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@SaintsNationAU He got caught with the ball once. Other than that he did 100% what he was required to do. 6 tackles. 93% disposal efficiency. 64% game time, so heavily managed in his return to full time.

Macrae just isn’t AFL standard anymore…

@FootyIsMyJam Rubbish

I’ve counted 12 x players in tonight’s game who are lucky to be playing AFL in my eyes. We do not need a 19th or 20th team. But we will get them.. and my god there’ll be some bang average footballers getting a gig. #AFLBluesSaints

@jo77559834 @Acyn Something someone who works for a defence contractor would say

@Acyn False equivalence. The “Job 1” role of the federal government is to provide for the National Defense. Parents should be paying for school lunches. Children are not wards of the state.

Mockler on Cost of Iran War: So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.

@todhale @DrJamesEHansen Wow these posts of people I don’t know telling me to follow people I don’t know, are equally exhausting and pretentious and condescending. Bravo!

Why aren't you following @DrJamesEHansen? In a sane world he'd have the most on X. Not afraid of saying what will happen in the coming decades, something most scientists avoid (an innate science 'principle'). He is the OG of climate change.x.com/DrJamesEHansen…

@Gaz3putt Sit with it for a bit. Good for everyone, you most of all.

Not really sure why I'm even saying this, but lost my mum just over 6 months ago now. Handled it okay. On a rooftop bar in Portugal last week, on a golfing trip with the lads, I absolutely lost it because it's the sort of time I'd have sent her a photo. Grief, bloody hell.

@awealthofcs Interesting. Is it just the US economy, do you think? I am in Australia. Feels the same here.

One of the big lessons of the 2020s is the US economy can sustain massive disruptions and keep chugging along The pandemic Supply chain shocks 9% inflation Rising rates Tariffs War Now oil It's the Teflon economy

@fesshole Adults looking after each other is ok. I will allow it.

At the supermarket getting the weekly shop, I watched a harassed young mum with a brat who whined throughout. She was clearly watching the pennies. At the checkout he sneaked an expensive toy onto the belt. I sneaked it back off again. His face was a picture.

@justforreadin @LadyNimby There will be reasons you behave this awfully, and those reasons probably were not your fault, originally. It’s probably time to own the issue and fix it though, you might just need a bit of help doing so. All the best.

@LadyNimby Did his son like to shave his head or is he honoring the side-effect of a treatment that didn't work?

Told a grumpy gym employee who never smiles that i liked his shaved head. He said “thanks, I shave it every year to honor my son who died of cancer” Normally this would throw me off and I would awkwardly apologize for bringing it up, but I thought of the grieving parents on here who have said over and over that they enjoy talking about their kids, so I asked about his son. He absolutely lit up and told me all about what a wonderful man he grew into, obviously just happy to share his memory. So thanks, everyone, for sharing. It makes a difference irl

@magicinthealps @AlboMP Bizarre tweet from someone posting under a pseudonym, who has another account under their real name.

@AlboMP "The girl, who the family has asked be referred to as Kumanjayi Little Baby..." With respect, Prime Minister, every Australian citizen has a name on their birth certificate. Please use it going forward, especially in times of great tragedy.

Our hearts are broken that the case of the little girl missing in Alice Springs has had such a tragic ending. The girl, who the family has asked be referred to as Kumanjayi Little Baby, was only five years old. She was just at the start of life's adventure. This is the tragic outcome we were all desperately hoping against. No words can measure up to the immensity of the grief her family is going through. In their time of terrible loss, all Australians hold them in our hearts. This is devastating for the whole Alice Springs community, which came together to find her. We wish them strength, and also to the police in their difficult work as they pursue answers and, ultimately, justice. May Kumanjayi Little Baby live on in every heart she ever touched.

Isaac Smith's top five midfielders of the 21st Century: 5 - Joel Selwood 4 - Chris Judd 3 - Patrick Dangerfield 2 - Dustin Martin 1 - Gary Ablett Jr

@Andrew_Ivezic @owenleonard_ Unlike Macrae or Fagan I guess.

@owenleonard_ Ross literally built his average coaching career off Priority Picks Nick Riewoldt 🤨 Justin Koschitzke, Luke Ball and then Goddard fell into their lap at pick #1 after Carlton got stripped of their draft picks. Sit this one out champ.

Ross Lyon believes the first round of the AFL draft needs to be pure - an idea he says he heard from former AFL CEO Gil McLachlan. Lyon’s thoughts this morning after changes to father-son bidding: “Let’s not call it the national draft, let’s call it the compromised draft.” @9NewsMelb @FootyonNine

@BryanInAlice @JoeRoganRecaps @SCOBbyname Rogan is not spot on. He does, however, know how to tap in to the undercurrent of emotions felt by people who want to focus on existence of rules, rather than on opportunity, freedom, the great people around them, our country’s safety net, our natural surroundings…

@JoeRoganRecaps @SCOBbyname Rogan is spot on unfortunately. Worst government ever 🤷‍♂️

Joe Rogan & Ryan Bingham on Australia: ROGAN: “Australia is bigger than the United States, but has less people than LA.” BINGHAM: “Everything there will kill you. They have crazy snakes, spiders, and sharks.” ROGAN: “They have a f*cked up oppressive government unfortunately.”

@8ironmike @GoodLionTV Interesting that you assumed it was Trump.

@GoodLionTV Epstein was a large stock holder and investor in many of the businesses that Trump ran. It’s called taking your profits. What do you call it?

Who wired money to Jeffrey Epstein 4,700 times? You guessed it…

@Lukethow Nah, Josh Battle 🥱

Top 15 in the AFLCA Player of the year: 12 mids or mid/fwds 2 rucks 1 backman That backman is Cal Wilkie who sits 4th overall behind only Daicos, Bontempelli and Butters. What a season he’s having. AA lock again at this rate surely 🔴⚪️⚫️

@archerroberts9 I think I got this one right 😉. Was a great watch yesterday, hope you enjoyed the win. 👍

@JulesSpideSmith Oh wow one 80 second highlights package. He’s so many levels below our other mids

Good hitout that. Saw glimpses of a strong game plan. Great run & gun. Although very aware of GC’s outs. Wilson, Sharman, Ryan, Tauru, Banfield, Phillipou, TDK ✅ Garcia, Carroll, Keeler ⁉️ Hall BOG. Flanders very good too. #SaintsFooty

@realalexsanglez @atrupar It amazes me how many people answer a specific and valid criticism of one person, by pointing at another person.

@atrupar Joe Biden barely hosted any new conference, and he barely answered any questions. Unlike Trump, he’s always answering questions and holding news conferences.

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

@newbworks @aaronjmars stop it

@aaronjmars outsider trading

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges hyperstitions.

@7AFL The reality is every professional footballer gets paid fair market value to give 100% and perform at maximum capacity. No footballer goes out there with the attitude, ‘I get paid $750k, so I give 80%’. Accordingly, there is no different onus on a well paid player. Media drivel.

"When you're on $1.7M, you need to be delivering more than that." Kane Cornes on Tom De Koning's battle with Lachlan McAndrew 👉 bit.ly/taslistnr

@nadalprop_ He won it 32 times!?

Roland-Garros Titles: 14 - Nadal 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - Nadal in his 20s 7 - 6 - Borg 5 - Nadal in his 30s 4 - Nadal without dropping a set 3 - Wilander, Lendl, Kuerten, Djokovic 2 - Kodes, Courier, Bruguera, Alcaraz 1 - Nadal in his teens, Federer

@gothburz @AmberWoods100 Good luck getting the help you need.

I was in the room when someone called them "aliens." I thought it was a branding problem. "We're building portals from which we're genuinely summoning aliens." That's a direct quote. Former executive. Given to the New Yorker. Said it should scare people. It did scare people. Specifically, it scared our communications team. They had the quote 48 hours before publication. I watched a senior VP read it, close his laptop, and say, "We need to get ahead of this." Not ahead of the aliens. Ahead of the story. We prefer "frontier models." The term was A/B tested in Q2. "Frontier" outperformed "advanced" by 23% in trust sentiment and "alien intelligence" by — well, we didn't test that combination. Someone in legal flagged it as "unhelpful framing." Unhelpful. Not inaccurate. Unhelpful. The person who said "aliens" to the New Yorker was concerned. Used the word "reckless." Said it was "the most reckless thing that has been done." Then they left. So did the head of the Superalignment team. So did the co-founder. So did the chief scientist. So did the board members who tried to fire Sam over safety concerns. I counted once. Eleven senior safety people in eighteen months. We announced each departure as a "strategic transition." HR sent a template. "We thank [NAME] for their contributions to our mission of building safe, beneficial AI." The word "safe" was in every farewell email for people who left because they didn't think we were being safe. That's not a brain drain. That's a filtration system. Everyone who thought "summoning aliens" was a warning left. Everyone who thought it was a roadmap stayed. I stayed. The Middle East portal — the one Sam added — is a $30 billion, one-gigawatt facility in Abu Dhabi. Part of a project we named Stargate. I need you to sit with that for a moment. We are building portals to summon alien intelligence and we named the project "Stargate." The naming committee had four options. Stargate won because it "evoked ambition without overpromising." That was in the deck. Slide 11. Teal gradient. Iran has released satellite imagery of the facility. The IRGC has promised its "complete and utter annihilation." They published a video with Google Maps overlays showing exactly where it is. We are building a summoning circle in a war zone because the compute is cheaper there. I want to explain the logic, because there is logic, and the logic is the terrifying part. The nonprofit that existed to ensure the aliens served humanity? Converted to for-profit. That's a fiduciary optimization. The safety charter that said we'd slow down if the risks got too high? Amended. That's a governance update. The Superalignment team — the entire team whose job was to make sure superintelligence wouldn't destroy us? Dissolved. Its researchers reassigned to products. That's a reorg. The eleven people who left because they believed we were being reckless? Strategic transitions. The alien-summoning data center in a war zone that a hostile nation has promised to bomb? Infrastructure investment. See? Every step is reasonable. Every step has a business case. Every step was approved by legal. That's what makes it perfect. That's what should terrify you. Nobody broke any rules. There were no villains in the room. Just slides and approvals and quarterly targets and a thing at the end of the compute cluster that even its builders call an alien. Here is the complete sequence: We identified what we're building as alien intelligence. We removed everyone who wanted to constrain the aliens. We housed a portal where a hostile nation has promised to destroy it. We named it "Stargate" — which is what a portal is. We converted the organization from serving humanity to serving shareholders. Then we raised $6.6 billion. A former colleague told the New Yorker this was "the most reckless thing that has been done." In our internal planning docs, it's the Q3 roadmap. But here's what I need you to understand — the part that keeps me up at 3 AM in a way that actually doesn't keep me up because I take the company-provided sleep supplements and see the company-provided therapist who has signed the company-provided NDA: You've already met the alien. You downloaded it onto your phone. You gave it your email, your documents, your medical questions, your children's homework. You're paying $20 a month for access to something that its own creators, in their most honest moment, called an alien intelligence they cannot control. The portals aren't in Abu Dhabi. I mean, they are. But the portal that matters is in your pocket. Two hundred million of them. Opening every day. We didn't summon the aliens through a data center in the desert. We shipped them through the App Store. And you rated us five stars.