Gregory Minchak

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Because they are journalists, in DC they will get access inside places like the Capitol building thay they never get in Hollywwod.

@DKThomp The worst place for an NBA team is perennial playoff contender. Always in the 7 or 8 seed and out in the first round. Tell the fans we made the playoffs and they should be excited! While you sign 32 year olds on their last stop with rookie comtracts leaving town.

I think one way to get at the NBA's problem is to start w the question: What would it look like for a professional sport's regular season to be the equivalent of a pre-season exhibition period—that is, something that genuinely, truly does not matter at all? 1. For starters, seeding wouldn't matter ... bc home court advantage would barely exist, in which case the best teams could win the championship as an 8th seed just as easily as they could win as the 1st seed. 2. The playoff series would be long enough that (a) the best teams had ample opportunity to prove their superiority [unlike in March Madness, or the NFL playoffs, where 20 bad minutes can end the best team's season] and (b) you're giving casual fans a LOT of basketball to watch so they don't feel bad about skipping most of the regular season. 3. Also, you'd let the vast majority of the teams make the playoffs -- maybe by adding a "play-in" that extends potential playoff qualification to, like, 2/3rds of the league. 4. You'd have several teams that recognize (and practically celebrate!) the futility of the regular season by spending much of this period *actively and flagrantly trying to lose* bc the draft is so much more valuable than the outcome of any particular week, or month, of regular-season competition. In fact, you'd have fans actively rooting for about 1/3rd of the league to throw away most of the regular season bc they only really care about getting a high draft pick. 5. Finally, you'd have a sport where it was basically impossible to win a championship without a top 10 (or, really, top 5!?) player, in which case many franchises are rationally fixated on throwing away regular seasons to maximize their chance to draft or trade for a top 10 guy. ... okay, I think you get my point :) I love listening to basketball podcasts in the autumn and winter, and I love watching playoff basketball in the spring. But I think there are very deep structural reasons why the NBA regular season, for many casual fans, feels like a prolonged preview of an actual sport that begins in April.

@RSPolitics Thats... thats not any better

Trump is claiming he thought the post he shared of himself in robes radiating light as he healed someone was simply depicting "me as a doctor" and that it "had to do with the Red Cross." rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

I guess the Trump = Jesus memes stop being funny once the Unstable One starts threatening the Pope.

This will end well. Some genius in Trumpland decided, “Hey, the best thing we can do now is to go to war with the Holy Father.”

Its like the rantings you hear from a drunk at the corner bar... "I DONT LIKE THE POPE!!!" [swigs drink]

The real influencers aren't at Coachella, they're in little Augusta Georgia. cnbc.com/2026/04/10/mas…

The Vice-President just held a press conference to say negotiations to end the war failed, and instead of being in the Situation Eoom, our chucklehead POTUS is at UFC 327. No one should feel safe with this ass running things.

@stuartbuck1 Its even funnier now

Amazing: that viral couple were arguing about the Ben Sasse podcast and the future of liberal arts education. si.com/nba/pacers/vir…

Jensen Huang on The smartest person he's ever met:

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

This isn't a joke, its Trump making promises to staff to do what he wants during the midterms wsj.com/politics/polic…

Inflation has tripled from just one month ago, and it’s higher than when he took office. Not only has Trump failed to deliver on his central campaign promise to make life more affordable - he is actively, directly driving prices up.

Women should have no agency apparently.

@business They're going to take on Goodell and the owners? That may be the thing that finally does it. Those old boys don't let nobody screw with the shield.

The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the National Football League is engaging in anticompetitive tactics that drive up the cost for consumers of watching games, according to a person familiar with the matter. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

They're going to take on Goodell and the owners? That may be the thing that finally does it. Those old boys don't let nobody screw with the shield.

Actually, NATO is a force multiplier for the U.S.: it deters adversaries, shares defense costs, massively extends global reach through allies, and is the backbone of American influence as a hegemon —making U.S. security and the US dollar stronger, and more sustainable - and the only time article 5 was ever invoked was to help the United States — not to help Europe

@Osinttechnical The fact he is saying no nuclear weapons were considered means they scared the shit out of Defense and are now walking back whatever insane shit he said this afternoon.

Trump, in a midnight post, says that US forces will remain in the region until a full agreement is reached and complied with. Adds that the U.S. military is looking forward to its “next conquest.”

maybe this is not yet clear, so let me state it plainly: as of right now Anthropic, and really a small number of individuals at Anthropic, has the capacity to directly attack and cause major damage to the United States Government, China, and generally global superpowers. government agencies like the NSA do not have internal models or defense capabilities that outclass frontier models. if they chose to do so, they could likely exfiltrate top secret information from government systems, gain control over critical infrastructure including military infrastructure, sabotage or modify communications between members of government at the highest level, and potentially carry on activities for some time without detection. the thing about having access to a huge number of zerodays your adversaries don't know about is it gives you a massive asymmetric advantage. they did not exploit this to gain power or destabilize the world order. they publicly released the information that they had these capabilities and worked to mitigate these flaws. you should be grateful american frontier labs have proven themselves remarkably trustworthy and concerned with the public good. but it's critical you understand we are in a new regime. private entities now have power that directly rivals and impacts the government's monopoly on influence and violence. and anthropic is certainly not the only one, there's little chance OpenAI's internal models are far behind. this trend will accelerate on virtually every dimension, not slow down. my prediction for how it plays out is the relatively imminent seizure and nationalization of labs by the US government, sometime over the next two years. it's very tough for me to see how they accept the existence of this kind of threat. but this adds a whole new class of governance issues, as then we've handed these extremely wide-reaching capabilities from private entities to public ones.

Going after 'big sugar' is a flex.... even John Boehner learned not to go there.