Michael A. Young

Kenny’s not wrong about our defense backsliding, but Donovan and James aren’t getting benched, so it’s hard to take that as more than a desperate plea to lock in. We knew the tradeoffs with Harden. Shuffling the role players is putting lipstick on a pig to an extent.

BIG shoutout to all the Black ICE agents‼️💪🏽 Handling business as they should 🖤🫶🏽

Jay-Z 100% tried to sell “Black capitalism” & his own personal wealth accumulation as some sort of collective good for Black America. And for that reason, it was wrong of any Black person to critique him, his wealth or his nonstop evangelism around how he made it from a Black ghetto to a white boardroom. His brand narrative is the exact Nixonian, right wing propaganda he claims to be against. The white owner class loves him because he preaches that same “pull yourself up by the bootstraps & you can make it too” garbage that is used to ignore & deny the existence of institutional racism. His definition of “playing the game” & “winning” was always explicitly about imitating the white owner class— laundering sex & drug trafficking money into other businesses & assets. This is why you can’t separate the idolization of Jay-Z (& Beyoncé, frankly) from the idolization of whiteness & wealth. This is what the brand always was. It’s simply become more cringe with passing time & the GQ piece landing at this point in 2026 reads exactly like a cultural icon who lost touch with the culture.

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

🚨 WALMART’S AI PRICE SYSTEM JUST ACTIVATED — DIGITAL PRICES CAN CHANGE IN SECONDS WHILE YOU SHOP AND A CUSTOMER CAUGHT IT ON CAMERA America’s biggest retailers are quietly replacing paper tags with digital screens. Prices are no longer fixed. They can change in seconds. • Grab it at one price • Walk to checkout • It’s already higher This unlocks dynamic pricing inside stores. • Demand spikes → price jumps • Inventory drops → price adjusts • Algorithms decide what you pay in real time Not tomorrow. Not next week. Right now. When prices can change in seconds… are you even buying anything anymore, or just paying whatever the system decides you owe?

LOLOLOL What a fucking joke

I’m not asking for 20 points from these dudes, but Strus and Wade have GOT to knock down wide open shots for this team to be more successful

Seeing Black ICE agents doesn't sit right with my spirit.