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Embarrassed to admit how long I spent figuring out the source of this clip, featuring a buttrock band I’ve never heard of — the Creed spinoff Alter Bridge — opening for a sport I don’t watch, in 2005.
Alter Bridge: "Open Your Eyes" Live at Home Run DerbyYouTube video by THEABNATIONyoutu.beAFFriday before a week at the beach
This, too, is gender
Dr Alex CruikshanksIt's a pretty common conservative personality trait, but I just can't get my head around the people who feel that for something to be significant important it has to be "real" in the sense of being objective and independent of human perception or behaviour, hard-coded into the universe. Like, why?
I’ve become a big believer in David Chang’s meatballs with ground turkey. Add some puréed fresh ginger and sriracha, ooh baby
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)I cut most beef and dairy out of my diet and...you barely notice. Just try it. Get the chicken sandwich instead of the burger when you can. Get ground turkey instead of ground chuck. Cook with olive oil not butter. You can do it.
Notice that Elon did not offer to use Grok to, say, decipher Linear A and unlock some of the lost Bronze Age Aegean culture that the movie directly laments. Instead he just vows to make his own shitty AI slop version where everyone is white, which he will get bored and abandon like his own kids
Linear A - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgWhen I heard Wilson speak recently in NYC, she mentioned working on a NEW translation of the Odyssey! (possibly not for publication? Unclear) I took her point to be that no version is definitive and she was happy even to tear down her own work (possibly in response to its huge mainstream success?)
Jennifer Szalai100 percent agree. I also think that what a lot of people appreciated about her honest opinion was that in a criticism-starved culture, someone in her position will too often hold her tongue. There‘s something thrilling about seeing someone exercise such critical freedom.
What I’ve discovered in the past couple years is that Google Translate is — not amazing — but better than you might think — at understanding what error-filled OCRs like this are trying to say
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We are not only going to have to ban this shit, we’re going to have to set up nationwide remedial training programs to teach people how to enjoy real hobbies
Martyn"In 2025, Americans placed roughly $166 billion in bets on sporting events. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries generated in revenue combined."