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  1. Seems like a good guy:
  2. Shane Gillis is hilarious. He’s like if Surly’s main demographic was boiled down into a person (fat, ugly, smart, white, straight), but funny. Think of him as our Druski. That said, ESPN knew what they were doing when they picked him to host. They wanted the heat and the attention. It would be like picking Bill Burr and pretending you didn’t know he would offend 50% of the audience.
  3. @Captainant San Francisco, CA, July 1, 2025 –Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default. Starting today, website owners can choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content, and decide how AI companies can use it. AI companies can also now clearly state their purpose – if their crawlers are used for training, inference, or search – to help website owners decide which crawlers to allow. Cloudflare's new default setting is the first step toward a more sustainable future for both content creators and AI innovators. For decades, the Internet has operated on a simple exchange: search engines index content and direct users back to original websites, generating traffic and ad revenue for websites of all sizes. This cycle rewards creators that produce quality content with money and a following, while helping users discover new and relevant information. That model is now broken. AI crawlers collect content like text, articles, and images to generate answers, without sending visitors to the original source – depriving content creators of revenue, and the satisfaction of knowing someone is viewing their content. If the incentive to create original, quality content disappears, society ends up losing, and the future of the Internet is at risk. “If the Internet is going to survive the age of AI, we need to give publishers the control they deserve and build a new https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large/
  4. Don’t be facetious Jeffrey. I wrote this over a plate of fajitas with my thumbs on my iPhone and I hate that AI has co-opted the em dash. Let me find some supporting documentation — and the blog— (em dash yet again mine) as I think you are missing the big picture. I actually am appealing to you because I know you understand this stuff better than I do.
  5. Mmmm….you may know more that what I read, but from what I’ve been reading a) it’s definitely not table stakes today to be able to thwart AI crawlers and b) allegedly 20% of all internet flows through cloud flare today. It seems like you know more than me about what makes it blase— have you read into the details and still find it to be a nothing burger?
  6. I don't even have to click in the link to know that's a mainland Mexico vibe. Just the furniture and blankets alone.
  7. Anyone seen this? This is either going to nerf LLM's or triple Cloudflare's revenue:
  8. And if you are from Texas and over 50 than as soon as you hear these intros it's going down. I mean as soon as you heard "Cash money taking over for the 99..." it was over.
  9. Literally came here to post this. But I am also partial to:
  10. Has anyone been following the Windsurf stuff? Crazy scenarios and crazy implications on the future of M&A, acquihires, and start-up ecosystem in general.
  11. He went against Ryan Reynolds I think (he was a two-bit costar in the first Deadpool) and he got drunk and phoned in a bomb threat that got everyone upset. Those alone wouldn't have been insurmountable except that he verified via his Netflix comedy special, to anyone who cared to watch, that he is strikingly and aggressively unfunny left to his own devices.
  12. Reminds me of the old saw, "There is no hate like [American] Christian love". When it comes to Christians: Many are called, few are chosen.
  13. You joke, but I have been convinced for a while that Trump is definitely autistic and on the spectrum. 100%. Doesn't excuse him at all, it's not an excuse, but it helps to understand some of his behavioral quirks that you see (while he's being horrible). This is giving Putin stealing Kraft's superbowl ring.
  14. I don't mind the standing up next to your seat if you are an aisle seat. It serves two purposes for those of us who are not manlets. We can stretch from a long flight and, most importantly, play defense for everyone else on the yahoo who doesn't wait his/her turn.
  15. I can't stand ATL because it's one long row and if you are at T and need to get to A or whatever, it takes forever. The only worse set up for me in that regard is CVG which makes you walk 2 miles before taking a train, all in the same direction.
  16. I tried to beat the system once and flew into SNA and rent a car to get to a meeting, and then got snarled in traffic trying to get south to Torrance and Palos Verdes and almost missed the meeting entirely
  17. 6 months ago. The airport sucks, but I’m specifically talking about flight and destination options. You can take LAX -> Anywhere in a direct flight domestically. Try taking OKC -> DTW and you’ll be going OKC south to DFW and then back north to Detroit for example. Or Jacksonville to Phoenix and you are going JAX -> MIA/MCO -> PHX
  18. I should have put a finer point on it and said “most important and biggest player ever” as I’m actually completely uninterested in the conversation around the technicals of woman’s basketball skills. Like MJ, CC undeniably made her league a household name and legitimatized it for the mainstream which allowed the mainstream money to overflow the wnba’s hitherto meager coffers, allowing for a) current legacy players to get a huge pay raise and b) make the wnba a legitimate career aspiration for women thus swelling the pipeline of great young talent and nurturing the young girls who would historically focus on making partner at their Big4 firm after college because the wnba only offered a $70k median salary, no endorsements, and you had to live in Bulgaria in the summer to make a living.
  19. CLT connections will test a man's mettle. Many moons ago (I'll age myself here) before there was a direct flight from DFW to TRI, you had to connect in CLT. Invariably CLT will a) underestimate how much buffer is needed and b) land you at a gate on the otherside of the airport than your connecting departure gate. There were multiple times I had to suck up my pride and look stupid running at a full gait with bags to make the last flight out for the night and being the last man on the American Eagle Bombardiers and hacking up a lung as doors shut. One of the most underrated features when looking to move and live in a new city I think is people don't evaluate the airport situation. If you have to do a decent amount of business travel a first tier airport is worth it's weight in gold. Once you've lived in DFW, IAH, ORD, ATL, LGA/JFK/EWR, LAX, SFO, it's hard to move to a city with an airport that nearly always requires a connection to a hub first-- it makes travel an all day event and pretty inefficient. CLT punches above it's weight to be honest, for all the crap I give it.
  20. This is the decorum. You stay to the right and give a path for those who want to pass, not unlike driving slow/speed limit in the right lane and leaving the left lane(s) for those who need to be at a faster speed.
  21. I mean, it's absurd in hindsight and probably absurd at the time for Barkely to think he's better than MJ (to your point about how professionals are hardwired). However, there are players you can count on one hand who can have that Barkley level delusion in the WNBA. Anything beyond those 4 or 5 (including Angela Reese), and you are in the realm of a reality that is so DeLuLu, the sheer complexity of it makes MCU's multiverse phase look like a children's book story.
  22. I have a pair of crocodlie tecovas (black and not quite $2k) and I love them and they are about a year old. They were a gift and they slam and go hard. I've got some of the cheap spectrum tecovas that are about 6 or 7 years old at this point and they aren't falling apart is the best I can say for them. Maybe with all the VC or PE money they got their quality has gone up is all I can surmise from my experience.
  23. 100% depends on the family for sure.
  24. After typing the above I think I get the conflict which comes from the word I used "value". I think the reason the league is rejecting Clark (like the body rejects a transplanted organ needed to live) is because the implication that they are not valuable. A lot of ink has been spilled about how crappy WNBA was before Clark-- all the same business metrics on revenue and salaries and attendance and popularity in the gutter) and the implication and unsaid message I think they are hearing is: "you women are not valuable", "you, as an individual basketballer, are not valuable", and "you, without Caitlin Clark, are not valuable". And not to get too political or controversial, but it seems like it's an easy leap to go from that to, "black, queer women are not valuable", and "without a straight white hope, a queer black league is not valuable" And when people feel devalued it's a core identity crisis and emotional and psychological issue that can be existential. So that helps explain to me why it feels irrational -- because when most people feel that deeply wounded, most aren't going to respond with logic and math. I could be way off but just a thought that unlocked for me as I wrote the last post and that word "value" jumped out at me.
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