Am I the only one who didnāt realize people in Europe even played baseball? Impressive showing by the Italians though!
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Kevin Kortum
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š² Just admit youāre playing the game
You either believe in something and youāre willing to power through, or you donāt, and you do what everybody else is doing.
I guess itās safe to say Manu doesnāt believe in the idea that āthe truest sign of intelligence is the ability to entertain two contradictory ideas simultaneously.ā
I donāt 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 had to live 100% aligned to all of my beliefs, Iām not sure Iād be able to function. As a small (but extreme) example: Iām a pacifistābut if I want to put a roof over my head and feed myself, Iām essentially forced to help fund the worlds largest military that is contributing to a genocide and just blew up a school with more than 150 children in it. Just because I donāt uproot my life or go to jail for tax evasion doesnāt mean my stance as a pacifist is any less true.
We all make decisions like this everyday of our lives, some minor, some more severe. Hell, in some places living oneās truth could be a death sentence.
I get these are extreme examples when we are more likely talking about something like hating Meta, but using Instagram, or hating AI, but occasionally utilizing itāboth of which Iām guilty of myselfāand Iāve probably already put more time into this than the original post, but I canāt help but be irked by such vague and, frankly, inconsiderate generalizations like this.
š Heatās Bam Adebayo drops 83 points, second-highest scoring game in NBA history
The Heat center, who is known as one of the leagueās 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 2022ā23 season).
This is bonkers. Not in a million years would anyone have guessed Bam would be the one to top Kobeās 81. Insanity.
š§© A tricky wordplay game
A new daily word game from the creator of Wordle. Thereās 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 clickedāalthough Iām sure to be stumped pretty easily soon enough.
š± 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 AIāsent through Claude's API, specifically. I'm not a fan of AI, but I wanted to try to challenge myself as well as learn how to use some of these tools, just in case. So AI seemed like the best approach in order to avoid adding yet another project on my plate to update on a daily basis.
Screamer News is essentially a dashboard of news summaries across four topics, which run at different times throughout the day. Sports in the morning to capture the news from the day before and last nights scores; tech and culture in the afternoon/evening to capture the days news; and politics late at night to capture everything that happened during the course of the day.
When the job runs, it collects articles from various RSS feeds (specifically chosen for each topic) from the previous 24-hours. It then passes the collection of articles to Claude, which uses some criteria to pull out the five or so most important storylines from the day, summarizes them, and provides links back to the original sources covering the story.
Clicking a box in the grid will open the full summary up, as well as mark it as read (saved via localStorage) so when you return, you can quickly glance to see what's new.
That's basically it... I've thought about a few ideas I could maybe add and put behind a paywall, such as e-mailing the digests (which the original idea had via a Ghost blog), complete history (for when the list of days becomes too long), and a few other things, but for now, I'm pretty happy with it and have bee using it myself daily during it's short life.
šµ Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi
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 ā92.
