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A boomer senator saying that nobody should pay more than $100k to go to med school when the median cost at public university in 2025 is $286k really sums up the state of American politics right now. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Dodgers magic number is 86—Dodgers 8, Padres 6

Some media outlets treat requests to post court documents as the audience asking for a courtesy so please let me urge such people to understand: When you don't post the court docs, you look incompetent. Amateurish. It's embarrassing, it suggests you plagiarized someone else and never had the docs.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Meta’s $100b superintelligence mission force will create a CPU smarter than Einstein by 2027 THE NEW YORKER: Do apps dream? A groundbreaking futurist sails beyond the sea of reason into a truly alien consciousness REALITY:

It’s almost impressive how AI absolutely falls on its face with baseball statistics, some of the most detailed and easily accessible information in the history of the entire internet.

I love the power of AI

From the federal complaint against David Huerta. Note: DON’T TALK TO THE FUCKING COPS. THAT INCLUDES PROCLAMATIONS ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Just imagine any Democrat saying this about any Republican-controlled area.

This is a good example of the utter degradation of journalism to appease law enforcement. Read and ask yourself whether in any other context a journalist would let “who fired the shot” be so mysterious for so long.

I would pay a large sum of money out of my own pocket to watch the non-NFL flag football team vs. the NFL flag football team in a qualifier to see who represents the US

you are all sharing an incomplete and inferior version of the hot dog list which, it so happens, was originally posted ten years ago this week

Orson Welles has a new gig — despite being dead since 1985 — thanks to AI. His voice has been digitally re-created "using licensed audio from his estate." Which reminds me of something the real Welles once said: "I hate almost everything in the modern world.” variety.com/2025/digital... #FilmSky

Fuck the police

It’s happened 88 (!) times in MLB history according to @patmaher.bsky.social. W😳W! Hi, Dave.

This is too wholesome

If perpetual contention and star power doesn’t entertain you, it’s not hard to score tickets to eternal misery and pointlessness

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Radley is right. And as a lifelong Southern Baptist I cannot help but wonder: will any evangelical preachers stand in a pulpit tomorrow and bring a message that causes the congregation to consider this man and his family as neighbors to be loved as Jesus loved? Precious few. If any.