Grayson Harding

Second announcement! Geeked to share I'll be stepping in as Director of Athlete Services & Logistics with @USAEsportsOrg as we prepare to send a delegation of nearly 100 players to the inaugural Esports Nations Cup this November. A national governing body means more students get real pathways into a generational sport. Getting to help build that is an honor. If you're a player, org, or agent and my name hits your inbox, now you know why. Lets bring home gold!🥇

Built to represent the stars and stripes 🇺🇸 Please welcome your United States of America @lolesports squad for @ENC_EN 2026! 🔥 @dhoklalol @blaber @Yeon7lol @alwaysplanahea1 @huhi @gryffinn @DARKWINGSLOL @inero (c)

Proud to welcome three legendary organizations to the USA Esports Alliance 🇺🇸 🤝 @EvilGeniuses @GenG @G2esports [READ MORE] ⬇️

@UR_Tournaments @smash_pacman Is there capacity for spectators? Would love to come to cheer on folks.

Capped. We are pleased to say that thanks to you all #Ignition400 has reached its entry cap of 256! 🎉🥳🎊 Please DM @smash_pacman to be added to the waitlist!

For those who may be interested, wanted to share for visibility. Closes June 16th. Esports/AV Manager University of Nebraska indeed.com/viewjob?jk=099…

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

@travisyang Ive got 15 burners that all larp for impressions on LinkedIn. Anything to feel something.

@Lunges___ it was you all along... 😂

if I see another ai generated linkedin post from some random shill about why collegiate esports is dying I'm gonna reinstall ow

Job Application for Associate Event Manager - Latin America at The Pokémon Company International job-boards.greenhouse.io/pokemoncareers…

@DShyKnock This is so cool! Congrats David!

Proud to announce that starting today I work for the NFL as a Finance Manager! I've always pursued the desire to make my passions a part of my career and this one in particular runs very deep in my family. Over the course of my professional life I've had the pleasure to work for some amazing companies across media and entertainment, but this step in my career feels particularly special. As with every big change in life though, this is just the start and can't wait for the journey that lies ahead🏈

WORLD CUP SENDOFF: USA VS GERMANY

Good luck to all the players competing in the #ENC26 Chess qualifiers this weekend! 🎉 With @GMHikaru already locked in as a direct invite, the US now has an exciting opportunity to add a second rep through the North America Qualifier. Best of luck, everyone! ♟️

Mobile Legends has arrived 🔥 Representing the United States at @ENC_EN 2026, please welcome your @MobileLegendsOL squad! 🇺🇸 Bestplayer1 Mercyless Melonn Cole World Tea Yato G The Aiko Sir Rose (C)

@SpartanDawgSwag @EsportsAtMSU get this man some merch!

Michigan state front and center of the gaming world

Going for gold 🥇 We're excited to announce your United States @DOTA2 roster for the 2026 @ENC_EN 🇺🇸 @SpeeedYT @DotaFayde @SneykingGaming @ccncdota2 @SumaaaaiL @Blitz_DotA (C)

@CoachVollme @SBUEsports @DivOneEsports @MilitaryELeague Congrats!

A thread: After nearly 3 years with @SBUEsports, this Wednesday marks my last day. I have accepted an offer to be the COO of @DivOneEsports. My personal ties to the US Army have also led me to volunteer my time to be the Director of Collegiate Competition for @MilitaryELeague

One of the best to ever do it. 🇺🇸 ♟️ We're excited to announce @GMHikaru will be representing the United States at this year's Esports Nations Cup!

@Spideraxe30 Can't make everyone happy but... uhh...

Time period for when Ranked 5v5 will be active during the weekends

@reluscent @FlyQuest Huge congrats!

If you didnt pick up the clues... I am so excited to announce that I'll be interning with @FlyQuest this summer in broadcast production!! I am proof that a small town kid from the middle of nowhere kansas can chase their dreams in esports :0

Taking the pitch at the 2026 @ENC_EN Please welcome your United States of America @RocketLeague Squad! 🇺🇸 @DanielRL__ @Firstkiller @At0micRL @Satthew

@Fultz @Ambi_R6 USA🇺🇸 USA🇺🇸 USA🇺🇸 Great to have you on board!

Honored to have an opportunity like this, can’t wait to play deimos and get IGL’d by @Ambi_R6