Brian Maxwell

Welcome to my thread of favorite @dfavors14 Jazz highlights. Here you will find brutal throw downs on unsuspecting bigs.

Me watching AJ go:

Marco Rubio when he realizes he has to be the next Bachelorette 🌹.

@NoCeilingsNBA Could have had 7 assists if BYU could shoot.

AJ Dybantsa vs. Texas in the NCAA Men's Tournament #NBADraft • 35 PTS • 10 REBS • 1 AST • 11/25 FG • 12/12 FT

AJ doing everything right now

Ahmed is a joke.

This was the fear - Texas and S Carolina were both top 20 offenses. BYU cannot manufacture defense. Especially when their bigs won't box out, won't put bodies on paint pressure, and generally do nothing of note.

@utahjazzfan47 BYU rn:

It’d be a real shame if BYU lost in the first round and Utah State won.

@CriddleBenjamin Anyone with pride. Get. A. Body. On. Him.

Which big man in BYU Basketball history could body up and rebound over / box out Matas Vokietaitis?

When you're getting bodied like BYU's bigs, it's a matter of pride. Our guards can do more to get back after screens, but the bigs MUST get a body on him

@JeffBiesinger Yeah, he seems like a really chill person. Maybe the greatest movie star of my lifetime.

In a world where everyone wants to find dirt on anyone famous, you hear these types of stories over and over about Tom Cruise. I love when financially successful people use that success for good. Not only financially, but more importantly, how they treat others.

“The first cold ass white boy has struck March Madness”

@_utilitysports It was only... um...

3inthekey never gets called

@LakerCj Have Adam Silver fine them.

The Lakers are going to rest everyone and I just bet on them lol

Today's the day

We must quantify the risk and harm of taking this away from people

When I say this medicine stopped my brain from having thoughts, I really mean that I could barely think for months. It's why I stopped tweeting - I actually couldn't think. And that wasn't anywhere near the worst of the side effects. ChatGPT enabled me to find out what the medicine was doing, and create these graphs to help me figure out how to come off this medication safely. I struggled to research on my own with the state my mind was in, and I could not have estimated these possible receptor occupancy curves even if my mind was working better. ChatGPT was a godsend when doctors failed me. Read my piece below

Peter Graves was born 100 years ago today. He almost said no to Airplane! (1980), calling the script “disgusting crap.” His wife and daughter insisted it was hilarious, and they were right. The role won him a whole new wave of fans beyond Mission: Impossible.

@TechLayoffLover Hey @grok can you confirm?

Tech recruiting data just dropped and it's an absolute bloodbath University of Washington CS program graduated 487 students in December 2025 63 have full-time offers. That's a 13% placement rate. Last year's class of 456? 312 had offers by graduation. 68% placement rate. The remaining 424 graduates are working at coffee shops, driving rideshare, or taking unpaid "AI training internships" that are just data labeling One kid I know personally: 3.9 GPA, published research, internship at a major cloud provider. Applied to 1,247 positions since September. Got 4 phone screens. Zero final rounds. Every rejection mentions "current market conditions" and "AI-driven efficiency initiatives" His former internship manager? Just got managed out. Entire team of 9 replaced by 2 contractors in Eastern Europe using Claude Sonnet The career center is still hosting "Breaking Into Big Tech" workshops while companies automate away entire engineering ladders Most brutal part: these kids spent 4 years learning data structures and algorithms while the industry decided it needed prompt engineers instead Half the class is now enrolled in 6-month bootcamps to "learn AI tools" - paying another $15k to learn the systems that eliminated their jobs The university won't update their marketing materials. Still advertising "94% job placement rates" from 2023 data CS enrollment applications are down 31% year-over-year but the damage is already done These 424 graduates represent $67M in student debt walking into an industry that stopped hiring humans But sure, keep telling kids that "software engineering is recession-proof"

A birthday present for me? Alright! I think it's fair to say since Governor Cox took a social media break, I've been more negative on X. I can do better.

Today Penguin Press announced my new book, Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt. I’ve been working on this project for a few years. It’s about something I think a lot of us feel. We’re losing the ability to disagree without seeing each other as enemies. There has to be a better way, and this book is my attempt to find it. It isn’t easy. And I don’t always get it right. But I think it’s worth trying. I know my mom will read it (and I hope you will too). More here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827061/o…