August 4, 1986: Julius Erving decides to return to the Philadelphia 76ers for his final NBA season, passing on a reported two-year, $3.8 million deal with the Utah Jazz. 📺 KSL Sports
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Scribe, wanderer, head nodder, knee slapper, looks like we got ourselves a reader. #215.
How to cut costs, ruin things & antagonize people. @eemir00.bsky.social. Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon’s 7 rules for running a killer business. Nick Nolte in Warrior meets the grumpiest pirate in the world meets a metric ton of cocaine. Mr. Krabs would stand in awe of Tom Dundon.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social: Fight back vs. big tech? Data center revolts are happening across the country getting to the heart of our greatest political problems. AI's not just a product or a scientific si-fi achievement. It's a political theory, gobbling up democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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@mollyjongfast.bsky.social: Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of mischief. What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? He doesn’t keep track of bones broken. Accounting struck Knoxville, It's silly. Double digits. My ankles 3 times apiece. Arms. Hands. Elbows. A lot.”
@dealbooks.bsky.social: Space grab. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is working to grab invisible real estate: the radio spectrum that carries wireless signals. Its competitors are doing the same. That's set off a race resembling land rushes of the 19th century, except in the air. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/b...
@defector.com: @redford.bsky.social. The Tour de France is over. We covered topics such as the race's impossible future, how cycling solved sleep, the unforgiving life of a photographer, France's vibrant ecosystem & the chaotic frenzy of Alpe d'Huez. defector.com/some-more-st...
@reuters.com: US govt map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference. State Dept. says staffer hastily altered slide deck before Rio event. Analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark. Map places Nigeria in Sahara & shifts Mozambique and Ivory Coast.
@gizmodo.com: @paleofuture.bsky.social. Elon Musk melts down over perfectly normal questions in wild interview. Musk: "Maybe some people do loathe me. That's probably true. I don't care." He sat down w/ EIC of @economist.com for a taped interview live Thursday. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ec...
Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
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‘The Odyssey’s Matt Damon says Robin Williams & Tom Hanks shaped his career. He learned how to lead a film set by watching Williams, Hanks & Denzel early. Damon reflected on their influence in an interview of Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” after co-star Tom Holland called him the cast’s “fearless leader.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.
“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.” - Amy Winehouse The talented English singer and songwriter, known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues, reggae and jazz, passed on this day, 2011 at age 27.
@drewmagary.bsky.social: If you don't hate data centers yet, boy do I have news for you. Americans, myself included, despise these things. And so should you. Let me tell you why. A data center isn’t much to be worked up over."
Mamdani is quite literally the moral leader of this country right now. No one speaks with as much clarify, moral leadership, and consistency. I am grateful for him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuV...
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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"Trump Admin recently sought the phone records of several @nytimes.com journalists & relatives, per a motion unsealed in connection w/ an investigation into alleged national-security leaks regarding new Air Force One. We reached out to @ruthmarcus.bsky.social, who covers this story.
for the love of god please stop logging me out of everything
@jamellebouie.net: Ketanji Brown Jackson knows what 1776 meant. I wrote a long essay on the revolutionary meaning of the Declaration of Independence & how it was given life by the Black Americans, free & enslaved, who wielded its language of equality against bondage and racial discrimination.
Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.
When I stopped being a Knicks fan, several years ago, it was specifically and pointedly because James Dolan is a terrible person.
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoA statement from WIRED leadership.
The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3w agoI want trials for every last one of these mother fuckers.
‘The greatest audience in the world’: Photos from decades of epic concerts at San Quentin.
A Beastie Boy Returns to the mic, with some help from his sons. Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the rap trio in 15 years. The 3-decade Beastie Boys run came to an abrupt halt in 2012 when Adam Yauch died of cancer at 47. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/a...
A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help
Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years.
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The wedding of Sly Stone & Kathy Silva. On Friday, May 3rd, Sly Stone called the office of Epic Records & talked w/ Paley. Sly announced he planned to marry Silva, a striking young Hawaiian girl, who's been an actress in CA & is the mother of his 11-month-old son. www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
How Sly Stone Got Married
George W. S. Trow’s 1974 account of the wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva, at Madison Square Garden.
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@kyla.bsky.social: We don’t have enough housing in US. Congress agrees. The biggest housing bill in decades became law & should help. Supply is outmatched by demand. The young can’t get into areas w/ dynamic & expansive economies. We certainly have a housing crisis. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | The Housing Crisis Is Also a Retirement Crisis
A home has stopped being just a place to live — it has also become an asset.
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@pamelacolloff.bsky.social has been covering the death penalty for more than 25 years. She reported this article from Florida, interviewing a former death-row warden, capital defense attorneys, clergy, prisoners and protesters. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/m...
Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?
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The Norwegian team has been a delight to watch and they represent all that is positive about football.
@erlinghaalandd.bsky.social wasn't able to go all the way, but remember how much fun he had, and gave? Haaland has had the time of his life in the World Cup. The Norway national team striker scored two goals to send soccer royalty Brazil home. slate.com/culture/2026...
A Recent Supreme Court Opinion Completely Misunderstands the Point of Sports. One World Cup Superstar Is the Corrective.
We’re fundamentally misunderstanding the point of sports.
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