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TKO said it lost $30 million on the UFC Freedom 250 mixed martial arts event held in Washington on June 14, but gained in other ways in terms of media exposure and partnership deals
UFC Lost $30 Million on Freedom 250 Event at the White HouseTKO Group Holdings Inc. said it lost $30 million on the UFC Freedom 250 mixed martial arts event held in Washington on June 14, but gained in other ways in terms of media exposure and partnership deals.bloom.bg
I'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken
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Bryan AlexanderHere's the Association of Governing Boards' statement on the McMahon letter: agb.org/news/press-r...
There’s a guy, great king, incredible king. Prester John. Scepter made of emeralds. Descended from the Maggie. Sent me a letter, beautiful letter, tears in his eyes. Begged me to let him help open the strait, big strong guy. I’m giving Iran 24 hours to comply or, Prester John, I might tell him yes.
Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon https://theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claims-he-is-viral-40-pound-tabby-cat-named-daddy-cinnamon/
Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).
jackBluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)
in the dark cyberpunk future of 2126, borg'd-out technofreaks get subdermal implants that kirkify their faces to all nearby camera feeds for complete anonymity while conducting their freak'd-out technocrimes. the kirk's visage as it's come to be known is a notorious symbol of the criminal underworld
probably the single best take i've seen on Hasan lmao
short king simp↙↙↙he's a video game streamer turned pundit whose takes are informed by a warmed over millennial understanding of Chomskyist campism. this makes him more directionally correct than like 80% of federal dem electeds older than 50 and 100% of the MSM, but it also means he's really stupid
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
> Some articles also cite unnamed sources that don’t look like they came from the AI agent. Usually this is an unnamed Republican Senate staffer, operative, or strategist, in multiple cases described as “close to Senate leadership.” 👀👀👀 www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the...
The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model RepublicAn interview request from a bot posing as a reporter revealed an AI-generated news site with articles attacking AI industry critics. For the second time this month, we found links to Targeted Victory,...www.modelrepublic.org
lol so they CAN punish this stuff, they just limit who they punish to relatively powerless people
Mother JonesGeorge Santos has been fined $35,000 for attempting to place bets on his own attendance at the State of the Union in February. He’s also been banned from the prediction-market platform Kalshi for 3 years.
I do genuinely believe that an unintended consequence of the US holding elections in November near the ends of nice, even-numbered years is that it makes it easier for people to intuitively misremember a president's term as beginning *in the year they were elected,* and not the January after it.
Dan GreeneThe question "who was president in 2020?" continues to tear America apart
At some point consensus will fully accept that the labor market bottomed late last year after slowly cooling for years in response to pandemic over-hiring.
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
chopping it up with the transphobes before the Fire-Fever game on Friday really hammered this home: they want to endlessly "debate" abstract gender concepts because they have absolutely no way to implement any kind of sports-gender policy that doesn't require a whole lot of child genital inspection
Gillian BranstetterAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
