Rick Gardinier ⚾

@thefernandocz He also bet Billions on the Metaverse and you see how that worked out.

Mark Zuckerberg is building something TERRIFYING. In a 2-hour talk with Theo Von, he revealed what he's working on... He claims it's "almost like mind control." And it will be available in 4 years. I'll save you the 2-hour pod. Here's what Zuck's betting $60B on:

Lots of issues here but @cavs game are blacked out on @NBATV in the city of Pittsburgh. Not a single person in PGH believes they are In-market to anything in Cleveland. It’s absurd. Will tomorrow’s playoff game be blacked out in Pittsburgh? @KDPomp do you know?

@ISeeAndHearYinz @BSrivastava @reflog18 @cavs @NBATV @NBA @WhiteHouse @FBI @ColumbusPolice Here we go again! No logic because you can’t watch on a local channel. @NBA what the hell

@BSrivastava @reflog18 @cavs @NBATV @NBA @WhiteHouse @FBI @ColumbusPolice Blacked out in Pittsburgh too! It's fucking ridiculous! #LetEmKnow

I just came here to yell from COLUMBUS. THIS IS CRIMINAL. @reflog18 @cavs @NBATV @NBA @WhiteHouse @FBI @ColumbusPolice

@D3Direct For my son, direct reach out followed by letting coaches know what camps he would be going to. For example the Penn camp was a good one.

What is the best place to get recruited by D3 schools?

@tomfgoodwin 100% agree. Have never gone to CES or SXSW in 30 years in the business. Wayste of time and money for most unless you are there with clients as part of relationship building.

I kinda think nobody in advertising should be at CES. The entire world of Advertising seems utterly lost. Massive opportunities are everywhere. Existential threats are everywhere. Performance ads are atrocious CTV ads are awful Dig display ads are awful Attribution is a lie. Targeting is messed up Everyone is blinded by data. Brand advertising is in the gutter. Nobody has got retail ads AI is massive but is being fumbled. So looking at a fridge with a see-through door, or a car that can self drive a bit or a new drone, or a 8K projector, all seems a bit stupid We need a halt on all daft business trips until we figure out what's going on. Make advertising great again :)

@PGHBB @ChrisRose No Levert or Wade too

@ChrisRose Yep. Boston shot nearly 60% from 3 and only won by 3. Also, played some dirty ball at times. Would have loved a little enforcer to back up Spida too. Cavs will be fine against this whiny, cocky, bitch ass team.

Could have quit down 20. Impressed with Cavs comeback. Would have liked to see someone get in Tatum’s face when he fouled Mitchell Other than that…great effort. Fun start keep rolling, boys.

Holy shit! Bruce Springsteen, with one of the most eloquent endorsements for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz you'll hear. The Boss also delivered one of the strongest repudiations of the loathsome piece of shit I've heard from anyone. Let's fucking go‼️🙌🌊🇺🇸

Regardless of your side (I side with Kamala), the digital and social campaigns by the Harris marketing team are extremely impressive. Targeting multiple audiences, highly authentic and engaging content, great email content etc etc.

X has filed a lawsuit arguing that choosing not to advertise on X is breaking the law. Which tells you a little bit about why fewer people are choosing to advertise on X.

@WalshFreedom It's breaking through and simple to understand...and true. My concern is overuse but for now it seems to be getting way under their skin.

I’m just not a fan of the Harris campaign calling Trump “weird.” Weird isn’t serious enough. Weird is inadequate to describe the danger Trump is. Donald Trump is a lawless, un-American psychopath. He’s an existential threat to democracy. Calling him “weird” just doesn’t cut it.

.@NBA @NBATV why are @cavs games often blacked out in Pittsburgh? Makes no sense to consider Pgh a home market as there is no local station that carries them in Pittsburgh.

@Carnage4Life Once everyone can get out of their leases then remote is less costly. But for now, as long as companies are locked in to long term leases their cost structure doesn’t change even if 100% remote.

@SCrepresent12 That’s the @QVBasketball way.

Adou Thiero plays his ass off

Same!

@jowyang @EMostaque The internet took 30 years to get where we are today. And there are STILL mainframe programmers here and there. The developer job will continue to evolve but someone has to write the code that AI learns from there will still need to be people to guide all of these new tools.

There are no programmers in five years due to AI, says @emostaque CEO of Stability AI. youtu.be/ciX_iFGyS0M

@JimHammett Almost pulled the trigger at 3:30 on tickets and this was the sole reason that I didn’t. Sad that’s it’s like that but Blossom in Cleveland not any better.

2.1 miles away from Starlake Arrival time 1 hour and 1 minute This is the worst concert venue on earth

We believe it goes…”The 1st shot won’t beat #US, box out and don’t let them get a better chance on the put back!” #CoachMastroianni

@cameronmoll @tomfgoodwin Agree. Feels like both can be true. Overhyped like a lot of things at first, highly transformational in the long term. I’m old enough to have worked through the incredible .com hype, then bust, then long slow growth to what the www is today.

How I'm mentally processing AI: 50% this is NFTs all over again; 6 months from now we'll be ashamed how much we hyped it. 50% this is a seismic shift in our industry; we've never seen anything like it. I waffle between the two almost daily.

@tomfgoodwin LOL I remember back in 1993 I was teaching “how to surf the World Wide Web” classes to Fortune 500 companies.

The idea prompt engineer is a new job is as baffling to me as the idea people in 2001 got jobs for “google search bar user”