Kenny Smith

Now reading Adin Dobkin’s debut, Sprinting Through No Man’s Land. This is the story of the first Tour de France in the summer immediately after the conclusion of the Great War.

I always marvel at the railcar on the adjacent track carrying all the movie lights.

Me, to myself: Is it fair to scold the cat for clawing the carpet, but allowing the same “making of biscuits” on a blanket? Are our rules confusing? Ten minutes later … the cat demonstrates he knows how to open a fully closed bifold door. Me: He’s not confused by anything.

Mississippi has improved elementary reading. www.theeducationmagazine.com/k-12-educati... Consumer Affairs ranks them 28. www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/best-... NEA puts them in middle bands monetarily. www.nea.org/sites/defaul... This took…a while. mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/repu...

Punters being famous for dramatic falls, this feels about right.

It's their final play to get ground floor investors an exit ramp. Two paths lie before us: (1) an enormous bubble pop, leading to great global suffering; or (2) a gradual retasking of AI as a utility for some sectors, but not for all, intended to run at a loss.

"The public health consequences of these manufactured undercounts and forced errors will be immediate and severe." Read the op-ed from Debra Houry, MD, MPH, at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123540

Very cheesecakes, many triggers.

In his mind he’s going to Alabama.

I had a class once read something that referenced this song. So I played them the song, and said: give your parents and grandparents a break. This was the quality of music at one time. It set a tone for the class. These chatbots and users are going to be the same (as it ever was) one day, too.

Breaking News: Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, the baby-faced Russian navigator in the “Star Trek” franchise, has died at 90. nyti.ms/4zLGtYg

26.9 percent of their workforce — which has already been reduced in recent years.

Not beating the accusations that the NBA treats the W like it's the Europa League. If the Dream come close to filling State Farm on Thursday at lunchtime with three days' notice it will be an amazing accomplishment

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven. It recently hit 28.1 miles, which is quite a distance for a vehicle whose top speed is 0.1 mph . [kottke.org]

Today i have edited two documents, cutting about 15 percent out of the life of them altogether. I have started an 8-week course. I have planned the better part of three of my next four lectures. I also gave an interview. Thus, I feel like I’ve earned my keep for the next few hours.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Mans out there living his best life.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Every ad on YouTube is so much easier to ignore now that they are all AI. So we’ve got that going for us.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

This beautiful cartoon by Dave Walker shows what happens when road design takes everyone into account, allowing people to cycle and walk safely and comfortably, while also giving space to those who need to drive 💌 Subscribe to Dave's newsletter: buff.ly/Cbw6mig

urban street projections across the globe in Wellington, NZ including solidarity with Toronto. 🔥🔥 @axleryde.bsky.social

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Didn’t work out to well for Texas against the Gators. Not sure what we’re thinking about against the Hurricanes. (This is a niche pun, to be sure.)

Journalists should not say Lula won a “fair election.” Elections where the richest men on earth decide that they will censor or spread open disinformation about one of two candidates on their media platforms aren’t free or fair. Voting is one dimension of democracy, open information is another.

But the exact same amount of time scrolling through the interface, looking for something to watch.

It was a still evening, and I realized I can still ride my bike a little if there aren’t headwinds. It was a weirdly perfect temperature. Every changing aspect — direction, road type, size of road, type of tree cover — meant it felt different. #bikes #cycling #LetsGoRideBikes #TheMilesAhead

Mostly I’m jealous I was never so good at something that the police were called. And I played on some good teams, too.

Playing soccer while black. I don’t know where this protege is, but I’d kick a ball with him anytime. I love how the cops are left with ‘If they don’t contact you, contact them.’ Not only is he too good, but the burden of remedy — he’s going to be playing 5U next week — is now on this family.

“I made so much at Yahoo and Google I am not interested in ever working again, which is why I’m telling this story.”

You'd have to torture this out of me.

I would simply not tell this to the newspaper.

This is a man who knowingly took up Nazi rhetoric to gin up the hatred behind an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Haitian refugees from his own state.

He's been making everything so ugly for so long it's easy to forget that we don't have to be like this as a nation. But we don't have to be like this.

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It’s got a “B” in it, after all.

If anyone would like to read Edward Curtis’ book, check out chapter 2. books.google.com/books?id=QeF... Peter Salem and Nathan Badeen of Massachusetts and Joseph Benehaley of South Carolina, among others, would also like a word. Willful ignorance is tiresome.

SLOK: “.. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. .. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s over. Kaput. Dead. Tot. Notifications begin next week.