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Falcons, TE Kyle Pitts agree to 3-year contract extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7222929/2026/06/23/falcons-kyle-pitts-extension-tight-end/

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

POL-EL: Twist - Drei Hektar Gerstenfeld bei Brand beschädigt Twist (ots) - Am Dienstag, dem 21.07.2026, kam es gegen 16:25 Uhr auf einem Acker im Bereich der Bauernsiedlung in Twist zu einem Brand. Nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen geriet aus bislang ungeklärter Ursache ein Gerstenfeld in Brand. Die Flammen ... https://www.…

NFL Network: Jaguars, TE Brenton Strange agree to terms on 3-year extension worth up to $48 million https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-brenton-strange-three-year-extension

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.
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#USpol #Iran #kegseth

fascism-washing or something sad face
https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116937498616819671

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Interesting article in the Economist, don't necessarily agree,
https://www.…

Opinie | If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…
When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block.

Djokovic, 39, came through a stern test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.
39-year-old seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic came through a five-set, five-hour epic Tuesday on Centre Court
to defeat Félix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4) and advance to the semifinals, six minutes before the 11 p.m. curfew.
There, he will face his toughest hurdle yet on the path to a record 25th Grand Slam title i…

Novak Djokovic beats Félix Auger-Aliassime at Wimbledon in five-set epic
Djokovic, 39, came through a spirited test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.

Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/s