🚬 Paul Pierce Traps Kevin Garnett In Grim Men’s Livestream — Defector

Yikes… I don’t think Paul Pierce will be receiving any invites to do this again anytime soon.

🙀 Semafor Shithead Screams At Climate Activists — Defector

I genuinely like the stuff Semafor has been doing, but this is an awful look for them and Clemons.

🌐 Byline

Beautiful new site / digital zine, but no RSS… at least that I can find.

🙈 Studio Ghibli to release Hayao Miyazaki’s final film with no trailers or promotion

If you watch all [three trailers for a recent film], you know everything that’s going to happen in that movie.

Missed this the other day. No release date for the US yet, but it’s out July 14 in Japan.

🐂 What will Bulls do with Nikola Vucevic? — Sporting News

I don’t know if it would work money-wise, but I was thinking, since some LA fans have used AD as a scapegoat… Vooch+DeRozan for AD+Vanderbilt…?

🏀 The Chicago Sky Taught Me It Was OK To Win Now — Defector

Haven’t been watching the Sky given the myriad of off-season changes, but I guess I need to tune in to check out the new squad.

🐊 Florida Confirms Arranging Migrant Flights to California — NY Times

“These are the acts of small people who make themselves feel large by stomping on the most vulnerable among us,” Ms. Self said in a statement.

🔐 Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion — Ars Technica

Incredible.

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📼 We Are Rewind

A bluetooth cassette player for the hipster in your life. Bluetooth is such a weird name…

⌛️ Licht’s Out — Puck

In the end, the fact that he failed to even succeed at the one thing he was ostensibly skilled at–programming live television–is one of the great mysteries of this whole saga.

From Zuker’s ouster, to Zaz’s cost-cutting, and then Licht’s mismanagement, I struggle to see a path back for CNN given the cable news environment.

⚽️ Lionel Messi Agrees To Join Inter Miami — Forbes

Huge for MLS if it becomes official. And I’m just so happy he isn’t going to Saudi Arabia. Curious what the Barca number could/would be though.

🥘 These are the winners of the 2023 James Beard Awards — NPR

Capturing for myself, don’t mind me.

🥽 Eyes (and head) on with the Apple Vision Pro — Six Colors

This has me pretty excited (not that I have $3500 sitting around in couch cushions). It sounds like the gestures really do just work and the OS delivers on the next gen feel.

🌭 Vienna Beef is returning to former factory — WGN

I have no idea how Vienna is perceived outside of Chicago (only recently learned La Croix was essentially Midwest only until 2015), but this is cool to see.

🦫 Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine — The Economist

The blowing up of the dam, if indeed it was by Russia, would also signal desperation on the Russian part, suggesting that it has no capability or intent of moving its troops in the opposite direction to retake Kherson.

📺 streaming variability vol.028

New TV this week: Always Sunny, Based on a True Story, Crowded Room, and Human Resources.

🙀 Hell, my kid could do that — @johncuneo3

Let me be.

The beginning of the whimper…

🥽 Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new AR headset — The Verge

The size, wire, and EyeSight are all pretty off putting to me, but if the input just works and is seamless, it’s honestly really impressive as a home device and if I could watch all NBA Games in VR, I’d be in.

🇺🇸 America Is Headed Toward Collapse — The Atlantic

This is pitch perfect. Turchin does such a great job at putting into words what I’ve had to try to explain to certain people around me, plus compelling data and historical precedent.