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I have no investment in the comedy vs. drama debate surrounding THE BEAR. It's sometimes quite funny! It's sometimes quite sad! But I will say this: there are no jokes on television as grimly unfunny and insistently foisted upon viewers as the jokes written for the character called Uncle Computer.

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Something I learned today is that TLC — the cable channel — began its life as a regional distance-education and then community service channel called the Appalachian Community Service Network. In the 1970s, its programming counted for course credit at 12 regional universities.

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For all its acclaim, something I think THE BEAR has failed to adequately communicate to its broader, non-Midwestern audience is how delicious a Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich with giardiniera is.

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Guys

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I know the people at THE BEAR are tetchy about spoilers, but I feel like I just have to say that I was pretty shocked when I saw that Carmy's dad is played by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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I had my first (unavoidable) experience with an AI assistant at a small business. I tried to book an estimate appointment with an electrician; the assistant set me up for an appointment with a plumber. No human being at the company has been able to cancel this appointment.

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Denis Villen00ve

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Literally!

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I did this when I was 18 too. Though I also had the good fortune not to appear live on ESPN with it.

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Sixers take VJ Edgecombe with pick 3 Trade back in using the Clippers picks for pick 11 from the Blazers. Draft Collin Murray Boyles. Adou Theiro falls to pick 35

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Most important political design choices of the 21st century: - MAGA hat - Shepard Fairey Obama poster - Zohran font - Bernie '16 font - Mission Accomplished banner What am I missing?

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I'd be all in on a long-read about the font.

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Post an image that you can hear. (I’m kidding. Please don’t make this a prompt tweet.)

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If progressives told us an asteroid were hurtling toward Earth, Sirota would tell us to ignore the warnings the second Will Stancil retweeted AOC or whatever.

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There's a lot less misinformation on this site, a lot fewer fake accounts posting authoritative-seeming but ultimately incorrect information, and it makes me feel much less anxious and sweaty, but, unfortunately, these qualities all make it basically useless as a medium for NBA trade rumors.

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my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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ahead of tonight’s nba draft, why not revisit my letter of recommendation for the whole pomp, pageantry and hope-filled event — the event i (despite knowing better) remove my critical lens for, every single year

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On point. And yes, these Trumpian A-frame hats are now ubiquitous.

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Nobody cares about my Sixers takes, but here, in its glory, is my ideal (crazed) scenario for their draft night tonight: - Trade #3 to the Hornets for #4 and a future first; - Hornets take VJ Edgecombe; - Trade #4, Oubre, and Drummond to the Pelicans for #7, #23, and Herb Jones... 1/2

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THE BEAR s4 wishlist: - Steely Dan montage - Richie & Chef Jessica rom-com standalone - not one single flashback - Bonnie Hunt guest star - Tony Shalhoub as his character from Big Night - somebody adopts a pet - more Marcus in the lab - Ayo directs >3 episodes - car chase - vintage denim subplot

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they're all "pro-natalists" until someone suggests free childcare

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Zohran Mamdani can lower housing costs by getting everyone who jets between New York and the South of France to leave the city for good

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As a cap connoisseur, this met my high standards. It also makes me look at the new "7-panel" All-Star BP caps differently, as I now realize they are modified A-frames (a style I hadn't previously understood). Damn fascist ooze, it permeates everything!

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For the first time, I wrote a blog that isn't about basketball, but rather my relationship to basketball "Why do we do this to ourselves?" To recap the season for the Pacers, my column on moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 (no paywall): www.patreon.com/posts/moving...

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[Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel” plays]

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Before The Bear returns this is a good time for me to reiterate up front that I truly do not give a flying crap whether it is a "comedy" or a "drama." As long as we have awards we will have to have arbitrary categories but you cannot force me to care about them

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Public schools are going to be the ones to eat this. No $20k/year private middle school is gonna automate their classrooms, and no parent with money is going to send their kids to robot class. This tech is meant to make public ed cheaper (by paying fewer teachers); and private ed more lucrative.

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Or here's a thought--maybe we could hire more actual human teachers, pay them better, make class sizes smaller, build in more paid prep time, and generally just invest in education instead of investing in AI.

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This idea's been burning a hole in my pocket for a long time, but seeing the image of Trump in the situation room wearing that dumb hat made me finally do it. I wrote about the SHAPE of the MAGA hat, and the shape of culture for the past ten years. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/thats-some...

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he's right and he's right to say it

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I love Joyce, thanks for oatmeal, but I betcha literally no one on the left has ever "censored" her work--if that word has a meaning--and the idea of getting "cancelled" is a mirage people deploy to shield their egos from the notion that someone dislikes their work and thinks it's not good

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I was thrilled to chat with Phillip for this piece. Something I love about the WNBA is how willing they’ve been to make their labor organizing visible. The docs “144” & “Shattered Glass” are necessary viewing to really see those athletes as workers & appreciate that history of labor activism.

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Not to be Mr. Basketball Guy today, but, this is really good and also correct. defector.com/espns-nba-fi...

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It is increasingly clear that a plurality of elected Democratic Party members simply do not care about ensuring that all Americans have access to a college education or, indeed, that higher education exists at all.

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One feature of an executive branch run entirely by people whose phones melted their brains is that they all sincerely don't think she's smart and when she grills them they react like if a dog started talking

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Paige Bueckers, the number one pick in the WNBA draft, is making about $79k this year; Cooper Flagg, the presumed number one pick in tomorrow’s NBA draft, will make over $15 million. The WNBA Players Association is gonna see if they can do something about that — tune in!

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