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Announcers wondering about why the Japanese aren’t bunting…

Do they realize they’re facing the best fielding pitcher in the league?

MIAMI, FLORIDA - MARCH 14: Shohei Ohtani #16 of Team Japan reacts after hitting a solo home run in the first inning during the 2026 World Baseball Classic quarterfinal between Venezuela and Japan at loanDepot park on March 14, 2026 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Yuichi Masuda - SAMURAI JAPAN/SAMURAI JAPAN via Getty Images)

Getty captured the Shohei Ohtani bat flip

it would be an honor to get killed by a shohei ohtani home run ball conking me in the head at 200mph

Chris Sanchez, Aaron Nola, Ranger Suarez all making massive starts in WBC games. And the Phillies haven’t won a title over the last five years.

ronald acuña jr. is so cool when he’s not playing for atlanta

I am in favor of a team winning the WBC that appears to be enjoying it.

They’ll start a new organization and all these bigots will join it. The mistake these kids made here was getting caught doing it, not doing it

how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

What an absolutely joyless bunch and a sad way to squander the amazing joy and energy of the World Baseball Classic.

This team can piss up a rope, and are ample evidence that MLB players should be kept from participating in the Olympics. FOH with this vibe.

Oh no! That means that JD Vance, being a committed Catholic, will have to condemn Peter Thiel! Because he's a sincere believer in a religion and not just LARPing, right?

one of the earliest lessons in politics I learned as a kid from my parents was to always vote for a tax increase, because you're trading a dollar amount so small you probably won't notice in order to fund something important that benefits everybody. I wish that was how Democrats messaged this stuff!

My take on why many (white) progressives say that Israel is making the US go to war is that they would very much prefer that to be the case than to have to examine their own culpability and participation in America's white supremacist militaristic reality.

So much easier if it's outsiders.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

yeah, i gotta root for team DR to win this whole WBC. too talented, too cool, it's undeniable

Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. Rom, a Ferengi alien fella with giant ear lobes and butt shaped head, is standing in uniform and looking kind of shaken up and shooketh. Like if he walked in on his parents "wrestling." Closed caption reads, "You have every right to be depressed, Brother."

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug?

The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

The willingness of racists to sabotage their own lives just for the chance to hurt someone else continues to be the most perplexing part for me. I don't hate anyone more than I love myself.

doge really did select hires on the basis of "too young to understand that they will likely have personal legal liability" didn't they

One of the things I think people should grapple with is the easy description of “Peak Woke” as haughty moralism, only to then describe the “race science” of the right as a secret thrill. Feels like the “woke” people knew about the race science, but even in these mea culpas, it can’t be said.

Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought:

You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another though. The process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt

Opera, espresso, fancy jacket, little kisses - Team Italy is winning because they've embraced a philosophy of nice treats.

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

🔲 Can't yell at republicans, they're not on here

🔲 Can't yell at transphobes, they don't care

☑️ Can yell at allies that are unable to solve systemic problems on their own

The thing you never stop hearing about the Dem elite — that their messaging on certain issues was captured by a noisy sliver of the population who don’t talk like normal people — is all that’s happening to the entirety of elite gop, admin and otherwise — comms and policymakers

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

The sign, titled “ICE Kidnapping and Ghost Car," is an art project, and a public call for people to pay attention.

“A lot of people have reached out and said we should do this at all the ICE kidnappings," said one of the artists.

🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/ice-arr...