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@VitalVegas @BinionsLV @John_Mehaffey "We're levelling up to 5 zero roulette!"

@BinionsLV Hey, @John_Mehaffey, if regular craps house edge is 1.4% on the pass line, but 5.4% for crapless craps, is promoting it awkward at all? I’m asking you so they don’t 86 me. I love their tenders. 😬

We’re continuing to level up the gaming experience 🎲 Starting May 11, you can play Crapless Craps at Binion’s! 
And don’t worry—we still have traditional craps too.

@zerohedge Allbirds should've thought of this.

"your mortgage basically pays for itself" 1,2 1) mortgage may be 20%-40% higher 2) homeowner's job will migrate to collocated data center

@florida_grand @CaliRN619 @GovRonDeSantis "Thank you @GovRonDeSantis for keeping Florida great" needs to become a thing. Well said @florida_grand

Just so we’re clear, Florida beaches like Clearwater Beach are 💯 times better than California beaches. Just like @CaliRN619 mentioned, No crime, no homelessness, no druggies passed out on the beach, no panhandling. Thank you @GovRonDeSantis for keeping Florida great.

@yourgolftravel I did the hike back to that tee and hit the single best drive of my golfing life. Loved everything about Old Head. Maybe not a "true" Irish track but beyond memorable.

This tee box at Old Head Links 😳☘️ 📍18th Hole (back tees)

@ATLBeerBrewer Heck yeah - great post.

Visiting my dad in St Pete. He says “hey son, there is this cool guitar shop I pass by everyday”. “Cool pops, lets go!” The guy had a 1980’s Japanese tele brought in yesterday and they just finished setting it up. Its beautiful I am immediately drawn to it. He plugs it into a Princeton Reverb. Its magic. Ring it up. $599. Absolute steal.

@ElliottEHolland I ran my own business for 10 years. The only way Quickbooks could be "down" is if I misplaced the CD-ROM.

I flew to Dallas to look at a $600K SDE security business. Hadn't even made it up the steps of the Starbucks where we were meeting and the seller hits me with: "Man, you won't believe this. Our QuickBooks has been down all morning." At the time, my day job was at a software company. I know how uptime works. QuickBooks promises 99.999% uptime. If it had actually been down all morning, it would've been on CNN. I knew immediately he was lying. But I didn't leave. I wanted to see how far he'd take it. It was worse than I thought. We go to his office. QuickBooks is "still down." He's showing me paper records, spreadsheets, nothing auditable. The office manager was in on it. I was going to fly home that night. But the seller convinced me to stay for employee meetings the next day. "They're expecting you, it'll disrupt the business if you cancel." So I sat through 4 hours of meetings the next morning. Every single employee had been coached to act like they worked at a profitable company. The business was losing money. They all knew it. The seller didn't just lie. He recruited his entire staff to lie with him. I share this because too many people want to give sellers the benefit of the doubt. "Messy financials." "Honest mistakes." "They didn't know." This guy knew. And he got everyone around him to help cover it up. This is not a game, folks.

@ick_real Agnes renains undefeated.

I'm looking for a ridiculously old-fashioned girl's name for our new born . Think great-grandma name. Very old and rare. Any suggestions asap pls?

@LeeHurstComic The Gun of Navarone

This is class. 😁⬇️

@Super70sSports Dude that hits hard. Those were epic.

Who else remembers how much fun this was?

@RonDeSantis Will other governors please read this thread? Florida runs so efficiently our governor wakes up and thinks "maybe today I'll rap with the people about pitch velocity."

The old radar guns were reliable; they just clocked the speed closer to the plate. Today’s guns pick it up closer to the pitcher’s hand.

@Swestfall Great story. I want Craig for for Member-Guest.

@ernieball ...said Johnny Ramone never.

You just broke a string mid-performance. What do you do? 🤔

@ernieball OK you guilted me out. The Rickenbacker is due.

How old are the strings on your guitar RIGHT NOW? Be honest.

@LasVegasLocally The Aria ATM fee is $11.99. Not cheap, but it isn't $48.

Found on the floor at Aria. The $48 ATM fee seems high but compare it to the cost of having to go home early.

@JVMonte2 Ramones post-Tommy, but pre-Richie.

What band or group was still pretty good even after one of their members left or was replaced?

@JVMonte2 Eddie Jimi Stevie BB

Who are your four Mountain Rushmore guitarists?

@r0ck3t23 AI is creating a perfect version of disco. My money's on the Ramones.

AI can now generate images more beautiful than anything most humans could make. Sam Altman just explained why nobody cares. Altman: “The value that people put on that effectively rounds to zero.” Not less valuable. Zero. A flawlessly generated AI image, technically superior to almost anything a human could produce, valued at nothing. When visual perfection becomes instantly available to everyone, it stops being scarce. And when it stops being scarce, it stops being valuable. The scarcity that gave art its worth was never the beauty. It was the human who made it. Altman: “Without the person effectively signing their name to it, we seem to not care.” That sentence is the entire shift compressed into one line. We don’t consume art. We consume the person behind it. The struggle. The intention. The specific human consciousness that decided this particular thing should exist. AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate the origin. Altman points out that if an artist uses AI as a tool but still has something they were trying to express, the work retains its value. The human intention is the product. The image is just how it arrives. Remove the person and the beauty becomes noise. This is what nobody building AI art tools fully absorbed. They optimized for the output and assumed the output was what people valued. It wasn’t. It was never the pixels. It was always the person. AI isn’t going to replace human artists. It’s going to do something more disorienting. It’s going to make technical skill irrelevant and force the entire market to pay for something that was always there but never had to be named. Presence. Intention. Proof that a human consciousness cared enough to make this particular thing. Abundance makes perfection free. Meaning becomes the only scarcity worth paying for. And meaning can’t be automated. Because meaning requires a consciousness choosing to say something specific to someone specific for reasons that matter. The artists who survive won’t be the most technically gifted. They’ll be the most undeniably human. AI gave the world infinite art and proved that what we actually want is irreplaceable.

@tetsuoai Does Napster have an alibi?

I can't believe someone would just steal from Anthropic like this. The millions of man-hours Anthropic spent hand-writing code, text, art, books, etc. to generate enough data for training must be taken into consideration here. Where is the respect for IP?

@7hoeve3 @JasonBassler1 The tin foil's in aisle 24.

@Rule1_2a @JasonBassler1 It's coming numbskull. But don't worry you'll never notice.

Home Depot is now partnering with CLEAR. This is the biometric future that's coming. First airports, then apps, now hardware stores. It starts as “security,” becomes “standard,” and ends as “required.” You’re not a customer anymore. You’re the dataset.