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@DI313_ 🙏

🇺🇸🇮🇷 🔥 Tensions are reaching a breaking point. Multiple reports and heavy U.S. military air movements suggest a major response may be only hours away following the deadly attack on American forces in Jordan.

If anything, cyclospora has taught us you can’t always believe your friends who tell you they don’t eat at Taco Bell

@sophaller Easy! Buy the land from the farmers instead of the data centers

so how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers?

@23XIRacing @CocaColaRacing @BubbaWallace Huge sponsor 🙌🙌🙌

All in the details 🔎. A closer look at the No. 23 @CocaColaRacing scheme before it hits the track at North Wilkesboro.

@thestarcreator @YoBenCohen

@gm_lkn @YoBenCohen He’s a professional

It’s time to make your own ice cream bars at home! Let me show you how to make a Ben & Jerry’s bar at home! They’re delicious and will satisfy your cravings for an ice cream bar, all while you boycott Magnum. #freebenandjerrys

Been ready

@bossert_l @YoBenCohen

@gm_lkn @YoBenCohen Perspective! That’s 1/2 inch away from any digits.

@darrenrovell @Sothebys *Sothebys just helped someone embezzle $50.1 Million

BREAKING: The all-time record has been hit for a dinosaur sold at auction. @Sothebys just sold "Gus," the T-Rex for $50.1 MILLION.

@HornetsLead Say it a few more times … after a while i regained my appetite

Here’s the truth: 1. The organization didn’t believe in LaMelo Ball. They didn’t believe that he could be the face of a championship-caliber franchise. They didn’t believe he embodied enough of “Hornets DNA (selfless, resilient, hard-working, high IQ).” They didn’t believe he was a max player. They didn’t believe in his health. They didn’t believe in his ability to play through physicality or that he could lead this franchise through the playoffs. 2. The plan was always to trade LaMelo Ball. The organization (Peterson, Schnall, Plotkin) had a plan and perfected it. They did not allow one season of exceeding expectations to change that plan. Due to health, coming into the season LaMelo had negative trade value. This season was all about keeping LaMelo healthy and flipping his trade value. The org did everything in its power to monitor minutes, b2b, and even experimented with Ball off of the bench. Winning wasn’t the priority, as we saw early on. It was keeping LaMelo healthy for the eventual flip. 3. Peterson traded for LaMelo’s replacement when everyone else thought it was to bolster depth. Coby White wasn’t just an upgrade over Collin Sexton, but the eventual LaMelo Ball replacement. As soon as LaMelo’s trade value was a net positive, he would be flipped and the next starting point guard for the Charlotte Hornets was already in the building. Peterson was thinking steps ahead. Max player. Never made the playoffs. Smacked in three separate play-ins. Healthy once out of the last four seasons. Trade value at a high. Replacement in the building at half the price. Flexibility moving forward. Not falling for fool’s gold this past season. Jeff Peterson made the move. The Charlotte Hornets are moving on without LaMelo Ball.

@WallStreetApes As an attorney, I agree The only way to truly know if someone understands As just a person in 2026, so glad I’m out if school

University of Chicago is attempting to stop students from relying on artificial intelligence “As part of a broader strategy to curb AI usage, the University of Chicago Law School is banning first-year students from using phones and laptops in the classroom. The school says it's to, quote, ensure students actually learn to think critically, strategically, and independently without relying on AI, end quote” More on this policy: Classroom ban is a pilot for 2026–2027. No phones, laptops or tablets in core 1L courses The goal is to force students to think critically and independently during class time, when AI reliance is most tempting and damaging to early skill-building All Exams will be In-class, closed-book, no internet, electronic access or apps allowed. This directly prevents AI use during testing

This single thread is a perfect example of how the 1st Amendment separates America from most of the world

@teoriadacons I’m not yet convinced aliens also require labels on everything

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@wxbrad This is what it looked like sneaking up on you tonight too

So where did this rare tornado come from tonight in an atmosphere not set up for tornadoes? In short, even in an atmosphere broadly conducive to severe weather, the outflow boundary served as a "mesoscale accident." It provided the exact localized enhancement of low-level shear and convergence needed to spin up a rare, targeted summer tornado along a squall line. The Bow Echo: The primary storm system is an east-moving bow echo, driven by a strong rear-flank downdraft. This drives a surge of momentum, creating strong straight-line winds and generating localized spin (mesovortices) along its leading edge, particularly at the "bookends" of the bow. The Outflow Boundary: A pre-existing, rain-cooled outflow boundary is moving northward, perpendicular to the bow echo’s path. Outflow boundaries act as miniature cold fronts, shifting the local wind direction and creating a sharp density gradient. The Intersection (Triple Point): Where the forward-surging bow echo meets the northward-surging outflow boundary (near Belwood on the radar image), a localized "triple point" forms. This intersection maximizes low-level convergence, forcing air to rise rapidly. Boom! A quick, legit tornado formed in a setup not normally ideal for a tornado. #cltwx #ncwx #scwx #wcnc

“Daddy, may I have another?”

@Polymarket “Babe, quick ….”

NEW: Babies born in the U.S. from July 2 through Dec. 31 will be eligible for a commemorative Freedom 250 Social Security card.

@davidsven @ArccosGolf @18BirdiesApp Node on brother!

"Hey Meta, what's my distance to the green?" We've teamed up with @ArccosGolf and @18BirdiesApp to make Meta Glasses the perfect golf caddie. It's been fun to have seamless video recording & slo-mo, but now you can now also ask Meta AI to get real-time yardages, club recs, and score logging all while leaving your phone in the bag.

@bcherny 1. CEO 2. COO 3. CMO 4. CSO 5. Manager/Director

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes: 1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship 2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra 3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance 4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit 5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS. A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product: - A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3 - A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5 - A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2 Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

@SteveMiran RIP Spirits Industry

Finally, I am able to say something about tariffs I wasn't able to say last year. I'll tell you why at the end of the thread.