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Orioles #191

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Fun day out today: friends, bike rides, and long walks in our former neighborhood 🌞 🧑‍🧑‍🧒

A group of people, including a child, are seated around a table with coffee cups, small toys, and water glasses.A colorful, striped basketball court is bustling with people playing and watching.A person in a black outfit stands on a street corner next to a colorful wall advertisement in French featuring a nurse and a message about resolving pain and headaches.A city square features ornate historic buildings, a central statue, and a striped pedestrian crosswalk under a clear blue sky.A marble table holds a colorful arrangement of assorted sweets and pastries on two decorative plates.

Passengers wait inside a busy train station in Paris, with luggage, while authorities deal with an unexploded World War II bomb.

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Orioles #189

“20 Years Later” ⚪️⚪️🟡⚪️⚫️ 🟡🟡🟢🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀

Gonna be partaking in #FantasyBaseball for the first time this year (outside of Sorare)… anything I need to know? Any strategy or tips? ⚾️ 🧡 🖤

Quick Duolingo update

Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #164: tough one for me today!

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Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Orioles #187

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Discovering _Daily Walkoff_⚾️ Starting with the Orioles #186

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Today in “America is not a serious country”: In this report about AI, they’re displaying the logos of differerent companies in the space, including France’s/Europe’s Le Chat from Mistral, however instead of the proper logo… they used the logo of a laundry detergent

A CNBC report around AI with a list of AI companies logos

A green bottle of LE CHAT L'EXPERT bicarbonate laundry detergent is shown, featuring a red cap and label with 40 washes indicated.The Mistral AI logo: A black square logo with a pixelated yellow and red crown design is set against a silhouetted mountain landscape bathed in a warm, golden light.

Tough one today

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A completed color puzzle with rows of yellow, green, purple, and blue circles is displayed along with the message "Solid! You solved puzzle #159."

What a great opener:

The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts.
The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every promise it has ever made (…) its decision-making is either erratic and illogical or dictated by interests that cannot and will not align with any reasonable principles of freedom, social progress, or ethical governance.

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Today’s edition of Connections: Sports Edition took about 10 seconds 💪

I’m getting better at this!

Puzzle #158
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Connections: Sports Edition - Puzzle #157

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Perfect on the first time — really took my time to get this one right and not burn throught my tries

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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America is over after 80 years. It took time for me as well to accept that.

But it really is over. (…) The US has dismantled the official privacy framework. The deal is dead.

So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use different software and services. Even if it takes some getting used to.

Another day, another victory!

Connections: Sports Edition .

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There’s a first time for everything! Won my first NYT Connections: Sports Edition

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Absolutely stoked to read a story on my old neighborhood basketball court in the New York Times (by way of The Athletic)

I used to play about 1.5 to 2 hours there every Sunday mornings back when we used to live in Montmartre/Pigalle!

Two people are playing basketball on a colorful court while a third person watches and laughs.Two people are playing basketball on a vibrantly colored outdoor court with a geometric mural.A person sitting on a colorful geometric basketball court, holding a basketball, is set against a vibrant mural background.Two men play on a vibrant, colorful basketball court with geometric wall art in the background.A group of people are gathered in a colorful outdoor basketball court surrounded by tall buildings.A colorful urban basketball court is surrounded by tall buildings, featuring vibrant geometric designs and pastel hues.A vibrant, colorful basketball court is nestled between buildings in Paris, accompanied by a text about Pigalle Duperré as a social media sensation.

Unsurprising but insane god-complex coming out of… you guessed it, Silicon Valley:

Zayner wants to create the next generation of pets. “I think, as a human species, it’s kind of our moral prerogative to level up animals

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Two women pose in front of a colorful mural, associated with a Wired article about biohacking and genetically engineered glowing rabbits.

Huge game tonight! Come on City! #RMAMCI @mancity @championsleague

We’re trailing by one goal but this is a return game in Madrid. Great lineup and hoping for a dominant 3-1 display to go through 🤞⚽️💪 🩵🤍

Absolute insanity from the US, unsurprisingly:

This executive order instructs federal employees of the federal government to ignore Supreme Court rulings and congressional actions if the President or Attorney General tell them to.

Tell me you’re trying to become a dictatorship without telling you’re trying to become a dictstorship.

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Bref 2: un éclair de génie ⚡️ ❤️‍🩹

Five people are looking upwards below the text "bref. 2" on a black background.

Coffee & Complexity: climate change is here and affecting our coffee prices

The climate crisis has driven up coffee prices, but brewing at home remains a more affordable and enjoyable option compared to coffee shops.

🎥 🍿 The Gorge ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A cool concept let down by a final act that went a bit too fast in terms of pacing in contrast with the exposition of the beginning of the movie.

Think Resident Evil x Annihilation x a RomCom

A person stands with raised arms in a foggy landscape, while a large creature approaches from below, under the title "The Gorge" and cast names.

We don’t deserve @reckless.bsky.social

A Bluesky post criticizing Wall Street executives is shown above a highlighted quote from an article discussing Wall Street executives' views on the Trump administration.

Finishing #Silo season 2 tonight. That article last year on the Verge was right: Apple TV+ definitely is the best place to watch great and unique Sci-fi

Omar Marmoush, what a guy! #MCINEW

Major FOMO on the newly launched Topps Series 1 but we’re trying to save money over the next few months, so… 🤷‍♂️

A promotional webpage showcases Topps Series 1 Binders for enhancing card collecting experiences, featuring images of the binders and baseball cards.

Perfect timing — I guess they were waiting for the AI Summit but French startup Mistral behind the French/European AI (Mistral) just updated and upgraded their platform. Much faster and more powerful. Gonna give it a try for work and play 😊

 A website homepage for 'Frontier AI' with a mountain landscape background and various company logos displayed.

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I hate that the Substack notes feed is such a better microblogging feed, but a closed system en that is probablyy never coming to the open web

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