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The author and his closest basketball confidantes undertake a formal analysis of Steph Curry’s shot at the Paris Olympics as art object.

I was sixteen when my mother gifted me a painting by Ernie Barnes. I’d seen one Barnes painting at that point on the cover of Marvin Gaye’s 1976 album, I Want You, on the brown carpeted floor of my Auntie Sue’s apartment. Then I saw it five days a week for at least a decade during the credits of my favorite show, Good Times, which was then in syndication.

We here at Sleeplinen know this time of year can trigger all kinds of feelings. For many, Presidents’ Day is a loaded holiday. For some Americans, the wounds are fresh. For others, this is another bad chapter in a long book of injustice. But for all of you, we want to be a space where you can shop for luxury bed linens.

That said, if you’d rather not receive our Presidents’ Day Sale emails this year, we totally get it.

We’ll still be going forward with our annual Presidents’ Day Sale, but we encourage everyone in our community to take care of themselves. For instance, take a break from the world and cover your eyes with 20 percent off our Sleeplinen Velvet Sleep Mask.

We put a tremendous amount of thought and care into our marketing. It’s difficult to work anywhere right now, but we feel it is particularly difficult to work here at a bedding company, at a time when the current US president falls asleep in televised meetings. There have been so, so many promotional emails we could have sent about this, but we chose not to. For you.

Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we’re unhappy and looking for solutions.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Mirage Yanis Varoufakis — Feb 13, 2026 More often than not, share prices are rigged, which is why they are a dreadful predictor of profitability even on average, and why they have become the primary instrument for transferring wealth upwards. The SpaceX-xAI merger tells much of this sorry tale. ATHENS – […]

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How Martin made peace with the disturbing, intrusive thoughts that characterise sexual obsessive-compulsive disorder

- Video by ABC Science

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The Trump Justice Department is protecting the powerful at the expense of Epstein’s victims, says an attorney representing nine of his accusers.

The post Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG  appeared first on The Intercept.

Do networking events fill you with dread? Here’s how to manage your fears, show up, and take advantage of the opportunities

- by Fallon Goodman

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Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work?

- by Julien Lie-Panis

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