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My daughter is. Took her to a Buffet concert last year and enjoyed it as much as us old farts. Has a parrot head hat and t-shirt she wears around. If only Coach Dilly would wear this on the sidelines: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5byioWOdmtXbQEGmHX7wIsu8Sq_Tppt8tN3UXm3qjxs...

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“…Kenny Dillingham is living his best life, the 33-year-old head football coach at his alma mater, and in his hometown. Today seems even cooler: Dillingham is decked out in a sweet Arizona State Tommy Bahama shirt, citing his roots as a big Jimmy Buffett fan , and is a day removed from attending a ...

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AI and its future implications are factoring into Hollywood’s ongoing Writer’s Guild strike – from the Hollywood Reporter: “Concerns about AI taking over writing also are alleged to have been glossed over by the studios. The WGA wanted to regulate the use of AI and wanted assurance that it could not...

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The Lakers started with exactly the defensive gameplan I wanted to see, by blanketing Curry even when he was away from the ball. A combination of Schroder, Reaves, and James stayed on Curry at all times. Only time it broke down and Curry was able to start landing daggers was when briefly guarded by ...

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I wish I hadn't smoked so much in high school and college. Your insights in the Economy thread offer clarity on a number of matters I'm otherwise unsure of, so I don't think your brain suffered. At least not like this - from the Scientific American: Heavy Cannabis Use Linked to Schizophrenia, Espec...

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This intersection of Las Vegas BLVD and Tropicana Ave where the aging Tropicana might be torn down for a new baseball stadium is famed for boasting the most hotel rooms in the world, accounting for also the New York/NY, MGM, and Excalibur. https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/16561351675836088...

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To elaborate: Football player Jermaine Burton strikes Tennesee coed on field Football player Tony Mitchell arrested for gun & weed Basketball player Darius Miles arrested for capital murder Basketball player Brandon Miller investigated as accomplice to murder Basketball transfer commit Jaykwon Walto...

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Does anyone actually think Bronny is a future first rounder? I have never seen Bronny play, not even highlight reels, but I imagine some team will take a flyer on him in the first round just so the Lakers have to trade for him. Give up two future 1st round picks or something like that. This was my ...

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Howard Stern has reached Late-Stage Fame , and isn’t a fan. The way Stern revolutionized talk radio no longer has traction and can’t be aired across today's entertainment environment. His 90s mainstreaming of the shock jock radio personality sexually harassed his female callers, badgered his (female...

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Godfather of AI quits Google; regrets life’s work due to risks to humanity: “Geoffrey Hinton, an award-winning computer scientist known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence,” is having some serious second thoughts about the fruits of his labors. Hinton helped pioneer AI technologies critical...

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Random thoughts, but my mind drifted off to wondering why (or how) we, as a species, evolved away from consuming raw meats? Wouldn't it be to our evolutionary advantage for our system to continue handling raw meat? And I wonder how the tradeoff exactly worked? According to the long game of evolution...

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Glowing, inordinate assessment of Kenny Dillingham making an early mark on ASU Football – from 247Sports: “…Kenny Dillingham is living his best life, the 33-year-old head football coach at his alma mater, and in his hometown. Today seems even cooler: Dillingham is decked out in a sweet Arizona State...

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A story I find weird enough, that broke about 5 years ago. Finding out now because with Netflix announcing their follow up to their Dahmer crime-drama with a high-production series focusing on the Menendez Brothers murdering their parents, this detail started floating around again: https://twitter.c...

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For the first time anybody can remember, new Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon blows off the media during draft week. Draft pressers make for the breeziest time a coach can get with the media, the one time during the offseason when even the most reactive fanbases (i.e. Eagles fans) will buy any positi...

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Lots of good times at the Foothills Mall. Taking younger jr high siblings to watch Ratatouille, Iron Man, and WALL-E. Sharing beers with fellow enlisted buddies at Thunder Canyon Brewery. Reading books, sipping coffee, and buying the College Football annual previews at the Barnes and Nobles. Finishi...

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Listened to Fox Sports radio's coverage of last night's 1st Round of the NFL draft. Of all people, FSR had Steve Keim co-hosting the broadcast as their lead draft analyst. WTF? The guy who dating all the way back to his days as Cardinals Director of Player personnel neglected the Cardinals OL season...

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Excellent - welcome Isaiah!

Competing offers from BYU, Cal, Colorado, Penn State, SD State, Syracuse, Washington, and WSU.

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Boulder spring game attendance of 47k.

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Duke Brennan staying in town - big pickup for Grand Canyon U:

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The below AI-generated mix track rotated heavily around the socials last weekend, now removed due to copyright strikes. Neither featured artist – Drake or The Weeknd - wrote or sang for it. A music technician wrote it, performed the vocals themselves, and used a trained model of Drake/Weeknd’s voice...

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Seems it's an open secret that Athletics owners have wanted a move from Oakland for years. And to lay the groundwork for this the ownership has been tanking, but not with the usual franchise tanking we're used to. Instead of losing for the sake of a higher draft pick, the As ownership has ruined the...

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Or?

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If anything this is a sign we are probably doomed and the world is going to soon. Humans were not created for immortality. Just look at how much stuff we fuck up as it as and extrapolate that out to an immortal humanity. Just kill me already even thinking about such a disaster. Agree - it's no futu...

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More negativity surrounding the Cardinals offseason – “DeAndra Hopkins on the trade block is the worst kept secret in the NFL.” Hopkins going so far as to list the next teams he wants to play for. Now Budda Baker wants to be traded. The Cardinals also have the lowest projected betting Win Total at 5...

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It's probably better for Bobby if he times his play-in appearance for when his contract is up for renewal anyway. Duke Brennan's transfer is surprising. He was developing and getting more minutes and time in the rotation as ASU's season went along. He was set up for a lot more playing time going in...

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Lengthy but informative AI thread – to sum it up: Autonomous AI Agents are compactly coded AI models that, given a task, runs in a loop until the task is solved: “…the AI gets assigned a goal, figures out what it needs to do to accomplish that goal (on its own), and then spawns more AI to do it.” By...

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Listening to LA Sports radio earlier this week and the topic of Chip Kelly came up with Lavar Arrington asking USC Insider and Fox Sports football announcer Petros Papadakis - "How much pressure is on Chip Kelly for this season?" Petros: "I don't think too much. Not as much as last year. I think Chi...

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Teen cannabis abuse has increased 245% over 20 years, study finds "Research led by Oregon Health & Science University reveals adolescent cannabis abuse in the United States has increased drastically — by about 245% — since 2000, as alcohol abuse among teens has steadily declined." "The findings, pu...

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Any franchise who trades for Kyrie Irving deserves the disaster they’re getting...Mavericks. Only plays when he wants. Self-destructive PR nightmare. Unaccountable teammate. Kyrie’s on court athletic fireworks AREN'T worth the baggage (should he even care to consistently play). Mavericks eliminated...

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Read the below model is AI generated from Midjourney, an advanced image processing program. To generate images, Midjourney employs “prompt engineering” which works, as it sounds, by converting an input (a prompt) into a related image output. As its artificial intelligence advances at an updated prog...

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Wow, can the Cardinals get a break?!?! Murray is a near bust, and worse, signed to an unaffordable contract. Roster talent is on the wane. Kiem is still owed a fortune. The Cardinals are already a betting favorite to finish at or near the bottom of the standings going into 2023. And now former owner...

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It's ok, perfectly decent and even socially proper for the collective masses to regard celebrities with distrust or even contempt and to play captivated audience to their downfall. It keeps celebrity ego accountable to consequence, which is why I don't necessarily view the trashy tabloid industry as...

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Is piggybacking on brand for ASU?

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Which is why immigration needs to increase to maintain the entitlement programs. My Dad and I go back and forth on the different options on the table for maintaining programs like SS. We see what's going on in France right now, with intense demonstrations against Macron's proposal to raise the reti...

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Michigan's dependable big man Hunter Dickinson enters the transfer portal. Through three years in Ann Arbor his numbers are very productive: 14.1 pts/7.4 rbs (Fr), 18.6 pts/8.6 rbs (So), and 18.5 pts/9.0 rbs (Jr). Can't think of who wouldn't want this guy as a Senior on their roster. He's from Virgi...

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Population Trends Always a passive interest of mine - let's start with Japan The UN forecasts quite a steep drop from over 120M to less than 80M by century's end: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/jap%201.5.jpg?itok=9Q0YNIwA I not sure Japan's p...

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Who wants to live forever? Just a prediction but nevertheless the science behind it has momentum – From Firstpost.com: “According to a prolific former Google engineer, humans will be able to achieve immortality in the next 8 years, all thanks to AI, Brain-Computer Interfaces and nanoimplants that at...

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Kings 16 year playoff drought is over as of last night. Crushing the Blazers by 40. Next up is the NY Jets with a 12 year playoff drought.

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A buddy was telling me about their trip to Egypt, commenting how much of its population lives in Third World conditions, with a number living right on the walkways. Was thinking to myself - America has people living on the sidewalks too , especially in the Pacific Coast cities, though overall, yes, ...

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dmjcat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:12 pm I saw one poster complain last week that CTL could not close on Kwame Evans.......do these posters understand the amount of $$$$$$$ that Phil Knight threw at the kid??? (and Mookie Cook also).

No, how much $$$ are we talking?

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What is Bobby really thinking? Besides that it’s tanning season?

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It’s like AI ChatBots are learning how to write Florida Man headlines:

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hahaha...extended through the 2025-26 season...hahaha...had only one year left on current deal...hah—reasonable?

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...ASU is paralyzed into college basketball's toiling lower-middle class where a coach that achieves 3 to 4 tournaments a decade isn't worth firing but also never good enough for Georgia Tech to call their agent. Turns out I'm giving ASU basketball too much credit - tournaments by decade: 60s: FOUR...

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EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:06 pm Duke losing puts a crack of a smile in my otherwise sour puss.

The God’s wouldn’t want to also give us a Kansas choke job would they?

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Hurley is literally the perfect coach for them and us. He gets them to the tournament consistently, but they're never good enough to make a serious run. He's also so damn easy for us to hate and make fun of. And as we saw this year they occasionally upset us. Win win for all. Frieder/Sendek/Hurley ...

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Just need some athletes. Even Lloyd said last season the Cats weren't athletic enough, and that was with Mathurin, Koloko and Terry. Also some blue collar Mark Madsen types who don't play soft. Some athletes aka bruisers. Pretty much every Big 10/12 school has these types on hand for the dirty work...

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Tommy needs has a lot to answer for. How can a team that plays so well over the regular season struggle in every tournament game? In the aftermath of all this, I'll say what's already probably been said. Does anybody get the sense Tommy has parlayed the program into Gonzaga 2.0, before they started...

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