If you ever decide you want to watch a women's sportsball, lemme know and I'll do my best to post about the team and/or league you decide to follow. I follow a bunch, like Liga MX Feminil, that I don't post about because I figure no-one really cares, and I'm generally interested in adding a new team or league to my watchlist if I know other fans.

Effective Altruism is a plausible-sounding framework, but the practitioners are literal insane people. Should you donate a fixed part of your earnings every pay period to the most effective charities? Yes! But after that, it basically all falls apart and suddenly you're in Yudowsky's weird sex cult donating money to some weird crypto scheme.

The “I’m gonna get my life together so I don’t have to work this shitty job” to “I’m exhausted, I’ll do it tomorrow” pipeline does seem like a pretty commonplace experience, including NT folks, even if the adhd experience of executive dysfunction is different and the strategies that NT people employ to break the cycle don’t work for them. I think this just isn’t a great example because it manifests in a way that sounds familiar to most everyone.

Ian, my guy, what are you doing putting a casual FanDuel ad in the middle of your “FanDuel is being banned because it’s terrible for mental health” article? Did you not read the article that you were currently writing?

FanDuel currently lists the Minnesota Frost as the favorite to win the 2026-27 Walter Cup followed by Boston, Montreal and Detroit who have equal odds. They list the Toronto Sceptres as the biggest long shot for a Walter Cup next season.

So they can access data about your dining history with other restaurants, things like how long you sit at the table and how much you tip. Presumably, it's a prelude to determining whether to seat you (you're unlikely to tip? oh, sorry, we're all full up), or to tailor prices (oh, you eat at fancy restaurants? we'll get out the menu with the expensive prices).

The Reign have got to get their business done at Lumen next weekend

Seeding is still wide open, but the last spot is down to the Seattle Reign, North Carolina and Denver Summit. The Reign could’ve been the final team to clinch their spot Friday night if they had won, but they left Utah with a 0-0 draw. If they win against Orlando on Decision Day, no team can overtake their eighth-place position. Denver can be eliminated on Saturday with any result other than a win. North Carolina will root for the Pride next weekend as they try to defeat Denver.

Can we also get this for movie goers?

Fan mode will measure how often the phone is unlocked during the game - not counting the halftime break - and award points to people based on how little they use the device, with prizes on offer for those with the most points. Each time the phone is unlocked, the user loses points.

You can apply to have one installed near you

City Light and SDOT are accepting applications now through fall 2027 for new charging locations. The two departments will review applications and select the new locations, to be selected in batches of 40 to 50 at a time, on an ongoing basis.

That’s two points we really could have used

With the game deadlocked when the final whistle blew, neither side was able to qualify for a playoff spot thanks to their result. However, with Portland defeating North Carolina shortly after, Utah has now clinched a spot and the Reign remain in control of their playoff fate heading into the final game of the season. A win next week will see Seattle into the playoffs, while anything less will leave them nervously watching out-of-town scores.

If you want a better experience driving in Seattle you should vote for prop 1 to get terrible drivers (like me!) to get out of their cars and into busses

More buses are better for everyone. For transit riders, increased frequency and reliability means more flexibility and less stress. Frequency is freedom and expanding when and how often a bus runs makes transit more viable as a primary mode of transportation. That makes things better even for drivers as the more people that take the bus– with fewer driving cars, the roads will be safer and less traffic-heavy.

I think the fedi project that it most interesting in this regard is Holos, where your fedi server runs on your device. Having an app that runs on your phone that “just works” is probably the best solution long-term, and it feels like Holos has a reasonable chance of achieving it.

Hopefully what’s next is years of irrelevance and the rest of the league treats them like the pariahs they are. They continue to explicitly court racists and transphobes to join their fanbase

Two years ago, then-Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas specifically pointed to an element of racism in the responses. "In my 11-year career, I've never experienced the racial comments from the Indiana Fever fanbase. It's unacceptable, honestly," Thomas said. "There's no place for it. We've been professional throughout the whole entire thing, but I've never been called the things that I've been called on social media."

Okay, so let me get this straight: the ongoing protesting is explicitly part of “Their Plan,” but at the same time, despite having explicitly planned these protests, they don’t know why people are protesting. “They” made a plan for there to be worldwide protests, and then kinda just did stuff because “They” otherwise didn’t know what would make people riot?

It is not widely understood (an English understatement if ever there was one) but the riots and violent demonstrations convulsing Europe are organised by the Conspirators – and are part of their Plan.

…No one in government ever asks why people are rioting. Politicians everywhere are so arrogant, and so remote from reality, that it doesn’t ever occur to them that the rioting is entirely their fault and that only they can do something to stop it.

It is insane to me that the wnba is alienating women's sports fans to court a demographic who hates women and wouldn't be caught dead at a women's sporting event. Thankfully, it seems the nwsl hasn't fallen prey to the same thinking, but I am a little anxious about what next season will be like in the pwhl.

Make sure to get a ballot if you haven’t received one yet

If you haven’t received your ballot yet, you can call King County Elections at 206-296-8683, or request a replacement online. And if you find ballots in places they shouldn’t be, you can reach out to King County at [email protected] or 206-296-8683. Watkins says to include photos if possible along with details about where they were found so they can reissue ballots and report it to USPS.

Go Bears?

Felicitations a Les Roses, qui ont gagner le tout premier Bouclier des supporters de leur franchise.

It had to be the Thorns

While Denver will be hoping for a Seattle loss, the Reign are looking for a hand from their longtime rival, the Thorns. A Seattle win combined with a Portland win over ninth-place North Carolina would see both teams through to the playoffs.

What happens if I actually tried to claim you/yours pronouns (assuming I managed to convince anyone I was doing it in good faith)?

On the internet, to maintain security, you have to have something called a certificate that is used as part of establishing a secure connection using TLS (the secure part of https). The way it works is using a public/private key pair -- one half is public, and is used to verify that the certificate is signed by the correct authority, and the other is secret, where no-one else can figure it out. Each key is just a really big number that goes into a cryptographic math problem. One certificate authority, eMudhra, used 8 different private keys that were extremely small numbers, including one that is just the number 4 (represented as 0000000...4, but literally just the number 4). The math problem is much easier to solve with small numbers, and a common way to break the cypher is to check every possible option starting at 0, which gets to 4 pretty fast. It's remarkable in terms of a security breach because no-one actually had to leak anything for it to be insecure, it's just that the "password" was so easy to guess that we had to "rotate the passwords" for basically the entire internet, because now anyone can sign a certificate using the private key 4 and it will look like a real certificate for google.com or wellsfargo.com or whatever.