AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself. Infinite generation. Zero verification. The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less. The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more. That is the inversion nobody is processing. Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content. Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct. And that is the only system that matters. Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market. They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through. The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer. The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real. And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand. That is not a research problem. That is the race beneath the race. And almost nobody has entered it.

Israel just released footage of last night's attack on South Lebanon where they demolished an entire town. After getting away with genocide, Israel is emboldened and openly bragging about their war crimes. They are stealing South Lebanon right now and no one is stopping them.

@AndrewDBailey Most people don’t even know what these math formulas mean, let alone trust them. We watch basketball and trust what our eyes tell us. A bunch of geeks with a calculator and a few acronyms is not going to convince us otherwise.

It's starting to look like this will be the first time since 2019-20 that Nikola Jokić will finish outside the top two in MVP voting. I'm not even sure that's the wrong outcome, but... * Jokić is on track to be the first player in NBA history to lead the league in both assists per game and rebounds per game in the same season. * He's on track to break his own record for single-season box plus/minus. * He trails only Jalen Duren in TS%. * He's seventh in points per game, making him the only player in the NBA who's top seven in points per game, rebounds per game and assists per game. * He's tied for ninth in steals per game. * He's 7th in the league in total raw plus-minus and leads all MVP candidates in net rating swing at +16.8. * He's 1st in Basketball Reference's BPM, 2nd in Dunks and Threes' EPM (behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander), 2nd in BBall Index's LEBRON (behind Victor Wembanyama), 3rd in ESPN's net points per 100 possessions (behind SGA and Kawhi Leonard), 1st in PER and 2nd in WS/48.

It's disgusting that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United States right now. The problem with these "No Kings" protests is right there in the title. They're saying "We don't want a king, we want a president!" But Donald Trump is not a king. He is a president. And that's the real problem: US presidents are extremely evil men who do extremely evil things. Donald Trump is a US president who is doing US president things. US presidents consistently murder people with unforgivable acts of mass military violence, mistreat immigrants and marginalized communities, and promote tyranny for the benefit of corrupting special interests in defense of the US empire and the capitalist status quo. That's what their job is. If they weren't willing to do these things, they wouldn't get the job. Trump is not some freakish aberration; he is the product of the same American political status quo as his predecessors. He became president the same way they did, and the powers he now wields were given to his office via mundane executive, legislative and judicial decisions and precedents before he was ever elected. But because the "No Kings" protests are organized by liberal defenders of that same political status quo, the demonstrations cannot address any of this. The whole thing is designed to be as large and inclusive as possible while also ensuring that it doesn't disrupt the established order in any meaningful way. They make no real demands. They coordinate the demonstrations with police and government officials. Protesters show up for a few hours with their brunch signs and their orange guy shirts, and then they go home without inconveniencing anybody. They are not protesting against the US empire. They just want a more polite, photogenic empire. They are not protesting the corrupt oligarchic political system which gave rise to Donald Trump. They just want the corrupt oligarchic political system to give rise to presidents who make them feel less uncomfortable. The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible. As long as Americans are protesting against fictional monarchies and easily replaceable oligarchic puppets instead of resisting the actual imperial machine, the abuses are going to continue. The war in Iran is the most obviously evil American war in generations. People should be flooding the streets in every major US city. Washington DC should be on fire. Soldiers should be deserting en masse. Instead we're seeing these stupid fluffy lib theater conventions where people get together to do nothing. Americans of conscience should be feeling deeply embarrassed right now.

They’re not even subtle.

It’s the same with buildings. Look at the quality of the old public infrastructure: post offices, train halls, libraries. They don’t build them like they used to, if they build them at all. In my opinion, over time capitalism will degrade the quality of everything in search of higher profits. Socialism is the system that may use the market exchange but puts a check on profiteering.

When I worked at Macy's back in the 80's, people who worked there raised families on what they made. It was their career. I remember the guy in electronics retired after 30 years, and my boss in the cash office did the same. The guys who worked in the suit department did very well for themselves. Despite that, the store profited greatly every year, and we were given a beautiful Christmas party in appreciation. What changed in this country? When did it become nearly impossible to support oneself at a job that didn't require a degree or technical school?

@DawnsMission Natural light is good for you? Stunning insight.

I removed all the LED lights in my home. I never felt good around them and now I know why. “The LED lights that are commonly used now… that short wavelength light, in the absence of long wavelength light, has been shown to damage the mitochondria.”