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@TheCriticalDri1 For real.. I hated this scene.

43 years ago today I was scarred as a child watching this scene from Superman III.

Funny watching someone realize they’re going the wrong way on a one way road.

@CaseyMattox_ There’s also a private property rights issue. The uniforms are the property of the teams and issued to the players. No matter how noble your intentions or message, you can’t write what you want on other peoples private property.

The First Amendment itself is concerned with state action. If begins “Congress shall make no law.” It is not violated by parents, religious colleges, social media platforms, TV networks or sports leagues. Even when these things are visible to the public. Censorship in those cases might be immoral or hypocritical. It might even violate other laws or contract. But being in public does not make you a public employer for first amendment purposes. And it is astounding that this continues to need to be said.

@snideprince @CynicalPublius @leftcoastbabe @grok Yes adding a rainbow is an alteration. I thought they had to wear the one with the rainbow but they could wear one (the unmodified one) without the rainbow without punishment. Some players wore hats without rainbows. In short, they didn’t have to wear pride gear. Important fact.

@nepomo0 @CynicalPublius @leftcoastbabe @grok Isn’t a rainbow hat an alteration of the standard uniform?

About this Pride MLB madness: Why are all these MAGA folks suddenly upset about a rainbow patch on a cap that shows soliditary with LGBTQ community? While their MAGA caps shows solidatory with a man who CHOSE to commit adultery in all 3 of his marriages?

@CynicalPublius @leftcoastbabe @grok were the Giants players (MLB) forced to wear pride hats?

@leftcoastbabe No one is being forced to wear MAGA caps.

(Long) There are several biblical angles with the MLB hat drama, but I haven’t seen many people bring any of them up. Can’t say I’m surprised as theyre much less entertaining, but they’re worth mentioning. 1. Christians are fond of saying “submit.” Particularly to wives. Well, that principle does not stop with wives. It applies to people under authority too. It certainly applies to men in the workplace. Ephesians 6:5-8 says to obey earthly masters and work sincerely, as unto the Lord. Obviously that is not a perfect one-for-one modern employment text, but the principle is clear enough. 1 Peter 2:18-20 makes a similar point, but goes even further. It talks about suffering while doing good as an opportunity to model Jesus. Not suffering while being unnecessarily defiant. Not suffering while breaking rules you agreed to in writing and calling it persecution. 2. The Bible does talk about conflict, but its preference is peace wherever peace is possible. Romans 12:18 says, “If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.” Matthew 5:9 says, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” In this case, peace was possible. Pass on the Pride hat if conscience requires it. Wear the standard issue one, and go play baseball. For millions of dollars. 3. The Bible is not YOLO. Its operating assumption is that you are going to live forever and this life is passing away. So redeem the now and bring order out of chaos. One way you do that is by honoring your word. Breaking promises is not redemptive. Matthew 5:37 says to let your yes be yes and your no be no. So, if you signed up under team and league uniform rules, honor them. 4. Lastly, That is not their hat. It is not their uniform. They are drawing on someone else’s property. It does not matter if the thing written on it is a Bible verse. It is still not their property to write on. Christians should be the most careful people in the world with things that belong to other people. They are to be stewards. In my humble opinion, the obedient path is pretty simple: Pass on the Pride hat. Wear the standard one. Be quiet and humble about it. Then see if the bosses eventually allow an opportunity to publicly explain your faith convictions. But being in violation of a written agreement, in a spirit of disobedience, on someone else’s property, while calling yourself bold and biblical, is simply immature. And honestly, it dishonors the nature of the God you purport to serve. If the fundamental evidence underlying your opposition to Pride month is the Bible, then it is probably best not to violate that same Bible while fighting on its behalf. People are angry and sick of having messaging in their faces. I get it. But be wise. Be slow to speak. It will go better for you, and it will glorify the One who deserves glory. It’s not us. We are clearly undeniably a hot mess.

@stevepicray @cro504 @Pastor_Gabe It was an option

@cro504 @Pastor_Gabe If they can opt to wear a non-gay affirming hat, then fine. But I bet that wasn't an option.

I love baseball. I'd sacrifice every other sport. Give me baseball. But I've not given any money to anything MLB related for years, and it's for stuff like this. I won't go to a game, take my kids, or even buy a hat if they're going to force participation in their gay religion.

@DavidRachford Does that include breaks? :)

washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/… TLDR: The sweet spot for weekly resistance training — the amount associated with the maximum longevity benefit per minute — was easy to detect. It came at anywhere between 90 and 119 minutes per week of lifting.

This MLB pride hat drama assumes the players were forced to wear a pride hat. No choice. But they weren’t forced. They had the option to wear a standard team hat. So, just dont wear the pride hat if you don’t want to. This is not complicated and not religious persecution.

Guysssss GPT-5.5 is also really dangeroussss seriouslyyyy

@AustinKingMT This👆. Or make AT&T a once a month thing cause the repetition is like Groundhog Day. Just awkward at this point.

Costco needs to get rid of the AT&T people. Sir, I'm here to buy 8 pounds of chicken wings, 600 paper plates, and a years supply of oil for my truck, not be harassed about changing my phone plan.

@DudespostingWs Love these guys. Scotland has that happy wasted Saturday afternoon SEC football fan energy. They really should stay for the fall and go to some games.

The Scots took over Boston bars and sang "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

@LoganDobson Funny. Yes. If only the government could spend $8T instead of $7T. Once. Then everything would be ok. 🙄 People don’t realize Obama spent about $3.85T in his last year. Spending has almost doubled from big spending Obama. So, life must be dramatically better for everyone. Right?

Then surely the $7 trillion the government spent last year solved all the problems

Wild to think that Elon potentially isn’t a trillionaire right now if old Twitter didn’t ban the Babylon Bee for a trans joke in 2022. Sequence: BB ban likely the final straw for EM. EM put Twitter under contract a month later. (Probably a month of contract negotiations.) Twitter —> X X inspired XAI XAI —> datacenter expertise XAI datacenter expertise —> Huge value proposition for SpaceX putting data centers in space resulting in EM crossing 1T. He would have become a trillionaire eventually either way but the unpredictability of life cannot be overstated. The world might be a different place right now if BB never sends that tweet and gets banned for it. On the flip side, if Falcon 1’s fourth test flight in 2008 fails like the first 3 did, Elon likely goes broke. But it didn’t.

“This is just me speaking from experience, and I don’t expect you to believe me. But, if you want to hate the US, listen to the media. If you want to love the US, just drive across it.” Yeah.. I’m not familiar with the whole racist, fascist, hateful America either.

Inject this into my veins 😤🇺🇸

@TigahPaul Same. It’s a nice change of pace from America being called evil and hated 24/7.

Love the Europeans discovering America 🇺🇸

@Jason @Apple Yeah but how? We will probably need a RAM Act (à la the Chips Act) to get us producing enough RAM and VRAM to accomplish this endgame. 128 GB of RAM isn’t gonna cut it. Need several TBs on each work station.

Given token economics, we really need @apple’s new ceo to go all in on workstations that can run local, open source models Ideally, with a router that can flip between local models and frontier models when the former gets stuck. And America needs an open source champion — we really should not be comfortable with the Chinese owning the open source LLM market to the extent they do

@chrisalbon Screen capture it and ask Codex. It’s essentially a looping red team of codex output based on specific criteria (key). I just asked Codex to build a skill to accomplish this for me because it said it would get me out of quality control. The new skill defines the criteria for me.

What does this loop like in practice? Like Claude -p in a for loop? /goal?

@JustineBateman The Carlo’s of the world need to be given a stiff drink 🍹 and microphone.🎤 They are treasures. Color in a greyscale world.

I have a great quote for you from physicist Carlo Rovelli. He was asked “What are you convinced of, but cannot prove?” “I am convinced, but cannot prove that time does not exist. I am convinced that time and space are… convenient macroscopic approximations, flimsy but illusory and insufficient screens that our minds use to organize our reality. I am convinced that time is an artifact of the approximation in which we disregard the large majority of the degrees of freedom of reality.”