Now official: College athletes and school staff can bet on pro sports, beginning on Nov. 1.

All three Divisions have voted to approve the change, per the NCAA.

today marks the 7th anniversary of BASKETBALL FEELINGS and with it, a new start — i’m relaunching the newsletter as a digital magazine

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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”

Kira: I would simply avoid having sex with a haunted candle by remembering my fire safety training

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭