EXCITING NEWS!! Today we go with our baseball bats to step foot on field of the sacred ground of the Oakland, Coliseum for the first time (!) We'll share more details as the day progresses. When we started this team we promised you it'd be fun, buckle up. 🏏⚾️

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Australian cricket legend Adam Gilchrist treating the Oakland Ballers to a lesson on how to swing a cricket bat at the Coliseum. Peak form on the two-handed follow-through.

From South Africa to Oakland, California - this week - historic accomplishments and records broken in the world of cricket: indiatoday.in/sports/cricket…

Pulled a Freaky Friday with the Oakland Ballers 🏏🤝⚾️

Why cricket’s debut at Oakland Coliseum could just be first of big things to come trib.al/66B9PPT

The indomitable Kerry Crowley and I spent time at the Oakland Coliseum and documented the arrival of Major League Cricket; a sleeping giant of a sport backed by serious money and owners living out their childhood dream 🏏🦄 sfstandard.com/2025/06/18/maj…

ALEX KARP CEO OF PALANTIR: "They need to go to bed scared, they need to wake up scared... Safe means that the other person is scared." This man is a complete psychopath.

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On this Juneteenth, we share the story of Jimmy Claxton, who broke baseball's color barrier with the Oakland Oaks back in 1916, and was the first African-American player to appear on a baseball card.  We salute the brave and talented players like Jimmy Claxton and Jackie

New WMD lie dropped

Tune in for WWIII this weekend.

We're still living in George W. Bush's world. And not just symbolically. So many aspects of W’s regime-change wars and the broader war on terror remain in place that it’s all too easy to drum up momentum for an entirely new season of the franchise in Iran. My latest piece...

I'm getting a lovely reaction to sharing my story about alcohol, thanks for all the support, everyone 🫶🏻 I chatted to Harry McGee, it's in today's Irish Times: irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

"Guests were instructed to fill out a questionnaire before the wedding and were sent a spreadsheet listing the other guests and their LinkedIn profiles."

Hard Reset is starting to gain some traction. We set out to create thoughtful content for people interested in tech, labor, and power. If you get Hard Reset in your inbox and have found the posts interesting, can you forward it to one person who might enjoy it? Please!

‘The mask is off in tech. You’re getting fired if you speak out’ – The Irish Times ⁦William Fitzgerald⁩ irishtimes.com/business/2025/…

"More important in those years was his mother’s parenting style, he says. “I think actually the formative part of my youth was my mum basically saying: ʻGo out and live your best life and dowhatever the f*** you want’. Like, we were getting arrested as teenagers and the police

I wrote about Peter Thiel, Palantir, and the utter banality of its evil airport advertising last week. The problems have all to do with Thiel's ideology for the future. sf.gazetteer.co/the-banality-o…

"patriotism and purpose surrendered to cynicism and greed" The Palantir CEO Alex Karp made $6.8 billion last year.