William Ponderosa

It’s fucked up that pepper is dried fruit

@AdmiralBear01 @InfiniteGuesses Keep Davis name out yo mouth

@InfiniteGuesses Davis and Irvine on the list, too. Hilarious.

Two things. 1) There is no "Cal Berkeley." The institution has several correct names. UC Berkeley. University of California. Cal. If you call it "Cal Berkeley" then we know you don't know much about it. 2) If Cal's campus seems "dangerous" to you, then you're a massive coward.

@TopTierStateX I was murdered at UC Davis

Top 20 Most Dangerous College Campuses

@aakashgupta AIslop

Brad Pitt spent a full year preparing for this scene. Two to three hours in the gym daily, then two more hours of sword work on top of that. He gained 30 pounds of muscle. And the reason every second of training shows on screen comes down to one decision most people don't know about. Sword Master Richard Ryan designed a completely different fighting style for every principal character in the film. Achilles fights like a predator. Short explosive bursts, closing distance in a blink, always attacking. Hector fights like a soldier. Measured footwork, shield discipline, conserving energy because he's used to surviving long battles, not ending them in seconds. The choreography tells you who wins before a single blow lands. There's a specific moment where Achilles uses the same leaping overhead strike that killed Boagrius in the opening scene. Hector gets his shield up just barely in time. That beat communicates everything: Hector is the best conventional fighter alive, and it still isn't enough. The gap between elite and supernatural, shown in half a second of choreography. No stunt doubles. Both actors performed the entire duel themselves. Simon Crane, the stunt coordinator from Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan, built the sequence so meticulously that editor Peter Honess barely had to cut. You can track every spear, blade, and shield in every frame. In 2004, when most action movies were already drowning fight scenes in shaky cam and fast edits, Troy went the opposite direction and let you watch. Pitt tore his actual Achilles tendon during production. The guy playing Achilles got taken out by his Achilles. Sometimes the universe writes better material than the screenwriter. Twenty-one years later and nothing in the sword-and-sandal genre has topped it. The budget was $175 million. The training was a year. The fight is four minutes. Every dollar and every hour landed on screen.

@RjDaGoatedOne @JacksonLloyd Try and keep up

@dualboundary @JacksonLloyd Where was this said?

I see some of those Shai Gilgeous-Alexander clips floating around -> (The braced fall ones) There’s a reason guys like Gilgeous-Alexander and James Harden never roll their ankles Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis do it too, it’s just a way to manage the force going down on your lower body We aren’t designed to jump & land at that size / age / force

@LeftyKd24 @JacksonLloyd Its true

@dualboundary @JacksonLloyd Media literacy is dead

@HollyBell8 Dooky Chase

Went to our anniversary dinner at a nice restaurant tonight where we were recorded by our server, apparently through his glasses, without our permission for his Instagram channel. As we paid, he showed us his Instagram channel and showed us the video he took and asked if he could post it. We asked him to delete it and if his manager knew he was recording diners. He just said no one else has ever complained. I asked to talk to the manager. Manager seemed to know and asked “if the light was on.” I assume this meant on the glasses indicating he was recording. We noticed no light. He said he would make him remove the glasses, which was how we became aware he was recording with the glasses. Needless to say, I am now a dog with a bone and this is not over.

@Romy_Holland Naoshima Island -- beautiful place to visit, full of art both public and within museums. Onsen at the port town of Uno, then take the ferry and specifically see the James Turrell exhibit Backside of the Moon. it's one of the most breathtaking artistic experiences I've ever had

Your hippocampus doesn't encode days that feel identical. If this Tuesday looks like last Tuesday, your brain files them as a single compressed memory. The second day never gets its own folder. This is why decades feel like they disappeared. The hippocampus uses novelty as its filter for "worth storing." Repetitive routines trigger temporal compression. Same commute, same desk, same dinner, same bedtime: the brain deduplicates the whole sequence into one entry. You lived 365 days. You filed 40. Research from Jeffrey Zacks at Washington University has tracked this with fMRI. As people move through continuous experience, the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex fire in discrete bursts at moments the brain flags as "something changed." Each burst becomes a retrievable memory later. In stretches with no boundaries, the bursts flatten. Participants with more boundaries in a given period remembered more of it afterward. Segmentation literally builds memory. Sleep is the second mechanism. During slow-wave sleep, the hippocampus replays the day's episodes and transfers them to the neocortex for long-term storage. This is when memory actually gets filed. Cut sleep short and encoding efficiency drops. Chronic sleep debt means experiences you had never complete the transfer. The memory existed. It just never made it to disk. The third mechanism is where dopamine meets attention. Novel stimuli trigger the ventral tegmental area to release dopamine into the hippocampus, which gates what gets encoded. Mind-wandering does the opposite. When your default mode network takes over (phone scrolling, rumination, email during dinner), the hippocampus stops tagging the present. You were at the wedding. Your hippocampus was in your inbox. Three independent systems working against you. Novelty collapse compressing repetitive days into single entries. Sleep debt blocking consolidation. Default mode network swallowing attention before encoding completes. The fix comes straight out of the mechanism. New locations, new food, new people, new routes home. The brain needs boundaries to build memories. Go to bed earlier so replay actually runs. Put the phone down when something is happening so the dopamine signal can fire. The more forgettable the day, the shorter the decade.

@hissgoescobra 100%. The law is clear dogs are not allowed to play basketball

This is actionable securities fraud. Criminally and civilly. Guess what else? Trump can’t pardon away state crimes, and states have their own body of securities fraud laws. And they aren’t preempted, except certain civil class actions for damages. We need to hammer these people.

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."

@HeerJeet Bout two weeks away I heard

While I generally oppose nuclear proliferation, I do think Vatican City should get nukes pronto.

@callofthefoid @oldfriend99 Allbirds joke

this meeting could’ve been a picture of your feet

@PlayoffKings @KyleDraperTV Thank god

🚨 Kings Lose Their Voice 🚨 Kyle Draper announces his contract won’t be renewed after 6 seasons as Kings play-by-play voice. Vivek has robbed us of @KyleDraperTV one liners 💔😭

@KendrickPerkins @KyleDraperTV Lmfao calm down

The Kings can’t get anything right!!! @KyleDraperTV is one the best in the business!!!

@ItsAndyRyan The fact that Dahl was 6'6 haunted his every paragraph.

@Milobeast2 @o_a_khan Go be depressed somewhere else lol

@o_a_khan The most lipsticky on a pig statement in the history of statements

Definitely not disappointed. Season was much much better than I thought it'd be. I expected the most uninspiring 35 win team in NBA history. Instead we got a Top 6 lotto finish, Raynaud/Nique/Cardwell showing they belong, picked up Achiuwa/Plowden for nothing. There's a path now

@mnolangray Lmfao this is a skill issue homie

Part of the mental reset of living in Sacramento has been realizing that it's the first city I've ever lived in where all the best restaurants are farm-to-table New American.

@shagbark_hick Eureka is calling

California is one case where being from Upstate NY really shines. If I moved there today, the taxes and laws would feel "normal" to me, except I'd be chilling in the sun instead of getting 10+ feet of snow. People are way friendlier, food is great. It's just a matter of getting up enough cash together to buy a place, but honestly, it's not that bad depending on where you go. If I sold both my houses here in NY I could probably afford Twentynine Palms, Barstow, Imperial Valley, Bakersfield. Could maybe afford a condo in San Bernadino or even closer to LA. It'd be a nice life compared to what's on offer in Upstate NY, and there'd be no real "adjustment" to the suite of nutty laws in taxes that come with life in California. As a NYer, I'm already dealing with worse in many ways.

@o_a_khan @KeithSmithNBA Time for a walk

So the pick order this season per @KeithSmithNBA's Spotrac salaries: 1. BKN 2. MEM 3. UTA 4. MIL 5. CHA* 6. CHI 7. IND 8. POR 9. MIA* 10. DAL 11. LAC* 12. NOP 13. SAC 14. GSW *pending play-in result Could also have changed depending on if the teams made moves at the deadline

Here's my latest harebrained idea to fix tanking: Picks should be based on team salary rankings. Team with the lowest salary gets 1st, then 2nd, etc. All teams below the salary minimum get bumped up to the minimum, and a coin flip breaks ties. Picks are fixed the trade deadline