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CEO, Patch. Author: Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, Outcasts United. NYT alum. Squeaky wheel for safer streets in NYC & sunshine in Central Park. RTR.

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Joined April 2008
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Dude literally flies around in a sled giving free toys to all the children.
Local Santa Claus portrayer Donnie Uptain of Enterprise is a supporter of Rhett Marques and the GOP. Uptain said, “I don’t want us to turn into a socialist Alabama.”
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Can't say I know a lot about Matt Drinkall — but I already like him.
Here is (part) of Central Michigan head coach Matt Drinkall's quote in opposition to the proposed 24-team College Football Playoff:
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This quote explains the inconsistency. You have to be able to sustain something to have a shot at explosives. KDB and RG play all-or-nothing ball. When it doesn't work, it fails catastrophically.
Kalen DeBoer: “Struggled to sustain anything, keeping drives in continuity…have to find ways to get explosives against a front like that”
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The tough thing for Bama fans to adjust to with KDB is the propensity to completely lay an egg on a fairly regular basis. We're not used to this level of inconsistency. Also: zero offensive identity. Who are we? No one seems to know.
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Weird new wrinkle in the space/time continuum: facemasks on Alabama can never be called.
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This is legal coverage now, per the @SEC:
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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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The FDNY leading an impromptu parade down Second Ave.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt says “almost all” AI systems are “built on mass theft,” arguing that companies using large language models “shouldn’t be forgiven for that past theft.”
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We've lost our minds.
$50 million college football rosters is wild. I think college football — and basketball to a degree — are headed to a place where only the ten biggest schools can afford to pay players and a ton of the others are facing bankruptcy and/or cutting tons of programs to keep up.
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Imagine being a bright-eyed J-School grad eager to launch your reporting career, and an established journalist at Axios tells you the most transformative technological advancement of our lifetimes won't change anything about the way you work. (Meanwhile: pressgazette.co.uk/publisher…)
Imagine being a bright-eyed J-School grad eager to launch your reporting career, and the editor of Cleveland's metro daily puts you on blast for wanting to be a journalist instead of an AI content farmer. cleveland.com/news/2026/02/j…
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Not sure there was an offensive game plan that would've worked against the Dawgs today, but the one we brought was one of the worst I've suffered through in years.
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QB change? Nothing to lose at this point.
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The University of Alabama has issued a statement following its decision to shut down two student publications to comply with new federal guidelines concerning anti-discrimination laws. patch.com/alabama/tuscaloosa…
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A couple more games like this, and they'll stop storming the field when they beat us.
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When the young uns ask what it felt like back in the Dubose days, you can tell them: this. Just like this.
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So who do we hire?
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NEW: @Patch scales to 30,000 U.S. communities with AI newsletters — Basically a newsletter for nearly every U.S. town — Patch more like a platform for local info. now than a publisher axios.com/2025/03/04/patch-n…
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There's nothing wrong with super talls unto themselves; but why allow them in places where they shadow already scarce public green space like Central Park? Jackie O had it right: protect the Park.
Hi 👋 I chair the Housing and serve on the Land Use committee of a Manhattan community board (but am speaking here for myself only) and here’s my take: caring about supertalls is like being mad about Taylor Swift’s carbon footprint, a distraction from real problems ->
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