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A sketch after every Raptors game this season (73/82)

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Trump's official White House app is tracking your GPS location every 4.5 minutes. A developer just decompiled it and found the entire tracking pipeline compiled into production. What they found is worse than you think:

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Apparently, all of the vague, ominous wartime posting from the White House over the past few days was for an app launch.

There’s a million things wrong with this article on LOTR, but let’s take just one glaring error, that “the heroes are always good.” Recall that Frodo, the story’s protagonist, FAILS in the end to destroy the Ring. When the moment comes, he decides to keep it. It’s only because Gollum attacks him and bites off his finger does the ring fall, together with Gollum and Frodo’s finger, into the fires of Mount Doom. This was the hidden role that Gollum had to play in what Tolkien called the eucatastrophe—the unforeseen appearance of divine grace and intervention at a moment when all is lost. In Tolkien’s legendarium, morality is black and white—just like it is in our world. But his characters are not black and white, they’re fallen and complicated, just like real people are.

If the Pirates make the playoffs, the narrative starts with that Lowe homer.

Farmer pays $5–$8 per cow per month. A New Zealand company puts a solar-powered smart collar on cows. It tracks location 24/7, health, temperature, chewing activity, breeding. Farmer just opens a simple app and draws a line on the map. That line becomes the fence. As cows approach the boundary, the collar beeps and vibrates. With one tap, the whole herd moves to fresh grass or the milking shed. No physical fences. Less labor. Huge cost savings for farmer. Already on 700k cows across New Zealand, Australia, and the US. and now in talks to raise at a $2B valuation led by Peter Thiel.