Thursday, April 22, 2021
Good article about "the spectacular, comical failure of the Super League"
A wide-ranging interview. Here's one excerpt:
if you go back and look at what happened, the biggest sport in the United States once was football. This was in the 19th century. Everybody came over, and the immigrants played. I mean, St. Louis had a professional league, Chicago had a professional league, and then there was this move after the 1880s. And it's sort of an anti-immigrant wave to make people more American and to break down these ethnic boundaries that were becoming political flashpoints. And one of the ways that this was done was by inventing “American” sports. So baseball was the front-runner on this, and then it became football -- or the American understanding of football. These were all attempts to forge a collective identity. Because of that, American sports have never been endogenous grassroots. It's always in a sense been -- I don't want to say "manufactured", but essentially "manufactured", right?
Did the head of a Turkish cryptocurrency exchange flee the country with as much as $2 billion in investors' assets?
DW:
Turkish news agency HaberTurk said Thodex suspended trading after running a promotional campaign that sold Dogecoins at a rebate but did not allow investors to sell.
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Turkish security officials have released a photo of [Thodex's founder] going through passport control at Istanbul airport on his way to an unspecified location.
Jon Klassen's new all ages book is really great
Comedic suspense, a scifi turn. Really fun. There's a coupon at Amazon at this moment, so it's close to half off.
Today's funny posts
If "Erotic City" is trending because it is the fifth anniversary of your death, your life was definitely something else pic.twitter.com/gS2mC8lHs5
— Tom Ceraulo (@tceraulo) April 21, 2021
Do you dare risk the Man Engine?; Tom and Jerry custom XBox; Cursed Lego Mario calls out for his brother
I just found out about the "man engine," a real elevator system that was used in mining in 19th century Germany. So apparently that's what the structure/challenge that's in every 80s/90s platformer is called. pic.twitter.com/GeVwjXur8D
— brandon sheffield (@necrosofty) April 19, 2021
He did the top part now! 👀
— X̷ßƲᕲZ (@Xbudz) April 19, 2021
Looks so good. pic.twitter.com/phcjGBkKuf
Everyone is understandably angry about this and the implications of toys adding in ads but I'm losing my mind at the idea of patching Loneliness Into A Toy. Mario cries to the darkness for nothing https://t.co/a0E0Uinvf9
— Zack @ Writing Too Much! (@Skeletondoggy) April 18, 2021
Yes! Its me! 😊 I did the makeup & hair for a Mortal Kombat video game!! #MortalKombat https://t.co/kbgv631qA3
— REBEL not reba (@RebelTanea) April 15, 2021
More #MortalKombat video game pics I did, since ur so curious pic.twitter.com/3hY2kr5Vb3
— REBEL not reba (@RebelTanea) April 16, 2021
Disney princesses as Mortal Kombat characters #1: Cinderella as Sonya Blade 💚💫 #MortalKombat #Disney pic.twitter.com/UCl5urjEXJ
— ☆ (@clrsart) April 19, 2021
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