Connor Williamson*

Age is not a number it’s actually a function defined as (Sum of chronic injuries)*(severity of chronic injuries)/time you have for PT to the power of (8/Hours of sleep you got last night)

@maxacarlin This is pretty good for your first and only tweet

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Ladies and gentlemen he’s still got it

Always enjoy these evolutions. On the right is ESPN's 1st ranking, dark purple is current:

J2 came up clutch! 🇺🇸 Jason Crowe Jr. delivered in crunch time to lift the USA Men to a win at the #NikeHoopSummit!

god I hate this faux populist bullshit. K-12 is also free for rich people, as are public parks, the fire dept, libraries etc. Study after study shows means testing is the quickest way to gut programs for the rich AND the poor because it erodes the public base of support.

Novel environments, no precedents or plagiarism possible. Humans 100%, AI <1%.

@9thwonder You may be only one who, after introing a tweet about Kansas guards, throws out the name Jacques Vaughn in 2026. It’s amazing

Me being the college basketball junkie that I am…. Question for the Kansas Jayhawks… Where do you guys rank Jacques Vaughn on the all time Greatest Kansas Point Guards?

Kevin Durant gives advice to AJ Dybantsa and other young hoopers: “Hoop as much as possible. Play 5 on 5. Against live bodies. That’s more beneficial than working out by yourself all the time. My first few years I might’ve worked out at 10:00 am, but then I’m playing pickup all around the city. Outdoors, I’m playing 4-5 games of pickup just working on my instincts the whole day. 4 times a week. From like 19 years old until I’m 24. I look back and that was just way more beneficial than just getting in the gym working out by myself” (Via baseline banter YT) 🔥

Dante's Inferno treats neutrality just as harshly as actual sin. People who took no side in life, the "uncommitted," land in the Vestibule of Hell. Since they fought under no flag, their punishment is to chase a meaningless, blank banner for eternity. This is the contrapasso that corresponds to their actions. For sitting out the spiritual war (choosing neither good nor evil), Dante considers them people who "were never alive." He has them chased and stung by hornets, while maggots on the ground feed on the blood. In other words, for refusing to risk shedding blood in life, the blood now spilled for their efforts is wasted in the dirt. The maggots evoke death, for these are people who never lived. Dante, who was exiled for his own political life, saw wealthy families of Florence opt out of important issues because they had too much wealth and comfort to lose. Dante doesn't even give them the courtesy of mentioning them by name — the uncommitted are all nameless. There is no neutrality in moral matters. If you stand for nothing, nothing is what you'll become.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

I asked a Minneapolis organizer why so many ordinary people in her city have been so brave She said it's because folks engaged in legal activities like recording ICE or delivering food didn't back down once ICE's escalation suddenly turned basic rights into high-risk activities

Thousands and thousands of people have poured into the streets for Minnesota general strike demanding ICE out of their state. Footage via @BTnewsroom.

My sister is a former trauma surgeon and I was introduced to this fact years ago. The murder rate went down not for a lack of shootings but because we got much better at treating gunshot wounds. That's why the real question should be "what is your attempted murder rate." The answer in the U.S. is terrible.

Rest In Peace to the great Isiah Whitlock Jr.

When New York State banned phones in public schools from bell to bell this past September, the goal was undistracted learning. But within weeks of the Great Phone Lockup, teachers began to notice an incidental (and arguably even more compelling) benefit: The teens were talking to one another as if they were in a Brat Pack movie. Sure, there’s been grumbling and some burner phones and scrolling in the bathroom. But generally, with phones off-limits, the atmosphere feels different. There’s a pleasant buzz in the lunchroom, chatter in the hallways, and an alphabet of new analog hobbies popping up just about everywhere. “We’ve had a lot more school spirit,” said one senior at a charter school in Harlem. “People are more willing to do stuff.” What stuff are they doing? At many schools, teachers have made cards, board games, and sports equipment available during free time, and the kids have deigned to use them. Aidan Amin, a ninth-grader at Hunter College High School, is in a friend group that congregates in the school foyer to stack ‘OK Play’ tiles and compete at ‘Sorry!’ and other tabletop games during lunch. “I’d say it’s made us closer. Honestly, half the people I’m playing board games with I didn’t know at all before this,” Aidan says. Read more about how the state’s device ban has shifted the atmosphere in New York public schools: nymag.visitlink.me/R2A4ds

Dr. Ed Lacerte needs our help 💚 The former Head Athletic Trainer for the Celtics and @usabasketball was diagnosed with Leukemia, and his doctors have recommended a blood stem cell transplant. Join the @nmdp_org's national bone marrow registry to help: Celtics.com/20seconds

Congestion pricing improves your ride to work — and the air you breathe: "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

If you love data, statistics, modeling, working on hard problems, and basketball –– we have a new data scientist opening at the Jazz, apply here! linkedin.com/jobs/view/4342…

Off camera: bowl of chocolate Chex