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@Noahpinion It’s sad that Silicon Valley seemed to spend a decade on blockchain and crypto which was totally useless outside of crime facilitation
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matt hoeft
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@TommyBeer I was at this game as an 11 yr old. Chris Webber sat right in front of me (it was right before his draft). My late dad picked me up so I could see over C-Webb after the dunk. Core memory shit.
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wow...
Knicks can clinch a trip to the Finals for the first time this century on the 33rd anniversary of "The Dunk"
big day for all the washed-up folks that had this poster on thier bedroom wall as kids
Jesse A.@JesseAbraham
may 25, 1993. game 2 of the ECF. under a min left in the 4th quarter, holding onto a three-pt lead, john starks drove baseline and cemented himself as a knicks legend. 33 years later (another significant NYK number), we find ourselves eyeing a return to the finals. @TommyBeer
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matt hoeft retweetledi
I don’t understand this mindset. I’m third generation Bay Area.
Every day, I wake up and think the Bay Area is so great.
How can we build more houses here? How can families have more kids? How can more people move here from all over America and the world to build more cool, world-changing shit?
Dawn Roche@dawn_roche9
@kimmaicutler @moultano They are Indians here on visas. They aren't Indian-americans and they all gotta go!
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matt hoeft retweetledi
@mattyglesias There were buyers/buying groups ready to take the A’s off John Fisher’s hands but the MLB and Giants simply wanted the A’s somewhere else
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This is of course light years away from highly cost effective charity, but I think it says something not great about the tech elite’s conception of their civic role that the Oakland As and Raiders were not retained in the Bay Area.
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matt hoeft retweetledi
Tech elite are not really invested in Oakland. They're all in SF and on the peninsula. Joe Lacob is that guy for the Warriors (and now Valkyries).
Oakland has white collar workers for tech companies and a few CEOs but it's just not like that.
It's amusing that the GenZ frontier lab/startup talent are complaining about housing but the most important thing that could happen for immediately relieving housing pressure in SF is getting signatures for the November ballot initiative to not let BART fail.
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matt hoeft retweetledi
this is another point in favor of electing reliable Tracy Flick types to office instead of interesting weirdos
Kyle Clark@KyleClark
NEW: Tina Peters speaks out in defense of Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), says the Democratic censure of Polis for granting her clemency is further evidence of an election rigging coverup.
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@johnarnold Term limits in CA at the state level only makes “pressure from party leadership, donors, activists and influencers” worse for outcomes
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My evolution on term limits...
Knew little about politics: I supported them.
Read the skeptical academic research: became neutral.
Saw the crushing pressure electeds face from party leadership, donors, activists and influencers in modern political era: now the biggest advocate.
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matt hoeft retweetledi
It's actually a very bad sign that this entire thing is now being framed as a controversy about whether money should go to J6ers who assaulted police. The entire fund is bad and corrupt! Carving out violent J6ers does not make the $1.8 billion slush fund okay!
Acyn@Acyn
CNN: Would you be okay with people who were convicted of hurting police, getting taxpayer money? Blanche: Just to be clear, people that hurt police get money all the time.
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@JonahDispatch Would anyone really care if almonds disappeared from our food chain? There are worse things even if you like almonds
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I am in favor of bringing market forces to bear on California agricultural policy. I do think a lot of people will be surprised what will happen to food prices in America when that happens.
Colin McCarthy@US_Stormwatch
Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology. That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.
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@MavishTelap @maxdubler Street parking in the vicinity of BART stations usually is like this. BART parking should be for anyone (at the proper price)
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This columnist whines about how her BART station is raising commuter parking prices in response to demand, then immediately pivots to venting her frustration about not being able to find a spot at current prices. She does not make a connection between these issues. Remarkable.
SFGATE@SFGate
A lot of people use my Walnut Creek BART station. We're being punished for it. sfgate.com/travel/article…
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@SFGate Well then I guess you and those people will stop using “your” station then?
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A lot of people use my Walnut Creek BART station. We're being punished for it. sfgate.com/travel/article…
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matt hoeft retweetledi
The key way to tell this was coming, which apparently was difficult, was listening to him during the 2024 campaign, not projecting what you wanted for some reason.
Erick Erickson@EWErickson
You’re not going to like it, but here’s the harsh truth: Trump would rather use taxpayer money to relitigate the 2020 election and January 6th through an “anti-weaponization” fund than focus on winning the midterms.
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You know, it’s a fine deal at the price, but the Costco rotisserie chicken isn’t actually that good.
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@MattZeitlin Conan remake was bad. Running Man remake was bad, Total Recall remake was bad. Red Sonja remake was bad. My expectations are sub zero.
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i dont want to exaggerate, but the fate of the nation — and perhaps the world — rests on this movie actually being good
Bloody Disgusting@BDisgusting
Arnold Schwarzenegger will return in KING CONAN from director Christopher McQuarrie, with filming set to begin next year. "Look at the movie by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven. It will be a lot like that but with extraordinary battles," Schwarzenegger tells website The Arnold Fans.
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matt hoeft retweetledi
It’s embarrassing to admit that for me, the most annoying part of raising kids is: if I want my kids to be curious & independent, then I need to say yes enthusiastically when they ask if they can make eggs and I know I’m about to have the most annoying 15 minutes in human history
O.W. Root@owroot
Our older kids (6, 4) get their breakfasts ready just about every morning. It takes about 4 times as long as it should, there is probably more mess than there should be, but they do a pretty decent job, it gives us one less thing to do (even if unfortunate spills might occur), and it teaches them something they need to know. I think this is what a lot of parenting amounts to.
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@jdcmedlock @Brendan_Duke Thus guy thinks mentioning DOGE is a “straw man” because Elon wasn’t “competent”
tae kim@firstadopter
Elon DOGE effort wasn't competent, stop using the straw man. Off top of my head, here's what I would do: materially cut defense budget, raise corporate tax rates back to where they were before, 0 taxes on bottom half of America, close carried interest/debt-borrow loopholes on rich, universal single payer healthcare, slash regulation (housing/permitting/building) to unleash growth (I know, I know much of abaove politically untenable)
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Interesting idea, maybe we could test it by creating a Department that focuses on Government Efficiency and give a tech billionaire broad purview to hire people to attempt this. Surely they'd cut more than .01% of the federal budget, right?
tae kim@firstadopter
Jeff Bezos: "Any corporate or Amazon CFO could find 3% (to cut) in Federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon" to fund zero taxes for bottom half/poor. "This is a skills issue" calling out administration and management incompetence in Federal government and local NYC city school system (He is also calling for higher wages for teachers while cutting outlandish admin budget)
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@cblatts If this causes a sharp decrease in tuition for Americans, then GOOD
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My hypothesis: US university education was a massively successful export industry (foreign students paying tuition + housing + living expenses is literally classified as exports) and Trump admin collapsed this demand.
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley
Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.
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