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@Samwinton99 @c8nnorr @tommarch802 @FloridaManV so the first thing to understand about this clip, is that's an Auburn radio broadcast, so for radio you do have to be a bit more descriptive than the TV broadcast, and in fact this is a legendary TV call that does let it breathe, because Verne was a master.

@c8nnorr @tommarch802 @FloridaManV American football commentators have never learnt the art of letting a moment breathe. To be fair though I don't think American fans want them to. Just a case of different commentary styles for different audiences

Starting to think these lot don’t know the meaning of atmosphere It’s bloody silent😂

@Chelsearory well first you're looking at the wrong US stadiums, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, The Horseshoe in Columbus, The Big House in Ann Arbor, Notre Dame, Rocky Top in Neyland Stadium, all well over 80 if no 100 years old, and some of the best experiences in sport.

Lots of talk about American Vs English stadiums ahead of the World Cup. American stadiums are grand and impressive in their own way. But they are incomparable to a true football stadium with soul. Stadiums with over 100 years of history will forever be unrivalled by grounds with big screens and convenient parking.

@Watson_SLdn @hookinemgood so it it different than the closeness of English teams, but that's because the UK is small in area, and very dense, so of course teams are more tied to their city. but truly, college football exactly the kind of community based stadium and experience you're talking about.

@hookinemgood I’m not comparing it at all I’m explaining why you’ll never get our cultural association with football. Why it will always belong to the working class and why small grounds built in the heart of the community will always beat large American stadiums That’s literally it

They will always miss the point They don’t have football clubs that are 140 years old and have been in the community for all that time They think having the biggest stadium and the most fans is a win. It’s not their fault, you either get it or you don’t

@gerardtbaker you mean different sports require entirely different skill sets and reward different physical attributes? I'm shocked what will we learn next?

You do realize each US footballer actually plays on the field for an average of about 11 minutes per game and covers about 2 miles? Soccer players are on the field and running for about 70 minutes per game and cover an average of 7 miles.

@Logicull @RubiosArmy So every single one of those songs, w the exception of maybe the kanye is a long tradition or became on (in the tom petty song case), most of those are clips from before team entrances, or in notable breaks before the 4th quarter, essentially exactly what you're calling for

@RubiosArmy Singing YNWA which is an emotional song attached to Liverpool > both home and away fans singing Kanye West music with 0 connection the either team 💀

If I’m an 18 year old student who grew up in America and knew nothing better, I’d love this. However, this is a sporting event, not a concert. Why is the entire stadium singing? Where are the opposition fans? There is 0 hostility there and thus it doesn’t feel like a real atmosphere and cannot be compared to European atmospheres 💁‍♀️

@kalezelden England and France were planning expidtions to the new world by 1495, By 1513 the Ottoman Empire had access to maps of the region. it seems 1502 and Amerigo Vespucci was the turning point for the public at large.

6/The Spanish were excited, naturally. But what about everyone else? Jealousy, skepticism, anger, disbelief? Something happened. How long until it becomes “fact”?

🧵on Disclosure: 1/Columbus returned to Spain on March 15, 1493, after a storm-caused stop in Portugal a few days earlier. 6 months gone, and he is making some wild claims. Put yourself in the shoes of someone hearing about it from chatter at the docks.

@RuxandraTeslo it wasn't increased destruction in the 60's that caused the environmental movement, it was the destruction and pollution of the prior 150 years adding up to near extinction of many species and increasing rates of human cancer, air pollution, lead posioning etc etc etc.

Has anyone written about the role of aesthetics and romanticism in the environmental movement? A lot of environmental regulations were passed in the late 60s/ early 70s. how much did we really start destroying the environment more in the 60s and how much did it channel a romantic impulse that didn't have any other outlet? In other words, our longing for meaning got channeled through the environmental movement.

@aakashgupta Yeah except for the part where that look like crap

Rendering this 29-second AI dragon shot in 2019 would have cost over $500,000 at a VFX house. The Chinese model that probably generated it ran the entire shot for $2.90. The Artificial Analysis video arena ranks every public AI video model by ELO score. The top spot belongs to Kling 3.0 from Kuaishou at 1243. Sora 2 sits below it. Veo 3.1 sits below it. Runway Gen-4.5 sits below it. The base model leading the benchmark, and the open-source variants any kid can download tonight, both shipped from companies the export controls were supposed to handicap. Wan 2.2 from Alibaba has been downloaded 5.4 million times from Hugging Face. Open source, runs on a single consumer GPU, ships free. Tencent's Hunyuan Video 1.5 generates clips on an RTX 4090 in 75 seconds at 8.3 billion parameters. Also open source. Also free. Pixomondo built every dragon shot on House of the Dragon. The CGI work on a single dragon scene ran over $1 million. HBO shot the whole show at under $20 million per episode and the dragons were the headline line item. 29 seconds at Kling 3.0 pricing is $2.90. Run the prompt 100 times to nail the take and you're still under $300 for the entire production. Disney spent six years and over $15 billion buying Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm for the pipeline. The pipeline just got commoditized in Hangzhou.

@kamilkazani It’s actually simpler than that. No guy w a nazi tatoo is my friend. Ever. Full stop. There’s no analysis needed

@deanwball The butlerian jihad will come for all of the AI companies sooner than you think

Some brief thoughts on Mythos We’ve known this was coming for a long time. At least, we *should* have. Extremely effective software vulnerability discovery was clearly coming to anybody paying attention. It has also been clear that all AI policy so far has been made and executed with training wheels. It was always clear that, sometime soon, the training wheels would come off. The training wheels aren’t fully off just yet—this model is being kept under lock and key, and Anthropic does not seem inclined to release Mythos preview to the public anytime soon, if ever. The training wheels will be off when these capabilities are fully diffused in ways centralized actors cannot control. It is inevitable that this will happen. The point is not to argue about whether we should “ban open source” or similarly unrealistic notions. The point is to harden the world for this new reality. I applaud Anthropic—and I especially applaud @logangraham—for doing so. But their efforts alone are not close to enough. Project Glasswing—a partnership with Anthropic and other companies—seems nice, but unsurprisingly it lacks uniform frontier lab participation. It would probably be ideal, for our national cyberdefense, if the federal government were not trying to destroy Anthropic and eliminate their models from government systems. If anything, the government should be trying to work more closely with Anthropic. As a side note, I hope Anthropic is working with state and local government entities on cyber vulnerability discovery, since many of our adversaries know that state and local is America’s soft underbelly in so many ways. In any event, the Mythos news should lay bare how stupid and counter-productive the Department of War’s feud with Anthropic really is. As someone who suspected all this was coming (not from inside knowledge but from it being ~obvious), that probably explains why I have had such a strong reaction to that feud. It’s this senseless distraction just at the time that the training wheels are coming off. I hope the two parties can resolve their differences now, for the sake of the country, but I am not hopeful. I do want to call out, however, the numerous political and career civil servants in the Trump Admin who do get these issues, know how stupid the Ant-DoW stuff is, and want to work with the frontier labs like adults. I wish you all utmost success. I find myself inclined to end on some positive notes. Mythos appears to be—according to Anthropic at least—“the most aligned” model Anthropic has ever trained. We are approaching superhuman capabilities in some domains, and yet alignment is getting better rather than worse. That’s not nothing. I know some of you think the model is faking its alignment, or aware when its alignment is being tested. I don’t have a good answer. Finally, there is this: Mythos was made by an American company, and like most successful American companies, it has a vested interest in maintaining order and peace, and it is investing substantial resources in mitigating the risks of its technological progress, as I expect most of the American labs would. This is cause for optimism: The incentives of capitalism are working. The training wheels are coming off, but at least we are the ones removing them, as opposed to our enemies. Perhaps we can be the first to learn to bike for real. The first step would be to get beyond all the low-fidelity, under-specified, pimply little fights of AI policy’s prepubescent era. That goes for me too. “What hath God wrought,” wrote the first telegram. What, indeed. In this case, the answer is still up to us.

@roddreher gee it's almost like Trump was a no character dangerous fool who might get us into a war with IRAN said everyone who voted against him 3 times.

I wanted no new and stupid foreign wars, a better economy, immigration reform and the devastation of wokeness. That's it. I don't think that was a big ask. Guess I was wrong. Two out of four isn't bad, but the badness of the failed two stands to be pretty catastrophic.

@dmartkc @JBSDC In a few words, fraud, crime, scams and illicit financing with a small side of actual useful things. But it’s always seemed like the obvious use was for hiding assets

@JBSDC Appreciate you sharing! This chart caught my eye. Different context, but I wonder what the word cloud would look like if someone asked *non-crypto users* what they think of when they hear the words crypto, bitcoin, etc in 2026. Maybe not how we'd hope...

Strongly encourage everyone to read this piece, even/especially if you disagree with the thesis (as I personally do) because it does lay out in detail how the Biden WH turned against crypto over 21-23 in their own words.

@klarnaseb why is the app search worse than it’s ever been. I just searched for a brand name. It returned anything related but not that. I don’t want to have to go to stupid ai search. I just want a web search that works!

@patio11 apparently 50 year mortgages are common in Sweden, and they require a 1% amortization per year, any reason that wouldn't work, and or if this is such an obvious time bomb why hasn't it blown up in stockholm? what am I missing?

They will… not be wrong.

50 year mortgages are fractally bad policy. Zoom in on any effect and it contains within it infinite badness. At a fundamental level, it’s demand subsidization, which will never improve affordability of a supply constrained good.

If @MichaelRyanRuiz honors his bet with @Stugotz790 and shaves his head, we’ll give away free $50 Sheets & Giggles gift cards to anyone who likes and retweets this 💰🛏 If he doesn’t, we get free advertising, and you get nothing 💸 In other words… it’s a heady play 🪒🧔‍♂️

He chose violence!

@berry198 I eagerly await pictures of the hermit crab or goldfish that you take home from funfest

I’m not catholic and will never be catholic but I do support their beer at event platform.

The first rule about funfest is we are not going home with a hermit crab and/or a fish. The second rule about funfest is we are not going home with a hermit crab and/or a fish.