Author: insighter

  Opinion Source: Michael Baker X, I Meme Therefore I Am X The former President Donald Trump attended UFC 299 in Miami, Florida on Saturday night with his daughter Ivanka and with the NFL stars Joe Burrow and Nick Bosa. Trump Attends UFC Event The New York Post reported that Trump entered the Kaseya Center alongside UFC President Dana White to a resounding round of applause as Kid Rock’s “American Badass” played in the arena. Trump then shook hands with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and former ESPN host Sage Steele before waving to the crowd. Trump sat with his daughter Ivanka…

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  Brunson is starting to look like the second coming of Chris Paul, just without the lousy attitude. He is making his teammates better at a clip even his former teammate Dončić can’t claim, elevating the Knicks’ deep roster with a next-man-up mentality after numerous injuries. He can seemingly play with anyone, as the team has traded all of their young core for veterans without missing a beat. What makes Brunson great is his footwork in the paint, increasingly lethal three-point shot (40.3%), and unrelenting desire to get better. This season, his career high in points, 27.1 PG, is good…

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Coroner’s office in US state of South Carolina says 62-year-old former Boeing employee died on Saturday. A former Boeing employee who blew the whistle on alleged safety problems at the aircraft manufacturing giant has been found dead. John Barnett, 62, died on Saturday from an apparent “self-inflicted” wound, a coroner in South Carolina in the United States said on Monday. “Charleston City Police Department is the investigating agency. No further details are available at this time,” the office of Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal told Al Jazeera in a statement. Boeing, where Barnett worked for more than three decades…

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  Jamie Dimon said he wouldn’t take the prospect of a recession in the US “off the table,” but that the Federal Reserve should wait before it cuts interest rates. “The world is pricing in a soft landing, at probably 70-80%,” the JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer said via video link at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney on Tuesday. “I think the chance of a soft landing in the next year or two is half that. The worst case would be stagflation.” Dimon said economic indicators have been distorted by Covid-19 and he takes them…

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Whenever people ask me what my most memorable travel destination is, I always have an immediate answer – Thailand. It’s simply magical. The people are incredibly warm and friendly, the food is delicious, the beaches and mountains are stunning, and the cost of living is surprisingly affordable. There are tons of pros of living in Thailand. Of course, nowhere is entirely perfect. Even the Land of Smiles has its downfalls, and there are a few cons of living in Thailand to consider before traveling long-term or making a more permanent move. I’ve compiled all of the pros and cons of…

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Midjourney says it has banned Stability AI staffers from using its service, accusing employees at the rival generative AI company of causing a systems outage earlier this month during an attempt to scrape Midjourney’s data. Midjourney posted an update to its Discord server on March 2nd that acknowledged an extended server outage was preventing generated images from appearing in user galleries. In a summary of a business update call on March 6th, Midjourney claimed that “botnet-like activity from paid accounts” — which the company specifically links to Stability AI employees — was behind the outage. According to Midjourney user Nick…

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  Opinion Screenshot YouTube : Face the Nation Earlier this month, the director of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Steven Dettelbach, sat with Margaret Brennan on CBS’ Face the Nation to discuss gun violence and gun laws in the United States. In addition to the interview, Director Dettelbach provided a hands-on demonstration with what he dubbed one of ATF’s “leading experts” to educate CBS viewers on threats such as the often dubbed “ghost guns.” The segment was less about educating and more about advocacy, with Ms. Brennan acting as a willing participant to push the narrative that guns are…

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After having been out of the public eye since mid-January, Kate Middleton has fueled new speculation about her whereabouts when Kensington Palace issued a family photo for UK Mother’s Day on Sunday. Kensington Palace posted the photograph of the Princess of Wales with her three children (Prince George, 10; Princess Charlotte, 8; and Prince Louis, 5). This was the first photo she had released of herself and her family since undergoing surgery in January. The photo, posted on X and Instagram, was also issued by the major news wire services. But they all quickly yanked the image, issuing “kill notices”…

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  Sam Presti is the only NBA executive ever to draft three future MVPs and he did it in three consecutive drafts. It’s a maniacal stroke of luck and an exercise of risk/reward, chance and foresight. By doing so, Presti at the time guaranteed short-term success for the soon-to-be relocated Seattle Sonics into the Oklahoma City Thunder. The new franchise would operate in the league’s smallest market and need super-sized star power to sustain them financially and competitively. Presti delivered by selecting Kevin Durant second in 2007, Russell Westbrook fourth in 2008, and James Harden third in 2009. While epic,…

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