The Clippers separated practice by starters and bench unit.... Starters today: Harden, Bogdanovic, Kawhi, Derrick Jones, Zubac Bench: CP3, Dunn, Batum, Collins, Lopezshow more

"Theres no drop off between the starters & the... bench- the bench WE came in and did a great job, we'll see how it goes from here." - Cam Thomas It seems CT is accepting his 6th man role off the bench 30pt on 19.48mins and 9 for 15 is efficient. #Netsworldshow more

"That was beautiful. We don't back down from anybody.... And they didn't." Draymond LOVED seeing the Dubs' bench players scuffle with the Rockets starters late in game five🫡show more

Russell Westbrook just missed the free throw, got his... own rebound, put it back up and scored 👀 Had James Harden in confusion and then started chirping at the Clippers bench… WOW! 🤯show more

I lost my streak on day 11😅 Took Ant... Over 25.5 Pts LIVE at the end of the third, as he had 25 so needed one more point in the entire 4th quarter in a 12 point game. He was 30.5 on other books. An AMAZING play. He didn’t get a single point the rest of the game. Wolves bench went on a run vs Spurs starters, spurs yanked early, and Finch told Ant not to go in. Starting over tommorow on HERE❤️⬇️show more

Introducing HermesAgent-20, a new Bench Pack for BenchLocal. 20... scenarios extracted straight from the Hermes Agent source code, run against a REAL Hermes instance. The actual workload you'd put your model through. Why I built BenchLocal in the first place: most benchmarks are too abstract. We use local LLMs for practical work, and finding the right model for YOUR task efficiently is the single most important thing, especially when you're constrained to what fits on your machine. BenchLocal is a framework: providers, models, side-by-side comparison, all in one UI. Bench Packs are the unit of testing: ToolCall-15 and BugFind-15 shipped first, and when I launched the BenchLocal 0.1.0, added StructOutput, ReasonMath, InstructFollow, DataExtract. Now, HermesAgent-20 is the newest. Bench Packs install like VS Code extensions. The SDK is open, write your own, share it, grow the ecosystem. Here's the goal: a community-built, practical evaluation layer for the local LLM space. Early numbers on HermesAgent-20: > GLM 5.1 — 85 > Gemma4 31B — 83 > Qwen3.5 27B — 79 > MiniMax M2.7 — 76 Upgrade to the latest BenchLocal to install HermesAgent-20 (SDK update required).show more

The Cardinals are closing in on a deal with... INF Ramón Urías (31) per Jeff Jones Urías had a down year in 2025 offensively slashing .241/.292/.384 for a .675 OPS and a 88 OPS+ with 11 homers, though for his career he is a .257/.321/.403 hitter for a .723 OPS and a 104 OPS+. In 2025 Urías was good against left handed pitchers posting a .262/.322/.421 slash line. Urías also bounced back defensively posting 5 OAA and 12 DRS after posting -9 OAA and -3 DRS in 2024. This allowed Urías to post a 2.2 bWAR despite a down offensive campaign. Urías has put up 1.5 or more bWAR every season since 2021. Urías brings a consistent player who can play in both a bench or starters role at 2B or 3B and should be the veteran presence the Cardinals were looking for this offseason.show more

It takes GRIT and sacrifice to play Div 1... Soccer. Self reflect and ask yourself these questions: 1. Will you get up for early AM lifts and not just drag yourself there but arrive happy and energized, eager to work and motivate your teammates? 2. Are you ready to miss family events—weddings, birthdays and be separated from your parents for longer than you ever have before? 3. Can you manage every aspect of your life for the first time by yourself, before you even throw in the rigors and demands of a sport? 4. Can you survive in an environment where you are defined by your sport and have very little social life existence outside of athletic and academic obligations? 5. Can you handle the mental challenge of going from the super star to possibly bottom of the roster, sitting on the bench, and/or not traveling with the team? 6. Will you be genuinely happy for your roommate who is getting all the playing time and attention while you’re getting none? If all answers are a resounding YES than you are built for this, but it’s not for everyone. And actually not for most. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. College Soccer Truth ™ ECNL/GA/Recruiting/College Soccershow more

Big win for open-source LLMs! DeepSeek V4 Pro holds... the top open-weights score on SWE-bench Verified, in the GPT-5.5 range. GLM 5.2 leads the open-weight intelligence index and sits near the closed frontier on long-horizon coding. But this leaderboard number is a weak proxy for real performance. It comes from one task set, run through one harness, served at one precision. The same weights can even score differently across providers, since many hosts quantize activations to fp8 and drift the model off its reference weights. Real performance is determined based on whether a model can read a repo, make coordinated edits across files, run the tests, and recover when one breaks. By that measure, the top open models hold up, but only inside the right harness. The teams that actually put DeepSeek V4 into production pipelines as a frontier substitute got there through the harness they built around the model, not by picking a stronger model. If you want to see this in practice, Cline (64k+ stars) has actually built that harness around open models, tuned so they run at production quality. And it's tuned so that these LLMs can run at production quality, with plan and act modes, checkpoints, and terminal feedback. ClinePass is the new access layer on top of it. It runs a curated set of those models inside Cline, narrowed to the ones tested for coding-agent use, with 2 to 5x the standard rate limits and no separate provider accounts, keys, or billing to track. The video below shows the setup, and I worked with the team to put this together. It runs alongside custom keys and local models as well, not in place of them.show more

🚨Enzo Fernandez on Chelsea fans booing him on his... return to the pitch against Real Sociedad. • Interviewer: Enzo, you came on as a substitute against Real Sociedad and sections of the home crowd booed you. What’s your reaction? 🗣️Enzo: “I heard the boos the moment I stepped onto the pitch. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Supporters have the right to express how they feel — that is football. What I will say is simple and clear: I am a Chelsea player today. The club placed a high valuation, the deadline came and went, and no formal offer — including from Manchester City — arrived. Speculation creates noise. Reality is quieter. I never pushed for an exit in public. I recovered from the World Cup, trained, and made myself available. Coming off the bench today was the only response I know how to give. I understand why some fans feel uneasy. A player of my age attracting interest from a club managed by someone who knows this place well will always create questions. Maturity is facing those questions without drama. I still have years left on my contract. I still have a lot I can give this shirt if the club wants me to give it. The supporters who have backed me from day one know the commitment I bring. Those who chose to boo today will decide for themselves whether they prefer that energy or whether they prefer to see me drive the team forward. I respect both. Character is not about never hearing criticism. Character is continuing to work when the noise is loud. Until the situation changes through the proper channels, that is exactly what I will do.”show more

#Patriots Voluntary OTA Notes [Non-Padded] (6/2): 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 • QB... Drake Maye connected with WR Kayshon Boutte for the play of the day — Maye perfectly placed the ball deep along the left side of the field and Boutte made a fingertip catch. • QB Drake Maye had no turnovers today and he had his best day of open OTAs by far — Maye completed 9 straight passes at one point. • Full QB Stats: Maye 14/16 Dobbs 11/13 Wooldridge 4/8, INT • WRs DeMario Douglas, Kayshon Boutte, Kyle Williams and Efton Chism spent the most time working with QB Drake Maye today. • WR Efton Chism III had 7 receptions on 7 targets and looked to always be open — the undrafted rookie took several snaps with QB Drake Maye and the top offensive unit. • RB Rhamondre Stevenson made an extremely impressive finger-tip grab for a 25-yard gain on a dot from QB Drake Maye. • OL Cole Strange and Wes Schweitzer were the two primary left guards today — that spot on the offensive line is truly a competition. • TE Jaheim Bell had a rough day — the former seventh-round pick had 2 bad drops. • It was a bit of a quiet day for rookie WR Kyle Williams who caught 1 of his 2 targets. • WR Stefon Diggs was limited today working with WR Ja’Lynn Polk off to the side at times — Diggs closely observed the offense towards the end of practice as they practiced plays. • Rookie TE CJ Dippre caught a nice pass thrown by QB Ben Wooldridge up the seam. • Veteran OT Morgan Moses once again stayed after practice to help and give advice to the young offensive lineman. • RG Mike Onwenu says he feels good getting back to an offense he is familiar with — Onwenu adds that he is rehabbing from a hand injury. • RB Rhamondre Stevenson says RBs coach Tony Dews flew to visit him in Las Vegas while Stevenson was dealing with his father’s passing. • Limited: WR Stefon Diggs WR Ja'Lynn Polk OL Mike Onwenu OL Jared Wilson OT Vederian Lowe TE Austin Hooper • Absent: WR Mack Hollins (Present But DNP) WR Kendrick Bourne (Unknown) RB Trayveon Williams (Unknown) OL Tyrese Robinson (Unknown) 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 • DE Keion White was disruptive today — White sacked both QB Drake Maye and QB Josh Dobbs during team drills. • Rookie S Josh Minkins intercepted QB Ben Wooldridge during 11-on—11s • CB Christian Gonzalez, S Jaylinn Hawkins, and LB Monty Rice each had a pass break up. • DT Joshua Farmer batted another pass down during team drills — Farmer has been able to bat passes down consistently during OTAs. • CB Christian Gonzalez gave up a catch to WR Efton Chism — Chism got open after running an impressive dig route. • LB Jahlani Tavai went down during team period and was grabbing his left knee — the veteran had to be helped off the field after staying down for a couple minutes. • CBs Alex Austin and Marcellas Dial spent time in the slot — Austin has consistently taken reps in the slot since the start of OTAs. • The defensive line continues to disrupt the offense. • Limited: DL Jaquelin Roy DL Wilfried Pene • Absent: CB Carlton Davis (Unknown) CB Marcus Jones (Unknown) ED Anfernee Jennings (Unknown) 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 • Field Goals (33-50 Yards) Andy Borregales: 4/4 John Parker Romo: 2/4, missed wide right Borregales has yet to miss during open OTAs. #NEPatsshow more

This post about bench press safety escaped containment and... got a lot of people commenting in disagreement that safeties/spotter arms would've saved him. And in truth, my language below was a little too absolute: safeties MIGHT have saved his life (though even if so, would not have prevented all damage), but it's far from certain that they would have, so I stand by the overall sentiment. I will explain in detail below. The spotter arms have to be set below the top of your arched chest or else they’ll interfere with every rep - you'll clang the bar on the safeties, which not only severely interrupts proper technique and performance, but can also be potentially injurious in its own right as the clanging against the safeties takes you out of the rhythm of the rep and leads to uneven and chaotic force application demands mid-rep. The safeties can’t be set a mere milimeter or even a half inch below the chest: both because most racks have 2-3 inch hole spacings that don't allow such finely calibrated setting, but even if they do - also because as a gross movement pattern, not a fine movement pattern, you can’t control the movement of the bar precisely and accurately enough not to clang the safeties if they’re so close to your chest. Human beings performing gross movement patterns simply lack such fine control: on heavy sets, the bar might be slightly uneven on one side, you might lose a touch of your arch over the course of the set, etc... and end up clanging the safeties anyway, if they're set so close to the top of your arched chest. These issues are not form errors that can be prevented with proper training, but are inherent limitations in the human capability to control gross motor pattern movements at a heavy weight. Thus, the safeties have to be far enough below your chest in order to not interfere with the set itself, such that they can’t possibly catch the bar before it hits your chest in the case of a sudden catastrophic drop. The proper placement for the safeties is far enough below your chest so as not to interfere with the normal execution of the set and so the bar never touches the safeties at all during the set, even with the inherent human limitations of gross motor pattern control. But high enough such tha - if you find yourself unable to successfully press the bar to lockout - you can bring the bar under control back down to your chest, exhale and drop your arch, and the bar will ideally now rest on the safeties instead of your chest and you can crawl and slither out from under it. Worst case, you can roll the bar slightly upwards and the safeties will soon take it, well before it would lie on your neck. I have an example of using the safeties this way in the video below, with 485 lbs. The ability to set this position with precision and accuracy depends on the equipment you're using: Some racks/benches have 1 inch spacings for this purpose, which is excellent and allows greater precision in safety placement, but most common racks have 2-3 inches between holes and thus people must often have the safeties a little lower than they'd ideally be. The main point is the proper use and purpose of safeties in the bench press is not really to catch a very rare catastrophic sudden drop onto your chest, but to allow you to survive the much more common situation of a normal failed rep. Could they theoretically save your life in such a situation where you drop it? Yes, they might. They won't stop the bar before it hits your chest but they might reduce the impact by stopping the bar from going further down and reducing the impact. This may or may not save your life in this rare catastrophic drop situation - it's good to have them there, set up anyway, but it's far from a sure bet. The most important things you can do are to learn and practice good technique, which involves stiff wrists in a very slightly bent back position, and thumbs around the barbell - NO SUICIDE GRIP. The safeties won't catch the bar and stop it from hitting your chest, so it's best to reduce the chances of dropping the bar on your chest from almost zero to even closer to almost zero. I've been bench pressing regularly for well over 20 years, always put my thumbs around the bar, and have never dropped it on myself. Nor has anyone I have coached to the best of my memory, over tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of reps. I have used safeties to successfully avoid getting trapped under the bar after a failed rep. In the video below, I tweaked my pec while pushing through a rep at 485 and had to set the bar on the pins to avoid getting trapped under it. This kind of situation is the primary use for the safeties. It's good to have them set up regardless - they might indeed save you if you somehow still manage to drop the bar, but they also very well might not.show more

Made with Seedance 2.0 on Pollo AI Prompt: CAMERA:... DV 16mm tape camcorder handheld footage feel. Point of view of CHASE holding the camera directly in hand. Maintain hand shake, misaligned framing, delayed focus pull, clumsy zoom in/out, occasional self-cam framing where the face gets cut off, and imperfect shots that lose the subject. Every shot is CHASE holding the camcorder herself, filming in selfie-cam or first-person style. The camcorder itself never appears on screen. LOOK: DV 16mm tape camcorder footage look. Soft, slightly blurry digital tape quality, faint tape noise, highlights that bloom slightly under gym lighting, auto-exposure that flickers subtly, muted color contrast, realistic skin tones. STYLE: Energetic but casual gym-vlog tone — upbeat between sets, a little breathless, genuine laughs, motivational mini-commentary. Handheld throughout, quick cuts, alternating selfie and mirror shots. Character CHASE — a Korean idol @ image in her 20s. Long straight black hair tied up in a high ponytail, elegant yet lovely Korean features, glowing skin with a light post-workout sheen, big eyes. Slim athletic build. Wearing a modest long-sleeve athletic top and loose-fit joggers or leggings, fully covered arms and torso, sneakers, a small towel around her neck. No jewelry. Setting A gym in the early evening — mirror wall, weight rack, a mat area, water bottle on a nearby bench, a few machines visible in the background, soft overhead lighting. Storyboard (~2s, front-facing selfie, arm's length) She walks in, camera up, bright smile despite slight breathlessness. CHASE: "Okay guys, quick workout vlog today!" (~2s, handheld whip pan) Camera sweeps from the weight rack → mirror wall → mat area, then back to her face. CHASE (off-screen, playful): "Gym's pretty quiet right now, perfect timing." (~2s, medium handheld, by the mirror) She checks her form in the mirror mid-stretch, adjusting her ponytail. CHASE: "Just stretching before I start." (~1.5s, macro insert, shallow DOF) Close-up on her hands wrapping around a water bottle cap, condensation on the bottle. No dialogue — ambient gym sound only. (~2s, medium handheld, tracking her) She demonstrates a quick exercise move — a light squat or lunge — glancing at the camera between reps. CHASE: "Just a few of these and I'm already feeling it." (~2s, snappy cut, sitting on a bench) She sits down, takes a sip of water, wipes her face with the towel, exhaling. CHASE: "Okay, water break, definitely needed." (~1.5s, quick punch-in, tight selfie) Cheeks flushed, hair slightly damp, she grins at the lens. CHASE: "This is the sweaty part nobody shows you." (~2s, arm's-length selfie finish) She stands, towel over her shoulder, gives a tired-but-happy wave and thumbs up before reaching to end the recording. CHASE: "Alright, that's a wrap — see you guys!"show more

Made with Seedance on Runway. Prompt: 👇 CAMERA: Handheld... vintage consumer camcorder footage. First-person footage recorded entirely by RILEY as she documents an afternoon working on an old sports car inside a small independent garage. The camera remains physically handheld throughout. Natural hand tremors, crooked framing, occasional autofocus hunting, abrupt zooms, accidental lens obstruction, shaky low-angle shots and quick selfie transitions. She frequently places the camera momentarily on nearby surfaces before picking it back up, creating imperfect improvised compositions. The physical camera is never visible. LOOK: Authentic late-1990s DV home-video aesthetic. Soft slightly degraded image, mild tape noise, subtle chromatic imperfections, occasional exposure shifts, muted highlights, realistic skin tones and warm fluorescent garage lighting. Slightly nostalgic color reproduction without looking artificially stylized. STYLE: Relaxed DIY car-project vlog with a spontaneous, slightly chaotic atmosphere. Riley talks directly to the camera, jokes about mistakes and gets increasingly excited as the repair progresses. The footage feels completely unscripted and personally recorded. CHARACTER: RILEY — a charismatic woman in her late 20s with short messy auburn hair, freckles, expressive eyes and a practical appearance. She wears faded blue mechanic overalls over a plain white T-shirt, worn sneakers and work gloves. A few strands of hair fall across her face while working. Her clothes become slightly dusty and greasy during the repair. SETTING: A cramped independent automotive workshop on a sunny afternoon. Old tool cabinets, hanging fluorescent lights, shelves of spare parts, hydraulic equipment, scattered tools and an iconic vintage sports car occupying the center of the garage. Sunlight enters through a partially open garage door, creating bright patches on the concrete floor. STORYBOARD: (~2s, low-angle handheld shot) The camera enters the garage while RILEY's footsteps approach the old sports car. RILEY (off-camera): “Today we're finally getting this thing running.” (~2s, quick selfie) She crouches beside the car and grins at the lens. RILEY: “Hopefully.” (~2s, fast whip pan) The camera swings across the engine bay, tool bench and piles of spare parts before settling on the open hood. (~2s, close POV) Her gloved hands work on a stubborn component. The camera moves too close and briefly loses focus. RILEY (off-camera): “Come on…” (~2s, sudden handheld reaction shot) The component finally comes loose. RILEY pulls her hand back triumphantly. RILEY: “YES!” (~2s, camera placed on a toolbox) A static-but-imperfect wide shot captures RILEY leaning into the engine bay while she works. She occasionally glances toward the camera. (~2s, low handheld tracking shot) She climbs into the driver's seat. The camera follows awkwardly through the open door. (~2s, dashboard-level POV) The engine suddenly starts. RILEY freezes for a second, then laughs in disbelief. RILEY: “No way. No WAY!” (~2s, excited selfie) She jumps out of the car holding the camera, grinning with dirty hands and grease on her cheek. RILEY: “Okay, I definitely wasn't expecting that.” The camera shakes as she laughs and reaches toward the lens, ending the recording.show more

🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker's War on Truth now disputes... the central Jewish connection to Jerusalem. Tucker Carlson claimed the Kotel, or Western Wall, is merely "believed by some to be a remnant of the Second Temple." It's an odious myth designed to separate Jews from the holiest site in Judaism — and its origins are recent, peddled by the godfather of Palestinian terrorism, Yasser Arafat. And it is a breathtaking level of denialism, precisely because it is so mendacious. There is overwhelming historical and archeological evidence that the Kotel survived from the Second Temple. Simply put, no one serious or credible doubts that the Kotel (Western Wall or Wailing Wall) in what is now the Old City of Jerusalem is the retaining wall of the Temple Mount complex from the time of the Second Temple. Yet Tucker labels it as nothing more than a "claim." Even a century ago, Muslim leaders in Jerusalem in 1925 said its "sanctity" was "beyond dispute" because of it had survived from the Temple. It is only recently that some Palestinians have decided to become, for lack of a better term, Temple Truthers. In 2015, for example, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein bizarrely claimed that there was never any Jewish holy site at the Temple Mount. Hussein, though, was merely echoing Yasser Arafat, who rejected the 2000 Camp David proposal for a Palestinian state on the grounds that there had never been a Jewish holy site at the Temple Mount. Fast forward 15 years later, and the Grand Mufti declared that the site was an "Islamic mosque since the world was created." It's an odd claim given that Islam only dates back to the 7th Century. So why do we know that Temple Truthers are unequivocally wrong? Evidence. Staggering amounts of evidence, in fact. For starters, the Kotel matches the description of famous 1st century historian Josephus — with whom Tucker is quite familiar, having discussed his work during previous interviews. Josephus detailed Herod's expansion from that era, including the exact type of retaining wall matching the Kotel. He even listed measurements for the stones used — which also match the measurements of the stones at the Kotel. Then there's the texture and style of the stones comprising the Kotel. They match the stones from the Herodian era found elsewhere in Jerusalem — which stopped being used shortly afterwards, following the Roman destruction of the city. Most important, though, is what has been found in archeological excavations. Archeologists have unearthed more than three dozens of mikva'ot, or ritual Jewish baths, just outside the perimeter of the Temple Mount complex. Jewish pilgrims, in accordance with Jewish law, would ritually cleanse themselves in mikva'ot before entering the Temple Mount. There are many more such examples of archeological evidence, but here's one more. Two stones were uncovered with inscriptions that match those described by Josephus as having been placed just outside the Temple. In short, the evidence confirming that the Kotel or Western Wall has survived from the Second Temple era is incontrovertible. So much so, in fact, that Temple Truthers are on a par with Flat Earthers. Tucker Carlson, of course, knows better. But facts don't matter to him, just his singular, obsessive mission: To divide Jews from Christians, which requires him to remove Jews from their own history. That's why Tucker promotes the dangerous lie that the Jews of today aren't descended from the Jews of the Bible. And now he's trying to take from the Jews not just their history, but also the one surviving portion of the holiest site that ever existed in Jewish history. Even if that means Tucker has to ignore mountains of evidence in order to embrace a provably false Palestinian fiction.show more

Introducing Pods Hyperspace Pods lets a small group of... people - a family, a startup, a few friends, to pool their laptops and desktops into one AI cluster. Everyone installs the CLI, someone creates a pod, shares an invite link, and the machines form a mesh. Models like Qwen 3.5 32B or GLM-5 Turbo that need more memory than any single laptop has get automatically sharded across the group's devices - layers split proportionally, inference pipelined through the ring. From the outside it looks like one OpenAI-compatible API endpoint with a pk_* key that drops straight into your AI tools and products. No configuration beyond pasting the key and changing the base URL. A team of five paying for cloud AI burns $500–2,000 a month on API calls. The same team's existing machines can serve Qwen 3.5 (competitive on SWE-bench) and GLM-5 Turbo (#1 on BrowseComp for tool-calling and web research) for free - the hardware is already on their desks. When a query genuinely needs a frontier model nobody has locally, the pod falls back to cloud at wholesale rates from a shared treasury. But for the daily work - code reviews, refactors, research, drafting - local models handle it and nobody gets billed. And when it is idle, you can rent out your pod on the compute marketplace, with fine-grained permissions for access management. There's no central server involved in inference. Prompts go from your machine to your pod members' machines and back: all of this enabled by the fully peer-to-peer Hyperspace network. Pod state - who's a member, which API keys are valid, how much treasury is left - is replicated across members with consensus, so the whole thing works on a local network. Members behind home routers don't need port forwarding either. The practical setup for most pods is three models covering different jobs: Qwen 3.5 32B for code and reasoning, GLM-5 Turbo for browsing and research, Gemma 4 for fast lightweight tasks. All running on hardware you already own. Pods ship today in Hyperspace v5.19. Model sharding, API keys, treasury, and Raft coordinator are all live. What Makes This Different - No middleman. Your prompts travel from your IDE to your pod members' hardware and back. There is no server in between reading your data. - No vendor lock-in. Pod membership, API keys, and treasury are replicated across your own machines using Raft consensus. If the internet goes down, your local network keeps working. There is no database in someone else's cloud that your pod depends on. - Automatic sharding. You don't configure layer ranges or calculate VRAM budgets. Tell the pod which model you want. It figures out how to split it across whatever hardware is online. - Real NAT traversal. Your friend behind a home router with a dynamic IP? Works. No VPN, no Tailscale, no port forwarding. The nodes handle it. - Free when local. This is the part that matters most. Cloud AI bills scale with usage. Pod inference on local hardware scales with nothing. The marginal cost of your 10,000th prompt is the electricity your laptop was already using. Coming soon: - Pod federation: pods form alliances with other pods. - Marketplace: pods with spare capacity can sell inference to other pods.show more