Year: 2026

Hull City 0-4 Chelsea: Supporters’ group condemns homophobic chants as ‘a disgrace to the game’ after arrests

Hull City 0-4 Chelsea: Supporters’ group condemns homophobic chants as ‘a disgrace to the game’ after arrests

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Chelsea Pride, the club's official LGBTQ+ supporters group, said in a statement: "Tonight, homophobic chants were once again directed at our supporters. This is completely unacceptable."โ€œWe acknowledge that Hull City made announcements around the stadium, confirmed that CCTV was being monitored, and that arrests had been made. Action matters, accountability matters, and consequences matter.โ€œBut let's be clear, the fact that this chant can still be heard in 2026 is a disgrace to our game.โ€English club Chelsea defeated its rival in the tournament with a score…
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Lago Blog | Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing

Lago Blog | Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: When Stripe acquired Metronome for roughly a billion dollars in January 2026, most people focused on the price tag. But I kept coming back to a simpler question: why couldn't Stripe just build this themselves?They have thousands of engineers. They're printing money. Metering and billing is literally adjacent to what they already do. So why drop a billion on capabilities that should have been a straightforward extension of Stripe Billing?Turns out the answer tells you a lot about software architecture and how early design…
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Virginia’s redistricting election will move forward while the state Supreme Court hears the appeal

Virginia’s redistricting election will move forward while the state Supreme Court hears the appeal

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: congressional redistricting,redistricting,virginia ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Virginia voters will be able to cast ballots on a plan to redistrict congressional districts in favor of Democrats, while a court battle rages over the legality of the effort. The Virginia Supreme Court said Friday that a statewide referendum could be held April 21 on whether to allow redistricting in the middle of the decade, and the court will decide at a later date whether the plan is legal. He watches: How retirements and redistricting could affect the 2026 midterm…
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Rory McIlroy with work by Akshay Bhatia and Ryo Hisatsune

Rory McIlroy with work by Akshay Bhatia and Ryo Hisatsune

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Akshay Bhatia shot an eight-under par 64 to share the second round lead with Ryo Hisatsune at 15 under par at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Defending champion Rory McIlroy birdied the final hole to post a 67 but is six strokes off the pace heading into the weekend. The Northern Irishman made five birdies and an eagle, but was left to rue bogeys on the 10th and 14th, although his four-putt on the 18th was more than satisfactory for the five-time major winner's…
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‘It’s over for us’: Launch of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 scares Hollywood | film

‘It’s over for us’: Launch of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 scares Hollywood | film

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,AI (artificial intelligence),Film industry,Business,Computing,Culture,Technology ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€œIt's probably over for us,โ€ a senior Hollywood figure has warned, after watching a widely shared AI-generated clip showing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting.Rhett Reese, co-creator of Deadpool & Wolverine, Zombieland and Now You See Me: Now You Don't, was reacting to a 15-second video showing Cruise and Pitt being punched on a bridge filled with rubble, posted by Irish director Ruairi Robinson, the director of the 2013 sci-fi horror film The Last Days on Mars. Reposting the…
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A Stanford graduate student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; Now, Date Drop is the foundation of his new startup

A Stanford graduate student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; Now, Date Drop is the foundation of his new startup

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Apps,date drop,dating apps,henry weng โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: As Valentine's Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates โ€” not with people they met on Tinder or Hinge, but with matches from a service called Date Drop, designed by Stanford graduate student Henry Wong. Date Drop pairs students with potential dates once a week based on their answers to a survey. A kid genius at Stanford tries to disrupt an established industry from his Palo Alto pad? Stop me if you've heard this before! But…
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Hull City 0-4 Chelsea: Liam Delap misses the sitter but makes three goals in the FA Cup

Hull City 0-4 Chelsea: Liam Delap misses the sitter but makes three goals in the FA Cup

โœจ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: However, he showed no urgency to put the rebound into the net.Delap first raised his arm in celebration, then pleaded with the officials, before collecting the loose ball and curling a shot past the recovering Phillips.Alan Shearer, the all-time top scorer in the English Premier League, said to BBC One during his commentary on the match: โ€œOh my God, what is Delap doing? โ€œIt's as if he's thinking, 'I have all the time in the world.' He indulges in it and takes his time. What…
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AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I've returned to the HackerNews article and the blog post written by Scott Shambaugh a few times now. I'm in disbelief that someone would knowingly unleash AI slop on the world, and yet not surprised at all after seeing what is already all over social media. Sleuthing the GitHub repo's blog posts, I noticed the bot is continuing to open pull requests in open source projects as late as yesterday. I thought after Scott's post, that would be the last we would hear from…
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Trump says a change of power in Iran would be “best” after sending a second aircraft carrier to the region

Trump says a change of power in Iran would be “best” after sending a second aircraft carrier to the region

โœจ Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Donald Trump news,Iran ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” President Donald Trump said Friday that a change of power in Iran โ€œwould be the best thing that could happenโ€ as the U.S. administration considers whether to take military action against Tehran. Trump made the comments shortly after his visit to troops at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, after confirming earlier today that it would deploy a second group of aircraft carriers in the Middle East. โ€œIt seems like that would be the best thing that could…
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Shadowlands Review โ€“ Hugh Bonneville’s Magic in a Screaming Cry Like an Old Library | platform

Shadowlands Review โ€“ Hugh Bonneville’s Magic in a Screaming Cry Like an Old Library | platform

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Culture,Hugh Bonneville,CS Lewis ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TThe drama of love and loss in Shadowlands has played an influential role in film and television. William Nicholson's view of C.S. Lewis's marriage to an American divorcee is one of the famous writer's belated passion, terminal illness, and crisis of Christian faith. In all its iterations, it's good old-fashioned crying. In this production, originally staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, it feels very old-fashioned.It has charm and pulls you into its melancholy but it looks as creaky as the…
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