If you're in the Charlotte area, or anywhere nearby...please keep an eye out for this girl

One of the goals of the tournament. On the very first night.

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If you live in NC, you're seeing tons of pollen, and might be struggling to breathe. Here are some tips to help, plus one of my own—take a shower at night before you go to bed. Gets rid of the pollen dust, keeps it off your pillow, and helps you sleep! wsoctv.com/news/local/pollen…

We can now re-use the rockets we use to launch spaceships, but I dare Elon to make a printer that works

The old Sycamore Brewing will open THIS SATURDAY as 'Club West Brewing' under new ownership by longtime Director of Brewery Operations Brad Bergman, per CBJ

I vote Congress has to care for my children every time the clocks change until they end this nonsense

Connor Hellebuyck - Secretary of Defense

I get that a lot of people don’t watch hockey. But please understand you’re wrong. Here’s the beginning 9 seconds of the last time team USA beat team Canada in the 4 nations tournament. Canada ultimately won the final against us in a rematch but the rematch of all rematches for Olympic GOLD goes down this Sunday. This is cinema. USA hasn’t won a gold medal in hockey since 1980 against the Russians. The game the movie “Miracle” was based on. Act accordingly. *eagle screech* 🇺🇸🏒🇨🇦

NEW: first on the scene and got video from a dashcam of Hornets star LaMelo Ball crashing into a grey Kia sedan about 30-45 minutes ago in Uptown Charlotte Details on @wsoctv at 6 and here: wsoctv.com/news/local/hornet…

Former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt joins @EricaWSOC9 to talk about the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson Right now on @wsoctv

Take 3 minutes today, amid the noise and din that often hardly matters in our lives, and listen to this revelation from James van der Beek. h/t to my wife and @SlaterNFL for helping me stop and process what matters this morning

An AI slop Carolina Panthers fan page on Facebook made a post claiming a CMPD officer died in a crash because of a drunk driver while volunteering at the Super Bowl. It's not true. It has been shared hundreds of times. Facebook data shows the page is primarily managed out of Vietnam. There are a lot of different pages like this on Facebook just putting out junk for monetization.

I haven’t been this excited to watch Two Coreys since ‘License to Drive’

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

This may be the most american video ever made 😂

“He didn’t take off his top yet” 🥶

Another Duke-UNC classic begs an interesting question: Has a team never led an entire game until an *actual* buzzer beater — as in, zero time left? Because technically that would mean their only lead came AFTER all 40 minutes had expired!

The internal monologue is external and I respect it. If this isn’t the cutest thing on the Internet, I don’t know what it is.

The offense runs through T-Mac 💯 @Panthers star @officialnalo takes home Rookie of the Year

Notable bits from this email: - WaPo search has declined by half in three years - Daily story output has "substantially fallen" in the last five years - Murray argues: "we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience."