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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 1h

I think the Bucks just signed Uncle Dennis to an exhibit 10.

Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe in a higher trust relationship there would be a path forward where the BRI split scales up as certain revenue milestones are hit, but hard to see that being worked out in the present negotiation given the apparent state of relationship between league and players.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2h

The 50% BRI split the W players are asking for is IMO a complete non-starter until the revenues scale substantially as back of the envelope math suggests “fixed” or fixed-adjacent costs like facilities, travel, business ops and non-playing staff expenses are several X higher relative to revenue.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2h

Very fair, the potential for Hollywood accounting here is not small, and maybe the NBPA is getting so much new money anyway that they’ve taken their eyes off the ball.

But I’d still want as much revenue as possible being “taxed” at 10% rather than 50%.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2h

Wouldn’t this incentivize offloading more revenue and fewer costs to the WNBA team given the relative revenue splits for contracts?

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 3h

Neither here nor there, but trying to use gen AI to judge experimental beers and match them with individual palates suggests someone involved has no idea how anything works.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

For months I've been following what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI.

"It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up"
www.404media.co/what-happene...

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

www.404media.co

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not sure which linguistic fail bugs me more between

“You’re bias” when one means biasED

And

“Begs the question” instead of RAISING the question.

Thank you for your attention to these matters.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 3h

IT DOES NOT BEG THE FUCKING QUESTION. Small beans as far as what to be annoyed by, but even if the rhetorical statement had a factual basis, it would RAISE the question FFS.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 4h

Email.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h

I mean physically

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h

Which Senator does he most resemble, would you now care to reconsider?

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h

To be fair, I think losing football games IS losing money, just not quite directly.

Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h

I think irrespective of his size, the DVT issue makes him higher risk than average.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h

He’d be a lot better appreciated today I think. For example, in 2000-01 Dallas’s opponents shot about 15% better on shots within 5 feet with him off the floor that year if I’m doing the math right in my head.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 21h

Shawn Bradley.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 21h

I feel this deeply. For some reason one of the busybodies at the kids’ school decided that class communication should come via yet another app, so another log on the fire.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21h

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 21h

I agree with @modakhilnba.bsky.social completely that Vic should be the top choice. I’m not quite sure it’s as clear cut as Mo thinks it is, just because the longevity concerns for humans that large are inescapable and he’s already had some (possibly fluky, but still) issues.

Offside @joinoffside.bsky.social · 22h

Victor Wembanyama is the only correct answer.

@modakhilnba.bsky.social

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 22h

Shouldn’t you be off pretending to understand the WNBA?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 1d

This is the story of gen AI writ large.

Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 1d

This is, to me, part and parcel of one of MLS’s big issues, which is the idea that if they create the APPEARANCE of being a legit league it makes them a legit league. When I wrote gamers, traffic was abysmal on them, but they were league mandated because THAT’S HOW YOU SPORTS.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 1d

That’s what I meant. They surround themselves with intellectual spotters so they never have to do the mental lift, and their critical skills atrophy as result.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 1d

🤣

Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 1d

I think you have the causality wrong. Getting that rich liquefies critical faculties. It’s the mental equivalent of always having two burly dudes go to the gym with you to “spot” but they mostly end up bearing the weight while your hands stay on the bar. These guys all think they can “bench” 400 now

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 1d

Gum-gum what the fuck?

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe this is real

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2d

Is you’re still in Lisbon go to Essencial in Bairro Alto

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2d

Beginning to understand why they thought it made sense to have Dany torch King’s Landing.

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