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FIFA Internation Soccer on the Sega Genesis from 1993. This was the first FIFA game ever, which turned into the biggest sports title of all time. I remember playing it and to this day, I still play FIFA online.

The commercial for Mike Tyson's Punch out on the NES in 1987. This is wild

Jaxson Dart & Cam Skattebo at UFC

@SportsCenter Too bad no one saw it cable lol

THIS POSTER 😳 MITCH ROB ON EMBIID'S HEAD 😱 📸: Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

This unemployed ice cream truck driver memorized a game show’s secret pattern and won $110,000 in one day Michael Larson from Ohio recorded episodes of the CBS show Press Your Luck on his VCR and played them back frame by frame for weeks The board everyone thought was random was actually just 5 repeating patterns Two specific squares never landed on a Whammy and always hit the highest dollar values He spent his last savings on a bus ticket to Los Angeles, auditioned, and got on the show He then went 45 consecutive spins without hitting a single Whammy CBS executives watched from the control room in horror as his winnings kept climbing past anything they’d ever seen They accused him of cheating and reviewed the footage for weeks He hadn’t broken a single rule They mailed him a check The episode was so embarrassing CBS banned it from airing It didn’t air for 19 years An ice cream man from Ohio figured out what CBS couldn’t

Jay-Z talks about writing “Still Dre”. Loves creative challenges (“taking one of your arms and tying it behind your back”). For Dre, challenge was to put himself in Dre’s shoes. Making the “2001” album 7 years after “The Chronic”. Backstory of how Jay did the song is legendary. There was one great piano beat that Dre couldn’t write the lyrics for. He sent the beat to Jay-Z. In less than an hour, Jay-Z wrote the song and rapped over the beat — pretending to be both Dre and Snoop (in their respective voices) — and sent it back. Basically exact same “Still D.R.E.” they would record (time between Dre’s first two albums was 7 years; 1992 to 1999, had to remind ‘em)! Dre heard it and said “That’s it. That’s it right there. This is a single.” Snoop said many years later “He wrote Dre’s shit and my shit. And it was flawless. Jay-Z is a great writer to begin with for himself, so imagine him striking it for someone he truly loves and appreciates. He loves Dr. Dre and that’s what his pen showed you.” *** First interview from NYT’s recent songwriter series: youtu.be/PfMfwwHr8kM?si… The Shop chat here: tv.apple.com/ca/episode/epi…

🎉Kurt Loder turns 81 today

Remembering the legendary John Sterling and some of his most famous calls ❤️🎙️

Brothers Jose and Irad Ortiz share a moment after they finish 1-2 in the Kentucky Derby.❤️

Here's how the #StanleyCup Playoffs bracket is looking heading into the Second Round! 👀 Second Round action continues TOMORROW on @espn, @NHL_On_TNT, @Sportsnet, & @TVASports!

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Golden Tempo was literally dead last in the final turn and then outkicked everyone to win the Kentucky Derby. What an insane finish.

“Ok guys. Show us what you got.” SLAP SHOT (1977) #PaulNewman

Today we’re introducing a new Legal Agent in @Microsoft Word, built to support the precision and rigor legal work demands. Every clause matters. Every redline tells a story. That’s why this agent was built to follow the structured workflows lawyers use while keeping them fully in control. Early in my career, I asked for a computer on my desk because I believed technology could change how lawyers work. It did. Today, I believe this next generation of tools will do the same, grounded in trust and responsible use.

🎶Bone Thugs-n-Harmony released 'Tha Crossroads' 30 years ago, April 30, 1996

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus gave commencement speech at Penn Engineering School in 2024. He does version of Steve Jobs “paint both sides of the fence even if other people don’t know” attention-to-detail story…about screws for the Cinema Dislay monitor: “Here’s my first [advice]: the care that you put into your work really matters. My first project at Apple was the Cinema Display. It was a large desktop monitor. It had a beautiful clear plastic enclosure that was held together with some screws coming in from the back. These screws were made of stainless steel, and the head of every screw was machined to have a pattern of concentric grooves that shimmered like a CD when light moved across it. I should probably say, if some of you have never seen a CD before, you can ask your parents afterward. At some point in my first year, I found myself at a supplier facility. I was far away from home, it was well past midnight. I was using a magnifying glass to count the number of grooves on the head of this screw, which, remember, lives on the back of the display. And I was arguing with the supplier because these parts had 35 grooves, they were supposed to have 25. I distinctly remember stepping back for a minute and thinking to myself, “What the hell am I doing? Is this normal?” And I thought about it, and I realized it might not be normal, but it’s right. It’s right because I’d already spent months working on that product, and if you’re going to spend that much time on something, you should put in your very best effort. Maybe a customer notices, maybe they don’t, but either way, whenever I saw one of those displays on someone’s desk, it mattered to me to know that my teammates and I had considered everything about it and done the very best job we could.” *** H/T to @kevg1412 for flagging this: aletteraday.substack.com/p/letter-327-j…

Burlington ranks 5th snowiest city in Eastern US after recent measurable snow wcax.com/2026/04/21/bur…

Las primeras dos imagenes son de las salas de control del Manhattan Project. Saben por qué estaban pintadas de esa tonalidad de verde?🧵