Hot take:
Track records SHOULD ROUTINELY FALL at end of season championship meets.
The best talent the best competition the biggest stage the final peak = blazing fast times
The most interesting thing in tech: Commerce bans foreign nationals—including Anthropic's own staff!—from using Fable. So the company shuts it down for all. Anthropic keeps warning AI is existentially dangerous but then keeps shipping. The government wants AI built here but incoherent regulations just derailed a leading product. It's not going well, folks.
I find the 2 most insufferable group of people on the planet are lifetime educators and lifetime politicians. Both live in a fantasy world that lacks common sense and would not survive a day in the real world
The Sorsby ruling is truly disastrous. It will be appealed, of course, because one of the fundamental parts of watching a sporting event is believing that it’s as fair a competition as possible — and that no one directly involved has money riding on specific outcomes.
NEWS: A judge in district court in Lubbock County, Texas, has granted the injunction requested by Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby. He’s set to be eligible for the 2026 season.
I believe it’s good that parents “force” their kids to do things they’d rather not do.
It could be 6 AM summer XC runs with the team.
It could be ordering their own food at a restaurant.
It could be communicating with teachers.
Parenting, teaching and coaching should not always be comfortable for the person in charge or the child/student/athlete. Practice doing uncomfortable things now so that growth happens and more can be handled later.
Gordon Gee: "We’ve turned over too much power to commissioners. The word 'student' is not in their lexicon. The word 'athlete' and 'money' is. I don’t mean to throw them under a bus, though I just did."
AI is mucking up the job market. Everyone uses AI to write similar cover letters; resumes are all perfect. People apply for zillions of jobs and cheat in Zoom calls. Hiring is now basically AI talking to AI while humans wait to hear nothing back. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. on.wsj.com/4wKhvI5
Part of why middle age people run the marathon is it's a modern day spiritual experience:
-It's challenging. You go through lots of emotions. Making you feel alive.
-It's communal. You're in this together. You experience a collective bond.
-There's a big party at the end.
Middle America families stuck in the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time that is travel baseball.
Baseball needs Legion Ball played at high school fields in t-shirts and gray pants more than ever right now.
Sandlot it ain't.
Youth sports now $40 B industry:
"Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into weekend tournaments wearing a few thousand dollars of apparel, equipment & swag. Avg family spending on baseball increased nearly 70% between 2019 and 2024."
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