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Pure Imagination

Illinois Athletics has released an amazing video. It captures the raw emotions of being a student-athlete at the University of Illinois and showcases every sport. I love every second of this. Every. Second.

Radio Free REM

The four members of R.E.M. were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and sat down with CBS Mornings Anthony Mason to discuss the honor, their careers, their opposition to a reunion, and more. I was never a big R.E.M. fan, but I respect their music.

RIP, Willie Mays

Willie Mays, one of the best players ever in baseball, passed away on June 18th, 2024. Obviously, he was the greatest San Francisco Giants player. The "Say hey kid" made one of the most iconic plays in baseball history in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. Some say he was the best baseball player ever. For many, he was baseball.

Trump is Losing His Mind

Ramin Setoodeh has written a book about Donald Trump called Apprentice in Wonderland. For the book, he interviewed Trump six times, and the things he witnessed were mind-blowing. Trump’s grasp on reality was never that firm, but now, what’s left of his brain is in free-fall. If he’s elected in November, he’ll just be handled by the Project 2025 group, and that shit is really bad. Seriously, everyone should vote Democrat in November.

Perplexity is good (not really)

Perplexity is a powerful and effective search tool. No invasive ads, surveillance, or other crap. It presents you with a simple, footnoted explanation of exactly what you’re looking for. The problem, according to a Wired investigation, is that it “is able to achieve this partly through apparently ignoring a widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to surreptitiously scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots…" That’s not cool. Even worse: Perplexity then plagiarized the story about how Perplexity is a bullshit machine.

We all have about two minutes to live. But taking a breath resets that clock.

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” —Abraham Lincoln

You are renting space in someone's head for something you do not remember doing or saying.

“A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.” — Alan Fletcher, acclaimed British graphic designer

The problem with the internet is that all the village idiots have found each other and formed internet villages.

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden

No one ever came back from a vacation rested and recharged, ready for work again.