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šŸŽ² Just admit you’re playing the game

Manu

You either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing.

I guess it’s safe to say Manu doesn’t believe in the idea that ā€œthe truest sign of intelligence is the ability to entertain two contradictory ideas simultaneously.ā€

I don’t know who or what this is in reference to, but as a general idea it feels like a shortsighted, heat-of-the-moment type statement that ignores the reality of the world millions of people are forced to reckon with everyday of their lives.

If I

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šŸ€ Heat’s Bam Adebayo drops 83 points, second-highest scoring game in NBA history

The Heat center, who is known as one of the league’s best defenders, entered Tuesday with a career scoring average of just 16 points per game and has only averaged more than 20 points per game once in his career (20.4, in the 2022–23 season).

This is bonkers. Not in a million years would anyone have guessed Bam would be the one to top Kobe’s 81. Insanity.

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🧩 A tricky wordplay game

Parseword

A new daily word game from the creator of Wordle. There’s a lot of fun and unique gameplay design that just shines. It took me a few go-arounds to really get the hang of it, but once I did, it just sort of clicked—although I’m sure to be stumped pretty easily soon enough.

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😱 Screamer News Featured Post

screamer.news

So I built something on Friday and it's already gone through a ton of revisions, but it's at a point where I think I'm pretty happy with it. I wanted a simple place I could go to quickly catch up on the major topics of the day being covered by major publications to help avoid having to go to multiple homepages, troll social media feeds, or having to bog down my RSS reader with firehose feeds from big publications, in order to stay informed.

Right up front, I will warn you, the summaries are written by AI—sent

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šŸŽµ Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi

Bandcamp

Letters Charity is a nonprofit organization on a mission to use Art as a conduit to transform passive compassion into immediate assistance through the distribution of money given, without expectation or judgment, directly to families experiencing poverty.

Holy moly! A second charity album and this one from Fugazi featuring recordings they did in Chicago at Electrical Audio Studio with Steve Albini back in ’92.

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šŸŽµ HELP(2), by War Child Records

Bandcamp & War Child UK

In addition to the stellar cast of musicians involved, renowned filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Jonathan Glazer acted as Creative Director for ā€˜HELP(2)’, working with Academy Films to assemble a team of brilliant creatives and overseeing the filming and art direction for the project.

If there’s one album you pick up today on Bandcamp Friday, it should probably be this one. Following in the footsteps of the ’95 Brian Eno- produced HELP, proceeds from HELP(2) go to to benefit humanitarian efforts to aid, protect, and educate children in Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, and

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