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There is a big risk of Endeavor pissing off enough fight fans of their different brands that they will take a break from consumption.

A fair amount of UFC fans want nothing to do with WWE. Some WWE fans want nothing to do with UFC or bull riding.

But the private equity guys are playing the odds and hoping they can peel a few fans here and …

Mark Shapiro's Slop Synergy system for TKO

What Ari Emanuel is attempting with Endeavor/TKO has never been attempted before. He’s the most powerful man in combat sports history and there’s every indication this is just a pump and dump for him.

Monopoly money: UFC & WWE is morphing TKO into a government cartel

Where is the substack hip hop community at? Like the fans of rap in general but also the ppl who really love boom bap shit? People who still listen to backpack rap but also know about the young torchbearers?

I need to connect with those folk.

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Catching up with new records by Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, James Brandon Lewis, Ty Segall’s Freckle, Guided By Voices, Andy Fairweather Low, Joe Ely and the Jellybricks.

On the Stereo: Sharon Van Etten, James Brandon Lewis, Ty Segall's Freckle, GBV

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How to Design A Self-Guided Study

for the first time— and it brings me no joy to admit this— an LLM has produced writing I think is actually good

DeepSeek’s new r1 model was able to take some extremely rough bullet points and generate interesting prose from it (tried 2 styles), pulling its own supporting evidence from a book I only named.

I did a side-by-side test with ChatGPT and Claude, and it isn’t comparable. r1 is a better thinking/brainstorm partner too

even though I expected LLMs to meet/surpass human prose soon, it’s still disorienting to see it starting to happen

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