Hal Latham

@doodlemom1031 @JebraFaushay Well get busy on your dance lessons. You don’t want folk laughing like that at you, girl.

@JebraFaushay I think I have less than a year before that’s me.

Hell yeah, MeeMaw. You get to a certain age and you say “Fvck it, I don’t care what anyone thinks.” Wear your Pomeranian tee shirt, have a cocktail, and let loose.

@MikeBellATL We hope y’all come back to the Twin Peaks in East Ridge. We love the guy who’s running it. Was the turnout ok? Are you planning to come back?

@stacygadawg One of the good guys. He has fought to keep his independence, for as long as possible. And his precious wife, his best buddy. 💙💔

❤️💔❤️💔

@doodlemom1031 Where have you been, little lady?

@lduffie6 I haven’t seen you posting anything in a hot minute. I hope y’all are doing well.

@nytimes if you would put a blank or space to the usable keyboard, I think people would find it more fun to play. I could explain it better if we could talk, but I have no hope for that. I have a strong hunch that someone can be explain it in a single, well worded tweet.

@buckbelue8 @HeismanTrophy @680TheFan He’s a great man. I hope you know him. If you do, say hi for me.

@hallatham @HeismanTrophy @680TheFan Yep

Got to hang with George Rogers & his @HeismanTrophy today! (George with tournament official at St.Ives CC) @680TheFan

@MikeBellATL Gutfeld is the funniest thing out there, and it’s more like Carson than anything running anywhere. JMO

100% correct. Johnny Carson said it years ago, why should I alienate half my audience?

Am I alone in this? I’m curious about odd things. I wonder what the %s are for buttermilk and cornbread eaters in the US, and how that varies among different regions and cultures, and across difference time periods and economic shifts. I can visualize the graphic.

@MikeBellATL @Braves We got ‘em right where we want them! Show them the stanky leg.

When it comes to ⁦@Braves⁩ starting pitching. I say it EVERY year. Never enough. And this year they said it was an off season priority.

@Docmike32 @OleTimeHardball HAHAHA!

@OleTimeHardball As a Cardinals fan, I want Coleman to score so I’m putting my mom in right field. Otherwise, either Clemente or Dave Parker

Game 7 of the World Series. Bottom of the 9th, 2 Outs. Your team is up by 1. Vince Coleman is on 2nd and Tony Gwynn lines a single into RF You have your choice of any RF, of any era, to try and nab Coleman at Home. Who makes the throw?

@MikeBellATL @TheStingisBack HAHAHA! That was too easy.

@TheStingisBack Hey Champ, let's go play hide the shillelagh.

In the perfect St. Patrick’s Day movie, The Quiet Man, Maureen O’Hara whispers something to John Wayne in the final scene, and his stunned reaction is 100% real. She never revealed what she said; the secret went with her. What do you think she whispered?

I love the situation we’re in right now with Tesla. I travel all the time for work, and talk to tons of people. I have a pretty good sense of where the general public’s knowledge is with EVs and self driving. We’re in this moment where an absolute mindfuck is happening in HW4 Tesla vehicles. The emergence of the first real world artificial intelligence is happening in the cars today, and it’s still at the point where most people aren’t even caught up enough to begin having a conversation about it. Half the time I just chat lightly about it because I know if I tell them what’s happening in my car, it isn’t even going to compute. They’re just going to think I’m some weird insane zoomer nerd until they see it. But they are all going to experience it first-hand eventually. And they’re going to lose their shit. Every time I get to take one of these people into my car, their shit is lost. Just look at all the clips I posted yesterday. It’s coming to life right in front of us. We’re in this epic moment where we can go outside, look in any direction, and find someone who has zero clue what is happening right now. Such an obvious and insane tech emergence and you’ve still just got skeptics everywhere who have no idea what we’re all geeking about. But they will find out, as they do with all society-changing innovations. Things this impactful are inevitable. Such a fun moment to be a part of.

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

@mikepat711 My experience is the same, Mark. I’m also experiencing momentary conflicts between the map and the guidance. As an example, when returning home this morning, the map correctly showed forward travel on the existing road, but guidance turned on the blinker and attempted a turn.

Heavy fog continues to be a place where I do not trust FSD, especially heavy fog during wet road conditions. Not because I think there’s a sensor problem, but because I don’t trust the awareness of the brain yet. This reminds me of snow pre-V14, and rain pre end-to-end highway. It’s not that I necessarily needed to disengage here. It’s clear that it would’ve been fine if I didn’t. BUT, I have no reason to believe I would’ve been fine if some obstruction was sitting in the road around the next bend, because FSD is not adjusting behavior at all as it passes through these conditions. It is doing nothing to signal awareness to me that it understands it has limited visibility along with reduced road friction. Can cameras see better in fog than humans? Definitely. But not so much better that you wouldn’t want to dramatically slow down here to minimize required stopping distance. I think the idea that other sensors are needed for fog is nonsense. It can be done just fine with brains, but it needs to adjust here every single time whether it sees an object or not. It needs to go slower. This is how FSD used to behave in snow. It could do it, but it never adjusted properly to signal awareness to the user. I still have the same problem in dense fog. It doesn’t feel safe to me. I don’t trust that it knows what it’s doing in these moments yet. This 100% fixable with a better brain, just not there yet for me.

@DannyDeraney Andy Murray. What became of him? I don’t see much online.

Take a moment and enjoy this glorious celebrity roll call from 1976.

@milfhunter_1968 💴

Holy fuck. Holy fucking fuck.

@burtjonesforga It’s good to see Bill still looking dapper! Godspeed Burt! Georgia needs you!

Thank you to Jo and Gerald Hudgins for hosting a great reception in Henry County last night. I truly appreciate the warm welcome and the strong support as we finish out the week. Onward!

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Momentum is churning…

Review of @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the WSJ: "Driving has always felt like a chore to me. The first time I let the vehicle (Model Y) take control, something shifted. As the car guided itself through traffic, I felt tension melt away. A few days before the federal EV tax credit expired in September, I traded in my 7.5 year-old Model 3 for a Model Y with FSD. For someone like me, who likes to stay in control, surrender has never come easily. Yet here I was, cruising through traffic in quiet surrender to the car’s code and sensors. It felt like liberation. And now I have something better than a chauffeur. My car never tires, panics or wavers; it doesn’t jolt at brake lights or grumble at traffic jams. It simply drives, with quiet confidence and near-perfect composure. People often worry that technology makes us lazy. Maybe it does. But in my case, it has done something subtler: It taught me to trust in the rhythm of the ride. It’s a small miracle I never expected from a car."