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Veteran swingman Danny Green has agreed to a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

After tearing his ACL in May of 2022, Green made his 2022-23 debut in February for the Memphis Grizzlies before being dealt to the Houston Rockets and agreeing to a buyout, at which point he signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Yet Green only played sparingly, seeing the court in 11 regular season games (138 minutes) and four playoff contests (40 minutes). He averaged 5.5 points and 1.3 rebounds per game, while shooting 43.2 percent from deep (16-for-37).

Because he played so little last year, it’s hard to know where Green is at in this point of his career physically and as an overall player. During 2021-22, before tearing his ACL, he remained an effective rotation player for the Sixers, though had lost a good deal of his lateral mobility, which hurt him significantly as a point-of-attack stopper. That season, he started 28 games, averaged 5.9 points and shot 38 percent beyond the arc.

Now more than a full calendar year removed his ACL injury and not trying to jockey for minutes on the fly with multiple playoff contenders, he could re-emerge as a viable rotation wing, floor-spacer and impactful defensive cog. Philadelphia will certainly hope that comes to fruition in his second stint with the organization as it searches to bolster its forward depth.

Foo Fighters have been playing tons of festivals this year. The band, who just released their 11th album, But Here We Are, have been on the roster for Outside Lands, Fuji Rock Festival, iHeartRadio Music Festival, and more.

The “Everlong” group just played Jazz Aspen Snowmass, which took place over Labor Day weekend, also featuring acts like The Lumineers, James Bay, Brothers Osborne, Old Dominion, and Grace Potter. They headlined on Sunday night, and their set featured an unexpected song: a cover of “Pretty Vacant” by Sex Pistols, performed alongside the one and only Billy Idol. It made for a satisfyingly punk experience to a hyped crowd.

Upon unveiling But Here We Are in June, the band shared a thoughtful statement on social media. “A most heartfelt & profound ‘thank you,’” they tweeted, “To Greg Kurstin, Julian Burg, Darrell Thorp, Spike Stent, John Lousteau, Oliver Roman, & Alastair Christie for helping the band walk back into the studio again, lock the door behind us, and make the most important album of our lives.”

They continued, “We certainly couldn’t have done it without you. Our love and gratitude goes beyond words. The memories and songs will last forever.”

Watch footage of the “Pretty Vacant” performance above.

On Tuesday, over two-and-a-half years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a federal judge doled out the stiffest sentence yet for one of its perpetrators. Enrique Tarrio — former leader of the Proud Boys, the far right neo-fascist group that named after a line in Disney’s Aladdin — was handed a whopping 22 years. (That’s 11 years fewer than prosecutors had asked for.) Other Jan. 6 planners haven’t gotten off lightly either. In fact, some of the sentences awarded people who tried to overturn democracy are so long that it’s left Sarah Palin feeling a little blue.

As per Mediaite, the former Alaska governor and failed vice presidential candidate went on Newsmax, where host Eric Bolling lamented the extensive jailtime given to folks like Philly Proud Boys leader Zachary Rehl (15 years), InfoWars’ Joe Biggs (17), and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes (18). Bolling asked Palin what she has to say “to all these lefties,” presumably meaning the judges.

“It’s so disheartening, the examples that you’ve given, Eric,” Palin responded. “It makes the populace lose a lot of faith in our government, and that’s an understatement. Unfortunately, what this leads to, when we recognize the examples that you just gave, the two-tier different justice systems that apply according to politics, you know it makes the good guy think what’s the use in being a good guy. We’re gonna be punished, you know, we’re picked on, is what we are under this system. But we can’t feel helpless and hopeless.”

Palin sure has a strange definition of being a “good guy.” But she does have a point: Doling out harsh sentences to people who helped lead a failed coup that led to multiple deaths is a good way to discourage others from attempting the same.

Elsewhere in her Newsmax appearance, Palin offered some of her patented word salad about alleged “dismantling of our traditional justice system” and how both “Lady Liberty and Lady Justice used to be blind.” Or something!

Palin also tried to claim Jan. 6 wasn’t an insurrection but just some “people who wanted to get into the Capitol and exercise their right to protest,” while mourning the “hijacking of the language of the verbiage used” when describing that fateful day.

Palin doesn’t make too many public appearances these days, and when she does it’s either to lose a primary in the state she once led or to go to restaurants while teeming with COVID. Because putting people at risk of a deadly and highly transmissible disease is something the “good guys” do.

(Via Mediaite)

The Dallas Mavericks struggled in 2022-23, leading to a shocking situation in which the franchise missed the postseason entirely after making a deep run the previous year. That left the organization with plenty of questions heading into the 2023 offseason, headlined by the unrestricted free agency of players like Kyrie Irving and Christian Wood. While Irving’s market at the top of the league seemed more clear — and led to him, very quickly, coming to terms on a new deal to stay in Dallas — Wood finished a season in which he averaged 16.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in 67 appearances for the Mavs and spent months on the market.

That all changed on Tuesday night, as Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that Wood would head to the Los Angeles Lakers on a two-year deal.

Wood, who will turn 28 years old before the 2023-24 season begins, has averaged 18.1 points and 8.9 rebounds per game over the last three seasons combined with Dallas and Houston. In that time, he has shot 50.9 percent from the field and 38.1 percent from three-point distance, establishing Wood as a legitimate high-end offensive option on offense. His defensive impact is more muddled, which makes it fair to wonder how big of an impact he will have for Darvin Ham in Los Angeles, but Wood’s traits are enticing enough to demand intrigue on the market.

Last year, Zach Bryan unveiled a live album cleverly titled All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster. When he announced a tour in January, he proudly revealed that the cursed ticketing website would not be involved.

However, on Tuesday the country star shared on social media that he’s returning to Ticketmaster. “Everyone complained about AXS last year. Using all ticketing sites this year,” he wrote. “All my homies still do hate Ticketmaster but hard to realize one guy can’t change the whole system. It is intentionally broken and I’ll continue to feel absolutely horrible about the cost of tickets in an unfair market.”

When Bryan first announced his Ticketmaster-less plan, touring experts said it would be a challenge. “He could mount his own shows in public or non-Live Nation owned spaces, but that is an incredibly time-consuming logistical challenge, from liquor permits to government ordinances and independent security, ticketing, food and beverage vendors,” a source told Rolling Stone. “The less autonomous but easier maneuver is avoiding the Live Nation/TM complex wherever possible and using SeeTickets, AXS, or other less gouge-y ticket retailers. That is much less difficult, but in some markets, is impossible.”

Zach Bryan is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Many, hopefully, spent Labor Day weekend resting up for a busy fall. Some did not. Donald Trump ranted and raved on social media. Elon Musk? He picked a fight with a Jewish organization. On Monday, the head of what was once called Twitter threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, who he accused of defaming him. How? By alerting advertisers to all the anti-Semitic posts that have spiked on his service since he took over. The unhinged move earned him plenty of scorn and/or mockery. And it got a firm rebuttal from the ADL itself.

In a statement provided to The Daily Beast, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk’s actions “profoundly disturbing.” He pointed out that he was essentially joining an ongoing campaign promoted by anti-Semites, including white supremacist and onetime Donald Trump dinner guest Nick Fuentes, to ban the ADL. Greenblatt also pointed out that over the weekend, masked anti-Semites marched in Florida, “brazenly waving flags adorned with swastikas and chanting ‘Ban the ADL.’”

Greenblatt said he wasn’t all that worried with Musk’s threat of a “frivolous lawsuit” (which he’d probably not get around to anyway, just like his aborted cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg). He continued:

“This urgent matter is the safety of the Jewish people in the face of increasing, intensifying antisemitism. Musk is engaging with and elevating these antisemites at a time when ADL is tracking a surge of bomb threats and swatting attacks of synagogues and Jewish institutions, dramatic levels of antisemitic propaganda being littered throughout Jewish and non-Jewish residential communities, and extremists marching openly through the streets in Nazi gear. All of this is happening in a context of the highest number of antisemitic incidents that ADL has tracked in more than 40 years–and just two weeks away from the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.”

Greenblatt concluded by saying, “And so, this behavior is not just alarming nor reckless. It is flat out dangerous and deeply irresponsible. We need responsible leaders to lead, to stop inflaming hatred and to step back from the brink before it’s too late.”

When Musk announced the prospective lawsuit, he did so with his patented unfunny trolliness. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League… oh the irony!” he wrote.

The move caused many to point out that Musk, whose erratic behavior and willingness to un-ban and associate with bigots, was essentially blaming his own actions on Jewish people.

Meanwhile, Musk should probably reserve his ire not for an organization that fights anti-Semitism but the former president who wants to crush the electric car (i.e., Tesla) business. But Musk will probably shoot himself in the foot on that one, too.

(Via The Daily Beast)

In 2020, Beastie Boys shared their greatest hits compilation Beastie Boys Music. Earlier this year, the iconic group’s Hello Nasty deluxe record got a reissue for its 25th anniversary. Needless to say, they’re still kicking it. Now, they’re back with more.

On social media, Beastie Boys posted a photo of some posters in New York City teasing… something. The posters read: “Beastie Boys Square,” as well as “Ludlow & Rivington” and the date of September 9. Fans in the replies and quote-tweets wonder what it could possibly be, speculating a pop-up at the location of the cross-streets. Luckily, it’s only a few days away, so we’ll know soon.

Also in 2020, Beastie Boys reunited with their producer Rick Rubin after 20 years to reminisce about their debut album. “I would say they had better access than I had because this was pre-internet,” Rubin said. “Like now, everyone could find out anything they want about anything. Where I was, it was hard to find out anything about anything. I spent a lot of time in the library doing research, and even that research wasn’t [the] sort of ‘culture of the moment’ research, it was about learning about things I was interested in and spending a lot of time in records was my closest way of having any kind of connection to culture.”

Discovering one’s sexual orientation is a deeply personal journey that unfolds differently for everyone. Some people have a defining moment when they know what they’ll be into for the rest of their lives, and others go through life without much questioning.

Some people go for more of a trial-and-error approach where they come to an understanding over numerous experiences, while others view their sexuality as fluid and would rather live without any label.

What’s important to remember is that there’s no “right” timeline or method for this self-discovery. What matters most is allowing oneself the time, space and love to grow and evolve organically. Everyone deserves the freedom to find their truth at their own pace.

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​A Reddit user by the name of Jacklawd asked the online forum, “How did you conclude that your sexual orientation is what it is?” It received nearly 5,000 responses from almost every sexual orientation imaginable. Many people’s journeys also made them understand that they were asexual—meaning they weren’t sexually attracted to other people.

The discussion was valuable for many because it gave them a free place to express their personal journeys in a public forum. After reading other people’s experiences, there were many who felt a lot less alone.

Here are 17 of the most interesting responses to the question: “How did you conclude that your sexual orientation is what it is?”

Bisexual

“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel attracted to both men and women. It never went away, never wavered. Figured by 25, that’s pretty well set that I’m bisexual.” — TinyTinasRabidOtter

“Saw a hot girl. Saw a hot guy. Thought ‘yeah both is good.'” — HailYourSelf717

Lesbian

“I accepted that I like women pretty quickly, but it was far harder for me to accept that I DIDN’T like men. I don’t know why but apparently that’s pretty common with lesbians. Compulsory heterosexuality (look it up) is a bitch. But one memory I frequently go to as proof is my especially close relationship with my ‘best friends’ and literally using one of her shirts as a pillowcase, vis a vis Jenny by Studio Killers. Also, having sex with a woman for the first time and all my fears melting away once I got lost in the moment. I can’t fathom being intimate with a man without feelings of extreme anxiety and nausea (no offense gents, you’re all great!! This is a me problem, not you!).” — Hannah_of-Acero

“I dated men forever and thought all straight women were attracted to other women. And then I had sex with a woman and there was literally no doubt. The glaring neon sign was there, I just didn’t see it for what it was. Nobody in my life was surprised though lmaooooo I wanted to have a big dramatic ‘coming out’ moment and everyone was just like ‘oh good you figured it out.'” — melxcham

“I like my best friend -> I like girls -> bi?? -> I’ve never been attracted to a man -> lesbian.” — Environmental-Cap727

Queer

“The labels got too annoying, so I just went with Queer. I feel comfortable with it, and it’s not like I owe anyone an explanation. Nobody really asks for specific labels these days.” — Random_Person

Gay

“I’ve liked guys since I was like 3. When I was 14 briefly wondered if I might be gay. Realized I’d never liked a girl and liked many guys so decided it was very unlikely. When I was 20 realized straight people weren’t typically interested in or turned on by the thought of having sex with people of the same sex as them. Decided I like guys so much more than I would ever be interested in a girl that it really didn’t matter. The thought of dating a girl is also a complete turn-off for me.” — Harakiri_238

“I’m gay and grew up in a small, Christian village. So being openly gay was not really an option. I first realized that I liked men at the tender age of 12 while watching ‘The Mummy’ with Brendan Fraser for the first time. Everyone was talking about Rachel Weisz and I was always thinking ‘She’s pretty but… Did you see that guy?!’ Then things moved back into the shadow thanks to some religious brainwashing and witnessing how my best friend was sent away to one of these ‘healing camps’ for just mentioning that he thought he is gay when we were 16. So I bottled it up. Dated a couple of girls, later a woman. Never was really into any of them. And I’m still to this day really sorry that I wasted their time. I completely closed that chapter when I moved to a big city and was finally able to explore myself without the fear of the entire village finding out and talking. I was 24 and had finally a feeling of knowing who I am and where I belong.” — OneMorePotion

Straight Women

“I never had that need to explore my sexuality I see a lot of people have because I have only ever felt attracted to men. I’ve had women come up to me, but I have never even felt curious, I just don’t feel attracted to them. I guess that makes me straight.” — NenaBurguesa

“I just knew as a young girl that I really liked boys. I had two older sisters, and I loved it when they’d invite their boyfriends over! I would bother them and ask them questions.” — I_Need_A_Better_Name

Straight Men

“Heterosexual 34M here. Contrary to a lot of heterosexual men, I’m not just saying ‘well I’m straight, that’s it’ because you also do have to realize it at some point…I played basketball and practiced jiu-jitsu, saw a lot of beautiful, athletic men showering naked, and never was attracted to them. I had beautiful gay men hitting on me and didn’t feel attracted (nor repulsed, just: that it’s not for me, sorry). So I concluded I was straight.” — Teebo_

“When I was a teen I questioned it because I thought that even thinking some men are attractive made you gay. But I later realized that I didn’t want to be physical or romantic with men at all, I actually am kinda repulsed by the idea of naked guys, I simply liked they way they looked. Same way I look at a car or something else that is aesthetically pleasing. But with women, I want to experience them physically, emotionally and intimately. I want to be with a woman, I don’t want to be with a man in any way. So that’s when I understood I’m straight.” — MembraneintheInzane

Asexual

“After well over 20 years of never having a crush on anyone, it starts to dawn on you that maybe you’re the odd one out not feeling anything. For me, sex was always just this super distant thing that I never, ever thought about unless it was brought up externally. Masturbation was always an ‘oh yeah people do that, right’ kinda deal. Any sexual body part was always either completely unremarkable or outright ugly. That people really did imagine having sex with people was surprising to me. ‘Wait, they’re not just meming about a taboo subject because it’s taboo? People actually think that way?’ Porn never interested me, and I have zero desire to look at it when I can instead be watching a documentary on Dave Stieb. Yeah, at some point it becomes hard to ignore that you’re different.

“While I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything by being asexual and being in a position where I never want to try sex, I definitely do feel like I’m missing out by (possibly) being aromantic. I can appreciate a well-written romance (note: most are not for infuriating pacing reasons alone), and it does feel like it’s something I’m missing even if I’ve never felt it. While I can think of someone as ‘pretty’ or ‘cute,’ words like ‘hot’ and ‘sexy’ have no intuitive and intrinsic meaning to them. I can give you a dictionary definition, and I can tell you how other people use them, but I don’t actually feel it.” — 47Robin

“Fellow ace here. I really thought that people were kind of arbitrarily deciding who they liked. I really didn’t understand that you actually had some feelings for someone. I only thought it was kinda judging the appearance of someone. And it was just crazy when people started to like each other at like 13-15. I just faked that whole thing. I remember when learning about sex ed, in my own thoughts, I was like why do we need to know this? Nobody is having kids. Might as well learn about colonizing Mars or the Moon as well. I really thought everybody was like that and just lied about finding people sexy and the like. I can understand someone being pretty, but it’s the exact same feeling when seeing a sunset, art, or listening to great music or seeing a great movie.” — Craigularperson

Aromantic-Asexual (AroAce)

“Never developed a crush, never felt drawn to anyone sexually, and even as I grew older was repulsed by the idea of having sex. I heard the term ‘aroace’, researched its meaning, and the label just fit. I am aroace. I can love people platonically, but I do not feel sexual or romantic attraction/love.” —

​Pansexual

​”I fell in love with a man who transitioned. After I’d come to terms with ‘losing’ my lover, I realized that I still loved her just as much as I’d ever loved him, and that was that my pansexual orientation was born.” — Fluffy_Fox_Kit

No Need for a Label

“If you’re asking for insight to better understand others who are different from you, I think you’ve gotten plenty of great responses already. However, if you’re looking for info relating to your own definition of sexuality, then I want to STRONGLY impress upon you that there isn’t actually any need to define yourself with labels. Society is really obsessed with putting people into categories to better understand them. You don’t have to do that. It’s totally fine (and I feel really healthy) to just experience life as it comes. My mom is 65+, has 3 previous hetero marriages, and has recently found a girlfriend. It doesn’t mean she’s been gay the whole time. It doesn’t mean she’s straight and acting out. She’s just in love, and that’s great.” — IronFlower

In 2018, 50 individuals in Vancouver who had become homeless in the past two years were selected to receive a lump sum equivalent to around $5,498 USD to do with whatever they wanted. No questions asked.

In addition to the cash, they received a year of coaching and workshops that could help with developing life skills, goal setting, self-affirmation and brainstorming strategies to gain more stability.

The gesture was part of a peer-reviewed PNAS study, which also included the research team separately surveying 1,100 people, asking them to guess how the recipients would spend their money.

The general prediction was that these individuals, if experiencing homelessness, would spend 81 percent more on “temptation goods” like alcohol, drugs or tobacco than if they were not.

A follow-up survey proved that prediction wrong.

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A year later, the recipients reported having spent the money on food, clothes and rent, and had been able to save up for more stable housing.

Of course, the study is fairly small and does rely on self-reporting, in which facts can be skewed. Plus individuals had to have “nonsevere levels of substance use, alcohol use, and mental health symptoms” in order to qualify. But regardless, it shows the (unfounded) tendency society has to attribute some kind of character flaw—poor decision-making skills, addiction, laziness—as the core cause of someone dealing with homelessness, rather than simply a lack of money and resources.

The creators of the study argue that “traditional approaches,” which mainly focus on emergency services, healthcare and housing supports, only help prevent “more severe forms of homelessness.” They do not address the financial and psychological barriers incited through poverty. They added that other countries that have begun offering unconditional cash transfers to those with low income have seen improvement in their “physical health, psychological well-being, education and employment, and financial management.”

Rather than enabling vices, these cash transfers actually “reduce impulsivity” and help with responsible decision-making because they provide recipients the freedom to make their own decisions,” the study says. Finally, when given a large amount of money, rather than small monthly increments, people were “more likely to increase spending on durables, psychological well-being and female empowerment.”

All of these insights make for a compelling message. People struggling with homelessness have enough barriers to overcome. Let’s not let unnecessary mistrust be one of them. Both our policies and our own personal judgments need to adapt if we really want to address this huge issue. Compassion sometimes takes the form of cold, hard cash.

Work dress codes aren’t always practical, especially when you want to have a little room for self-expression. Most dress codes include things like no open-toed shoes, no spaghetti straps or no facial piercings, but some employers have a policy against unnatural hair colors.

One TikTok user, @emuhleeebee, whose first name is Emily, recently started a new job that does not allow for her brightly colored pink hair. Since she interviewed with her pink hair on full display and still got the job, she didn’t realize until after she started that the company dress code called for natural hair colors.

If you thought, easy enough, she’ll just dye her hair brown or some other natural color that would cover her pink hair, you’d be wrong. Emily decided to participate in what she calls “malicious compliance,” meaning she will comply with the company policy but in the most obnoxious way possible.

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Instead of dying her hair (which, as she explained in one of her videos, makes her feel her best), Emily simply decided to buy wigs to cover her distracting hair—hilariously bad wigs that are likely far more distracting than her pink hair but still within company policy.

In one of her videos, she’s wearing a bald wig that has a dark brown ponytail sticking out of the middle. Another wig she has in her rotation is one that makes her look like George Washington. Each wig has its own name and personality when she uploads the videos to her social media account. Since the wigs are all a natural color, there’s really not much the company can say as long as she’s doing her job and staying within policy.

@emuhleeebee

Replying to @iamrachelvray HOLLERING. #pinkhair #corporate #corporatelife #corporatehumor #corporatetiktok #maliciouscompliance #coloredhair #badwig #pinkhairdye

The argument for natural hair colors in a corporate environment feels a bit outdated. There are teachers, therapists and even doctors who sport brightly colored hair and tattoos up to their necks, and it doesn’t hinder their ability to do their jobs. Unnatural hair colors have become so normal that a company having a policy against it may not be something that crosses someone’s mind while job hunting.

But if having natural hair is a requirement, it would seem that during the job interview process, this would be something that’s mentioned, yet Emily appears to have been blindsided. In a comment, someone asked if her job has said anything about her bad wigs yet.

“Not yet…emphasis on yet. I feel it coming,” Emily replied.

@emuhleeebee

@Jay Benke besite. You chose ANOTHER wig that I feel really hot in TBH 😭. #pink #pinkhair #coloredhair #corporatetok #corporateamericaburnout #corporatehumour #corporatelifebelike

The TikTok creator even set up an Amazon wishlist where people have been purchasing wigs for her to wear to work. It’s an entertaining series on her page and certainly a creative way to stay in compliance. Hopefully, the company she works for has a sense of humor and is also getting a kick out of the malicious compliance like the rest of the internet.