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We are all going to die soon. I bring terrifying news:
San Diego Lincoln 2025 quarterback Akili Smith Jr., was one of the standouts at Future 50 last month at IMG Academy in Florida. The Top247 prospect said he has a loose top three, not an official group, but the one he’s working with right now and it includes Florida, Michigan and Oregon.
The existence of a recruitable Akili Smith Jr. has caused me to drink from the wrong grail. If I find out there's a JJ McCarthy Jr in the 2026 class I'm going to evaporate.
I'm not joining "Threads." Elon Musk is currently running Twitter into the ground but "Facebook but narrower" is not something I will tolerate, folks. I do not want an algorithm populating my social media feed. I want it to be the maniacs I follow in chronological order. If Bluesky attains critical mass I'll migrate, but the sheer number of people I've blocked on Twitter is a critical advantage for that platform. Someone step in and buy it from Musk, please.
[After THE JUMP: Fred Jackson!]
Continued portaling. A new name in the portal that's relevant:
West Virginia’s Jose Perez hits the portal.
— Trilly Donovan (@trillydonovan) July 5, 2023
Expect Michigan to be a player here. https://t.co/OcC6SaubBv
Perez has been at Gardner-Webb, Marquette, and Manhattan before a sit-out year at WVU. At lower levels he's been a massive-usage 6'5" point guard who gets to the line a ton but is otherwise dubiously efficient. His year at Marquette saw him get four minutes a game and doesn't mean much of anything. Perez is a career 30% three-point shooter, but he probably has some upside there since he was a ball-dominant guy sucking up 33% usage at Manhattan and if he ends up at Michigan he's likely to be a relatively low usage wing.
Michigan needs another 2/3. Perez isn't Caleb Love but he's an interesting prospect.
Bellamy on McCarthy. A JJ McCarthy great leap forward is something Michigan is banking on this year, and Ron Bellamy thinks it'll happen:
Speaking on “In the Trenches,” a Michigan Athletics podcast, Bellamy referred to J.J. McCarthy as “one of the best leaders I’ve been around”
“J.J. can make every throw,” Bellamy said. “He can make every throw, and the most dangerous part about J.J. is he can extend plays. Receivers love that — DBs lose sight of receivers and you’re running down the field open. J.J. is a complete quarterback, and just just watching him go through progressions, just watching him — whatever the coaches put on his plate, he was able to chew it up and digest it and then go out there on the field and execute it.
“We’re super excited about J.J. — especially as a football team, but in particular in our receiver room, we know that we have the best quarterback in America.”
From your lips, etc.
I'm not sure I agree 100% with your policework there. Devin Gardner discussed Kirk Campbell on Sam Webb's show recently, and:
Devin Gardner: “Last night I talked about the conversation I had a couple years ago I think when Kirk Campbell first got on the staff. And Fred Jackson is not just throwing out praise willy nilly. Fred Jackson is pretty stern in his approach on many things. And it was so unprompted. He's just like, 'listen, if you want to know anything about this offense… and he used different words that can't be used on the radio... and he was pointing at Kirk Campbell... he said, 'you need to talk to him if you want to learn anything about this offense.' And that was way before anybody even thought that we needed a new quarterback coach or whatever the case may be.”
I have no doubt that Campbell is a wunderkind and that Gardner's substantially right here, but FRED JACKSON IS NOT JUST THROWING OUT PRAISE WILLY-NILLY?!? Fred Jackson said Avery Horn was "Mike Hart but fast." I was going to make up some sort of entertaining hyperbole there but remembered the actual thing, and decided hyperbole was unnecessary.
Important hockey item. Michigan goalie commit Stephen Peck is coming in next year, and did we know the nickname of Avon Old Farms?
G Stephen Peck of Avon Old Farms headed to Rangers development camp. Michigan commit backstopped Winged Beavers to New England Elite 8 title last season
— Mark Divver (@MarkDivver) June 30, 2023
Winged Beavers! Beavers do not have wings. Avon Old Farms does not care. I'm putting an accent over that E in "winged" in my mind, because Avon Old Farms is fancy.
Various less important hockey items. Adam Fantilli signed with the Blue Jackets, of course. As soon as Anaheim didn't pick him that was likely foreordained. Alas, and good luck in the league.
Arizona State has been accepted into the NCHC, giving a major-college program a home for the first time. That gives the NCHC an awkward nine teams and may open the door for Miami—currently getting crushed—to move to the new CCHA. The linked article addresses that, saying Miami has no plans to relocate, FWIW.
Corey Pronman's initial 2024 mock draft has commit Michael Hage going 17th to Buffalo. Michigan is also after #7 Artyom Levshunov and #19 RJ Emery. College hockey-bound players go 1-2 as BU commit Macklin Celebrini and Minnesota commit Cole Eiserman are the top end of next year's draft.
Connor Earegood projects next year's lines. Michigan's likely to stick BC's former captain on their third pairing, which is a hell of a luxury. The forward corps is not quite as loaded as last year's but Michigan will be considerably more experienced—the only freshman in the top nine, Nick Moldenhauer, already had his D+1 year in Chicago. That's a major change from last year when the majority of the top nine was new to college hockey.
Etc.: Michigan won 13 Big Ten titles this year. Sokay. Birthday distribution in elite hockey players is wild.
I think complaining about Twitter is just the "in" thing to do. It's still by far the best social media platform, and it doesn't even make a profit. Excuse me while I laugh when I think bluesky, threads or whatever else pops up is going to do it better
What do you mean by "best" here?
Maybe he meant "best at self-immolating"? I mean, Twitter managed to DDOS itself so badly they had to rate limit how many Tweets users could view lmao
Twitter has never had a competitor with the scale and heft of IG-backed Threads. Twitter is by all accounts in a financial and PR death-spiral. The timing couldn't be better for a rival. And god I hope the rival kills it. Twitter is a cesspool.
Context: The other competitors are obscure start-ups with somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 subscribers. Threads signed-up 30 millions users in its first 24 hours.
Yes it's the best but it's gotten markedly worse and quickly. Mostly due to one man that can't handle people trolling him and lashing out like a child.
"best social media platform" is quite the accolade.
I ditched it when Musk bought it and won't go back until he sells it. The amount of crazy and filth on there is completely out of control.
I’ve said this before here, but if Elon does in fact torpedo Twitter, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for basically saving humanity.
hasnt that always been the case?
i dont really use social apps other than linkedin for work but it seems like billions of accounts on twitter, facebook, etc will always lead to filth. just a ripe environment, no? or its really gotten noticeably worse?
Studies suggest it has gotten noticably worse
Letting the worst posters on the site go to the very top of every comment thread for 8 bucks a month has made wading through trash takes much, much worse.
Are you saying there wasn't an insane amount of crazy and filth on there before Musk?
perhaps there could be varying degrees of crazy and filth! it's not all or nothing
Elon unbanned a bunch of Nazis and racists who got banned for being Nazis and racists, it's not surprising that things got worse.
But one of the biggest changes is with viral posts you'd also see funny replies with them, and because they were funny they'd get lots of likes and be pushed to the top of replies. Now instead you see nothing but unfunny bluechecks who paid to push their unfunny dreck to the top. It's a serious downgrade.
IIRC, Louis Farrakhan and M Ahmadinjad (former Iran president) ran amok with antisemetic rhetoric for years without being banned from Twitter under the Costello and Dorsey years.
Lest we forget that several terrorist groups used Twitter to recruit.
#neverforget
Thank you for your service.
The amount of crazy and filth on there is completely out of control.
The amount of crazy and filth on there is completely out of control and HAS BEEN SINCE THE INCEPTION OF TWITTER.
I fixed that for you.
Be honest, Vlad. The only reason you won't go back is his politics. Twitter has always been a shithole and always WILL be a shithole.
Besides, don't you have a war to go Lose?
twitter hasn't always been terrible. it was a really fun place for the early adopters, with WAY less trolling.
You just described every single popular message board, ever.
boy, is that ever true.
As someone who does not have a Twitter account and whose opinion of Musk as a person and businessman is.... not great, I find myself perversely grateful that due to lack of Twit account, I now cannot look at Twitter dialogue on my browser. If he follows that up by buying Ticketmaster, I may have to seriously rethink my opinion of him.
I used to love Twitter. It was never perfect, but after I had been on it long enough to get the followers I wanted and the right accounts in my feed, it was generally high-quality content. Twitter also led to a number of media opportunities for me and helped me connect with some prominent people in my field.
Musk ruined it.
Since then I have been eagerly awaiting its replacement. But Mastodon is terrible, Post just hasn't gotten off the ground, and Threads doesn't seem like it's going to be the answer either.
I don't understand why somebody doesn't just launch "Twitter for non-dipwads," but certainly it must be more complicated than it seems.
Musk ruined it lol.
NOT the tech overlords who previously ran it who shadow ban, allow pedophilia and child trafficking to propagate, and allowed ISIS, ANTIFA, and Boko Haram to coordinate and promote attacks while banning Americans from free speech.
Yes, it was SOOO much better back then. LOL
From the perspective of an ordinary user, Twitter was fine until Musk bought it and started messing with it.
Is Monkey House the Twitter COO?
Twitter is easily the best social media platform if you love the most toxic, vile, hate-filled, attention mongers routinely astroturfing the platform with their delusions and man child, big brain opinions.
So basically exactly the same as every other social media platform?
As far as I’m concerned they are ALL tied for best (or worst) depending on who you follow and what your expectations are.
True. There is a lot of toxicity on just about every platform, but Twitter is amped up to 11 with its short-form nature lending naturally to easily create and distribute mindless filth born out of man's base emotions. Since Elon has taken over, it also has the worst content moderation of any platform, and it's not close.
Since Elon has taken over, it also has the worst content moderation of any platform, and it's not close.
Source? NPR/CNN/CNBC don't count.
Cherry-picking "Boogeyman" media outlets while asking for a source is the only source I need to know you haven't thought critically about the topic before responding.
Have a nice day! :)
Does the BBC link I posted above count?
newmax/oan/fox (but only if its at least 2 years old) are the only acceptable links.
This is the right take.
Criticizing Twitter amounts to nothing more than an attempt to showcase one's perceived moral superiority. Are you also active on TikTok or Facebook? If so, it would be hypocritical to pass judgment. Just admit that you dislike Elon because of his politics and move on. No need to virtue signal or act as if you are better than others.
I'll admit it: I think Elon Musk is a fraud, and I dislike him because of his politics.
Was it his Obama, Obama, Clinton, or Biden vote that was the last straw.
I supported Bernie Sanders in the those elections, so I'm not impressed. And Musk uses his platform on twitter to bray his shitty takes to the world daily, so there's no mystery here.
Oh so you are like full-Cuba.
Were you mad when they were like “oh wait a minute, what about the SUPER delegates? That’s a thing, right?”
Lol.
Oh so you are like full-MAGA.
Were you mad when the 1/6 Insurrection failed? All that time spent storming the place and erecting a gallows and didn't even get the chance to hang any libs!
Lol.
Sure, Nicole Wallace. The no-gun "insurrection." It was just so close to.... postponing a vote until the next day.
Okay, Tucker Carlson. It was "no-gun" because the Secret Service pulled people with guns out of the crowd while Trump was still ranting on-stage. They literally broke into Congress and roamed the halls searching offices and running onto the congressional floor. They were screaming "Hang Mike Pence!" and had actually built the gallows outside. That they were unsuccessful is mostly due to the fact that it was a riot powered by anarchy and mayhem stoked by Trump, and also because they're Fox and OAN viewers--not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Yes I watched that reality show also. It was edited nicely and had stunning cinematography.
I think it's more his recent trend of boosting election deniers, anti-vaxxers, and bigots on the platform than his voting history. I think that is what the poster is referring to.
Nobody denies that an election took place in 2020. Come on that’s ridiculous.
Politics? Musk has:
- Called a guy who played a key role in rescuing the kids in the Thai cave "pedo guy" when Musk's offer to help was rebuffed
- Said that working from home is immoral while not paying rent on multiple offices
- Refused to pay for the arbitration (required by their contract with Twitter) for employees who are trying to get the severance he promised them and has not paid
- Not told an employee with muscular dystrophy he'd been laid off for over a week, then made fun of the guy on twitter when he asked, then backtracked when he realized he'd have to pay the guy a large sum of money after firing him
Politics ain't got nothing to do with it.
Hey there! Not active on Facebook or TikTok. Used to be in Facebook a long time ago, but more of a lurker there. Was very active on Twitter before and after Elon took over. It was fine for a little while, but the eventual difference in experience and negativity was as clear as night and day.
There are studies that have proven negative content in tweets go viral at a much higher rate than positive or neutral. The place has become a toxic dump for hate speech, neckbeards, and propagandists.
Twitter is easily the best social media platform if you love the most toxic, vile, hate-filled, attention mongers routinely astroturfing the platform with their delusions and man child, big brain opinions.
FAKEBOOK is easily the best social media platform if you love the most toxic, vile, hate-filled, attention mongers routinely astroturfing the platform with their delusions and man child, big brain opinions.
Just change the name and the same garbage can be said about a different tech Monarch.
Twitter is easily the best social media platform if you love the most toxic, vile, hate-filled, attention mongers routinely astroturfing the platform with their delusions and man child, big brain opinions.
FAKEBOOK is easily the best social media platform if you love the most toxic, vile, hate-filled, attention mongers routinely astroturfing the platform with their delusions and man child, big brain opinions.
Just change the name and the same garbage can be said about a different tech Monarch.
Zuck is an absolute cyborg with the empathy and care of a rock. Musk somehow looked at that rock and said "hold my beer". He's a man child, and, if we are all lucky, will be on the first SpaceX rocket to Mars.
Twitter is substantially worse and has gotten exponentially so since Musk took over. Just maintaining what was would have been far better. Elon has no clothes.
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