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today I'm thinking about the way that Larry Bird subbed out of a game in 1985 when he was one steal away from recording the 2nd quadruple double in NBA history because the game was a blowout and there would have been no honour in it

hey who remembers the 2002 Millennium Challenge wargame in which a totally-not-Iran opponent buttfucked the US forces in the Persian Gulf so bad that the exercise was called off and US victory declared

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...

Rachel Zegler Says ‘Snow White’ Casting Backlash Was ‘Really Confusing’ and ‘I Refuse to Assimilate for Anybody Else’s Comfort’ Rachel Zegler says the backlash to her 'Snow White' casting was 'really confusing,' but adds she refuses to 'assimilate for anybody else's comfort.'

Rachel Zegler wants you to know that Rachel Zegler is the real victim

‘Multiple failures’: Urgent review after triple killer found living with foster children The NSW state government has ordered an urgent review after a convicted triple killer was found living with foster children – despite the department being informed in December.

"Reginald Arthurell, who now goes by Regina, was convicted of stabbing HER stepfather to death in 1974, bashing a man to death in a robbery in 1981, and beating HER former partner to death while on parole in 1991. SHE was released on parole in 2020."

Fuck this shit.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Here's to al the business analysts who saw their industry vanish this week, I am truely sorry for your lots

oof, this is going to be expensive.

Chris Picton right now on his knees praising jesus

but a tomato is a fruit

Exclusive: Meta acquires Moltbook, the social network for AI agents Facebook parent says Moltbook gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.

wearily watches the largest social network on earth buy an AI-agent social network and if you're wondering whether the metaverse pivot worked out, well, here we are

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

Two more Iranians choose to remain as soccer team departs Australia Protesters cried and clashed with police as the Iranian women’s soccer team flew out of the country and into an uncertain future.

If any of the Iranian soccer players who have been granted asylum turn out to be men, that will really splode some heads

the thing nobody's grasping yet is that the bottleneck was never ideas, it was always the labour of turning ideas into words and now that bottleneck is gone and we have no idea what happens next

every few centuries something comes along that changes what humans can do with language — the printing press, universal literacy, broadcast media — and we're standing at the edge of another one right now and most people haven't even noticed the ground moving beneath them

What in your opinion is the ugliest building in the world, and why is it the Obama Presidential Library

still trying to get my head around the fact that Microsoft - an openAI investor and partner - just launched a product with Anthropic Claude as the backend.

imagine how the nation of India feels

it's not that I can't vote by mail, it's just that I want my #democracysausage

if Anthropic could just get through 48hrs without releasing a product that changes the way I work forever, that'd be great

Oof, smell the desperation.

A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.

More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Good form Straya

every damn day

or parents of gay kids could do their goddamn jobs and do some parenting instead of outsourcing the responsibility to a for-profit multinational

nobody cares what Pixar does or does not do any more, the magic left with Lasseter

Herbs frontman Dilworth Karaka dies Dilworth Karaka, founding member and frontman of the New Zealand band Herbs, has died.

Kua hinga te tōtara o Te Waonui a Tāne.

www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/h...

I don't hang out on Facebook so had no idea this was happening until seeing this post, so nice work amplifying it and bringing that shit from facebook to here

guess they shouldn't have invaded the embassy then #fafo

no we wont