James daSilva
@James_daSilva
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I recap the @TheOnion from 20 years ago @Onion20yrslater. Was @sbleaders. Increasingly a reader here, not a poster. Header: My grandparents in 1954.
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Joined April 2008
Well, this is the last @SBLeaders for me. Only 2,600 or so of these. What a fun and fulfilling job this has been. https://t.co/Ehlepytf3C
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Bam scoring 83 points is like Brendan Fraser winning an Oscar. He’s really good. I just didn’t see this coming.
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If you score 43 in the first half, as Bam Adebayo just did for the heat, history and the basketball gods obligate you to see how high you can get by the end of the game. I don’t care what the score is or what unwritten rules say about blowouts.
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83 points! 36 free throws made! (Previous NBA record was 28.) This Bam thing has gotta be the weirdest sports thing since Isner-Mahut. Maybe the weirdest ever.
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The lead author of the Times Khamenei obituary started there in 1981 and was “the last Reuters correspondent known to have filed dispatches by carrier pigeon.”
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20 years ago, The Onion reimagined John Henry as a man fighting Excel by hand. What is the 2026 version? Hand-coding vs. OpenClaw? This and much, much more from 20 years ago today https://t.co/5Ak7lJ1GkO
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I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then
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Hegseth is making a spectacle of punishing Anthropic — just as ICE made a spectacle of murdering Alex Pretti and Renee Good, just as the PRC made an example of Jack Ma for criticizing Chinese regulators. This obviously isn't about national security or antiwokeness or anything
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted
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Sitting directly next to Alex Ovechkin at Eebee’s wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are…
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The CEOs don’t say it this way because it’s not what they believe! They believe they’re shepherding an extremely destabilizing, yet inevitable technology. And the proof of that is that they started out with these highly exotic corporate structures.
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I think it is very impressive that the Pitt has managed to amass a near-cultlike fanbase of individuals who have never encountered such narrative devices as ‘characters who say one thing but mean another,’ or story arcs
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This time last year, I looked back at one of my favorite Onion gimmicks: Treating People's Sexiest Man Alive like the presidency. Plus, a simpler time when joking about Minnesota and its federal funding wasn't a fault line in the culture wars. https://t.co/3zvLojwDmS
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20 years ago, The Onion’s website shared audio of Dick Cheney explaining why he shot that guy — but added cannibalism. Plus, so much more from The Onion’s web-only content of 20 years ago. https://t.co/Vh0dCzk09G
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the thing is: taste comes from reps! it comes from consuming a lot of stuff—mostly good stuff—and absorbing intuitively what you like, the details of what makes something good, etc AI has also... done lots of reps! it's trained on more data than you'll ever see; rather, its
I hate to break this to everyone, but you probably don't have better taste than the AI. If you ask any leading model about a product decision with guidance: "don't tell me to ask users; just reason through it yourself." It will give you a better answer than 90% of PMs. A lot
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20 years ago, The Onion wrote about Hamas and Israel. Let's revisit the least controversial topic possible. Plus, jokes about the Senate, dolphins, Denny's, podcasts, Millard Fillmore and more. https://t.co/av9nvImxPE
#theonion #satire
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This is shortsighted. For me, Gallup's polling is a go-to for my work covering The Onion’s past because of its long history in pinpointing, with reasonably certainty, how the public felt about issues at the time, including the president's performance. https://t.co/klXzmydnoN
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Gallup, one of the country’s most well-known polling firms, announced Wednesday that they will no longer track presidential approval or favorability of political figures. The move ends the longest-...
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I went to DC to talk to people across the political spectrum (& see some data centers) and concluded that we are *really* not ready for how much people hate AI new scene report on my week with the AI populists: https://t.co/WRmfolVllS
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20 years ago, The Onion previewed the Winter Olympics in Italy. Plus, web-only jokes about Dick Cheney shooting that guy, AOL, the NBA, "Sesame Street" and more. https://t.co/bOhpMMqlpN
#theonion #satire
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“When the Nats won the World Series in 2019, there were no fewer than seven professional outlets that covered the team on a regular basis. For the last few days, that number has been reduced to one: https://t.co/XAWlP0N1wD.” Make it two
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I love the NBA. I’m in the top 1% of fans. Idk how a league defends willfully doing this to its product. It’s just pathetic.
Add this to the tanking files. The Jazz led the Magic 94-87 going into the fourth quarter tonight. Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr. had already combined for 49 points, but they were held out for the entire fourth. Utah lost the game 120-117.
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20 years ago, The Onion warned of death, romance and Wal-Mart. What if Donald Rumsfeld hosted an informercial? Plus, jokes about Nancy Grace, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and much more. https://t.co/nSvXO07BMN
#theonion #satire
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